Waves of the Danube

## Waves of the Danube: The New Order's Powderkeg

**Waves of the Danube: The New Order's Powderkeg**, usually shortened to simply **Waves of the Danube** (**WotD**) is an in-development submod for The New Order focusing on the Balkans, specifically Croatia, Hungary and Romania.

## Development history

All it started with was the **Romania Improved mod, a Kaiserreich submod for Romania** in May of 2019 under the leadership of one Deme and Dl. Dragomir. The submod's development was stopped on August the 30th, 2020 when the official rework of Romania in Kaiserreich was released. The development was then refocused on making a Romania rework for TNO under the leadership of I Like Cake Too. In the spring of 2021, Steve Huffnagel joined the mod as the developer for Hungary. To better reflect the fact that Hungary is now part of the mod, the submod was renamed **Shadows of Carpathia**. By September of 2021, the submod **Thousand Year Dream**, a submod that focused on Croatia was merged with **Shadows of Carpathia**, thus forming the submod's current form under the name **Waves of the Danube**.

## Focus

Waves of the Danube focuses on Croatia, Romania and Hungary, giving all three of them 10 years of content.

## Personal Information

### Father

Miklós Horthy

István Horthy jr.

###### Lore:

The Kingdom of Hungary came out victorious in the second world war, but she didn't gain much out of it besides keeping her already gained territory as the result of the two Vienna awards and the collapse of Yugoslavia.

This newfound victory didn't last long, however, as a war broke out between the Großgermanisches Reich and the so-called West Russian Revolutionary front in the 1950s. By that point, German-Hungarian relations came to a low point, since Hungary was an ally of Germany only because of the latter pressuring the former to do so.

As Germany was preoccupied with fighting a war to her east, Romania under Ion Antonescu saw an opportunity to regain the lost territory of Northern Transylvania and declared war on Hungary.

## Personal Information

### Born

29th December 1891, Budapest, Austria-Hungary

### Citizenship

Hungarian

Hungary anticipated that Germany would intervene on the side of her since *de jure* all three of them were allies, but unfortunately for Hungary, Germany did not intervene in the war citing her war in the east. As a result, Hungary was swiftly beaten and forced to sign an armistice with the now victorious Romania.

Another blow came internally, as the regent Mikós Horthy died at the conclusion of the armistice, being succeeded by the deputy-regent, his son, István Horthy. As the result of the defeat, the Arrow Cross Party, and the Party of Hungarian Renewal, the two far-right parties in the country, saw a surge in popularity. By the elections of 1961, the always dominant Party of Hungarian Life lost its absolute majority for the first time in almost 40 years.

As it can be seen on the table above, the Party of Hungarian Life couldn't even get a third of the seats and the most represented party became the Arrow Cross Party. When dealing with an internal crisis like this, the Party of Hungarian Life decided to strike a deal with the devil. The party made a coalition deal with the openly fascist party of (once prime minister), Béla Imrédy, the party of Hungarian Renewal. The coalition deal consisted of Béla Imrédy becoming prime minister once more, but he and his party needed to denounce certain parts of their agenda, such as their stance on a one-party state, total control over the economy and press etc; all of this can be summed as abiding by the constitution. Imrédy and his party accepted the deal, thus forming a coalition government with a slim majority.

The once-again prime minister focused his first year in office on damage control that was caused by Hungary's defeat and passing a fairly successful land reform, stopping the fragmentation of land, but unable to deal with the issue of big landowners to a satisfactory level.

## Relevant links

* Discord server

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