Soviet-hungarian economic and political relationships

Abstract

In the document-based article is given the analysis of foreign policy of the USSR 1940-1941 which dwells on the Soviet-Hungarian relationships on the threshold of the Great Patriotic War. A special attention is paid to highlighting peaceful friendly aspirations – though bringing no positive results - of the Soviet Union in Hungarian direction. The document-based article underlines some facts discovering a dramatic character of Soviet-Hungarian relationships on the threshold of the Great Patriotic War – the war imposed by the Nazi Germany on the USSR. The details of negotiations between the USSR and Hungary in Budapest and Moscow are discovered; the role of politicians such as Molotov, Krishtoffi, Sharonov, Chaki, Vyshinsky is shown. The facts touching Hungarian interests in Romania and Yugoslavia before the war between Germany and the USSR are given. The details of negotiations about concluding a treaty on commerce between the USSR and Hungary are discussed. The motives of the Hungarian troops’ invasion to Yugoslavia are considered. A double-standard policy of Hungary under Khorti’s dictatorship, its proximity with the Nazi regime which influenced Hungary’s starting the war against the USSR are explained. The details on diplomacy policy of the Nazi Germany aimed at further plan-realization on occupying the territories of Eastern Europe are given.