Why Did Hungary Attack the USSR in June 1941? 

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So little known fact. When Romania and Bulgaria switched sides. Hungary was offered a similar deal and were even offered to keep parts of southern Slovakia with an ethnic Hungarian majority. Kind of how Bulgaria kept Dobruja. Stalin actually thought that the Hungarians would make good communists due to the 1919 communist takeover. However the Germans ruined any chance of them getting a favorable deal postwar via the 1944 coup. And with the bitter fighting for Budapest, the Soviets were in no mood for compromise afterwards.

About who bombed Kassa: there are many theories but the most likely is that the Soviets were the ones who bombed it, but by mistake. Presov, a city in German puppet Slovakia was just 30 kms away from Kassa and was home to an important radio station of the Wehrmacht. The Soviets targeted that radio station but due to a navigational error, they ended up bombing Kassa (it was 1940s technology and there were even greater mistakes, remember, the Allies bombed Switzerland several times while targeting German cities 100-150 kms away).

Interesting and nicely presented. To me it does look like Hungary was caught between a rock and a hard place, help Hitler in his "crusade" or be invaded by the Wehrmacht and at that time, with the examples of Yugoslavia etc. and Germany apparently unstoppable, their choice is not too surprising.

Well the Soviets bombed Sweden among other things. Noting really strange when war has broken out.

My neighbor was 10 when the Soviets invaded Hungary in '45 and he has many crazy stories. He says the Russians were a lot more uneducated and less civil than the Germans....not surprising. He also got strafed by the Americans when out playing in the yard. He fled to the U.S. 11 years later.

Very interesting. Hungary and Germany have had a interesting relationship over the years. At the end of both world wars, she paid a heavy price. Have you done a video on the 1956 Hungarian revolution?

Interesting video on Hungary Stefan. Keep making great videos! 👍

The problem with Hungary was its elites (aristocracy and politicians) that were dreaming of restoring medieval kingdom of Hungary without realising that many things had changed in 400 years. Austria on the other hand was more diplomatic in its approach of minorities. So as long as you respected the laws and the Emperor ,the empire was tolerant with you. On the other hand the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian empire wanted that the slavs and romanians to become hungarians by force ,a delusion that in that age of nationalism failed dramatically. When the Empire colapsed after WW1, Hungary found itself surrounded by enemies and without a friend fighting on multiple fronts with the slavs and romanians.

What we do know, is that 200K Hungarian Soldiers lay in fields around Stalingrad and that from a poorly equipped and disorganised force at the beginning of Barbarossa, the Russians emerged as a Global Power overrunning Eastern Europe.

Another way to understand, see and learn the history of ww2! Finally a zoom on the other belligerents and allies of the Axes. Still waiting about Bulgaria

An excellent piece of work. BZ. Desperate to prevent Dolphy from favoring Romania in any territorial disputes, Hungary needed a Casus Belli to join the German invasion of the USSR. As you mentioned the Germans were not overly enthusiastic on having Hungary tag along and the Soviets had no problem with them. Conveniently Kassa (a city lost due to Trianon and regained only 2 years prior) was bombed. Several references implicated Hungarian officers including Henrik Werth chief of army staff. As you stated, we will never know.

Terrific video! Learned a lot, thank you History Hustle

Could you make a video about serbian collaboration units during ww2 ? Like the chetniks , serbian volunteer corps and serbians in the german army.

You are progressing in Hungarian ! Congratulations !

Another piece of essential viewing !….I have often thought that, somewhat akin to Franco’s Falangist Blue Division in the USSR, Horthy and the Arrow Cross looked at Barbarossa as ‘ revenge ‘ for Bolshevik presences in their respective countries ( 1919, Hungary, 1936-39, Spain ).

Well, I really enjoyed this video, it was very interesting! Also nice Hungarian flag lol!

Interesting video! It was a useless campaign on the part of the Hungarians who sent ~ 200,00 men equipped with outdated technologies.

