The Hungarian sounding of the name of Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok reminds me a bit of Iván Gorčev, who won the Nobel Prize in Macau. Like the immortal character of Jenő Rejő Rejtő, perhaps a government position can be won by playing cards in Slovakia - at least that's what it seems from the rather aggressive statement that he displayed in his FB message.
Korčok must have lost his medicine when he went after László Kövér and, through him, Hungary. He complains that Hungary's leading politicians constantly raise historical questions, which, as he writes, "contradict the intentions of good bilateral relations with Slovakia."
Ivan Korčok and László Kövér/azonnali.hu/illustráció
For Korčok, it is disappointing that "we constantly hear messages and lectures about our common history" from Budapest... "I absolutely refuse, - he continues, that Hungary's second highest public dignitary feels that he has to come to Slovakia to make his idea of history known directly". criticized László Kövér, the president of the Hungarian Parliament.
Why is the minister so upset? After all, according to László Kövér, "if there is no honest reconciliation, then this region does not really have a future", he said at the inauguration of the memorial for those displaced from Somorja recently. August 3rd was the 76th anniversary of the entry into force of the decree of Eduard Beneš, which deprived the Hungarians and Germans of Czechoslovakia of their citizenship, and on which their resettlement and the deportation of the Slovak Hungarians to the Czech Republic were based.
Kövér added: "We have a moral basis to wait with gentle but steadfast patience for the gesture of apology and satisfaction for the crimes committed against the Hungarians for the sake of the peace of the generations that come after us."
László Kövér gives a speech in Somorján/Source: felvidek.ma
It can be seen that, contrary to Korčok's claim, the speech was about overcoming the oppressive past and building a common future. Even though there are plenty of unsewn threads - to say the least, the Nazi Beneš decrees, which imply collective guilt, are all parts of the current Slovak legal system that have been confirmed by the parliamentary decision.
In addition, with their decrees, language laws and other petty measures, they are slowly and quietly eradicating Hungarians from the Highlands, thus fulfilling the Beneš dream in a way that perhaps even the dreamer himself would not have dared to hope for.
Of course, we know that the Minister of Foreign Affairs is the SaS candidate in the government, which is a classic liberal political party in Slovakia. That way, perhaps, his temper is more understandable!
Nevertheless, we hope that he will not receive an order of honor for his anti-Hungarian outbursts, like Iván Gorczev.
Source: aelvidek.ma
Featured image: zonaporkolt.hu
