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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had to look it up (dont know much about it), but in the Wikipedia entry it notes:

Time named the Hungarian Freedom Fighter its Man of the Year

And

In 2006, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány referred to this famous Time cover as "the faces of free Hungary" in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising.

Which makes me think they were later vindicated. But maybe I'm missing something.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I may be wrong and lack any historical knowledge on the subject, but I think author is sarcastically self-identifying as a tankie?

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Oh its 100% possible, I have no idea.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The guy you're responding to is a liberal doing a piss-poor satire of a ML.

The students protests was quickly co-opted by nazi collaborators entirely unaffiliated with the students, it'd be like if Jan 6 happened during the 2020 protests.

The government vindicating those protestors also built monuments to nazi collaborators.

It's a complex issue, the students had genuine issues the government was failing to address, but if the soviets didn't step in, things would have been far, far worse. For comparison, here's what tended to happen in countries that failed to stop the counterrevolution around that time.