Great video as always⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spoiler alert - the Soviets will get their revenge later

Hungarian when they defeated in WWI at that time Astro hungry empire they lost about 50 % of the Hungarian territory to the bribones also Bolshevik threats Hungary that’s why full active support eastern front to eliminate the source of evil devil Mama Rosiya

As always, legendary style of presenting, full of enthusiasm and energy :)!

First of all: nice video, thanks for your great work. Hungary only attacked Yugoslavia when it ceased to exist after Slovenians and Croatians having declared independence. They took only a small part of the former Hungarian Kingdom awarded to Serbia in 1920- the majority of that territory Hungary took back was Hungarian in population. I wonder which European country would not do at least so even today. To my knowledge, the most plausible answer to the bombardment of Kassa (Kosice) is that they were really Soviet planes. They simply missed the target- they wanted to raid Eperjes (Presov) which was in Slovakia even at that time. Slovakia was taking part in the Barbarossa operation from the start. Other possibility is that Slovakian bombers wanted to cause diplomatic turmoil. What seems to be sure: they were neither Germans nor Roumanians- none of them had airplanes of that type at that moment or if yes, they had no time to train pilots. One more thing: I am not sure whether it can be justified or just a rumour but Soviets has offered a joint attack on Roumania and Hungarian politicians (prime minister Teleki) rejected it because Hungary wanted to solve everything with the approval of the Western community (the former Entente). That's why they also rejected attacking Czechoslowakia together with the Third Empire.

I've been waiting for this video for months! Thank you!

Hi. A little thing. 'S' in Magyar i s as in sugar, or as 'sch' in Schmidt, or 'ś' in Kośice. When then doubled, like in Bárdossy's name, or Kassa, it sounds 'schsch'. Aast u b.

Thanks for consistently filling in my knowledge "gaps" on the details of WWII. You are the "man"!

We can't ignore the fact that Reinhard Heydrich had close ties with the Luftwaffe, being an accomplished pilot himself. Of all the Nazi High Command, it could be argued that it was the most pro Nazi. The vested interests in provoking war in Germany were enormous. The total ruthlessness of these times beggars belief. My only conclusion for this behaviour is that WW1 had so traumatised the people of Europe, sporning these ruthless ideologies. .

A very informative and entertaining video, and a big like for you for using the historical city/town names! Only a small correction about the pictures at 1:39 I think that was shot during September 1940 in Northern Transsylvania, you can see the hills behind the soldiers. The Bácska is a completely flat area + the trees have leaves so it is more likely it wasnt taken in early April. About the bombing of Kassa, the most probably theory is that the Soviets bombed it by mistake, they wanted to bomb some radio station in Eperjes (Presov). I read somewhere that the two cities had a very similar appearance from the sky and they are relative close to each other + maybe the Soviet pilots didnt have a correct map, that shows, that Kassa is now beloging to Hungary, not Slovakia anymore. But it is also possible that Romania bombed the town to drag Hungary into the war so it wont station its troops in Northern Transsylvania. Romania had the airplane type that time. Or it was a disguised German action for the similar reason.

I lived many years in Ivano- Frankivsk and the surrounding oblast and never heard of Hungry bombing the city. It was always, always the Germans.

German planes with red stars flown by Yugoslavians...... ? No? With all the skulduggery that goes on in war I expect the truth will be even more bewildering. Very interesting Stefan.

Many people think so that Prime Minister Pal Teleki did not committed suicide really. The real story was as follows : An officer of the German Army that wanted to attack Yugoslavia at that time who had a strict order to get permission from Teleki at all costs - he feared that Teleki will refuse to allow German Army to march across Hungarian territory to Yugoslavia. So he simply shoot down the Hungarian Prime Minister. The German officer was the last visitor on the day of death of Teleki at the residence of Prime Minister. Hungarian secret service was not allowed to declare that friendly German army officer killed Hungarian Prime Minister so a declaration was officially issued to the public that it was a suicide and the spot of murder was duly arranged. Teleki may have been refused to give permission for Germans to march across so he had to die.

