Calvin Synod Herald, 1999 (99. évfolyam, 2-4. szám - 100. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1999-05-01 / 3. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD- 6 -AMERIKAI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA History - at times - is Rattlebrained! Continued from Page 5 Fiorello LaGuardia (mayor of New York), who was executive president of UNRA, especially favored the Yugoslavians. Most of the help - instead of going to the needy - ended up in the hands of the favored partisan servants of the ruling regime. It is indeed an irony of history that when the communist Tito demanded from the then-already Hungarian communist government of Hungary to turn over to Yugoslavia the main participants of the "Újvidék Incident" as warcriminals to face in Újvidék, a "War- Crime Tribunal", General Szombathelyi, Feketehalmy, Grassy, Zoldy and Nagy, Ujvidek's mayor, were immediately turned over. It was Tito's scheme to intimidate all Hungarians in Yugoslavia. It was a mock-trial lasting for one week. All were condemned to death "in the name of the people". These magyar officers of the army were thrown as prey to the lions; the blood-For Hungarians, Trianon triggered a still on-going, slow motion political holocaust that dismembered historic Hungary and left it like a torso without limbs. The "limbs" that were torn away are the 3.5 million Magyars who have become Europe’s largest minority group, dispersed in the successor states. As such, they have been treated as unwanted "foreigners" in their native land with an ever-weakening status due to forced assimilation. The Magyars find little solace in the fact that three of the states that had profited from the dismemberment of Hungary have already disappeared: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and - unthinkably - the Soviet Union, but not for the Hungarian's immediate benefit. These states' demise took various forms: In 1995, the world was still witnessing the cataclysmic self-destruction of Yugoslavia as the Serbs tried to create a Great Siberia upon the ruins of their crazy-quilt domain. Among all the new countries created by Trianon, Yugoslavia was the epitome of Balkanization. Much more civilized Czechoslovakia split in two through the "velvet" divorce of thirsty Serbians of the Land, who were not only Zsabolya and Csurog, who were not only sympathizers of the communist partisans, but most of them actual participants in their underground warfare since 1941. The persecution of magyars then started with a new zeal. Romanians, Serbians, Czechs and Slovaks had a right to yell into the ears of the world the falsifications of their own history freely; but persecuted Hungarians had no right even to express their own history's truths and realities. What unjust classification under the name of human rights and equality of minorities?! Regarding the future of new Europe the Hungarians in immigration should take a leading voice in the rearranging of separating borders. Our silence would mean that the injustices of all peace-treaties is not the matter of our hearts. We, the magyars of Délvidék, (the writer of these treaties happens to the Czechs from the Slovaks in 1992. Their "marriage" had lasted but seven decades, a negligible period compared to the thousand-year Magyar-Slovak partnership Trianon broke apart. More dramatic than Czechoslovakia's quiet death was the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, which in 1945 had taken over Carpatho-Ruthenia as a virtual gift from Prague. That gift was in return for Stalin's "blessing" on the Czech's expulsion of 3 million Sudeten-Germans from Bohemia and of Hungarians from Slovakia. The Ukraine in 1991, took Carpatho- Ruthenia by way of "inheritance". Among the chief beneficiaries of Hungary's dismemberment, Romania alone still possesses its Trianon-given borders. Her existence, however, has been plagued by perennial political and economic disarray, despite its rich natural resources. The most backward country in the region, it has been somehow unable to fully swallow Transylvania, a region dominated by Carpathian Mountains, and larger than present-day Hungary. Its population includes 2.5 million Hungarians who still cling to their Magyarness despite suppression and attempts be one of Delvidek's magyars himself), cannot and will not relax until every inch of the former Hungary will be returned to the body of the one-thousand-yearold Nation. Yugoslavia since its inception in 1920 has been in eternal conflict with the non-Serbians and its whole history has been the violation of human rights in a never-ending chain. The leopard will not change its spots: their atrocities during the rule of the after-wars communistic system were the re-echoes of the same behavior from the royal rule before the both world-wars. History has arrived to a decisive stage. Humanity's freedom expectations are so high and the desire for perfect liberty so deep that it leaves no place any longer for waiting. Dramatic changes in Russia, in the Baltics, in Middle and Central-Eastern Europe, in unified Germany, even to some degree in far-away China; most recently in former Yugoslavia and former Czechoslovakia, Romania will make us believe that a new bright, new world-order is in the making! Reforming mistakenly drawn borders, reshaping nations to live in full respect of human rights of all majorities and all minorities cannot be stopped any longer with any kind of might or power; right and order will have to prevail. at forced assimilation. It is a grotesque grimace of history that the Treaty of Trianon has become a shambles due to actions of its beneficiaries without bringing any benefit to its sole victims, the Hungarians. And yet, some quarters still accuse Hungary of harboring revisionist aspirations. In fact, Hungarian revisionism has been banished from the country’s political agenda since the end of World War II. It is a taboo theme in public life, and survives mostly in the hearts of an older generation. Forty years of communist rule have conditioned the Hungarian people to accept the status quo of Trianon along with the warning that the Magyars should speak only well of their neighbors or nothing at all. This has become practically a tenet for Hungarian foreign policy. Such docile po-Continued on Page 7 TURJÁNON - 79 yc^Rs L&ceR...
