may 3, 1919 - Bavarian Communists crushed

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After WW1 Germany was in an economic crisis (just as the rest of Europe),
it was in huge debt
and it tried to solve that by printing money,
this led to inflation,

so ppl were unhappy,
and there was a lot of anti-Weimar feelings,
this fostered radicalism

on the left this took the form of popular revolts led by workers with the aim of overthrowing the Weimar Republic and establishing a new Soviet-style republic inspired by the Bolsheviks in Russia

and each time it ended just the same way:
with the army and Freikorps brutally supressing it

the Spartacist uprising in Berlin was the first one,
this Bavarian one was the second,
but there were many more between 1919-23:
- April 1919 strikes in the Ruhr
- March 1920 uprising in the Ruhr
- April 1920 uprising in Saxony, Thuringia
- March 1921 uprising in Merseburg, Hamburg the Ruhr
- October 1923 uprising in Hamburg

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