Cool. You've taugth me a MIGHTY episode I wasn't aware of until your video! This is totally new to me. Thanks for sharing! Best regards from nearby Brussels, Belgium, Kris Ameryckx

(I thought) Hitler didn't want to invade Yugoslavia until the amenable government was toppled and replaced with an anti axis regime....

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Thank you again Stefan for another interesting and controversial part of WW 2 history. There’s no doubt the Hungarians were itching to get into the war against Russia and this sounds like a convenient event. I’ve read secondary sources that in his memoirs, Admiral Miklós Horthy, Hungary's head of state up to 1944, stated that Hungary's entry into the war against the Soviet Union had been provoked by the "staged" bombing of Kassa carried out by German pilots. Not having read his memoirs is this correct?

Tbh tho im an enthusiast ive never heard of this before💯

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Hungary occupied big part of Slovakia including Kosice where Hungarian fascists killed and tortured civilians. There was a short war with Slovakia which Hitler ended. Witnesses said planes flew towards Hungary borders.

Hungary is a country that paid too much after WWI. Many territories were given to Romania, Jugoslavia, Russia and Czechoslovakia.. Millions hungarians were cut off from their homeland. Still nowadays in Slovakia or Romania you can count millions of hungarian speakers. In Transilvânia for exemple I found a town were people spoken just hungarian. And historically Hungary is related with the German area. Politically and ideologically. Still nowadays hungarians are on the right side... But I can grant you that Hungary is a beautiful place with a great way of life. Not like in other places in western Europe. There state is working for the people, not only for the EU.

Agreeing to be internal friends, did that too, when I was five years old. History is fascinating.

Could it be possible, that the 3 aircraft which bombed Kasa,were in fact German? Once again, great feature Stefan!

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The bombing of Kassa may have been a provocation by the German SD, this has all the hallmarks one of its operations. Also, the failed Molotov mission adds fuel to Putin's arguments that the Germans were encouraged. As you rightly assert Stefan, we will never know the truth.

Fascinated by the other Axis combatants and I would love to know why there was never traction for the restoration of Austria-Hungary.

Loved this video prof Stefan! All of your videos show in depth and important parts of history that are rarely discussed in text books these days. My educated guess on the bombing of Kassa is that it was staged by the axis powers and most likely Germany to look like Russian aggression to give the Hungarians the green light on joining Barbarossa. As you said yourself there is really no strategic reasoning for Russia to bomb Kassa themselves but there is for axis powers to ignite a campaign on the Hungarian front. Just like the attack on the radio tower that was staged on the border with Poland by Germany to start that invasion.

I think Romania bombed Kassa, explanation: Transylvania belonged to Hungary 1000 years long and the Dictate of Trianon moved Transylvania and many other Hungarian lands unjustly to new countries like Romania. Russia did not sign the Dictate of Trianon. (It is very ironic but these countries also signed the Dictate of Trianon: Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Siam (Thailand)… Hungary had never any business with these very far countries, but the Entente involved them to participate in this crime.) Vladimir Lenin said: “The treaty was forced down their throat, but this is a usurious treaty, the treaty of murderers and butchers… unprecedented, predacious treaty… this is no treaty, these are conditions that scampsmen dictate with knives in their hands to unprotected victims.” We know Stalin promised full Transylvania back to Hungary if Hungary is out from the war. Basically, Hungary wanted to be out because Hungary had a problem with Romania and not with the Soviet Union and not with the USA, UK, or France. Historically Hungary was a German ally and communism was very far ideology from the Hungarian soul, almost nobody liked it. Hungarians had already very bad experiences in 1919 when the communist took the power for some months. The Vienna Awards got some justice to Hungary, Hungary got back many territories where the majority were Hungarians. In 1940 the Second Vienna Award got back Northern Transylvania, to Hungary, however the Hungarian army was ready, Horthy wanted to take all Transylvania back. But Romania was a German ally too so Hitler did not support Horthy with this plan, Hitler wanted to make a favor for both allies. The bombing of Kassa took place on 26 June 1941, when still unidentified aircraft conducted an airstrike on the city of Kassa. This attack became the pretext for the government of Hungary to declare war on the Soviet Union the next day, 27 June. We suppose the attack made by Romanian aircraft because I don't think the Soviet Union wanted another enemy, and in the beginning, Germany also do not count Hungarian participation in his war against the Soviet Union, and if Germany would ask Hungary to join probably Hungary would join without any provocation. So only Romania who has benefited from this action, knew if the Soviet Union win then Transylvania could go back to Romania. If Hungary would have switched side during World War 2, probably Northern Transylvania would have remained in Hungary. But the Hungarians did not like Bolshevism and they fought against Bolshevism to the end. And betraying an ally is far behavior from the Hungarian soul. For example, Romania betrayed his allies 7 times in sixty years (and many times also in medieval times). If Hungary did not withstand the Bolshevism probably Austria, full Germany, and even farther the Soviets would occupy much more lands to convert them to communist countries.

