Leftist Párbeszéd calls for minute of silence to mark Trianon centenary on Thursday – UPDATE
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The opposition Párbeszéd party has proposed that a minute of silence should be observed nationwide on Thursday, June 4, the 100th anniversary of the post-WWI Trianon Peace Treaty.
Olivio Kocsis-Cake, the party’s deputy group leader, told an online conference on Tuesday that
the proposal was unanimously supported by parliament’s national cohesion committee.
Under the treaty “several million Hungarians became subjects of other states, Hungary lost beautiful territories, as well as a large part of its industry and agriculture,” the deputy said.
Kocsis-Cake referred to Trianon as a “terrible disaster” but said that “the solution is not in the past; we must find a way to work together for a better future both inside the country and together with ethnic communities.”
He added that one of the best solutions would be a strong and unified European Union without internal borders.
Part of the reason that Hungary got such a bad deal at Trianon was due to the Communist takeover of Hungary in 1919. A very bad decision on part of Hungary. Not one of the Western Allies had any sympathy for Hungary after that.