Yankunan sauri na Hungarian a cikin "Barbarossa"
Rukunin tankuna masu haske na Hungary 1938 M Toldi I akan hanyar Ukrainian, lokacin rani 1941
Daga ƙarshen 4s, shugabancin Hungary ya bi manufar fadadawa da nufin mayar da ƙasashen da suka ɓace bayan yakin duniya na farko. Dubban 'yan kasar Hungary sun dauki kansu a matsayin wadanda ke fama da yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya ta rashin adalci da ta kawo karshen yakin, wanda aka kammala tsakanin Hungary da Entente a fadar Grand Trianon a Versailles a ranar 1920 ga Yuni, XNUMX.
Sakamakon wata yarjejeniyar da ba ta dace ba, inda aka hukunta su, musamman saboda kaddamar da yakin duniya, sun yi asarar kashi 67,12 cikin dari. kasa da kashi 58,24. mazauna. An rage yawan jama'a daga miliyan 20,9 zuwa mutane miliyan 7,6, kuma kashi 31% na su sun yi asara. 'Yan kabilar Hungary - miliyan 3,3 daga cikin miliyan 10,7. An rage sojojin zuwa mutane dubu 35. sojojin kasa da na doki, babu tankuna, manyan bindigogi da jiragen yaki. An hana shiga aikin tilas. Don haka sojojin Royal Hungarian masu girman kai (Magyar Királyi Honvédség, MKH, a baki: Hungarian Honvédség, Honwedzi Royal Hungarian honwedzi ko honvedzi) ya zama babban "ƙarfin tsarin cikin gida". Hungary ta biya babban diyya na yaki. Dangane da wannan bala'i na kasa da kuma wulakanci na karfin soja, da'irar kishin kasa sun gabatar da taken maido da babbar kasar Hungary mai karfi, kasar Crown na St. Stephen. Sun yi kokarin dawo da martabar daular yankin, sun kuma nemi duk wata dama ta maido da filayen da aka bata tare da ’yan uwansu da ake zalunta.
Gudanarwar Admiral-Regent Miklós Horthy ya raba waɗannan buri na soja-daular. Jami'an ma'aikata sun yi la'akari da yanayin yakin gida da makwabta. Mafarkin cin nasara ya cika da sauri. Wanda ya fara fama da faɗaɗa yankunan Hungarian a cikin 1938 shine Czechoslovakia, wanda suka wargaza tare da Jamusawa da Poles a sakamakon shari'ar Vienna ta Farko. Sa'an nan kuma, a cikin Maris 1939, sun kai hari kan sabuwar Slovak jihar da ta fito ne kawai bayan annaxation na Czechoslovakia, "ta hanyar" kama da kananan Ukrainian jihar da cewa a lokacin da aka kunno kai - Transcarpathian Rus, Transcarpathia. Don haka abin da ake kira Northern Hungary (Hungarian Felvidék).
A lokacin rani na 1940, sakamakon babban matsin lamba na siyasa, wanda aka ƙarfafa ta hanyar tattara manyan dakaru uku a kan iyakokin, Hungarian sun sami nasara a manyan yankuna - arewacin Transylvania - daga Romania ba tare da fada ba sakamakon dakatarwar. A cikin Afrilu 1941, sun shiga harin da Jamusawa suka kai wa Yugoslavia ta hanyar mayar da yankunan Bačka (Bačka, wani ɓangare na Vojvodina, arewacin Serbia). Manyan yankuna sun koma ƙasarsu tare da mutane miliyan da yawa - a cikin 1941 akwai 'yan ƙasa miliyan 11,8 a Hungary. Cika mafarkin maido da Babban Hungary ya kusa kusa.
A watan Satumba na 1939, Tarayyar Soviet ta zama sabuwar makwabciyar Hungary. Saboda manyan bambance-bambancen akida da bambance-bambancen siyasa na maƙiya, ƙwararrun Hungarian sun ɗauki USSR a matsayin maƙiyi mai yuwuwa, maƙiyin duk wayewar Turai da Kiristanci. A kasar Hungary, a kusan zamanin 'yan gurguzu, Jamhuriyar Soviet ta Hungarian mai juyin juya hali, karkashin jagorancin Bela Kuna, an tuna da su sosai kuma an tuna da su tare da babban ƙiyayya. Ga 'yan Hungary, Tarayyar Soviet "na halitta", babban abokin gaba.
Adolf Hitler, a lokacin shirye-shiryen Operation Barbarossa, bai yi tunanin cewa Hungarians, karkashin jagorancin Regent Admiral Miklós Horthy, za su shiga cikin yakin da Stalin. Ma'aikatan Jamus sun ɗauka cewa Hungary za ta rufe kan iyaka da USSR lokacin da aka fara kai farmakin. A cewar su, MX yana da ƙarancin ƙima, kuma ƙungiyoyin Honved suna da yanayin raka'a na layi na biyu, sun fi dacewa don ba da kariya a baya fiye da aiwatar da kai tsaye a cikin yaƙin gaba na zamani da kai tsaye. Jamusawa, ƙananan ƙididdiga na soja "ikon" na Hungarian, ba su sanar da su a hukumance game da harin da ke zuwa a kan USSR ba. Hungary ta zama ƙawance bayan sun shiga yarjejeniyar uku a ranar 20 ga Nuwamba, 1940; Ba da daɗewa ba suka shiga wannan tsarin na adawa da mulkin mallaka, wanda ya fi dacewa da Birtaniya - Slovakia da Romania.