Do you know who the Soviet army didn't take as prisones of war? 1. SS soldiers and officers 2. ROA traitors from Vlasov's army 3. Hungarians. The first Stalingrad type battle was near Voronezh. Colonel General Vatutin, after seeing vicious atrocities committed by Hungarians ( against woonded soldiers, civilians, women, kids) gave an order:" Do not take Hungarians as prisoners"! Ask Hungarians now where is the largest Hungarian military cemetery?! Near Voronezh!

The Hungarians, Italians, Romanians I am sure regretted making a move on Russia. My grandfather fought in the underground in Romania/Hungary.

Hey mr hustle . I am from kosice in slovak or kassa in hungarian. My parents an many family members are from there post 1920. My parents never mentioned the bombing of our city. Can you discuss how prelate Tiso of slovakia and the catholic church. robbed all the jews of slovakia, an used the proceeds to kill an deport them all to Auschwitz.. The soviets did not bomb kassa,, it was a false flag event, to con the hungarians into joining the axis. If it was the soviets they would have at least bombed the german radio station

Interesting video! I never considered the awkward position Hungary was in, in between the Axis and Allied powers.

Very informative video, I'm glad to see a video on smaller belligerents of ww2

It is also possible that the soviets bombed the two town for mistake. The state border was fairly close to the german soviet front line and the bomber crew got lost a bit on their mission.

Extremely interesting, especially the bombing of Kassa. Thanks for your research and presentation.

Thanks for another interesting video. All these territorial claims and ambitions of the Axis countries ended badly (not only for Hungary, but also for Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, and of course, Germany and Italy).

I think Hungary could have done what Spain did and was just allow volunteers to join the war effort, Hungary's military wasn't up to date with modern equipment and Horthy could have told Hitler that quite easily. We don't have the equipment and capacity. Germany could have absorbed and even could have created a Hungarian legion to join the crusade against communism just like they did with the Spanish Blue division.

Historically speaking Hungary did not join Germany in the initial attack on Yugoslavia, it actually refused the request by Germany. However when the Yugoslav Government collapsed due to the general advance of the German Army, Hungary did invade to protect the ethnic Hungarians living in the Bácska Region that was formally part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Prime Minister Mr. Pal Teleki did commit suicide as soon as the Regent authorized the entry of Hungarian troops into this Region, which was technically no longer part of Hungary, but it was heavily populated by ethnic Hungarians. But as explained, there was no resistance to this invasion due to the fact that the Yugoslav Government no longer controlled the area due to their collapse. There was a power vacuum in the Country and citizens of former Hungary had to be protected. It is also true that this Region was subsequently was annexed by Hungary.

Slovaks too..the Slavic wedge!

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Hmmm. Yugoslavia, France and Netherlands have the same flags. You just have to turn it sideways and upside down like that scene in the movie Lord of War.

Stalin ordered the bombing of Hungary as a deterrent. He bombed Sweden in the Finish-Soviet winter war for the very same reason. While it worked against the Swedes, it had the opposite effect with Hungary.

