Trianon - triumf a katastrofa
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On 4 June 1920, the Treaty of Trianon was signed, which put an end to the historical Hungary. The treaty brought conflicting expectations and feelings to Central Europe. On the one hand, joy coupled with high hopes, on the other hand, fears, a sense of injustice and fatal catastrophe. The Trianon still arouses passions and aspirations for revision. These speak of historical injustice, of righting wrongs and of uniting a divided nation. One hundred years later, in the new European context, it is all about political mobilisation and irresponsible political games of expediency. The book traces the path that led the Hungarians to this catastrophe and assesses it from a Slovak perspective. The internal politics before the war, the aggressive aims of Hungary during it and the final defeat of the state led to its disintegration and to the turbulent events of 1919, when Slovakia complicatedly found its way to a new state and the new unstable Hungary staggered from left-wing to right-wing radicalism. In both cases it acted as a potential military threat, a vehicle for active propaganda against its neighbours, but equally it was a victim of escalating territorial aspirations. Trianon appears as the completion of one historical stage, but at the same time it opens a new one, linked to the struggle for and against its revision. Ordinary people were becoming innocent victims of these historical processes and power-political aspirations on both sides of the border.
