Hungary Foreign Minister: Ukraine Must Make Every Effort to Stop Anti-Hungarian Attacks

Budapest Times ^ | January 20, 2023 | Budapest Times

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Hungary expects Ukrainian leaders to make every effort to stop the attacks and atrocities suffered by ethnic Hungarians, Tamas Menczer, the foreign ministry state secretary for external relations, said on public radio on Friday.

Menczer reacted to reports that Hungarian flags and signs have been removed in Mukachevo district (Munkacs), in western Ukraine, and the director of a local Hungarian school, Istvan Schink, was sacked.

Before the war, “the ethnic Hungarian community was being stripped of their rights”, he said, citing measures that restricted the use of their mother tongue and education in Hungarian.

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“OBVIOUSLY you guys don’t even know what’s going on in that country, although, more likely (and more sad), you guys do.”

From your own link:

“The provision, which entered into force on January 16, is stipulated in article 25 of the law. It requires print media outlets registered in Ukraine to publish in Ukrainian. PUBLICATIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES MUST ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A UKRAINIAN VERSION, EQUIVALENT IN CONTENT, VOLUME AND METHOD OF PRINTING. Additionally, places of distribution such as newsstands must have at least half their content in Ukrainian.”

How is that outlawing other languages? That is your claim. Please point out to us where it says that the law outlaws any other languages. Hell, the law doesn’t even RESTRICT other languages. But, of course, you can’t point out to us any outlawing or restricting of other languages; because the law doesn’t say what you claim.

Your link concludes with: “The Ukrainian government HAS EVERY RIGHT to promote its state language and strengthen its national identity. But it should ensure a balance in its language policy, to avoid discrimination against linguistic minorities.”

So, please show us evidence that Ukraine is in violation of that last sentence.

You’re an unprincipled humbug, Bob. You are a propagandist and provocateur. You should put a disclaimer on all your posts to that effect. But, that may be redundant, because everyone on FR who reads these threads knows what you are.

You are entertaining, though, Bob; in a slapstick sort of way.

[Leaning Right]

> Considering the Bolsheviks almost succeded in setting up a Hungarian Bolshevik Republic in 1919, I can somewhat understand why Hungarians were motivated to fight against the Soviet Union. <

You’ve got a lot of nerve inserting a reasonable comment into a thread that has degenerated into wacky name-calling.

P.S. You make a good point. I agree with you. 👍