Arthur Welf 🇺🇦🇮🇹🇪🇺

The Hungarians need a history lesson. Hungary did not give up 2/3 of its lands for peace. As the junior partner in the Austria-Hungarian Empire, it participated in starting World War I, lost it. and got partitioned. The Hungarians hated the Treaty of Trianon so much that they even had a slogan, “No, no, never!”, about it. But they didn’t stop at the slogan. They worked hard with the German Nazis and the Italian fascists to recover these territories: - 1938: Germany and Italy gave them southern Slovakia and southern Carpatho-Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia - 1939: Hungary occupied the rest of Carpatho-Ruthenia after rump Czechoslovakia surrendered to Hitler - 1940: Germany gave Hungary Northern Transylvania at Romania’s expense - 1941: after Germany invaded Yugoslavia, Hungary occupied and annexed parts of Vojvodina, Croatia, and Sloven By 1941, Hungary, in collaboration with the Nazis, had recovered the territories it had “given up for peace.” Hungary joined the Axis in the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 but performed so poorly that its government decided to betray Hitler by negotiating a separate peace — the Germans occupied it in 1944 instead. Hungary switched sides late that year but it was too late as the Red Army was already advancing. Hungary thus lost the second world war as well. In the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, all its gains were annulled and it was essentially scaled back to its Trianon borders. Because that’s what happens when you are the aggressor in wars you lose. Hungary didn’t give up anything for peace. It started wars of conquest, was defeated, and was forced to give up its ill-gotten gains.