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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuh? PUTEEN caught the virus for lacks of irony & self-insight from Drumpf?!
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https://news.yahoo.com/putin-sending-soviet-tanks-hungary-075944753.html
Putin: Sending Soviet tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a mistake
.... "It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other peoples," said Putin, who in 2022 sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two.
Putin said the United States was making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union. He said Washington had "no friends, only interests".
The 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks and troops. At least 2,600 Hungarians and 600 Soviet troops were killed in the fighting.
The 1968 Prague Spring was ended when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Around 137 Czechs and Slovaks died as a result of the invasion, according to Czech historians.
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Huh? PUTEEN caught the virus for lacks of irony & self-insight from Drumpf?! (Original Post)
UTUSN
Sep 2023
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My neighbor has Czech ancestry. Still all-in on The Donald. Germany and Russia incursions...
czarjak
Sep 2023
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czarjak
(13,639 posts)1. My neighbor has Czech ancestry. Still all-in on The Donald. Germany and Russia incursions...
Don't seem to matter. Impervious to history, and unfazed by it.
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)2. Baffling. And pundits keep demanding that we put ourselves in these opposite mindsets.
czarjak
(13,639 posts)3. Too woke, is how I had it explained from one of the faithful.