Putin: It was a mistake to send tanks to Hungary in 1956

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that it was a mistake to send tanks to Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush the revolution during the Cold War.

"It was a mistake," Putin replied to a question about Russia's colonial past, which brought up the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the suppression of the Prague Spring, Reuters reported

"It is not right to take foreign policy actions that harm the interests of other peoples"

- said the Russian president, who on February 24, 2022 sent tens of thousands of soldiers to invade Ukraine, thus triggering the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War.

However, Putin did not get this far in self-reflection, instead he talked about how the United States is now making the same mistake as the Soviet Union at the time.

According to him, Washington "has no friends, only interests."

Reuters also recalls that at least 2,600 Hungarian and 600 Soviet soldiers lost their lives in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Source: forbes.hu

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