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What a push the successor states got, a push that would give life
force to them, to those states, which could survive what is
expected from a newly formed country. So much so that they
became enslaved countries once again following World War

Two, dipping in their nationalism but lacking power, watching
that kind of Western prosperity which remained unattainable to
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them forever. It was a divided Mid-Europe, going to the
direction how the French and the English imagined on the turn
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of the (19 -20 ) century, so that their improvement could gain
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new strength and impetus. Those involved in the Kingdom of
Hungary would have had the option of regaining strength and
unity instead of letting the monarchy fall apart, that is, if at the
end of the war the baronial prime minister would have believed
in the Hungarian army, which was still in usable condition, and
if he had had any aptitude to politics. My grandfather was a

10 In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon dismembered the 1000-year-old Kingdom of Hungary
into several smaller nations.

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