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Originally Posted by Wessex Wyvern
How did the Hungarian forces behave in the USSR?
Did they fight a correct and soldierly war against their Red enemy or did they burn villages, shoot civilains and generally terrorise the place like the Germans were known to do?
I'm just wondering as the retribution the Soviets took out on the Hungarians once they were on Hungarian soil was extreme.
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The hungarian long feud with the Romanians and their being granted the country or area of transylvania after WW1 led to hated disputes, and the fact that Romania was liberated, or folded and taken by Russia forced Hitler to send in troops, or occupy Hungary. Although Romania had participated against the hated Russians, but because they had succumbed earlier, they where able to appease or aid in an attempt against Germany, where as they had sided but a few months earlier, and because Hungary was unable to land or territories reverted back into Romania's hands...
a side note on Hungarian hatred for the soviet occupation was scene at a memmorial where as a T-34 was painted pink, re-painted by Russia, painted pink again, and finally removed and sent to a display in Russia