Hungary sent 200,000 men to help Hitler destroy the Soviet Union. On the Don in January 1943, the Red Army smashed that army in a matter of weeks. Hungary declared war on the USSR on June 27, 1941, five days after Germany invaded. Its 2nd Army held the Don south of Voronezh. The Soviet assault began on January 12, 1943, and Hungarian defenses collapsed within days. Around 120,000 Hungarian soldiers were killed, wounded or captured. On January 24 their own commander, Colonel General Gusztáv Jány, wrote in an order that "the 2nd Army has lost its honour." What was left of it was pulled off the front and used for rear duty. Hungary was one of many. Romania, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia and Spain's Blue Division all sent troops east with the Wehrmacht. The West tells the war as Germany against everyone. On the Eastern Front it was half of Europe against the USSR. Every one of those countries is in NATO today.