The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-10-01 / 10. szám
groups in some geographical locations. The same happened in Transylvania with the difference that, while the world powers recognized the rights of the Israelis to their homeland and aided them in removing the Palestinian Arabs, the Transylvanian Hungarians were denied their rights to their ancient homeland and their national identity by forcing them under subjugation of the intruding Rumanians. During the last few centuries, Albania, Israel and Nauru were overrun many times by neighboring powers and kept under foreign occupation. So was Transylvania. Nevertheless, the deeply rooted culture and national consciousness survived all afflictions, trials and tribulations and was awarded in our days with well deserved independence by a more enlightened world; with the exception of Transylvania. Why? There is but one answer to this question: THROUGH CLEVER PROPAGANDA - MANIPULATIONS DURING THE PRE-WORLD WAR I DECADES, THE NATIONAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE ENTIRE CARPATHIAN BASIN WAS SO OBSCURED, BECLOUDED AND CONCEALED BY CERTAIN POLITICAL FORCES AIMING TO DIVIDE UP AMONG THEMSELVES THIS UNDOUBTEDLY RICHEST PART OF CENTRAL EUROPE, THAT IN THE CONFUSION OF THE WAR, THE PEACEMAKERS WERE UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH AND THUS 5,000,000 HUNGARIANS WERE THROWN TO THE WOLVES AS PART OF THE SPOILS. Since 1919, by relentless falsification of history, by the removal and obliteration of all national monuments, landmarks, cultural achievements, by the total annihilation of the past, the intruders were working unceasingly to influence public opinion in order that these spoils may be kept by them forever. During the last sixty years more than 3,000,000 Rumanians were moved into Hungarian-Transylvania in an attempt to change the balance of the population. All geographical locations were renamed to wipe the Hungarian identy off the face of the land. Anyone trying today to travel across Transylvania with an old travel quide or journey record in his hand, be it English, French or German, will not be able to find one single town, village, river or mountain named in that book. However, we can prove with indisputable evidence the historical and cultural rights of the Transylvanian Hungarians to nationhood on the land of their heritage, and we shall do so just as unceasingly and relentlessly as the enemies of the truth have done their work of falsification. We firmly believe that it is the law of God that evil cannot prevail for long over good and injustice cannot permanently suppress justice. THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIAN NATION HAS JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION AS HAS ANY OTHER. THE BRUTAL ACTIONS OF THE RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT IN TRYING TO SQUELCH EVERY MANIFESTATION OF HUNGARIAN NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN TRANSYLVANIA MUST BE REGARDED AS GENOCIDE! At that time, the change of name cost the Transylvanian Hungarians 200,000 lives and the most barbaric tortures of men, women and children Europe has ever seen. To be sure that the “Transylvanian Problem” would be solved for good, the communist government of Rumania discarded the international foundations of the Marxist doctrine and created for its own use a “national communism” which does not recognize the rights of other nationalities except those of the Rumanians. The Rumanian language was brutally enforced, Hungarian signs, monuments and landmarks destroyed, including cemeteries, libraries, museums and archives confiscated and burned. Hungarians inhabiting the city of Kolozsvár were moved out of their homes overnight and taken into forced labor camps or settled into the deadly swamps of the Danube delta. In order to justify their actions to the world, the government of Rumania took recourse in the artificially created “Daco-Roman Theory”, declaring themselves the indigenous inhabitants of Transylvania and vehemently denying the fact that Hungarians or Magyars ever settled, lived and built culture and civilization in the land for ten centuries. To emphasize their false claim of being “descendants of the Romans”, they have attached the name “Cluj”, the name of the ancient Roman fort, and today the old Hungarian city of Kolozsvár, once the center of Hungarian higher education, art and literature, is called “CLUJ-NAPOCA”. In an effort to bring the situation closer to all Americans, lets make an analogy, hoping it will never happen. Let us assume that one day in the future, through evil manipulations and unfortunate circumstances, South Florida might be overrun and annexed by Cuba under the pretext of a “ Spanish speaking majority” in certain areas : The cities would be immediately renamed; street markers replaced; all signs in the English language taken off; English books, documents, city and county records confiscated and burned; police force, city and county officials replaced; the English language abolished from all public places; schools, from kindergarten to university level, taken over, changed into Spanish; the use of the English language strictly forbidden in classrooms as well as n THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
