Talk:Hungary–Slovakia relations

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Destroying Budapest by tanks

Probably drunk at a party rally on 5 March 1999, he reportedly threatened to send tanks to "flatten Budapest" should Slovakia's Hungarian minority, once the ruling class and still about 10 percent of the country's population today, attempt to teach the Slovaks "the Lord's Prayer in Hungarian" once again.

Crooked-legged Hungarians

In a television debate a few days before the elections he allegedly quoted a Frankish bishop in an anti-Hungarian context:

“Back in 1248 a Frankish bishop visited the Carpathian Basin and said:

»As I was scanning this country, I was wondering how could God have given such a beautiful land to such ugly people.«

He meant the 'old Hungarians', because they were Mongoloid types with crooked legs and they owned such disgusting horses. Actually, small horses. This is what the bishop said, it is written. Exactly, it is written word by word. And now, after more than 800 years those 'Mongoloids' somehow disappeared. I don't know who showed them how to be civilised. But unfortunately, I think it was the Slavic blood. Unfortunately... And I really don't know if these Hungarians, that like to say about themselves that they are Hungarians, are really Hungarians. I think 90% of them has Slavic blood, and maybe 10%, or maybe just 0.1% has the 'old Hungarian' blood. But they still voluntarily report as fools to some Turuls and other insanities...”

— Ján Slota on television, June 2006

Hungarians: a 'tumor' on the body of the Slovak nation

In 2006, Italian Member of the European Parliament Michl Ebner created a compilation of Slota's comments of xenophobic nature and sent it via e-mail to all members of the Parliament. The eleven-page document includes this remark, made by Slota::

“Hungarians are a tumour on the body of the Slovak nation that needs to be removed without delay.”.

— Ján Slota

The same quote appeared in the Der Spiegel and various international media outlets, who reported Slota's words as “The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation.”

Statements about Hungarian symbols and identity

Slota compared the indigenous Hungarian population of Slovakia to the Moroccan and Algerian immigrants to France:

“they are also all French, who are divided to the French, the immigrants and the foreigners.”
“I argue that they are not Hungarians. These are the Slovaks, who express themselves in Hungarian.”

— Ján Slota, to the SITA news agency, January 4, 2008

Pál Csáky, chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition called the statement "primitive crudeness".

While Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico were meeting in Brussels, Ján Slota called the Turul, a Hungarian mythological falcon an "ugly parrot", and insulted the first King of Hungary, King Saint Stephen by calling him "a clown on a horse from Budapest", referring to the mounted statue of the king standing in the Buda Castle. The latter was on the occasion of a law about education, arguing with a Hungarian history book (containing the picture of the statue in question) in favor of the law.

Insulting the Hungarian foreign minister

Kinga Göncz, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, a "tousled haired woman" as called by Slota.

Slota repeatedly insulted the then Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kinga Göncz, among others by criticizing her hair and comparing her to Adolf Hitler.

We won't succumb to the pressure from our southern neighbor and Budapest: a tousled haired woman, a wretch is threatening us and asking questions from the Slovak prime minister, whose shoe heel is even at higher level than herself.
What they [Hungarians] are doing is the top of arrogance. I can compare her to Henlein and to that little mustached person in a Munich cellar. He had the same rhetorics as this woman. Perhaps her mustache is also starting to grow.

— Ján Slota

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Hungarian revolution 1848

It should be mentioned how Slovaks supported Vienna in the Hungarian revolution of 1848. 2A00:23C7:5882:8201:9447:D8B7:AEA9:483 (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)