Russia accepts moral responsibility for 1956

Russia is not responsible for decisions made by the Soviet leadership in Hungary in 1956, the upper house of the Russian legislature declared on Friday, but feels "moral responsibility for past events and hopes that Hungary will acknowledge our genuine sorrow over the events of October and November 1956."

The announcement does not call the events "a revolution," as the uprising was an effort to correct socialist society not overthrow it, Népszabadság reports.

The 1956 tragedy repeated itself in 2006 as comedy, Moscowskiye Novosti wrote.

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