Putin: Sending Soviet tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a mistake
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a report in Vladivostok/ VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake. "It was a mistake," Putin said when asked about perceptions of Russia as a colonial power due to Moscow's decision to send tanks into Budapest in 1956 and into Prague in 1968. "It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other ...
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