Participarea armatelor României, Slovaciei şi Ungariei la campania împotriva Uniunii Sovietice a avut ţeluri diferite. Cele trei state aveau două categorii de obiective: maximale şi minimale. Cele maximale urmăreau redobândirea tuturor teritoriilor pierdute. Pentru Bratislava şi Bucureşti scopul era anularea Arbitrajelor de la Vinea din 1938 şi 1940. Pentru Budapesta, ţinta era refacerea Ungariei Mari a Sf. Ştefan care includea întreaga Slovacie şi Transilvanie. Pentru cei trei „aliaţi incompatibili”, obiectivul minimal era păstrarea frontierelor aşa cum erau ele la 22 iunie 1941. Pentru atingerea acestora era necesară colaborarea cu armata germană în războiul antisovietic.

The participation of the Romanian, Slovak and Hungarian armies in the campaign against the Soviet Union has different purposes. The three states have defined two categories of objectives: maximum and minimum. The maximum objective was to regain all lost territories. For Bratislava and Bucharest this goal was to cancel the Arbitrations of Vienna from 1938 and 1940. For Budapest, the aim was to restore St. Stephen’s Great Hungary it included the whole Slovakia and Transylvania. For those three incompatibles allies, the minimum objective was preserving common borders as it were on 1941, June 22nd. For achieving the objectives it was necessary to collaborate with German Army in anti-Soviet war.