Ataman
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Webber,
It's difficult to be specific because I have zero issues and I am not politician to find them out. At this point even if there wouldn't be any issues, still it would be good to find out somewhat, just to solve it.
OK, I have one. There was a bad massacre in Novi Sad with Hungarian side guilty as charged against Serbian and Jewish civilian population. :( Hungary admitted the guilt, the involved were extradicted and executed. I do not know how the current Novi Sad massacre memorial looks like, shame on me, sorry. if there is no sign of Hungarian Republic - it should be there, of course. But if not, it's now not the right time to pressure.
However, there was a massacre of Hungarian and German (Danube-Schwab) civilians by Tito's partizans at even larger scale. AFAIK, it was openly demanded by Stalin. Tito even self did admit, it was way too much of killings and reportedly had bad feeling about it. An other problem is/was these Hungarian criminals who were found guilty in N.S. massacre. Namely... they are reported to be executed well beyond what is called "unusual and cruel punishment".
More about all this here: http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/cseres/cseres01.htm
(O.T.: dear Albanians - please do not jump on that link bandwagon, this is now not your bandwagon! Besides, I do not agree with the author 100% and I did not verify everything 100%, it's just out there and who wants to know better - please research more on your own. It's not my cause, I am perfectly fine.)
Not much can be done now just rehabilitating the innocent victims, placing a memorial and explain mild regret for "unusual and cruel punishment" of the guilty ones.
This can be done IMHO without specific "ethnic" admission of guilt (= relatively cheap for Serbia) because Tito himself wasn't Serb, besides the entire ethnic cleansing seem to be Stalin's idea (yes, did he love such!) and it's basically barely more than a distantiation from a hard-line Communist past. But since it happened on the territory of today's Serbia such memorial does belong there. Any objection?
What else? AFAIK, the locals on both sides of the border are more concerned now how to get better infrastructure, economic environment, less corruption, democracy instead of "cleptocracy", more transparent borders for "good guys", a "no-go" for "bad guys" than anything else.
If I would be a wizard I would whisper into ears of Tadic and László Sólyom to agree in coming weeks about some rather symbolic things (see memorial) or at least to agree on the intent to agree :)
The time is very short, unfortunately and what Hungary's position regarding Kosovo is: things seem to be going into bad direction, so please DO SOMEWHAT.
Little background, no guarantee, I am correct. I am a bad politician always stayed away from that and will stay away. I have my job and have enough technical problems on my own, I don't need more political problems due that stupid "banana-republic" with "Bondsteel-Puppet-Show" and all what it will bring to me economically. I am directly involved, so I am NOT unbiased, sorry Albanians.
At this moment the person who has to be addressed is the country's president, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Sólyom
He recently had an issue with Ukraine ( there was a monument to be erected in Verecke and Mukacevo which would boost some Hungarian patriotic adrenaline...) and well... his visit to Ukraine was postponed, there is a little tension now.
Sólyom is sympathizing with Vikor Orbán form FIDESZ, who is in the opposition. I am certainly not, but here I say I don't care what color is the cat if he catches the mouse. The PM (F. Gyurcsány) from MSZP who has (more-less but not for any price!) my sympathy is not the right cat, I think at this moment. In Serbia it's the opposite situation: Tadic is more like Gyurcsány and Kostunica is more like Sólyom. Fortunately this makes the job easy: my guess is, Tadic does not care less about some symbolics with things of past long gone and without much effect on today but Sólyom certainly does.
F. Gyurcsány is leading the country through controverse reforms, some work, some don't. His reforms are still having the smell of the mechanic thinking of 1980-s. The popularity is on all-time low. Not sure, his arch-enemy (V. Orbán) would do it any better, but at least the now very popular FIDESZ has the strongest support of patriotic-minded people who are still moderate to acceptable degree. The catholic and protestant clerus is clearly behind Orbán. The head of the country formally is L. Sólyom, but as usual, it's merely a formal thing. The relation between L. Sólyom and F. Gyurcsány is as you expect.
Imagine a hypothetic case if some symbolic thing is achieved and there is a closer relationship between Hungary and Serbia.
- Sólyom wins: he can prove to Hungarian high-adrenaline patriots, he actually achieved somewhat.
- Tadic wins: he can prove to Serbian high-adrenaline patriots, he actually achieved somewhat.
- Serbia wins: Hungary will recognize Kosovo only after Cyprus and Republika Srpska. :)
- Hungary wins: better relationship with Serbia
- Gyurcsány certainly has no positive feelings towards "Republic Kosovo". His wife, Klára Dobreva is of Bulgarian background. Privately they probably don't care less, rather negatively. In public doing anything AGAINST Serbia in the above hypothetic case (= against Hungarian patriotism) is rather a suicide. He has enough problems with his reforms. The last what he needs is the Hungarian patriotism boiling (= "you spoiled everything between us and Serbia with that Kosovo!")
- Serbia can ask Hungary to withdraw from EULEX. Here the Hungarian public opinion will be on Serbian side:
"We have these hard economic reforms and we support Kosovo-Blackhole? We have problems with our hospital system, we don't want to solve Kosovo-problems!"
- USA, Germany, UK can probably survive without Hungarian economic and military power helping them in Kosovo (+Iraq+Afghanistan).
- USA understands well the Hungarian minority problems (blah-blah-blah) and great pressure they would be exposed (blah-blah-blah) if...(blah-blah-blah). Here it's up to Minister of Foreign Affairs (Dr. Katalin Szily, SZDSZ, she is the one who is formally for Kosovo-Independence) to find out what kind of load of bovine excrement she can dump on Geogie Boy Dubya. I don't think it's too hard. Last time he visited Bratislava Fox News focused their camera on the map of SlovENIA, not SlovAKIA.
As for authorities job lately - that's fine, I am not too worried about the incidents. Unfortunately they happened, and I guarantee they will happen on both sides :( unless Saturday disco with girls to fight for and beer will be outlawed. One day some Serbian/Hungarian/etc. kids and few adults will outgrow their stupidity, the food in H. or S. jails is probably yucky and no beer is served. That's already a good incentive to grow up. That's (= short-term jail, monetary fines) is the "stick" and apply it as you can. IMHO things go in the right direction.
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