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Displaced Hungarians on their way from Czechoslovakia to Hungary, 1947
The issue of the Beneš Decrees, which legalized the expropriation and disenfranchisement of the Hungarian and German populations in Czechoslovakia after World War II, has once again become the focus of political debate in Slovakia. This was triggered by the Slovak government’s adoption of a resolution reaffirming the inviolability of the decrees.
László Gubík, party leader of the Hungarian Alliance (Magyar Szövetség-MSZ), sharply criticized the Slovak government’s decision in a post on his social media page. He wrote about a “shameful resolution” that, except for one sentence, corresponds to the 2007 parliamentary document. “To sum up the bottom line is: the assets belong to us, the crimes are yours. We’re not talking about it anymore, shut up!” the politician summarized the Slovak government’s stance.
Fact
Thirteen of the 14 presidential decrees issued by Edvard Beneš between May 14 and October 27, 1945, established the collective guilt of Germans and Hungarians. In other words, every German and Hungarian, from infants to the elderly, was responsible for the horrors of World War II. In addition to the mass murders, deportations, and other deprivations of rights committed by the Czechoslovak authorities, this meant the resettlement of some 70-80 thousand Hungarians to Hungary and the confiscation of their considerable assets in Czechoslovakia as part of the “population exchange” that was ultimately negotiated.
The party chairman emphasized that
the discussion was not reignited by the Hungarian side or the opposition.
Instead, he said, the issue had become relevant again due to the current actions of state agencies such as the Slovak Land Fund and the state-owned company Lesy (Slovak Forests). László Gubík accuses state-owned companies of still participating in retroactive asset seizures today, citing the decrees. “If the comrades really consider the matter of the decrees to be closed, why do they allow people’s assets to be appropriated today on the basis of these decrees? People who, moreover, are mostly neither of Hungarian nor German descent, but of Slovak descent,” asked the party leader. This continued practice leads to an untenable situation and extreme legal uncertainty.
According to László Gubík, the matter must be urgently clarified and resolved legally – a demand that was already hinted at by the Slovak president in the spring.
In response to the government’s latest moves, the party leader of the Hungarian Alliance announced a three-step strategy to ma7.sk.
The party’s experts have drafted a bill to regulate the legal consequences of the decrees. In addition, László Gubík is initiating a meeting with the leaders and faction heads of all parliamentary parties in order to steer the emotional debate in a more objective direction. The party will also raise the issue at the UN Minority Forum meeting in Geneva, either in the form of a speech or a resolution at the international level, in order to represent the rights of the national minority.
In addition, at its upcoming congress, the party will present in detail a 13-point program approved by the National Council, which will address the “untenability of collective guilt,”
writes the portal. Hungarian Alliance spokeswoman Klára Magdeme emphasized that the “retroactive land expropriations” still taking place today are presented as a correction of historical mistakes, which must be urgently addressed.
Another article points out that while repealing the formal legal validity of the Beneš decrees would not constitute a historical revision or restitution of property, it would nevertheless be an important symbolic gesture. It would signal that Slovakia does not define itself as a state based on the principle of collective guilt, but as a mature democracy capable of facing its own past. The issue is therefore not only a legal one, but also a deeply moral and socially relevant one for the equal treatment of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
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