Yeah, Slovaks just loved Hungarian nationalism and forced Magyarization of their land!

Justice for Hungary !

Before World War I, only three European countries declared ethnic minority rights, and enacted minority-protecting laws: the first was Hungary (1849 and 1868), the second was Austria (1867), and the third was Belgium (1898). In contrast, the legal systems of other pre-WW1 era European countries did not allow the use of European minority languages in primary schools, in cultural institutions, in offices of public administration and at the legal courts.[2]

Another correction, the people's self-determination was not allowed by the ENTENTE after WW1: After World War I, despite the "self-determination of peoples" idea of the Allied Powers, only one plebiscite was permitted (later known as the Sopron plebiscite) to settle disputed borders on the former territory of the Kingdom of Hungary,[21] settling a smaller territorial dispute between the First Austrian Republic and the Kingdom of Hungary, During the Sopron plebiscite in late 1921, the polling stations were supervised by British, French, and Italian army officers of the Allied Powers.[22]

I thought the Austrians were pretty butt hurt about Southern Tyrol that was annexed by Italy and still has a large German population? Tho I guess since schengen that has also lost relevance. Open borders within the EU makes ethnically diverse border regions much less of an issue. If you can just drive across to visit family and friends the logo of your passport isn't as relevant anymore. Also since we are all NATO members, of worst comes to worst we all fight on the same side. Because of that most people born after the fall of communism care less and less about old grudges.

The name of the country 100 years ago was Austria-Hungary not kingdom of Hungary 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

It Is not true that the Hungarian minority was more oppressed by the communist regime in Romania then the other citizens! I lived in Transylvania in that period and I saw that Hungarians had schools ( from kindergarten to university), theaters, operas, all in Hungarian. People spoke Hungarian freely, they didn’t have to change their name or last name from Hungarian to Romanian. They were respected by the community for what they were. Definitely different from what my romanian family had to endure under the Appony rule, while Transylvania was a part of the Habsburgic empire ( not Hungary, even if they think they had a state). Give proof of the “assimilation policy” you are talking about! I think that Hungarians have an obsession with the “assimilation culture” since they tried to do that to the population they managed in the Austro-Hungarian empire. They just couldn’t grasp that those regions were gifted to them by the power of the Habsburgic rule, not because they earned it or deserved it. To the interviewer: please ask relevant questions! Otherwise this seems to be just a therapeutical session for the interviewed. Saying all these, I had Hungarian colleagues and friends that I loved and treated with respect, and never thought less of because of their ethnicity or because of the history between us. People are people.

What???? “The assimilation was difficult because the the Hungarian is such a different language”??? Not because the Hungarian minority ( at least in Romania) is guaranteed educational , administrative , political and cultural rights??? Please analize the truth, not false propaganda. The interviewed is contradicting himself - “there are political parties in Romania”. According to Romania's minority rights law, Hungarians have the right to education in their native language, including as a medium of instruction. In localities where they make up more than 20% of the population they have the right to use their native language with local authorities. The same does not apply to the Romanian minority in Hungary!

The dissolution of empire that rules different (completely unrelated) nations can hardly be called a tragedy. Hungary captured and rulled neighboring nations for centuries and Hungarised part of those people. Not all of those people wanted to be rulled by Hungary. There was very different treatment of those nations - e.g. compare tratment of Croats with treatment of Slovaks and Rusyns. The treatment of Rusyns was on the level of chauvinism and discrimination. E.g. one Hungarian bishop once visited the church in the area where Rusyns lived. He was invited to the dinner by a family of local priest. There he strongly criticised the priest that his daughter still spoke "barabian language". Compare it to Czechoslovakia where Czechs, Slovaks and Rusyns/Ukrainains lived together with respect to each other.

Some corrections: Hungary did not lose any territory, when the WW1 ended in Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon During the war, Count Mihály Károlyi led a small but very active pacifist anti-war maverick faction in the Hungarian parliament.[31] He even organized covert contacts with British and French diplomats in Switzerland.[32] On 25 October 1918 Károlyi had formed the Hungarian National Council. The Austro-Hungarian monarchy politically collapsed and disintegrated as a result of a defeat in the Italian front. On 31 October 1918, in the midst of armistice negotiations, the Aster Revolution in Budapest brought the liberal Károlyi, a supporter of the Allies, to power. On the 1st of November, Mihály Károlyi's new Hungarian government decided to recall all of the troops, who were conscripted from the territory of Kingdom of Hungary, which was a major blow for the Habsburg's armies.[33] King Charles had no other option than the appointment of Károlyi as prime minister of Hungary. The Hungarian Royal Honvéd army still had more than 1,400,000 soldiers[34][35] when Károlyi was announced as prime minister. Károlyi yielded to President Wilson's demand for pacifism by ordering the unilateral self-disarmament of the Hungarian army. This happened under the direction of Minister of War Béla Linder on 2 November 1918[36][37] When Oszkár Jászi became the new Minister for National Minorities of Hungary, he immediately offered democratic referendums about the disputed borders for minorities; however, the political leaders of those minorities refused the very idea of democratic referendums regarding disputed territories at the Paris peace conference.[38] Disarmament of its army meant that Hungary was to remain without a national defence at a time of particular vulnerability. The unilateral self-disarmament made the occupation of Hungary directly possible for the relatively small armies of Romania, the Franco-Serbian army, and the armed forces of the newly established Czechoslovakia.[39][40][41] After self-disarmament, Czech, Serbian, and Romanian political leaders chose to attack Hungary instead of holding democratic plebiscites concerning the disputed areas.[42] On the request of the Austro-Hungarian government, an armistice was granted to Austria-Hungary on 3 November 1918 by the Allies.[43] Military and political events changed rapidly and drastically after the Hungarian unilateral disarmament: On 5 November 1918, the Serbian army, with the help of the French army, crossed the southern borders. On 8 November, the Czechoslovak army crossed the northern borders. On 10 November d'Espérey's army crossed the Danube River and was poised to enter the Hungarian heartland. On 11 November Germany signed an armistice with Allies, under which they had to immediately withdraw all German troops in Romania and in the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire back to German territory and Allies to have access to these countries.[44] On 13 November, the Romanian army crossed the eastern borders of the Kingdom of Hungary. During the rule of Károlyi's pacifist cabinet, Hungary rapidly lost control over approximately 75% of its former pre-WWI territories (325,411 km2 (125,642 sq mi)) without a fight and was subject to foreign occupation.[45]