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Ukraine Isn't the First Time - Russian Regime Change Hungary 1956
The war in Ukraine is not the first time Russia has attempted to regime change a neighbouring country - in 1956, Russia ruthlessly crushed a pro-democracy revolution in Hungary for many of the same reasons it has used to justify its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.