Recently, the press supporting left-wing parties became vocal because the capital named a public area after Béla Puczi. He was the Transylvanian gypsy man who, in that particular Black March, stood at the head of the gypsies of Maros County and defended the lives of the Hungarians of Marosvásárhely when the enraged Romanian mob attacked them with weapons. The people who persecuted him for decades, lied to the Béla Puczi people as Romanians, and gypsied the Szeklers as Romanians, are now celebrating a hero. We look at Gyuri Szalma's writing about Kontra.
In recent days, opposition politicians discovered Béla Puczi and his patriotic heroism for themselves. Normally, there would be nothing special about the enthusiasm of the opposition politicians, in another Hungary it would not be a problem to share the nation's heroes with the left side of the country. However, the situation is not so simple in the case of a Hungarian hero across the border - who also happens to be a Gypsy.
I don't think it is healthy if those who form a close political alliance with those who have been persecuting Hungarians like Béla Puczi for decades put the name of Béla Puczi on their banner. I don't think it's normal that those who regularly bully the Hungarians in Hungary against the Hungarian community across the border are now hiding behind a Hungarian gypsy from Transylvania. There are also those who are obliviously celebrating, who think that the Marosvásárhely pogrom is a Romanian internal matter, which Hungary has nothing to do with. There are also those who believe that the Puczis are parasites who threaten the Hungarian pension system. - writes Gyuri Szalma.
However, human facial skin can withstand a lot.
Even that it was Krisztián Nyáry who wrote the Facebook post about Béla Puczi's misadventures and unworthy fate in Hungary, whose political community and employers were the ones who denied Béla Puczi the right to belong to the Hungarian nation. Nyáry did not mention in a single line that he was indeed on the same side as those who, not so long ago, still excluded the Hungarians across the border from the nation. Just as the Facebook celebrity did not mention in his touching post that he held a senior position alongside Gábor Demszky at the head of the capital during the period when Béla Puczi was roaming the streets of the capital as a homeless person.
At that time, the narrative was still in vogue in the political community of the Nyáryes, according to which the Pucz family were only Hungarian-speaking Romanians, just like the Hungarian-speaking Ukrainians, Slovaks and Serbs. This kind of "Hungarian" applies for welfare benefits, nothing else. Don't pay for dual citizenship! - was the admonition of the Western-minded democrats. However, the story is not about Nyáry, today's Facebook personality can no longer be held responsible for the crime of his former bosses. He just didn't want to part with his job in the capital because of matters of principle.
Today we live in a different world, precisely such that it may also happen that the opposition that gypsies the Hungarian Prime Minister and parasitizes Hungarians across the border is now celebrating a gypsy hero from Székelyföld. The people who persecuted him for decades, lied to the Béla Puczi people as Romanians, and gypsied the Szeklers as Romanians, are now celebrating a hero. They will vote that Nyugati tér should belong to Béla Puczi. However, the memory of the Gypsy man from Sáromberek deserves much more than the opposition washing itself clean with him.
The full article can be read HERE
Cover image: Memorial plaque on the wall of the Nyugati railway station, on the parking lot side, in honor of Béla Puczi, who led the gypsies who came to the defense of the Hungarians during the 1990 anti-Hungarian pogrom in Marosvásárhely. (2017)
