Soviet soldiers who killed Hungarians are now honoured
On 14 November, the most important information channel of the Komi Republic published an announcement with the headline ‘Ivan Trubin, who took part in combat operations in Hungary, died in Uhta at the age of 90’.
The statement stresses that Ivan Trubin, as a member of the Soviet troops, helped to suppress the counter-revolutionary uprising that took place in Hungary in 1956.
Thus, the Hungarian national holiday of 23 October 1956, which marked the beginning of the Hungarian Uprising, also known as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, has become a counter-revolutionary uprising in the Russian Federation, the suppression of which by Soviet soldiers was a truly heroic undertaking. In the course of suppressing the rebellion, over 2,000 Hungarians died at their hands and hundreds of thousands of Hungarians fled the country.
