Slovakization

For the exclusion of Slovak Jews from the economy during the Holocaust, see Aryanization in Slovakia.

Approximate area in Slovakia inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority of Slovakia, numbering 456,154 people or 7.75% of population (2021 census).[1]
  50–100%
  10–50%
  0–10%

Slovakization or Slovakisation (Slovak: Slovakizácia, Hungarian: Szlovákosítás) is a form of either forced or voluntary cultural assimilation and acculturation, during which non-Slovak nationals give up their culture and language in favor of the Slovak one. This process has relied most heavily on intimidation and harassment by state authorities.[2][3][4][5] Another method of Slovakization was artificial resettlement.[6] In the past the process has been greatly aided by deprivation of collective rights for minorities and ethnic cleansing, but in the last decades its promotion has been limited to the adoption of anti-minority policies and anti-minority hate speech.

The process itself is limited mostly to Slovakia, where Slovaks constitute the absolute majority by means of population and legislation power as well. Slovakization is most often used in relation to Hungarians,[7] who constitute the most prominent minority of Slovakia, but it also affects Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Rusyns (Ruthenians),[8] and Jews, and Romani.

Robert Fico's governance often violates minority rights and is openly hungarophobic for its disrespect of the indigenous Hungarian minority,[9][10][11][12][13] and Fico himself in 1998 lobbied for the Party of Hungarian Coalition to not be let into the Slovakian parliament,[14] and stated that the Beneš decrees (promoted the violation of human rights and racial discrimination of Hungarian and German population) was unchangeable.[15] By keeping the laws the Slovak government could make millions of euros in profit in a few years.[16]

  1. ^ "Sčítanie obyvateľov, domov a bytov 2021". National census of Slovak republic 2021. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  2. ^ Kocsis & Kocsisné Hodosi 1998, p. 62.
  3. ^ Breuning, C. M. Eleonore; Dr. Lewis, Jill; Pritchard, Gareth (2005). Power and the People: A Social History of Central European Politics, 1945–56. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719070693.
  4. ^ Jászi, Oszkár (1949). Danubia: Old and New - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (vol. 93, no. 1), Philadelphia. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 9781422381083.
  5. ^ Humphreys, Rob; Nollen, Tim (2003). Rough Guide to the Czech & Slovak Republics. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781858289045.
  6. ^ Szarka, László (2003). "A szlovákiai magyarok kényszerletelepítéseinek emlékezete" (PDF).
  7. ^ J. Rieber 2000
  8. ^ Magocsi & Pop 2002, p. 75
  9. ^ Nemzet, Magyar (5 April 2024). ""Külföldi ügynöknek" minősíthetnek minden magyar szervezetet Szlovákiában". „Külföldi ügynöknek" minősíthetnek minden magyar szervezetet Szlovákiában (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Ethnic discrimination is still alive and kicking in Slovakia". POLITICO. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  11. ^ Attila, Tóth-Szenesi (18 July 2023). "A magyargyűlölőnek megismert Robert Fico Orbán Viktor szövetségeseként térhet vissza a politikába". 444 (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Magyar szavazatokkal nyert a magyarellenes Ficó államfőjelöltje". Jelen. 9 May 2024.
  13. ^ Géza, Wolf (25 February 2021). "Szlovákia elcsatolásától tartva vonják meg a kettős állampolgárságot a magyaroktól". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  14. ^ "Fico már a kilencvenes években sem kedvelte a magyarokat". Hír TV (in Hungarian). 5 April 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Fico: a Benes-dekrétumok megváltoztathatatlanok". Múlt-kor történelmi magazin (in Hungarian). 3 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  16. ^ Balázs, Tárnok (14 February 2022). "Folytatódnak a földkobzások Szlovákiában a Beneš-dekrétumok alapján I. rész". Ludovika.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 May 2024.