Putin’s new history textbook says it was a mistake to withdraw from Hungary in 1991

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Photo: Illustration. A meeting of Orbán and Putin in 2017. (CC BY 4.0)

Putin has a new history textbook written by his adviser Vladimir Medinsky. According to the new textbook, in 1956, rebellious radicals, former soldiers of fascist Hungary, took up arms and committed a large number of murders. The textbook concludes that it was a mistake for Russians to withdraw from Hungary.

New Russian state history book

In 1956, rebellious radicals, former soldiers of fascist Hungary, took up arms and committed many murders. According to a G7 article, this is how the new Russian state history textbook describes the 1956 revolution of Hungary. This volume will be compulsory for the education of 17-year-olds throughout the country. The volume for 11th graders was written by Vladimir Medinsky, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

G7 notes about Medinsky that as culture minister he fired the head of the Moscow archives for questioning the historical authenticity of the filmed legend of the Great Patriotic War, the story of 28 soldiers who stopped a German tank column in front of Moscow at the cost of their lives, 24.hu writes.

It was a mistake releasing Hungary

G7 points out that the book spends almost a hundred pages on Putin’s reign and 18 pages on the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. In addition to the section on Hungary in 1956, it is noteworthy that the book considers the release of the Soviet satellite states, including Hungary, to be a major mistake.

As the book writes, “In 1989, the unilateral withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern and Central Europe began. This was a particularly ill-considered decision, because the weakening of the Soviet military presence in the Allied countries caused a rise in nationalist and anti-Soviet sentiment’.

Neo-nazism, brutal tactics in Ukraine

For example, according to the G7 article, in the sub-chapter on “Ukrainian neo-Nazism”, they discuss how, since the 1990s, generations have been “raised with anti-Russian, neo-Nazi ideals” and the Ukrainian army, following NATO orders, uses its own citizens as human shields, not allowing them to leave their homes. According to the textbook, ‘no army in the history of the world has ever used such brutal tactics on its own territory’.

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