Russian history textbook caused a scandal in Hungary: Ambassador of the Russian Federation responded (photo)

This was reported by the editor of the Russian edition "Medusa" Alexei Kovalev in his Telegram channel on September 4. The journalist reported that he shared with Hungarian colleagues a merged draft of the textbook written by Assistant President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky and Russian diplomat and historian Anatoliy Torkunov.

According to Kovalev, an excerpt about the rebellion of 1956 against the pro -Soviet regime of the Hungarian People's Republic, suppressed by the Soviet troops, caused a scandal in Hungary. The authors of the textbook claim that the catalyst of the "Hungarian crisis" allegedly became the actions of the Western special services and their supported internal opposition.

"The rebels were radicals, including many former fighters of the armed formations of fascist Hungary," distinguished "during the uprising not only by vandalism against Soviet monuments and symbols, but also by numerous killings , - reads in one of the sections of the textbook.

The Secretary of State for Bilateral Relations at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Tamash Menzer, in a comment to the Origo portal, rejected the statement of the authors of the textbook that the events of 1956 were allegedly a "fascist uprising". "In 1956, the Hungarian people rebelled against the communist dictatorship, it is a clear, unknown fact, not the subject of disputes," Tamash Menzer said.

For his part, the representative of the Hungarian opposition party "Movement Momentum" Marton Tomposh invited the staff of the Russian Embassy to the Budapest Museum "The House of Terror", which is devoted to periods of totalitarian history of Hungary.

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Hungary Yevhen Stanislavov stated that the criticism of the content of the textbook is based on the publication of the Hungarian media, which as a source uses the Meduza portal recognized in the Russian Federation by a foreign agent. The diplomat claims that Meduza "specializes in the preparation and distribution of anti -Russian fakes.

" Stanislavov's statement states that only one of the options for the future textbook was allegedly in the hands of journalists. According to him, the total moon was "ten". The ambassador also claims that in none of the versions of the 1956 rebellion he known to him was called "fascist". "All this reminded us of a children's game in" Sleeped Phone ", when a word or phrase is transmitted" to the ear "by a neighbor, and at the exit it turns out what was said at first," the Russian ambassador said.

Finally, the diplomat commented on Marton Tomposh's invitation to the Terror House. "The exposition presented in this museum is well known to us and, as it seems to us, is unlikely to serve as such inappropriate" humor ", - said Yevgeny Stanislavov. Recall that the updated Russian textbooks also have a section on the invasion of Russia into Ukraine, which Named there "special military operation".