With the law on the protection of minorities adopted on Friday, Ukraine really made a lot of progress in all the matters that we have been fighting for eight years. That's why it's good if you feel our icy breath on your neck for a few more months.
It's always wonderful days when Serhiy Sidorenko, the Daniel Freund Award-winning editor of Ukraine's Yevropeyshka Pravda, is pounding away at the keyboard. We owe it to this learned colleague for the most absurd Gergely Karácsony interview of all time from last November, in which he managed to introduce the multiple-losing prime ministerial candidate to "Meet Gergely Karácsony, a politician stronger than Orbán!", adding that "this is not Orbán, but the real Hungary". (I will not mention that he also distorted Karácsony's words with tendentious mistranslations.)
Sidorenko was also the idiot who tried to say with András Rácz in May this year that the Hungarian army was on the Ukrainian border in February 2022 to rejoin Subcarpathia. To his credit, Rácz rejected the impossible assumption and made it clear that all NATO countries bordering Ukraine brought their troops to the border at the same time due to the increasing threat of war.
I think you already understand why I am very happy when the Ukrainian half-brother of László Bartus is not happy.
He is the Ukrainian brain trouble that walks on two legs, and the Ukrainian brain trouble is the magic mushroom that makes Gergely Karácsony look like a strong leader, and András Rácz will be able to defend Viktor Orbán.
Well, regarding the amendment of the Ukrainian minority law, Hungary's reliable enemy, Serhiy Sidorenko, is not very happy. He huffs and hobbles.
In his related article, he writes: the law is completely unacceptable because it "crosses important red lines for Ukraine", mainly because advertisements in areas inhabited by minorities will no longer have to be translated into Ukrainian, which is "categorically unacceptable", eats his heart out.
This shows that Ukraine has really made a lot of progress with the Minority Protection Salad Law adopted on Friday in all the matters in connection with which we have been beating the table for eight years.
There really was no other way to achieve this than blackmail with Euro-Atlantic integration.
For almost a decade, Ukraine pretended to be a hearing-impaired capybara when we raised the relevant cases. Now they have done everything. Finally.
The law now looks as it should have, at least from the Hungarian point of view, after the annexation of Crimea in 2014: it hits the Russians in a way that it doesn't hit all the other minorities.
The law is still brutally unfair to Ukraine's multi-million Russian or Russian-speaking minority, and this is not in Ukraine's interest either - but here is the point where Hungarian and Russian interests diverge. Vladimir Putin must account for what he achieved for his minority.
It makes perfect sense, one might say: the Ukrainian salad law is full of gallant things.
It grants a special status to settlements inhabited by at least 15 percent of ethnic minorities, in which from now on it is possible to campaign, advertise, and broadcast media in the purely ethnic language, without Ukrainian translation. The abominable rule that embitters Hungarian cultural life in Transcarpathia, according to which Hungarian speakers could only speak Hungarian to a Hungarian audience with a Ukrainian interpretation, remains, but it is confined to a reasonable framework: now it is only necessary to interpret into Ukrainian if 20 percent of the participants, but at least twenty main requests three days in advance. (Until now, regardless of the total number of participants, it was also mandatory at the request of ten people.) And most importantly:
they danced back from the passages of the education law amounting to spiritual genocide,
it was accepted that, in addition to the state language, the language of the minorities speaking the official languages of the European Union can also be the language of education. The regulation according to which a fifth of the lessons in the fifth grade, 40 percent in the ninth grade, and 60 percent above that in ethnic schools must be taught in Ukrainian will be withdrawn, replaced by a perfectly logical rule: the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, and Ukrainian history must be taught in Ukrainian , and in high school a subject called "Defense of Ukraine", which must be extremely exciting.
Well done Ukraine, nice try! It really wouldn't have cost anything to pre-empt the related debates by introducing the relevant laws after 2014 in the first place - but better late than never.
They basically did their homework. Sidorenko is sad - I'll open a Kyrgyz grape vodka.
A small bitter aftertaste only bothers me: that the law was only one of the weapons of the suffering of the Transcarpathian Hungarian minority.
There is the demolition, there is Munkácsi II. The replacement of the director of the Ferenc Rákóczi Secondary School with someone who has set his sights on the Ukrainianization of the school as soon as possible, there is the serial surveillance of the small and large Hungarian leaders in Transcarpathia.
That's why it's good if Ukraine feels our icy breath on its neck for a few more months. The law is an excellent start. If the Hungarians are able to stop suffering, the time will finally come, the Christmas gift of the Transcarpathian Hungarians that has been waiting for almost a decade: we can reconcile.
Cover image: The Münkacsi castle - still with the turul on its gable
Source: kiszo.net
