Slovak-Hungarian relations in the mirror of the Soviet-German conflictive alliance (1939–1941)

Aliaksandr Piahanau (1, 2)

1 Belarusian State University
2 University of Toulouse

This article focuses on Slovak-Hungarian relations in the context of the Soviet-German framed antagonism (1939-1941). It tends to show that Slovakia and Hungary tried to rely on those two powers in order to achieve their revisionist aims. Reversely, they were exploited by Berlin or Moscow in their diplomatic chessboards until the Soviet-German war, which was underway by 1941. Between September 1939 and June 1941, Bratislava raised a few times territorial demands to Hungary. Those revisionist attempts were sometimes backed by Berlin, especially when, willing to recover Transylvania, Budapest tried to benefit from Soviet territorial ambitions in Romania. However, after the Second Vienna Award (30 August 1940), Germany exerted pressure on Slovakia so that she would abandon her revisionist ideas.

Mots clés: pact Molotov-Ribbentrop; Southern Slovakia; Vienna Award; border disputes; World War 2; Central Europe; Soviet-German relations; Slovak-Hungarian relations; Hungary; Slovakia; national minorities; revisionism; international relations; V. Tuka; F. Ďurčanský; J. Tiso; J. Esterházy; P. Teleki

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Aliaksandr Piahanau. Slovak-Hungarian relations in the mirror of the Soviet-German conflictive alliance (1939–1941). 2012. ⟨halshs-01261457⟩