In Russian language, _”Honvéd" ("Gonved")_ sounds similar to _"govnoyed" (shit-eater)_

Bet you horthy regretted that one very quickly.

Three unmarked planes?! Did the Soviets deny doing this? If they did, it wouldnt surprise me if it was Germany trying to push Hungary into declaring war on the Soviets. I wouldnt put it passed them.

The Hungarians feared a Soviet takeover like happened in 1919, when Bela Kuhn took over the government. The Hungarian Socialist Republic didn't last long, but it was still a reminder that the Bolsheviks were out for World domination.

Falsely believing that they would gain from the spoils of the " Iminent " Nazi victory, the Magyars joined the party as did other hyenas from Europe.

I wish I never found out the truth about Trianon :( But of course, in Hungary, that is nearly impossible :(

The bombing of Kassa could have been any of these: 1) mistaken bombing by Soviets (navigation issue, I can't really imagine them doing it deliberately, there was nothing to gain by it) 2) German provocation, that is, to provide a casus belli to the Hungarians 3) Internally planned provocation, done by Hungarian agents. To provide the casus belli. But frankly, in situations like this, usually the country being attacked either asks for reparations or maybe strikes back in about equal measure. Obviously, a full fledged invasion is not justified due to a single bombing. I have a feeling it's the second. As usual, Hungary once more joined the "wrong side of history". Our faith is either to join the wrong side or getting obliterated. The country is in an unfortunate political position. Right in-between the West and the East. Has been all throughout history. Poland is in a similar situation.Romania and Slovakia have similar history. As for Croatia and Serbia: they have their own local problem going on for centuries. Good video, thank you!

És mán megint egy újabb videó. Jaj istenem, ez köllött, hogy ríjak?

Outstanding work brother. Love the hat. Where can I buy one in the U.S. ?

I discovered your videos, Stefan, a year ago, and am I glad I did! Everything is well-researched and clearly-presented. A lot of You Tube history presenters have an annoying "homorous" style, but you've got an excellent enthusiasm - and that's all that's needed to capture the audience. Best of all is you don't take sides, but explain the events. No need for cartoon villains of evil Germans or Russians; (their deeds should help the viewer make up their own mind). Keep up this good work Stefan! P.s. how interesting the attack on Kassa. It doesn't make sense for the Russians to do that. It seems like a disguise, as the Germans did at Gleiwitz in 1939. The Germans must be suspect here?

Do you have a speech impediment? Just asking. It doesn't look like an accent. That's all.

Romania also lost the Eastern part of Moldova,the northern part of Bukovina to the USSR and southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. Even though the map clearly shows those territories as "lost" he forgets to talk about those lol

If the germans did do a black ops ( they had captured Soviet gear ) the secret is still secret, did the soviets send them a message?

Hey history hustle, i was thinking, do you want to make official history hustle discord? To discuss historical topics, share stories, help each other with research etc. I could help with it, but i'm just saying, it could be Interesting.

There was so much happening for me yesterday that I completely forgot to watch your video, sorry! I have never heard about those suspicious Soviet air attacks on Hungary, that provided the casus belli, interesting.

Could the Soviet planes have veered off course and accidentally bombed Kassa, instead of they intended target? have the bomb fragments survived for examination to see if they really were Soviet in origin? Could it have been the Germans or Hungarians who did it in order to rationalize a Hungarian declaration of war? Seems odd that the Hungarians would jump right into the war after a small bombing without asking the Soviets to make good for the bombing, first. Only if the Soviets refused, could they have declared war justifiably. Smells like a setup, like occurred to justify the invasion of Poland by the Germans. Thanks for the video and take care.

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You look like Irish taliban. Just joking man.

