Word: debrecen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary, Russia last week chalked up another political victory. While Budapest was in flames (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), the Moscow radio announced a new Hungarian National Provisional Government at Debrecen, 120 miles to the east. It promptly promised an early armistice and administration of the conquered three-fourths of Hungary, on the pattern of Rumania and Bulgaria...
...Hungarians expected the new Government to be permanent. In London, tall, limping Count Michael Karolyi who heads a Hungarian Council in Britain, welcomed the Debrecen regime, but hopefully characterized it as "for the transition period." But Moscow's formula at Debrecen might be the beginning of permanency. By knowing the people (thanks to the help of the Communist Party) and having its Army on the ground in impressive force, Russia had scored again...
...Budapest. A tank battle was already raging on the Hungarian plain. The country was ideal for motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...