Slovak Foreign Minister: "Hungarians were traumatized after Trianon, and Slovaks have reason to be slightly paranoid"
The Slovak Foreign Minister gave an interview to Rzeczpospolita. Ratislav Kacer emphasized that Slovaks have lived together with Hungary for a thousand years. “It's a thousand-year marriage that has had good things and bad things. But the relationship between the Slovaks and the Hungarians was a good marriage for more than half a century, the two sides were equal, had it not been for this, the Slovaks would not have survived," said the minister regarding the history of the two peoples.
He continued by saying that "this connection cannot be questioned because of Hungarianization at the turn of the 20th century or the bad mood after Trianon."
In the interview, Kacer also touched on the fact that, in his opinion, the Hungarians were a little traumatized after Trianon".
He then continued, "the Slovaks, the Romanians, the inhabitants of Transcarpathia and Vojvodina, however, have reason to be paranoid.
Because if we look at the Hungarian Prime Minister's office, in the office we can see a giant map of historical Hungary. There is no similar map in the chancellor's offices in Vienna and Berlin," the head of the ministry listed.
“We have a right to be paranoid. The borders are marked, the borders of the country can only be changed by consensus, not in any other way. We look to the future with optimism, but I know that we have to take these concerns into account, because sometimes paranoia comes true," Rastislav Kacer concluded in the interview.
2022 Plus: we were traumatized, dear Kacer! Not a little, a lot! The map is there so that everyone knows how many meters to where!
Source: mandiner.hu
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