Ukraine wasn’t even a sovereign country during WW2, it was a Soviet republic that was not in a position to formulate its own foreign policy. To say Ukraine fought with Germany during the war is totally misrepresenting history. That’s a fact not an opinion.
Just because a minority of Ukrainians shamefully collaborated with the Nazis does not mean that Ukraine opted to fight with Germany - unlike Hungary.
I know
@Paul1970 clearly has an attachment to his homeland of Hungary, to to conflate how Hungary acted prior and during WWII to Ukraine's stance being just a republic of the Soviet's who engaged in ethnic and cultural cleansing to remove the Ukraine nationality (same as now)...is just... unfactual.
The 1st paragraph of
en.wikipedia.org
During
World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the
Axis powers.
[1] In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with
Fascist Italy and
Nazi Germany to pull itself out of the
Great Depression. Hungarian politics and foreign policy had become more stridently nationalistic by 1938, and Hungary adopted an
irredentist policy similar to Germany's, attempting to incorporate ethnic Hungarian areas in neighboring countries into Hungary. Hungary benefited territorially from its relationship with the Axis. Settlements were negotiated regarding territorial disputes with the
Czechoslovak Republic, the Slovak Republic, and the
Kingdom of Romania. On November 20, 1940, Hungary became the fourth member to join the Axis powers when it signed the Tripartite Pact.
[2] The following year, Hungarian forces participated in the
invasion of Yugoslavia and the
invasion of the Soviet Union. Their participation was noted by German observers for its particular cruelty, with occupied peoples subjected to arbitrary violence. Hungarian volunteers were sometimes referred to as engaging in "murder tourism."
... I think is an apt summation of how Hungary acted...presumably longing for a return of the past, and their empire.
1956 is a whole new ballgame, however. As per the Prague Spring of 1968, it was an inevitable wipe out of national fervour. The 'West' wasn't going to intervene past the Iron curtain.
@Paul1970 Every nation has shame of their past... I doubt you'll find any nation other than maybe Bhutan that hasn't caused their neighbours crap for any number of reasons. Blindly washing away the past and conflating is not the way. Concilliation and embracing differences, is.
