Feb 28, 2024

Imperfect translation, sorry:

❓️Why in Ukrainian Transcarpathia don’t understand Ukrainian and why are there no ukrainians in Hungary?
Back in 2013, while on vacation in the city of Beregove Transcarpathian region, faced the issue of not understanding the Ukrainian language local youth.
It was like that: buying groceries in the city market, I turned to the saleswoman – a girl in her 20s, but as it turned out, she didn’t understand me at all. That is, not only she couldn’t speak, but she didn’t understand the language! Older people explained that now young people don’t understand Ukrainian because in schools children learn Hungarian.
How is it, Ukrainians who live in Ukraine do not understand the state language at all? It was more than a surprise to me. As then the locals explained, they have a Hungarian community, so children at home and at school communicate exclusively in Hungarian. I was simply amazed by the discovery and understanding of the shortcomings of our national policies at the state level.
My surprise grew when I began to wonder what according to official statistics the number of Ukrainians in Hungary. It turns out that there are no ukrainians in Hungary at all.
Isn’t that weird? In all neighboring countries of Eastern Europe there is, in Hungary there is no.
Do you know why? And just because the Ukrainians have taken away the language.
There are about nine and a half million people in Hungary, 78% of whom are Hungarians, or Madyars as they call themselves.
In the second place in the country of Roma – their 3.6% (308 thousand), in the third German – 1.6% (130 thousand), well and then Slovaks, Romanians, Croats, Serbs, Slovens. There are no Ukrainians at all!
It turns out that Ukrainians – representatives of Hungary’s largest neighbor, do not even have their own national organization in the country, and accordingly, their number is considered so low that no one even counts them. How is that even possible?
Say that maybe Ukrainians call themselves rusinami there, because that’s how many Ukrainians called themselves on western Ukrainian lands before. And even in the names of local organizations, societies, unions there was the name “Russian”, from the name “Rusin”, (don’t confuse with Russian, it’s nothing here at all).
Indeed, as it turned out, there is such a nationality in the list, but the number of rusinív in Hungary is only four thousand. And in neighboring Hungary Slovakia and Romania live respectively 55 and 51 thousand Ukrainians, and it’s only officially.

It turns out that in the process of historical settlement Ukrainians bypassed only current Hungary? How can this be, because the Ukrainian lands, inhabited by Ukrainians, for a long time, were components of the Kingdom of Hungary, so Ukrainians and Hungarians together were in the same empire.
It is known that the Greek-Catholic Diocese of Mukachiv occupied a very significant area and reached far beyond present Transcarpathia, including Madar lands. So there were Greek-Catholics too. Are they there now? Official statistics say that greco-Catholikív in Hungary is almost three hundred thousand. So this proves once again that Ukrainians have lived in Hungary since ancient times. Especially many of them were in the north-east regions. The number of Ukrainians especially increased in the last quarter of the 17th century, after the liberation of the country from the Turks. Almost all the settlers who came to the abandoned area were Ukrainian-speaking Greek-Catholics of the Mukachiv Diocese.
But already in the 18th century in the Greek-Catholic temples of Hungary began to hold liturgy in the Madary language – it was the first powerful step to assimilation of Ukrainians.
It turns out that the Hungarian authorities realized that it is not worth destroying the Rusinív-Ukrainians physically – you just need to destroy their language, and the Russians will disappear. What’s next? And then all Ukrainian schools were closed. No education in Ukrainian, no knowledge of Ukrainian.
The next step of assimilation of ukrainians was the policy of madâarizacííí̈, which was powerfully conducted by power in the 19th century. That’s when the term madâron appeared – that word called zmadârizovanih Rusinív-Ukrainians, first of all representatives of clergy and intelligence who had an open Hungarian orientation. That is, the Ukrainians who were already called madaronami, under the influence of propaganda, refused their own language, culture, religion, began to contribute to the madarization of the Ukrainian population, forcing them to be ashamed of their people and hide their Ukrainian origin.
Outstanding Transcarpathian educator Alexander Duhnovich here’s how wrote about madâronív:
“His Russian word is nasty; he is ashamed of Russian. Existing between madârami, he’s already mondokaê, looking for that tendency in others… So true is my word: Rusin Hungarian (Madyron) will be anything but not Rusinom”…
“They (Madyarív) have all nations – cattle, cattle, only one Madyar was a man who is not a Madyar, he is not a man”.
The Hungarian Kingdom created such living conditions and psychological climate for national minorities that forced, often contrary to personal principles and beliefs, to renounce their own national culture, language, political, religious and other views.
Understanding how the madârizacíâ of ukrainians happened, it becomes clear the current policy of the Hungarian authorities on Ukraine.
Hungarians have always had an inherent high level of intolerance in relation to non-madars горkih nationalities. Only renouncing one’s nationality, recognition of oneself as a Madyar, and Madyar patriotic activities, as a rule, gave the opportunity to receive an education, retain or hold a high office, advance a career, or simply have a means of livelihood.
The formation in Ukrainians of the complex of menšovartostí and the transition to madâronív was contributed not only by the chauvinistic policy of the Hungarian government, but also the negative traits of the mentality and behavior of the Hungarians themselves.
They, at the domestic level, in communication with Ukrainians, constantly tried to show their superiority, emphasize prostakuatíst рі, the uneducated of the Transcarpathians, called them “savages-rushnyaki”, “stupid Russians”, “stinky rutenami”, “pigs”.
In education, the policy of the Hungarian government was aimed at cultivating in children and young people a sense of belonging to the “Madyar homeland and the Madyar nation” and devotion to the Hungarian state.
Ivan Franco in the article “And we are in Europe” describes how a school inspector ugurec invited to lunch to a local priest was outraged that his daughter speaks Ukrainian:
“I can’t eat lunch with a Madaryan citizen who didn’t teach his child Madaryan language, whose child barks in barbaric slang! “
It was the destruction of the Ukrainian nation – a real ethnocide of Ukrainians, which in the 20th century became a sign of genocide, when the Madyaroni began to cooperate with the fascist Hungarian government during the Second World War and took part in the torture and shootings of the Carpathian Sichi soldiers.
Over three hundred years of purposeful ethnocide policy, Hungarians have completely destroyed the Ukrainian language in Hungary, thus proving the famous saying – when the language disappears, the people disappear.
The Ukrainian people disappeared on the Madârs Украkih terrain.
Therefore, from three hundred thousand current Greek Catholicos are all descendants of Ukrainians. But they do not know the Ukrainian language and in no way position themselves with Ukraine. They are already Hungarians.

As told by the researcher of the history of Ukraine R. Malenkov: “in the town of gajdudorog stands, built in the middle of the XVIII century Greek-Catholic temple, which is now the center of the archíeparhííí̈. In Hajdudoroz, no one knows Ukrainian language. In English too. So we could not ask if there are Ukrainians in the city.
Although we know the answer. From only an incredible iconostasis, in which 54 icons, is a direct witness to the neugors Отkogo origin of this temple. But no one is going to talk about it anymore. “

So, it’s clear that on the territory of Hungary there are also Ukrainian ethnic lands – these are two northeastern areas where most of the Greek Catholic dioceses are located. Almost 300 thousand people of Ukrainian origin live in Hungary, but unfortunately they do not consider themselves Ukrainians.

Therefore, we, modern Ukrainians, on the example of the disappeared Ukrainians in Hungary, it is still worth thinking about how important it is to know and speak Ukrainian, to teach your history, to develop and preserve Ukrainian culture and traditions, so as not to disappear as a nation assimilated by a “brotherly” neighbor.

With Ukraine in the heart!

@Inna Logan

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