The sad part of the Ukrainian episode with Russia taking over Crimea adn amassing forces on Ukraine border is that this generation forgot the imperialistic past of the Soviet Union, like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or Hungarian Uprising of 1956 with Imre Nagy as the elected PM which was repressed in a very cruel way.
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I remember vividly how at the time night and day long columns of armored Russian military hardware where passing trough our town invading Hungary and how worried and frightened people where.
At the time I was a little kid but it made a very lasting impression who communist Russian are fact is that I remember this even today s may years after the event and this memory only instigate feeling of anger.
Another event that people forgot is the rise and fall of Dubcek within Czehoslovakia who initiated the Prague Spring
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As these talks proved unsatisfactory, the Soviets began to consider a military alternative. The Soviet Union's policy of compelling the socialist governments of its satellite states to subordinate their national interests to those of the " Eastern Bloc" (through military force if needed) became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine. [44] On the night of 20–21 August 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, the GDR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary—invaded the CSSR. [45] [46]
That night, 200,000 troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country. [47] They first occupied the Ruzyne International Airport, where air deployment of more troops was arranged. The Czechoslovak forces were confined to their barracks, which were surrounded until the threat of a counter-attack was assuaged. By the morning of 21 August Czechoslovakia was occupied. [46]
Neither Romania nor Albania took part in the invasion. [48] During the invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies, 72 Czechs and Slovaks were killed (19 of those in Slovakia), 266 severely wounded and another 436 slightly injured. [49] [50] Alexander Dubcek called upon his people not to resist. [50] Nevertheless, there was scattered resistance in the streets. Road signs in towns were removed or painted over—except for those indicating the way to Moscow. [51] Many small villages renamed themselves "Dubcek" or "Svoboda"; thus, without navigational equipment, the invaders were often confused. [52]
This is why Russia under Putin must be stopped at all cost, because if they will not be stopped who knows who will be next. Most Western countries seem not to get this very simple fact that since Ivan Grozny and the Rurik dynasty Russia systematically had an expansionist policy by military force. One should know to differentiate between the ethnic Slavic part of Russia and the Vanagrian descendants who established the Kiev Rus and brutally destroyed Khazar Kingdom which was east of the Dniper River.to the Caspina sea en.wikipedia.org
The Khazar Kingdom was destroyed by Vlodimir the son of Olga because they controlled the trading routes used by the Kiev Rus Varangians to what is now Iraq or the Arab Caliphate and Far East in their trades where they sold Slavic slaves captured in what is today Russia and furs from the same region. The Kiev Rus wanted access ot the Balck sea in their trade with Southern Europe and Byzantine. It is all about economics
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