László Karsai put down Krisztián Ungváry in a father-knife act, writes Ádám Petri Lukács on social media, reacting to accusations aimed at the father of the historian Tamás Sulyok.
Karsai came to the conclusion that the father of the new president of the republic might have been a Nazi sympathizer, and in fact, he might have written a specifically pro-Nazi article in a county newspaper in 1944.
Krisztián Ungváry was beaten by László Karsai at this moment in the competition for the compulsion to stand out, which was satisfied by denunciations of deceased ancestors.
As the son of the well-known late historian Elek Karsai, the historian, who was also briefly known for his outbursts, now came into the limelight for eight minutes when he came to the conclusion that the father of the new president of the republic may have been a Nazi sympathizer, and in fact, he may have written a specifically pro-Nazi article in a county newspaper. newspaper in '44.
He bases his assumption on contemporary documents, although in the same contemporary documents many witnesses claim that the article in question was not written by Sulyok's father.
Today, we can no longer determine who wrote the article, only that some people are now in a series of repudiations of the public consensus formed after 1990, according to which we are not "daddy's boys". This seriously harms both civil taste and meaningful debate.
Tamás Sulyok may be an excellent state president, or he may be insignificant, we will see. What we already know is that in more peaceful times, people marvel at how it is possible that in times of crisis,
in the 1950s, a part of the public was so degraded that it forced its neighbor, co-worker, or colleague to report.
In today's technical term: "karsaiskodot".
Publicist Gábor Sebes, former XII. The district mayor did not stop the unworthy accusations without saying a word, he wrote the following on Facebook:
This Karsai is a decent person...
Well, let's look at his father, Elek Karsai, the famous historian:
his co-editor, Ilona Benoschofsky - who was a state security agent under the pseudonym "Xavér" - reported in 1962 that "he mentions several times that in 1956, as a functionary of the Archives union, he participated in the negotiations of the institute's leaders. He behaved very passively there, but he wrote down exactly who said what. He later handed in these notes in the »appropriate place«. Benoschofsky also writes that "... he worked at the then Institute of Sociology, ... after the institute was closed, he joined Népsva and worked in the archive there. ... He cheerfully mentions several times that everyone around him was first arrested at the university institute, and later at Népssava". (ÁBTL 3.1.2. M-37478. 260-261.)
You can also look for the agent working in the National Archives, nicknamed Kincses, you will be surprised...
If Karsai didn't have the well-known anger management problem, he certainly wouldn't run into such a "Fathers and Sons" story, which is better not to disturb.
Featured image: MTI Photo / Attila Kovács