1:27 some pepole thinks that the germans killed Teleki Pál because he was against the war

Great episode

Very good and well done for your presentation observations. As a life-long student of history and especially of WW2 and 20th Century politics and social upheavals I have the following reflections, observations and questions: ( i ) thoughts and surprise at the unsolved mystery of the bombing of the Hungarian town : without wishing to award any credit points to the USSR - we know of their capabilities as regards Finland and Poland (Katyn) - but I think they were to much embedded with their Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact…even impatient with their wish to do more trade with the Third Reich… Frankly, it seems to me too much like a Nazi cook-up along the lines of their invasion of Poland, leaving dead bodies around dressed up in Polish uniforms ie bits and pieces of bombs with USSR indications of manufacture, and all to get the Hungarians on board for the attack on Russia. ( ii ) Both Romania and Hungary were rife with rival fascist parties, Romania more so than Hungary, and this despite or as a result of King Carol’s impatience of democratic politics - parliamentary democracy’s darkest hours everywhere because of inability to take resolute action to stem rightful expectations of the poorer classes for better “rewards” for their pains….; then how come Carol “accepted “ the Hitlerite “settlement diktat” of the Transylvanian province in favour of Hungary? ( nb right, the area population was largely Hungarian but the Province historically reflected the old Roman Province of Dacia of which Romania prided itself of being the inheritrix). Somewhere in my memory I think I read that Hitler quelled Romanian objections with promises of territorial reward compensations ie retrieval of Northern Bukorovnia and Bessarabia taken ( at least the latter ) with Hitler’s assent by USSR and the former taken beneath his nose ie without his consent….and other areas of Russia with Romania’s contributory participation in the forthcoming invasion against USSR Bolshevism….All right, Romania was “geographically out on a limb”, and few plus no one could help her oppose the ambitions of one so determined as Hitler at the time riding high with his triumph over the Western democracies, France beaten to collaborative, submission, Britain on our own with Empire, yet with barely an army to speak of on her side of the Channel, and the rest taken up in battles against the Italians in both East and North Africa, with the whole of the Vichy French Empire thereabouts ready to oppose if not to even assist Italy and Germany should they demand this…which they did, in Syria, willing to help Germany weaken Britain in Iraq….and later willing to let Japanese submarines shelter - and threaten - South Africa, with their supportive Zero fighter bombers flying unchallenged over Vichy French Madagascar. ( iii ) Your mention of the Prime Minister of Hungary who committed suicide…I had never read of this before…Of what political persuasion was he, given that Hungary too, like Romania, was riven by fascist governmental groups? ( iv ) Unless I have missed something, you make no mention of the counter-stroke of Yugoslav military circles against their Prince Regent Paul’s alignment to Hitler’s invitation of “ordinary ie not unfriendly co-operation” between the kingdom of Yugoslavia whose King Carol-like authoritarian strong-arm manner King Alexander had been brutally assassinated when on visit to France….[ by Croatian thugs in the pay of Mussolini ] - perhaps it was this that finally persuaded Carol to withdraw while yet alive than fall heroic victim to the fascist hyena…like Alexander…But to Yugoslavia in 1941 ….the USSR had but a week or so before concluded a pact of co-operation and mutual assistance with the Kingdom, and apparently this had got up Hitler’s nose since the Russians hadn’t asked his opinion, let alone his permission. What are your thoughts on this? ( v ) In similar vein but further away, Bulgaria which had also “retrieved” its pre1914-18 Dobruja region, was proving not to be totally warm as regards Hitler’s plans, formulating that the Country would never ever war against Russia…but it did against Greece “retrieving “ its Thracian province and the second largest city of Greece Salonica by its Axis alignment with Hitler against both Yugoslavia and Greece. ( vi ) Certainly the Balkans Region is a motley, rough and sticky area for which the Ottomans and Turkey have much to blame… [ and the Turks are still at it, leading they are “Europeans”… Your thoughts on this? ( vi ) Finally the Hungarian leader managed to conclude not an unreasonable peace agreement with Stalin, but at a terrible cost to its Jewish population who had somehow managed to be left alone ….until then…. ( vii ) the Nazis wreaked havoc and terror upon the Hungarians - in punishment for their change of heart… and later the Russians would add their capacity for evil doing totally, wilfully, or blindly doing harm to decent souls doing their best, like the Swedish diplomat whose fate has never been acknowledged by any of the present Russian hierarchy… Thanks for your comments and good wishes for success. ps re the bombing of Kassa, given this took place on 26th June 1941, I revise my point ( i ) given the state of war between Hungary and the USSR that it must have been a Soviet bombing attack…

