The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-10-01 / 10. szám
playgrounds; history rewritten, claiming that it was the great Cuban himself, Cristoforo Colombo, who occupied and settled the country and the Americans were only intruders in this ancient Cuban province. Anybody laughing ? Don’t. It happened to us. It can happen to you ! ☆ ☆ RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT CHALLENGED In a letter addressed to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, the Transylvania Historical Society in America challenged the Rumanian claim to Transylvania based on “historic rights.” In the letter, the propaganda apparatus of the Rumanian government is requested to furnish documented proof of; 1. Rumanian presence in Transylvania before the arrival of the Hungarians in 895 A.D. 2. Any trace of Rumanian culture previous to the translation of the Bible in 1561 from the Hungarian into the Vlach tongue, a service done exclusively by Hungarian scholars, printers and publishers for the benefit of Vlach immigrants and migrant workers. The Rumanian political apparatus insists today that the Rumanian people are the descendants of the Daks and the Romans. However, historic data indicates that the ancient Scythian tribe of the Daks was completely exterminated by the legions of the Roman Empire between 105 and 110 A.D. Furthermore, that the legions stationed in Dacia (today Transylvania) were the so-called “Barbarian Legions” recruited in the North of the Empire from Germanic tribes, therefore, not Latin-speaking men. Finally, that in 271 A.D. when Emperor Aurelianus ordered the evacuation of the territory, the evacuation was complete, with no inhabitants left behind. Linguistic study, as well as historic data, points to the fact that the Vlachs, under which name the “Rumanians” were known to the middle of the 19th century A.D., migrated up the Balkan peninsula from Albania to their present day location between the 10th and 14th centuries. If Rumanian scholars can prove the contrary, they are invited to do so. Simply changing known historical names from Hungarian to Rumanian might serve cheap propaganda purposes but it can never take the place of documented facts as to the rightful claim of the Transylvanians to their Hungarian heritage. “IF ONE HUNGARIAN PIG DIES. . ” The TWF News Service reports from Transylvania: In the village of Noszoly, Central Transylvania, two brothers by the name of Janos and Ferenc Tókés, age 16 and 14, were arrested on May 18,1981, and taken to the police station in Kekes, where they were both kept for two days and savagely beaten. The charge against the two Hungarian boys “malicious act against the Rumanian state.” The Tőkés brothers, whose names were arbitrarily changed by the Rumanian authorities to the more Rumaniansounding Tochesiu, protested when their distorted names were called from the roll of the local communist youth organization. Since this happened during the May 10th parade, commemorating the “union of all Rumanians,” it was regarded as a demonstration against Rumanian unity. The two boys were taken home by their widowed mother and her sister in a cart pulled by the two women, because neither of them was able to walk due to the beatings received from the police. János Tőkés, 16, was unconscious for five days, he lost half of his teeth, four of his fingers were broken and in mid-July he was still unable to speak clearly. When the mother asked for medical attention in behalf of her son, it was denied by the county administrator with the words : “If one Hungarian pig dies, we have one less to get rid of!” In the Kékes-district 48% of the population is Hungarian, according to the 1943 statistics. LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSYLVANIA! Read the books released by the Danubian Research Center Transylvania and the Hungarian-Rumanian Problem, a symposium, 330 pp. maps, statistics, bibliography, cloth ...........................................................$18.00 Haraszti, Andrew: The Ethnic History of Transylvania .......................................................$10.00 Haraszti: Origin of the Rumanians............................$ 5.00 Nanay, Julia: Transylvania, the Hungarian Minority in Rumania................................................$ 5.00 Zathureczky: Transylvania, Citadel of the West ........$ 4.00 THE DANUBIAN PRESS Rt. 1, Box 59 Astor, Florida 32002 The Transylvania Quarterly is a supplement to the Eighth Tribe bi-lingual monthly magazine. Subscription is $10.00 per year — $12.00 outside U.S.A. payable in U.S. funds. Eighth Tribe, P.O. Box 637, Ligonier, Pa. 15658. THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY m
