"It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other peoples."
— Vladimir Putin

January 1, 1970

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ConservativesPresidents of RussiaPeople from St. PetersburgEastern Orthodox ChristiansPrime Ministers of Russia
Original Language: English

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Said about the Soviet Union sending tanks into Budapest in 1956 and into Prague in 1968, as quoted in "Putin: sending Soviet tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a mistake", Reuters (12 September 2023)