OPEN LETTER
Hope for Justice in Central Europe
Mr. George W. Bush
President of the United States,
The White House Office,
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW,
Washington, DC 200
Dear Mr. President, Your Excellency,
January 20, 2001, seems to be the true start of new millenium in Central Europe.
It is great to believe that this day, today, the famous day of Your inauguration, means the true finish of the age of Hitler‘s and Stalin‘s nonhuman deformations of human fates in Central Europe.
Unfortunately, this cannot be told about the recent years, 90s. In the language of borders the area of Central Europe has been pushed back to the questionable past - precisely and exactly back to Hitler‘s borders.
Each and everyone of accesible President Clinton s emlopyees kept absolutely silent after being asked the simple question - why? No answer why the borders established here for justice and freedom of opressed nations by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson are systematically replaced by the Hitler‘s ones. It is hard to ignore direct or indirect influence or support of President Clinton‘s way of U. S. policy for this strange process. I am far away from guessing that U. S. diplomats and world media were corrupted or uncapable to see what happens - they were surely disinformed by genial revisionist propaganda.
The language of borders means only one significant aspect of the process of revitalisation of fascism in Central Europe. The ghosts of the past survived in their historical centers - Vienna and Budapest. Note, please, that the first fascist regime has been established in Budapest in 1920, simly echoing the Tisza's uebermensch/untermensch governing tradition. Hitler came later. Today, fascist heirs (Haider, Csurka, Duray...) entered the parliaments and governments again, translations of Hitler‘s Mein Kampf have appeared, heroic antifascist resistence like Slovak National Uprising has been ironised... The totalitarian spirit of late 30s... and late 1880s. Painful memories for Jewish, Gypsy/Roma, and Slovak people. Deported thousands of Slovak children in Austro-Hungaria and deported/murdered millions of Jews in Hitler s Central Europe... The dark dreams about bigger Hungary and big Austro-Hungary...
Your historical entering the White House challenges new hope. According to prof. Marvin Olasky Your political philosophy is the conservativism with human face. The emphasis on humanist change of philosophy in White House gives hope to conserve the rest of humanist architecture of Central Europe, voting for Woodrow Wilson‘s bordering instead of Adolf Hitler‘s bordering of Central Europe. That time, Woodrow Wilson time, U. S. free press perfectly nicknamed Austro-Hungary as "the jail of nations". Another time, Adolf Hitler time, Magyar media characterised bigger Hungary as "the most loyal Hitler‘s ally".
Today, Budapest ignores the law again (especially the Danube dam sentence from Haag what fixes the W. Wilson‘s border) the same way like peace treaties in Trianon and Paris. It seems worth to note trivially that the opposite of the peace means war. Nationalist Budapest together with nationalist Prague finishes the longlasting ethnical and language cleansing of the state. In the language of demographic data Hungary and Czech Republic happily finish the cultural genocide of minorities. In the language of globally declared multiculturalism there happens the same what was done there with Stalin and Brezhnev - unconditional monoculturalisation, disabling of free choice of cultural identity. No words of condemnation of crimes from presidents and parliaments up to now. No memorials for victims of violent magyarisation and czechisation, no true stories in nationalist literatures. No denacification of the societies and public opinion comparable with afterwar West Germany. Only the process with Hitler‘s borders under reconstruction. Lies about re-integration, confusing world media and world politicians, abusing the language and humanrightistic dialect for masking real facts. Perfect orwellian tradition. (This is in more details explained in the appended essay Why mother Europe hates baby Slovakia.) Perfectly repeated tradition of excellent lie.
This is why today, January 20, 2001, seems to be the true start of new millenium in Central Europe.
It is great to believe that this day, today, the famous day of Your inauguration, means finish of the age of Hitler‘s and Stalin‘s nonhuman deformations of human fates of Central Europe and that Your human-faced conservativism vision and mission will enrich the world history by the true justice and perfect humanism.
Accept please the cordial congratulations.
Wishing You all the best.
With the best regards,
Andrej Ferko
founding member of Slovak Center of P.E.N.
H. Melickovej 9
SK-841 05 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
ferko@fmph.uniba.sk
Bratislava, January 20, 2001
