Russian Intervention Quotes
Nagy was executed 2 years later by the Russian controlled Hungarian government after the revolution was put down.
Indeed the Arabs did invite the Russians in but neither India nor Pakistan did.
Assad was the autocratic ruler of Syria. In the second decade of the 21st century, a number of dissident groups started a rebellion. The Unied States and most of the EU countruies wanted to assist the rebels as Assad had been butchering his own people to put down the rebellion. Russia, in addition to having an allaince with Assad for a Navel Base in Syria, was very coincerned about the people replacing Assad if the revolution succeeded. The coalition of rebels was not at all a coalition and there was considerable fighting and hatred between them ISIS was one of the stringest groups and the Russians were worried that they might take over so they supported Assad and in 2016 actually intervened using Russian air power to support the Government troops. That turned the tide and teh rebellion was prevented from succeeding. The Russian leadership was distressed that the United States did not take their concerns seriouly enough and indeed after they were in teh fight, the United States had to deal with them about the fate of Syria, so it was a successful tactic.
When the former Soviet republics were in the Soviet Union, ethnic Russians were often against their will forced to the Republic so it can be Russified. These ethnic Russians had higher status with the Soviet government and the local people resented them for that and for trying to change their culture. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, many people took out their resentment on the ethnic Russians by various form of official and unofficial discrimination. For example, in 2014 when the Ukrainians revolted and ousted the pro-Russian President, the new legislature, as one of its first acts, banned the use of the Russian language on schools and in all official government forms and activities. Although the new President vetoed the ban and it never became law, the vast majority of the legislators would gladly discriminate against the ethnic Russians legally as well as socially and personally. The Russian government, decided to be the “protectors” of the ethnic Russians. This conveniently also gave them a “justification” of seizing and annexing the Crimea which had been part of Ukraine.
