Hungary apologizes for role in Warsaw Pact invasion

In related news, the Hungarian Culture Minister Istvan Hiller has apologised on behalf of his government for Hungary's participation in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Mr Hiller said on Thursday that the suppression of the Prague Spring communist-led reform movement 40 years ago was shameful and that Hungary's share of the blame had not been lessened by the fact that it had acted under pressure from the Soviet Union. He called Hungary’s participation “an aggression, an attack on free thinking and on free decision-making”.

Author: Jan Velinger