Bukovszky László: A Csehszlovákiai Magyar Demokratikus Népi Szövetség és a Mindszenty-per szlovákiai recepciója (Budapest-Somorja, 2016)
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Summary After the end of World War II, the Czechoslovak national and social revolution brought about so extensive, unprecedented social retaliations which, flouting the then existing framework of general human rights and abusing the accusation from collective guilt, had ”an bloc” stigmatized the Hungarians of Slovakia switched to the new state. Resulting therefrom, the consequences of the measures and provisions introduced by the Czecho-Slovak government bodies constituted genocide and ethnic cleansing. After the transition in 1989, exploration of events kept under wraps before, had started to dynamically accelerate. Besides the general monographs of pioneering significance, dozens of high-quality studies, source lists and memoirs had been published, which had credibly transmitted towards the wide public the communal tragedies of the individual, the family and of the Hungarian minority. However, as Árpád Popély pointed out too, on account of the unexplored sources, basic researches are still missing with regard to many partial segments of the epoch. Historian Katalin Vadkerty has recently highlighted that from among the many aspects of the regrettably rich history of the years when the Hungarians of Slovakia were deprived their civil rights, the issue of their internal resistance “has not yet been disclosed in its substance at all” and remains to be processed by the younger generation. It was László Tóth who dealt first with the minority protecting role of the organized or spontaneous illegal groupings traceable from the spring of 1945, and who published mémoires, memoranda and further documents drafted by intellectuals—first of all by Rezső Szalatnay, Rezső Peéry and Zoltán Fábry— and further groups acting on behalf of the Hungarian minority, thus trying to disprove the false and misleading statements about the general resignation of Hungarians to the charge of collective guilt and its tragic consequences. Apart from publishing sources, it was again László Tóth who, after a long and sus-293
