26 June 1941 The bombs nobody has ever identifiedBomby, ktoré dodnes nikto nepriradil

On 26 June 1941 unmarked aircraft bombed Košice. They were aiming at the artillery barracks; most of the bombs hit the post office and the houses around it, and about twenty-nine people were killed. The Hungarian government blamed the Soviet Union and the prime minister, László Bárdossy, declared war on it the next day, 27 June 1941, without a parliamentary vote — and Hungary was in the war on Germany's side. Historians have argued ever since about who actually dropped those bombs: a Soviet crew off course, a German provocation, or something else again. Nothing has been proved, and that is the lesson worth taking away — a country went to war on the strength of evidence that was never established.Dňa 26. júna 1941 bombardovali Košice lietadlá bez označenia. Mierili na delostrelecké kasárne, väčšina bômb však dopadla na poštu a okolité domy a zahynulo asi dvadsaťdeväť ľudí. Maďarská vláda obvinila Sovietsky zväz a premiér László Bárdossy mu už nasledujúci deň, 27. júna 1941, vyhlásil vojnu — bez hlasovania parlamentu. Maďarsko tak vstúpilo do vojny na strane Nemecka. Historici sa odvtedy sporia, kto tie bomby vlastne zhodil: sovietska posádka, ktorá zablúdila, nemecká provokácia, alebo niečo celkom iné. Nedokázalo sa nič — a práve to je poučenie, ktoré si treba odniesť: krajina vstúpila do vojny na základe dôkazu, ktorý nikdy nikto nepotvrdil.