Dan Culcer. Reconstruction of the Transylvanian Hungarian nobility in Romania. A social and national heresy in the 21st century

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The story of KemenyJanos and the restitutions in full
August 10, 2020


Magyar Tavirati Iroda, ie the Hungarian Telegraph Office / Agency, mixes the truth with the lie, in an important news, broadcast in Romanian on July 28, 2020, under the title “Kemény János’ heirs won in court, for the second time, a forest from the Romanian state “.
We quote: «The heirs of Count Kemény János won in court, for the second time, a part of the property right over the land with forest vegetation from the Romanian state. After five postponements, the Prahova County Court, in its irrevocable judgment on Tuesday, upheld in part the request for a summons and ordered the reconstitution in favor of the plaintiffs of the ownership of the land of 57 hectares[…[JánosKemény’spropertywasconfiscatedbythecommunistpowerthecountwasplacedinanapartmentwithminimumconditionsandworkedtopreparethelimeThepatronofTransylvanianculturediedinpovertyin1971inTârguMureş[…[ProprietatealuiJánosKeményafostconfiscatădeputereacomunistăconteleafostplasatîntr-unapartamentcucondiţiiminimeşialucratlapreparareavaruluiMecenaculturiitransilvăneneamuritînsărăcieîn1971laTârguMureş (MTI)»
The news contains some accurate information, some intentional inaccuracies and a lie. It is a lie that the former baron Kemény János died in poverty in 1971. I met him, I was a colleague at the Theater Institute in Tg. Mureș with a member of his family, the scenographer Kemény Arpád. The whole family lived after 1945, as all the privileged exes lived, in a long period of misery, but it was helped very quickly, precisely because of its human and moral qualities, by those it had helped and who had then become the ones privileged, to find a fair job. He was the editor of Muvelödés magazine, which became Új Élet (The New Life) under the direction of Sütő András. But he did not die in poverty but was only deprived of the opulence that some consider normal in the existence of noble families. This is not my case, I do not consider opulence a right of the privileged, I do not admit hereditary privileges and in general other privileges than those obtained through manual or intellectual work. Not through trade, politics or theft. I do not accept the reconstitution of a stratified society on the basis of hereditary titles. I do not think that a society should be reconstituted in Eastern Europe to grant the former nobles of any nation the privileges they had enjoyed before 1945.
In the case of the Kemény János family trial, it was a mistake to use the incompetent and abusive accusation, false, of leaving Romania after 1944. The confiscation of property based on the CASBI regulation could not be applied to him. Kemény János was a patriotic Hungarian intellectual, for which he had to be respected. And he should have been granted the right to use part of his property, inherited, in continuation of his cultural effort, in favor of the minority to which he belonged. But the Jewish, Hungarian or Romanian politicians who, immediately after 1945, justified and applied his complete dispossession in accordance with the principles of the class struggle, are the ones to be held accountable, they and their descendants. Not the Romanian state, not the Romanians in general, not the current citizens.
If the forests already awarded to the Kemény family are well managed, we will have nothing to complain about. If they are violently exploited, sold to other beneficiaries such as Austrian forest enterprises that destroy forests in Romania, those responsible will have to be held accountable and punished. But the former nobles should not stretch more than the duvet allows.
In this country, there are not only private interests but also collective interests. I will always repeat: what collective interests serves restitutio in integrum of the properties of such former privileged. Neither Romanians nor underprivileged Hungarians have any interest in tolerating such extensions of possession, which have clearly abusive origins. History does not begin in 1944, nor in 1920, but long before. Romanian judges need history lessons to be taught by Romanian specialists. And if they do not have a good memory, the basic principles can be tattooed, the tattoo is fashionable. Instead of Chinese calligraphy, one of their ignored professional duties can be tattooed.
In all cases, without exception, can be found the abusive source of privileges, so the properties that these “nobles” had received, for acts of military burr, as an effect of political opportunism or through well-arranged marriages. Apricot lands and forests of such dimensions, belonging to a single owner were not bought with honest money, ie obtained through labor, but were confiscated from co-owners (free peasants) by local princes and donated (illegally, you can not donate what is not belongs to you) to the nemesis who have thus become privileged. Or abusively monopolized by other means specific to historical epochs known as feudalism, capitalism.1
Such court decisions are by their nature illegal, because they are based on property deeds that were originally obtained in all cases in the form of privileges, donations, as acts of power. The TV show is interesting Castles forbiddenis where one of Kemény’s heirs notices with some wonder or even indignation the large number of cars in Romania that fly the Romanian tricolor (in Romania !!).
It seems to him a sign of growth, of activating nationalism among Romanians. He does not know, he does not see that since 1990 the colors of Hungary have been stirred everywhere in Transylvania (under the pretext that they are ethnic symbols and not state symbols!) And a flag was invented with the “symbols” of the Szekler Land, the Sun and the Moon. The act of provocation belongs to some Hungarians. The tricolor flyers for Romanians, now, are still the signs of a parade nationalism, without a basis in the concrete acts of a positive patriotism. Something like signatures without effect on some petitions broadcast on the Internet, which does not involve any change of mentality, legal or social. A constructive affirmation of the Romanianness of Transylvania was not imposed.
The “Reconquest” of Transylvania, by the former privileged Hungarians, cannot be accepted by the so-called acts of restitution in full. Transylvania has been an integral part of Romania not since 1918 but always. And the Hungarian colonial past in Transylvania, that is, the domination of an invasive minority over a local population, does not give rise to any continuity or state reconstruction.
Dan Culcer

Source: Cotidianul RO by www.cotidianul.ro.

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