On the Danube embankment in Buda. City of Budapest (Hungary). 2nd Ukrainian Front. March 1945. File photoMOSCOW, June 22Hungary, a former ally of Nazi Germany, admitted that the USSR was not going to attack first. This is stated in archival documents published in the historical section «Heroes of the First Days of the Great War» on the website of the Ministry of Defense. It is explained that, according to Budapest, the military measures carried out by the Soviet Union on the eve of the Great Patriotic War were exclusively defensive in nature. «The Russian army in in its present state is not prepared for a major war, and therefore the Soviet government wants to avoid a collision with Germany in every possible way. Thus, there is no intention of attacking from the Russian side. All Russian military measures on the western borders … can be considered defensive measures to protect against a possible German attack,» the report of the chief of staff of the Hungarian Royal Army on the topic «The position of Russian forces against the Hungarian border on April 20, 1941» says. response to n the conduct of the military Balkan campaign by the German command, as a result of which the Nazis had a convenient springboard for attacking the USSR. «Because of Germany's beginnings in the Balkans, Russian distrust of Germany intensified, and there was a noticeable tension in Russian-German relations. British propaganda will do everything in the interest of inciting the Soviet Union (to war. — Approx. ed.), «the report says. As Hitler's Hungarian allies noted, the USSR» wanted «in every way» to avoid conflict with Germany. rapidly along the western border from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. All military measures are invariably of a defensive nature. The Soviet government wants in every possible way to avoid an armed conflict with Germany. So, there is no intention to attack from the USSR,” the document emphasizes.
