Popély Árpád: A (cseh)szlovákiai magyarság történeti kronológiája 1944-1992 - Nostra Tempora 13. (Somorja, 2006)
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Árpád Popély Historical Chronology of the Hungarians Living in (Czecho)Slovakia 1944-1992 Summary The Hungarian minority living in Czechoslovakia, respectively Slovakia has an almost nine-decade-long history, but it has not been processed yet. Not only a comprehensive synthesis of its history is missing, but also in many cases research works and monographs tending to introduce certain basic disciplines are yet to be written. This statement is especially true for the minority period after World War II. Only the years between 1944 and 1948 have been processed by the non-fiction, because these represent the most painful period of depriving the civil rights. To discover the history of the Hungarian minority a chronological summary was written which is the part of a research program started in the 1990s.This summary deals with the period between 1944 and 1992 i.e. from the rebirth of the Czechoslovak state until its decline. The preparation of the chronology and the procession of non-fiction related to the topic were overtaken by a more-year-long research in various archives. The 29,h August 1944 - the day of Slovak National Uprising was chosen by the author as the starting date of the chronology because that was the day when the continuity of Czechoslovakia became a reality and then were bom the first civil rights depriving actions against the Hungarian population who became again the part of the Czechoslovak state. The closing date was obvious: on 31st December 1992, Czechoslovakia ceased along with the history of Hungarians living in Czechoslovakia. The major part of representatives of the Hungarian minority became the members of the independent Slovak Republic; others who moved to the Czech parts of the country became citizens of the Czech Republic. In the course of the eras mentioned in the 50-year-long chronology, the author starts from the general eras of Czechoslovakia though in one case there is a discrepancy, which was unavoidable in order to describe the time and date indicating the end of deprivation of civil rights of the Hungarian minority. It was not the communist takeover of February 1948 that brought the turn for the Hungarian population being deprived for more than three years. It was advertised only by the propaganda for forty years. After February 1948, the earlier anti-Hungarian policy was unbroken and the collective civil rights deprivation of the Hungarian minority was ended only after the birth of the law about the retrieval of Czechoslovak citizenship. The first part of the chronology deals with the period of civil rights deprivation of the Hungarian minority lasting from August 1944 to October 1948. After World War II, the leaders of the renewed Czechoslovakia hold the German and Hungarian minorities responsible for thel938-1939 break up of the Czechoslovak state. On the pretext of their collective culpability, the leaders of the state set a goal to deport the non- Slavonic minorities and to found a Slavonic nation-state. They intended to reach their goals with
