he Hungarians were mostly seeking a practical way to get home (in a Western direction) as soon as possible.
Funnily enough the Czech and Slovaks from Czechoslovak legion in Russia wanted to get to fight on western front for Allies so it was agreed by Russians that they should evacuate by going east to be picked by allied ships Vladivostok - which eventually happened between 1919-1920. The whole rebellion started when they had conflict with white loyalist Hungarian soldiers in Chelyabinsk, who went west along the same railway but west to fight for Austrian-Hungary. Some legionnaires were arrested after the conflict by Russians, so the rest decided to free their battle brothers and took the whole city under control. The rest is very interesting history.
By the way later those Red Hungarians who did not return to fight for Austria-Hungary but stay to fight for Bolsheviks were also among the leaders in Hungarian Soviet Republic including its leader Béla Kun, who was personal friend of Lenin. Also Czechoslovak legionnaires who returned home were also pivotal in defeating Red Hungarians in a war fought from declaration of independence in October 1918 to summer of 1919, so there was a rematch of a kind there also with Red Hungarians instead of the White ones and Czechoslovak legions in France and Italy and not Russia.
Sure, but what I meant is that knowing how to prepare meal or even sowing and repairing ones clothes was not seen as some taboo girly thing that no proper men can ever do.
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