Romanian rector: Ukraine must also cede territory to Hungary, Romania
Andrei Marga, former rector of the Babeş-Bolyai Univercity (BBTE), says Ukraine is surrounded by “unnatural borders” and the country should cede territory to Hungary and Romania, among others.
The statements of the 76-year-old Herder Prize-winning Romanian philosopher and political scientist have provoked a significant response. They were made on Friday, during a book fair and book launch in Alba Iulia (Gyulafehervár). The former politician served as education minister between 1997 and 2000 and as foreign minister for a few months in 2012, kronikaonline.ro reports.
“Unnatural borders”
He said on Friday that Ukraine was surrounded by “unnatural borders”. “It has to cede territory to Hungary (Transcarpathia), Poland (Galicia), Romania (Bukovina) and Russia (Donbas and Crimea). These are other countries’ territories,” Andrei Marga was quoted as saying by local portal Alba24.ro.
Marga argued that the conflict in Ukraine would not be resolved if the parties “stalled”. He added that there will be no peace in Europe until the United States, Russia, Germany, Ukraine and China reach some kind of agreement on the current conflict.
“Ukraine is very far from democracy”
“As there is no calm, democracy will suffer,” Marga said, adding that Romania has “nothing to do” with the war in Ukraine and that the country has sufficient energy resources to avoid an energy crisis. The former minister and rector also said Ukraine was “very far from democracy”, with parties banned, media controlled and many wealthy people leaving the country with lots of money.
Shady past
On Saturday, the Bucharest press took note of the statement by Marga, who previously also ran the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), which most called “shocking” and “provocative”. Many recall that years ago, he was found by the Commission of Inquiry to have collaborated with the Romanian communist secret service and to have been a Securitate informer under the alias Horia.
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Source: kronikaonline.ro, alba24.ro
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Perhaps Adrei Marga could have taken his public view even a step further, and say that his own country should cede a big part of Romania to Hungary, as well as Slovakia, Serbia, and to a lesser extent, Croatia and Austria, give me a break!
I just “love” how these philosopher border revisionist worms come out of the woodwork just when you “need” them (like a hole in the head).
Now, here is a new friend, and advisor, suggestion (ie, Andrei Marga), for V.O. 😀
Give me a break. I don’t agree with Marga even if there is former Romanian teritory now belonging to Ukraine,but I also dont’t agree with what you said about Romania . Romania has nothing to cede. Anyway there should not be this kind of discussions especially from politicians or former politicians
Ukraine got half of it’s current territory as a GIFT. They never fought for those lands. They got it from Trianon, bolchevikes and Russian Crimea in the 1954 thanks to Khruschov.
Ukraine was created by the Soviets same “terrible” thing most of those eastern European moocher countries are hating Russia for to keep mooching. The reality is exactly what this guy said Ukraine is terrible maker region and being used by the paranoid cowboys to destroy Russia.
@Me,
I think you got me all wrong.
I AGREE with YOU. I was being sarcastic, Romania, nor any of the other countries I mentioned, should cede any territory to any other country. Like I said, I DON’T like (nor agree with) “border revisionists”.
Unfortunately, One V.O. does SEEM TO entertain ideas (just like his Russian chum) of getting some territories back.
All the countries I mentioned (INCLUDING Hungary!) should avail all ethnic minorities, no, ALL minorities, the same rights and privileges as the rest of the nation, and relative harmanony should prevail. Is that not logical?
Everybody says … something right. Would anybody care to check the bigger picture?
Russia is remotely managed and Ukraine’s resistence is a test ground. No matter what Ucraine did wrong in the past or still does, it is very important it would not fail because a whole house of cards will follow. My personal opinion is Crimea should remain Russian only if Putin leaves.
He is NOT a rector, he was manybyears ago and was found to be ex commie and ex Securitatea (Romanian KGB). While he was rector he was very controversial and hated because of his lunatic declarations and doings. So basically he cannot be trusted with anything he is saying. He”s just and old commie brought back by Putin to spread prolaganda.
Andrei Marga was rector of Babes-Bolyai University :))))) Your article is not accurate at all…
Dear Reader, we have mentioned that in the article. Please, reread the first paragraph “Andrei Marga, former rector of the Cluj-Napoca University of Technology (BBTE)“
Little bit of a sensational article but it’s interesting to hear what people think about the conflict. Rumania said and Hungarians always have strong opinions on politics!!!