‘Color revolution’: Hungary summons Russian envoy over 1956 anti-Soviet uprising criticism on TV
Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has recently summoned the Russian ambassador over blasting the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in the TV programme by director of pro-Kremlin news agency Russia Today Dmitry Kiselyov, notorious for his propaganda efforts in covering the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
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According to the ministry, Russian state media described the Hungarian revolt as a ‘pogrom’ and as the first of the ‘color revolutions’, like Ukraine’s ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2005, implying that the United States was behind the uprising, Associated Press reports. Hungary will not tolerate anyone talking ‘in a humiliating manner about the revolution and its heroes’, the diplomats warned.
Meanwhile, when conducting its recent survey, Moscow-based Yuri Levada Analytical Center inquired 1,600 Russian citizens about their knowledge and assessment of what happened in Hungary in 1956.
When asked if they knew about the fact of the outbreak of the revolt, 43% of respondents said ‘yes’. Then, another question was put to the representatives of the group: “In late October 1956, Soviet troops made an assault on Budapest and suppressed the uprising. In your opinion, did the Soviet authorities act in the right way? “
50% answered in the affirmative (‘definitely yes’ or ‘rather yes’). 20% of the interviewees believe that the revolt was a ‘sabotage action aiming at dividing socialist countries’, another 20% say it was an ‘attempt of anti-Soviet forces in Hungary to carry out a coup and break the country from the socialist bloc’, while 15% think it to have been a ‘counter-revolutionary rebellion initiated by the opposition’. Only 15% stated that it was anti-Soviet uprising.