There is a legend that the Soviet pilots who bombed Kassa had only outdated maps on their planes on which Kassa (then Kosice) was still part of (Czecho)slovakia and none of the maps showed the new borders of the First Vienna Award. So the Soviets believed that they were bombing Slovak targets (the USSR was already at war with Slovakia). But this is probably just a myth. I haven't found much info about it and I only heard this story from a friend. True or false, this incident (or Soviet mistake) was believed as an act of clear Soviet aggression and convinced the Hungarian government and the people that the war against the USSR is justified which resulted in the death of one million Hungarian citizens during the war.

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The planes that bombed Kassa belonged to the USSR - it is a widely accepted fact by historians in Hungary. The fregments of the bombs were inspected and they had Russian markings on them. It is also belived by most historans that this bombing was a navigational mistake and not Hungary was the target originally. Germany had little interest getting Hungary into the war: the Hungarian Armed Forces were weak, the war against the USSR seemed to be a fast and easy campaign at the beginning. Even with these bombings, joining the war against the USSR was not neceserry - more relaxed diplomatic action would have been enough. Unfortunatly most of the political elit were "German oriented" and they feared that they might lose the (re)gained territories, if the Romanians support Germany's war much more than Hungary does. Germany were undefeated until that point while the USSR seem to be weak according the Red Army's performence in Finland. It seemed to be a low risk enterprise, so the government pushed Horthy to declare war. It was not that, hard as Horthy was a die-hard anti-bolshevik.

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Romania bombed It in Polish bombers Łoś.

hm, maybe the reason was the same as the one for invading Yugoslavia two and a half months earlier? you know - land...

Hungary is strange thing of 1941

Soviet. Unión win Europe

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Maybe the bombing of the city of Kassa/Košice/Kaschau/Kascha was meant in a similar way like the Germans did with the radio station of Gliwice/Gleiwitz in 1939 but not as an open told propaganda. With the cyrillic letters on the bombers the Hungarians should be made to believe that it was an attack by the USSR without a declaration of war and so convince them that it should be only an act of self defense of Hungary in attacking the USSR.

It is true that the Bombing of Kassa did create a lot of speculation as to who did the Bombing, who was responsible for this aggressive provocation. For the record there was major suspicion that Rumanian planes may have been responsible, due to the fact that the planes did fly in a South Easterly direction towards the Rumanian Border. As History Hustle explained, Rumania was in the process of committing a large force for the invasion of the Soviet Union on the side of Germany, but at the same time it also feared that Hungary may invade Southern Transylvania which was still part of Rumania. Thus it was in her interest that Hungary should also commit a large force against the Soviets in order to reduce substantial Hungarian Army concentration or capability which may be used against her.

As you said in the vid: Hungary joined Nazi German side. So it was impossible to not take part on invading USSR.

way not?

if its Germany they could have marked the planes in russian colors to fully furnish the false flag operation, the unmarked part is very baffling to me. it sounds like the attacker just wanted to bomb a target without any repercussions or fallout ,maybe Germany wasn't confident in its relationship with hungary so this was like a silent warning of what they are capable of, or maybe it really was the russians and they had a strategic bombing target but didn't wanna mess with the fragile relationship they had with Hugary

all lie !

A suggestion for a future topic - why did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when Poland was invaded?

Nice hat. Its the join or Die mode!

Boszgor-Honvedseg, a gulasz Army who killed minorities in Transilvania, no added power to the tripartite pact aka. Axis Powers. Bleah !

They say if you a Hungarian friend you don’t need enemies 😂😂😂😂

Because they are Hung-Aryans.