Bukovszky László: A Csehszlovákiai Magyar Demokratikus Népi Szövetség és a Mindszenty-per szlovákiai recepciója (Budapest-Somorja, 2016)
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Bratislava to Košice. The lines of its legal and public interest advocacy had been determined by the adoption of the Košice government programme, the deportation of Hungarians to the Czech lands and Moravia, the announcement and implementation of reslovakization, the Paris Peace Treaty with Hungary and the agreement on the population exchange between Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In its documents and memoranda, the organization presents itself as “the only self-defence body of the Hungarians of Upland, irrespective of their political outlook or religion”, or, in some cases, as “an illegal movement, being the liaison body between the Hungarians of Upland and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary”. The Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior was, however, unable to reveal the activities of the organization. However, in 1946, there was a procedure introduced against the illegal newspaper Észak Szava published in Rožňava, but the authorities were unable to track down its creators and distributors. The discovery absurdly happened when the bilateral relations between Hungary and Czechoslovakia seemed to be getting resolved, the majority of the Hungarians in Slovakia had regained their citizenships, the National Cultural Organization of the Hungarian Working People in Slovakia (Csemadok) had begun its activities, and in Bratislava, the communist party's Hungarian-language weekly Új Szó had been published. The reality, however, occurred to be misleading, as the power, calling itself “people's democratic”, did away with all social groups with differing views in the cruellest of manners—in this case, for instance, with Csmadnész and the churches—, in order to build up and strengthen its autocracy. The twisted nature of the situation is well characterized by the fact that Csmadnész lead by László Arany Adalbert, was revealed at the time when the denied civil rights of the Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were—under the principles of the so called proletarian internationalism—seemingly regained. The Hungarian State Security (Államvédelmi Osztály—ÁVO) arrested in Budapest two former active members of the organization: first Zoltán Krausz, then István Varró. Their arrest took place after the verdict in the first instance was delivered in the Mindszenty trial. The cause was provided by the fact that incriminating documents were found during the Cardinal's perquisition. After ÁVO interrogated them both, based on the information obtained they were deported from Hungary on 20 February 1949 and given over to the Czechoslovak political police. But during a round a month, following their repeated interrogation by the Czechoslovak secret police, further individuals involved 295
