Pukkai László: Mátyusföld I. A Galántai járás társadalmi és gazdasági változásai 1945-2000 - Lokális és regionális monográfiák 3. (Komárom-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
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colonies, and/or the number of settlements created for the Slovak settlers was 13 with 276 economic units and 3,036 hectare of land area. For example to Tósnyárasd and Pallóc colonists from Podbrezová came, to Porbok and Feketenyék Slovak settlers from Jugoslavia came. In accordance with the Beneš Decree No. 88/1945 in Czechoslovakia every men and women could be bound to work. According to the directive of the Slovak Colonisation Office all those persons who according to the above-mentioned act lost their citizenship and who worked in agriculture had to be deported to the Czech part of the country. After the delivery of the order for deportation the indicated territories were by surprise surrounded by the army, military trucks stopped in front of houses and with the help of armed force the Hungarian families were deported to the Czech part of the country in unheated cattle wagons from the defined railway stations. Their houses and lands were confiscated and given to Slovaks. In total 41,600 Hungarians were deported to the Czech part this way. From the Galanta district 908 economic units, that is 3,550 persons, from which 412 were children under six years of age, from the Vágsellye district 826 economic units, that is 2,774 persons, from which 228 were children younger than six. Those, who went voluntarily, were 231. Since the Potsdam meeting did not pass that Czechoslovak offer that Czechoslovakia settles 200,000 Hungarian nationality people living in Slovakia to Hungary, with the help of the Soviet Union it succeeded that in accordance with the Agreement from 27tn February 1946 on the Exchange of Czechoslovak-Hungarian Population, it could settle to Hungary as many Hungarians living in Slovakia as many Slovak people living in Hungary settled voluntarily to Slovakia. In accordance with this, within the framework of the Population Exchange Agreement, 68,407 Hungarian nationality people living in Slovakia were deported to Hungary, and 6,000 people of Hungarian nationality "left” voluntarily. From the Galanta district 1,654 families (economic units), that is 6,950 persons were deported, 1,128 persons deported “voluntarily”. From the Vágsellye district 628 families (economic units), that is 2,289 persons were deported to Hungary. The so-called re-slovakisation, that meant that those who confessed themselves to be of Hungarian nationality had the opportunity to deny their original nationality and declare themselves to be Slovaks, thus gaining back their lost citizenship meant another new stage of the assimilation of Hungarian nationality people living in Slovakia who were deprived of their citizenship. During the re-slovakisation the authorities accepted requests of 326,679 persons who became of Slovak nationality. Before the re-slovakisation, the Hungarian nationality population of the Galanta district represented 53.90 per cent of the population, and after the re-slovakisation this number was 31.49 per cent. In the Vágsellye district the proportion of Hungarians dropped from 37.99 to 22.89 per cent. In consequence of deportations, population-exchange, and re-slovakisation, the ethnical composition of the Galanta district had been thoroughly changed, in spite of the fact that after the communist take-over in 1948 the majority of people who were deported to the Czech part came back and from the 60’s and 70’s, the people were more fearless to confess their original nationality, and during the population census even those who re-slovakised themselves. In the next parts the author introduces the creation of the nationality composition of the district, stating that the proportion of Hungarians is gradually decreasing, and the fate of the territories lying on the Slovak-Hungarian language border is practically sealed. All this is closely connected to the gradual degradation of the Hungarian public edu196
