The last Soviet soldier leaving headquarters in Hungary – VIDEO

The moment when the very last Soviet soldiers left their Hungarian headquarters on June 19, 1991, aired on national television for the first time. The recordings were made by László Zámbó, who sat in his Trabant and immortalized the moment that the whole country waited decades for.

László Zámbó recorded the last Soviet trucks leaving Budapest, and also the troops’ commander, Viktor Silov leaving his mansion. The videos aired on RTL Klub on Saturday night, reports hvg.hu.

During the show in which the videos were shown, the man said he waited for two nights and almost three whole days so he could record the historical moments.

The next day, Zámbó went to the headquarters and looked around. “Hideous, what they left behind, dirt and disarray. The Russian soldiers undressed, took their uniforms off, and hang it on the fence. Whatever they could get, civil clothes, they scattered. They did not want to go home, they obviously knew they could have a better life here,” he said.

RTL Klub tried to get in contact with him, but the ex-soldier did not want to give them an interview.

The then-Prime Minister, Miklós Németh, came to an agreement with Mihail Gorbacsov about the decades-long “temporarily” stationing Russian troops’ withdrawal in March 1989, but they did not go public with the decision.

The first 10,000 soldiers left Hungary in March that same year, and a year later an official agreement was reached, which stated that all soldiers and vehicles would leave the country.

Source: https://hvg.hu/