VIDEO: Hungarians outraged, Ukrainians removed national symbol from Munkács fort
The local council’s decision on Thursday to remove the statue of a turul bird from the Mukachevo (Munkács) Castle in western Ukraine is “shocking” and “outrageous”, Árpád János Potápi, the state secretary in charge of policies for Hungarian communities abroad at the prime minister’s office, said in a statement.
The turul statue was erected in the castle in 1896 and re-installed in 2008 after the castle’s renovation.
Potápi called it “regrettable” that “in the midst a war, the most important thing for Mukachevo’s leaders is to dismantle a primary symbol of the local Hungarian community and Transcarpathian Hungarians”.
Countries that abide by European values should respect and preserve historic monuments, he said, adding this was a part of minority policy.
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News portal mukachevo.net said the Ukrainian coat-of-arms would replace the statue.
Here is a Hungarian news report about the removal of the monument:
Source: MTI
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Didn’t Hungary take all the Russian occupier’s monuments and put them in Monument Park? Weren’t the Hungarians the occupiers of parts of Ukraine during the years of the empire? There is NO difference. Why would Ukraine continue to pay homage to their occupiers???
There is a difference between an occupier’s symbol and a symbol that is hundreds of years old. Ukrainians keep aggravating their ethnic minorities. Hungary should do nothing to help the corrupt government of Zelensky, the war monger of the 21st century. The idiots in Ukraine already have problems with ethnic Russians that they have mistreated for years. Zelensky and fans forcing ethnic Hungarians of Munkacs to support Russia.
Hey leftist donkey, Hungary didn’t occupy Ukraine, Transcarphatia was stolen by western evils and given as a GIFT to Ukraine. The same happened with Russian territories of Crimea and Donbass which was Novorossya till 1917 when bolchevikes gave it as a GIFT to Ukraine. In 1954 the Ukrainian Khruschov, who was the leader of the USSR decided to give Russian Crimea to Ukraine as a GIFT. Many GIFTS for Ukraine. This means that they never fought for those lands, they just got it as a GIFT.
If Hungarians think that those lands are theirs, then they should come and get them, lest they are afraid.
Much ado about nothing.
When did Hungary occupied these lands?
I don’t think that Ukraine has a right to any castle that was built by the Royal Families of Eastern European Hungary and that the Hasburg dynasty owned Kiev Rus and then the Holenhole Schinglefurst of the history of the Counts of Ratibor and it’s a joke that anyone could ever believe anyone from Ukraine now they had voted for Zelensky and his government isn’t the fault of Russy.
I will always despise people with Rusophobia and hope Hungary helps Russia to make Ukraine feel guilty that they can destroy the minority groups of people through Ukrainian practices of their Ethnic cleansing regimes of Neo Nazis. I personally can’t stand Ukraine or Ukrainian practices of their own people that voted for Zelensky. I hope he is tried of War Crimes.