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 ===Destroying Budapest by tanks=== 
 Probably drunk at a party rally on 5 March 1999, he reportedly threatened to send tanks to ""flatten Budapest"" should Slovakia's Hungarian minority, once the ruling class and still about 10 percent of the country's population today, attempt to teach the Slovaks ""the Lord's Prayer in Hungarian"" once again. 

 ===Crooked-legged Hungarians=== 
 In a television debate a few days before the elections he allegedly quoted a Frankish bishop in an anti-Hungarian context: 

  
 ===Hungarians: a 'tumor' on the body of the Slovak nation=== 
 In 2006, Italian Member of the European Parliament Michl Ebner created a compilation of Slota's comments of xenophobic nature and sent it via e-mail to all members of the Parliament. The eleven-page document includes this remark, made by Slota:: 

  
 The same quote appeared in the Der Spiegel and various international media outlets, who reported Slota's words as “The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation.” Slovakia rejects Hungarian suggestions to tackle discriminatioSlovak, Hungarian presidents blame tension on radicals - Summary                                  Slovakia and Hungary 'Dangerously Close to Playing with Fire' 

 ===Statements about Hungarian symbols and identity=== 
 Slota compared the indigenous Hungarian population of Slovakia to the Moroccan and Algerian immigrants to France: 

  
 Pál Csáky, chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition called the statement ""primitive crudeness""""Primitív bunkóság"" - Slota ismét nyilatkozott. 

 While Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico were meeting in Brussels, Ján Slota called the Turul, a Hungarian mythological falcon an ""ugly parrot"", and insulted the first King