In 1939, on the eve of World War II, building on Hitler's endeavor to undo the European peace that had been concluded at Trianon after World War I, Hungary unveiled a desire to occupy Transylvania, that part of Romania that had been for 50 years part of greater Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the dissolution of that empire in 1918, a plebiscite took place in the ancient Romanian province of Transylvania, whose inhabitants were even then 76 % Romanian, and as a result of self-determination Transylvania became part of Romania. Hungarian revisionism has however never accepted that outcome, and in 1939 a resurgence of the Hungarian militant spirit of conquest found expression in a wave of propaganda aimed at reoccupying Transylvania. An example is the book Nincs Kegyelem (Have No Mercy) by Ducso Csaba published in 1939 and widely disseminated in Hungary which was used as a textbook by all para-military Hungarian organizations that accompanied the Hungarian troops when they occupied Northern Transylvania in the year 1940 and by the entire Hungarian administration installed in that year. The book is so blatantly racist and incites to such bloodthirsty genocide and mass-murder that of late the Hungarian authorities have decided to deny its very existence. However, not only did the book exist, not only was it used to incite to hatred and mass-murder of the Romanians, but it continues to be used in "patriotic" Hungarian circles, where it is quoted and its author Ducso Csaba is held up as a model of "patriotism".

Here is the proof: an open letter addressed to all Hungarians of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, printed with the letterhead and seal of that federation, and republished in the Canadian newspaper Cuvantul Romanesc of August 1983, p. 16, from the Paris publication Opinii No. 27 of 10 May 1983. We reprint the letter below.

Dear fellow countrymen,

Now when our Transylvanian brothers live under the cruel Romanian oppression could we just do nothing about it? Although we are scattered in the world and obliged to keep quiet, we must act for our children, our old ones, our mothers and parents in Transylvania.

What dearer ideal could be for a Magyar by the end of this century but the struggle for the Magyar motherland? Let us not be dragged in the night of oblivion, let us hasten the time when our motherland will be within its sacred boundaries again. Let us ceaselessly get ready for that moment. Let us utter like a prayer of encouragement, like an oath of faith, Ducso Csaba's words: "I shall kill each Romanian crossing my way! I shall exterminate one and all! Without mercy! At night, I shall set Romanian villages on fire. I shall rip the whole population with my sword. I shall poison the wells. I shall strangle the babies... I shall be merciless! Towards all! I shall have no pity for children or pregnant mothers either... Revenge! Without pity, dire revenge!"

This is our ideal of fight. It is only by unity that we can emerge victorious. We must bear Transylvania in our blood and never forget it even in our sleep. Let us stir confidence and hopes in our brothers in Transylvania and struggle. Like a good Magyar. Like a real Magyar."

Reprinting this open letter addressed to all Hungarians by the Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Nicolae Novac is at a loss to explain why the human rights organizations and the Canadian government, that professes to be so much interested in matters of inter-racial hatred, choose to ignore this blatant and open incitement to genocide against the Transylvanian Romanians who are to be murdered for the mere crime of inhabiting the land of their ancestors.

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