wow I legit thought this was AI-generated, but apparently they are real :o
kazerniel
joined 2 years ago
Likewise it was not a fascist uprising simply because it was democratic, /anti-authoritarian and wanted to escape from Soviet imperialism.
This. My grandparents were there when the authorities opened fire on the peacefully gathering crowd. They only escaped with their lives because they got lucky, they saw some others fall around them.
Translation of the Hungarian wikipedia article bc it doesn't seem to exist in other languages: https://hu-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Sort%C5%B1z_a_Parlamentn%C3%A9l_1956-ban?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Not sure about "last time", but this is pretty famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_China
In recent years they have colonised more subtly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative#Accusations_of_neo-colonialism_and_debt-trap_diplomacy
plus all their bullshit around the nine dash line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands#Conflicts_in_the_21st_century
loads for me, in the UK