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

1981-10-01 / 10. szám

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settlement continues to this day;

10. Connections between Hungary and Transylvania have been made increasingly difficult;

11. Hungarians are limited to one travel permit every two years if they wish to visit relatives in Moldavia;

12. Hungarian tourists or tourists of other nationalities visiting relatives may not get board with Hungarian families, and those Hungarians who talk to foreign tourists are branded, persecuted, threatened and harassed;

13. The 500,000 Hungarians in Szatmárnémeti, Nagykároly, Nagy varad, Arad and Temesvár are excluded from the recently signed Hungarian-Rumanian small-border traffic treaty in order to safeguard the interests of Rumanization;

14. The works of Hungarian writers are censored by Rumanians or Hungarian traitors;

15. Road and street signs are written in Rumanian only;

16. Transylvanian Hungarian books are published in Bucharest in Rumanian surroundings, effectively isolating Hungarian writers and editors from a Hungarian environment;

17. All Hungarian universities have been closed in Rumania;

18. It is forbidden to speak Hungarian in factories and offices;

19. In Rumania not a single Hungarian is military officer or pilot, and only Rumanians may be members of the police force (militia);

20. The Communist Party rejects Hungarians who are true to their nationality;

21. In the interests of Rumanization, the program of the Rumanian Communist Party regarding nationality affairs is identical to that of the “National Socialist Iron Guard” or the Hungarian-killer Maniu Guard;

22. Doctors may not speak Hungarian;

23. Children in school are taught that:

A. Hungarians and their ancestors were animalistic, raw meat-eating barbarians who threatened the lives of the peaceful Rumanians,

B. Transylvania was never Hungarian,

C. Szekler Hungarians were Turks of obscure ancestry who were taught to write and cook by the Rumanians,

D. Transylvania, the cradle of “Romanismus,” was one of the “three Rumanian” lands during the last 2,000 years, and

E. Janos Hunyadi and György Dózsa were Rumanians;

24. The Rumanian Government has declared that the destiny of Hungarians in Rumania, since they are merely Hungarian-speaking Rumanians, is an “internal” affair;

25. Hungarian Jews were stripped of all of their property and compelled to leave their country. A similar fate awaits the Germans of Rumania;

26. The Rumanian State plans to completely eliminate all Hungarian kindergartens and elementary schools within twenty years;

27. The Rumanian State (on an unlimited budget) floods the world with hundreds of thousands of books and encyclopedias which falsify the history of Hungarians and Europe;

28. All the intentions of the Rumanian Socialist Republic are governed by the nationalistic and reactionary theory known as the Dako-Roman Theory;

29. The Rumanian Socialist Republic proclaims its frontiers from the “Dnyester as far as the Tisza” based on the fact that Transylvania was conquered and looted by the Romans for 1 Vi centuries.

An end to the enumerated complaints had been requested in the past in various memorandums not only by the Transylvanian World Federation, but by a faithful communist, Károly Király, in Rumania, a non-party man, Sándor Zolcsák (who happens to be my nephew), and other Hungarian, German and Jewish nationality leaders.

The Rumanian Socialist Republic is obliged by the Peace Treaties of Trianon and Paris to respect the national and human rights of the nationalities who are the original inhabitants of that territory.

The similarity of complaints from the different communist, democratic and socialist groups and individuals excludes the possibility that the Transylvanian World Federation, or I personally, am acting in the behalf of anti-Rumanian, anti-communist or anti-Soviet interests. On the contrary, it is evident that the policy of the Rumanian Socialist Republic toward nationalities is itself responsible for dividing the Socialist Bloc—which proclaims national equality—into nations which are either oppressors or the oppressed. It is not the Transylvanian World Federation, but the Rumanian Socialist Republic which destroys the neighborly relations between the Hungarian and Rumanian people.

Independent of the ideology confessed outwardly, it is not the Transylvanian World Federation but the policy of the Roman Socialist Republic toward nationalities which can be branded as fascist and racial. The telling proof of this is my intended assassination by order of the political police of the Rumanian Socialist Republic, with the blessings-or rather, direct orders-of the leadership of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Government of the Rumanian Socialist Republic.

In closing, I would like to express my conviction that

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