The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1981-04-01 / 4. szám

speak the Hungarian language anymore, and you are an ardent supporter of “Leader Ceausescu's ideology” of Rumanian superiority from the Black Sea to the Tisza river.

THIS IS A FACT: EVERY YEAR SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF HUNGARIANS ESCAPE INTO SUICIDE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO FUTURE IN THEIR OWN HOMELAND!

INCREASING TERROR IN RUMANIA

The Amnesty International reports from London: An increasing number of dissidents are being presently arrested in Rumania, and held in prisons without trial or locked up into mental hospitals. Though statistics recently published by the Rumanian government show a slight decrease in the number of those imprisoned throughout the country, the reason for this decrease can be found in the mass release of thieves and other petty criminal* from the overcrowded Rumanian jails.

During the months of December 1980 and January 1981 an increased number of dissidents, mostly Hungarians, were arrested under the pretexts of “homosexuality” and “idle lifestyle”. The latter definition is being frequently used against Hungarian workers who are first fired from their jobs under some pretext, then1 arrester for “loafing”.

Leaders of ethnic cultural institutions, church elders as well as other members of die-hard congregations, and all those who dare to criticize oppressive government practices are exposed to intensive persecution.

ANSWER TO THOSE

Who maintain that Rumania furnished proof of her Anti-Russian attitude by refusing to send troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968

The reason for not taking part in the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia was the very fact that the Rumanian government was afraid of a similar revolt within its own borders spearheaded by the Hungarians in Transylvania. Rumanian troops concentrated along the Hungarian border as well as in the central and eastern parts of Transylvania. The same drastic measures of intimidation were used against the Transylvanian Hungarians as in 1956, during the Hungarian Uprising, which was squelched by the Russians with Rumanian aid.

THE CEAUSESCU DOCTRINE:

NATIONAL COMMUNISM Ultranationalistic rule in a multinational state.

In the spring of 1945 Stalin gave Transylvania to Rumania as compensation1 for the re-annexation of Basarabia and Northern Bucovina into the Soviet Union,, under the condtion1 that the new Rumanian government would respect the rights of the ethnic groups, as outlined in the Stalinist National Policy. This consists of the recognition of ethnic autonomies based on the federation of these autonomies. The autonomies granted to the different nationalities were supposed to be “nationalistic in form, socialistic in substance” in 'accordance with the Marxist doctrines. This meant that the different nationality groups were to be “bolshevized” in their own languages and with respect to their national customs, but under the strict supervision of the almighty Party. Thus, in 1952, under Soviet pressure, the Rumanian government established the “Autonomous Hungarian Province” in Transylvania.

However, in 1959 a new man appeared in the high echelon of the Rumanian communist party. His first action was to abolish Hungarian higher education by “absorbing” the Hungarian University of Kolozsvár, and eight ancient Hungarian high schools all over Transylvania, into their Rumanian counterparts. The merciless persecution of Hungarian educators began, and several of them were driven into suicide, while others died during the “interrogations”.

With this, Leader Ceausescu’ bloody career began. As unchallenged boss of the Party and dictator of the Rumanian Socialist Republic, in 1966 Ceausescu liquidated the Autonomous Hungarian Province, and declared the “unified and indivisible national State of Great Rumania, land of one Rumanian nation.” The ethnic members of the Party assemblv, representing almost five-million citizens were told that their constituents must assimilate into the one Rumanian nation or suffer the consequences.

These “consequences” turned out to be within a few years the complete cultural annihilation of all nationality groups with the use of terror. The slightest resistance to preserve Hungarian cultural heritage was instantly regarded as “high treason” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.

Comparing the Marxist character of the constitution on which the Socialist Republic of Rumania was based with the practices and doctrines of the Ceausescu regime, we must come to the conclusion that the constitution1 is nothing more than a “coverup”, a camouflage toward the rest of the world, THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY

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