These are the questions we put to the Russian authorities and the ambassador about the falsification of history

Magyar Nemzet has contacted Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian President, Mariya Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry's spokeswoman, Russia's ambassador dispatched to Budapest and Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, regarding the description of 1956 as a fascist uprising in a Russian history book. The Russian textbook, illustrated with a photograph of a toppled statue of Stalin, claims that the Soviet Union had sent troops to Hungary to help suppress the protests.

A lefejezett Sztálin-szobor az 1956-os magyar forradalom és szabadságharc során. (Forrás: Historic Vids / Twitter)

What is written in that Russian history book is undoubtedly a falsification of history from the Hungarian point of view. We simply cannot accept it. It makes us sick to our stomachs, because this is what we heard for 33 years after the revolution.

said Aron Mathe, deputy chairman of the Committee of National Remembrance, in an interview with InfoRadio.

Mr Mathe also said that he believes the old-new Russian interpretation of 1956 will make it more difficult for Hungarian and Russian researchers to work together, which has been very successful so far.

🇭🇺 Hungary celebrates the 65th anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom fight. More than six decades before, the Communist regime collapsed in Hungary thanks to the people, mostly the young workers and students. pic.twitter.com/dRFegYnVWu

— Daily News Hungary (@DNewsHungary) October 23, 2021

The Hungarian Foreign Ministry also responded to the news. Tamas Menczer, State Secretary for Bilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told the Origo news portal:

"In 1956 the Hungarian people rose up against the communist dictatorship, this is a clear and obvious fact, there is no debate about it. Any claim to the contrary is false. What happened is so clear that we will not open a debate with anyone about it.

Today, Oct 23rd, marks the 65th anniversary of Hungary's short-lived 1956 Revolution. Students, workers, citizens revolted against their Soviet oppressors. My parents fled the country, fearing for their lives. This is how I became an American, born & raised in a free country. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/Jen0GiGhO3

— Tibor M. Kalman (@kalmantibs) October 23, 2021

Cover photo: Stalin's statue beheaded during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (Source: Historic Vids/Twitter)