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lack of knowledge, and which was also divided internally.
In response to the situation, the freely elected Prime
Minister, with his real political skills, said: "Maybe you
should have made a revolution” If he said it, it's bad that
he said it, because it revealed the limitations of his little
room for manoeuvre.
Compromise is a soft solution, a bloodless transition, but
comfortable. Sándor Károlyi was perhaps the first to initiate the
"No consequences have to be borne" approach in 1711, behind
Francis Rákóczi's back, by making an agreement with the
Labanc army led by the Pálffys and Eszterházys, and with his
nobility, the soldiers of the Kuruc army, who were in a tight
military situation, were allowed to go home, they were also
allowed to take their weapons home. There were no
consequences, and there was no need to accept the uncertain.
The settlement was tragic for the future of the nation, but not
many other choices emerged. If only we don't think that the
sacrifice can be exploited over time in the changing situation.
At that time, the current situation favoured the Austrians, as the
Austrian and English armies led by Jenő of Savoy and John
Churchill, Count of Marlborough, defeated at Höchstädt, or
more precisely at Blindheim (as the English called it: Blenheim)
Louis the XIV and the Bavarian ruling army in 1704. The
Kuruc army gradually got into a more difficult challenge, and
thus the two forces could no longer unite under Vienna against
the Habsburgs. The British managed to maintain the balance of
power in Europe at the expense of the Hungarians. Sándor
Károlyi's actions are therefore thought-provoking, but the
compromise solution did not represent the entire spectrum of
people living in the country and the nation. A vulnerable
country is one where one half of the country is willing to ally
with foreign interests to defeat the other side. When the
Austrian power had the strength to do so and won with Russian
help, 150 years later, after defeating the war of independence in
1848-49, it punished to the extreme. This was done by Haynau

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