On the 21st of January 2008, Nagy Joszef Barna, the EMI Oradea President (Organization of the Young Hungarians), wrote an offending article against our national poet, Mihai Eminescu, in a Hungarian newspaper in Oradea.

On the 21st of January 2008, Nagy Joszef Barna, the EMI Oradea President (Organization of the Young Hungarians), wrote an offending article against our national poet, Mihai Eminescu, in a Hungarian newspaper in Oradea.

The frustration of the young leader of EMI Oradea was caused by the fact that Wass Albert, Hungarian poet, convicted in Romania in 1964 for war crimes, was not commemorated in the schools on the day in which 100 years passed from his birth.

GRIEVANCE

The young Hungarians wanted Wass to have manifestations similar to the ones that took place at the commemoration of Eminescu. Moreover, the accusations in the article of Nagy Jozsef targeted the board of the “Mihai Eminescu” National College in Oradea. He targeted a certain “Hungarian deputy director” who refused a donation of ten volumes written by Wass Albert. “Why do the Hungarian pupils have to commemorate this Romanian poet? Because the school in which they study is named after him? Because he was a <>? Can we, the Hungarians, call <> the one that called us the faultiest people in Europe? However, the teacher I wrote about commemorated Eminescu together with his pupils. I wonder: did anyone force him to do that? Or did he do it to be overzealous, to promote the Romanian poet that wanted the Romanians to hate the Hungarians? Why does he have to make the pupils think the same way? If it wasn’t compulsory to study Eminescu’s work or if there weren’t Hungarian teachers like this one to commemorate him, no one would read his work!”, the furious young representative of EMI says. He concludes in his pure irredentist style: “There are n