From: clary@xdata.cnrm.meteo.fr (Olivier CLARY)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian,soc.culture.czecho-slovak,soc.culture.magyar
Subject: A survey on Hungarian revisionism
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:32:22 GMT
Organization: Cnrm.Meteo-France

Here is a rough English translation of a recent news from HIRMONDO.
The Hungarian text at the end is surely better for those who can
understand it.  -- Olivier Clary

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HIRMONDO 3.153, Dec 11 1992


A survey on border revision (from the newspaper NepSZabadsag)

During the last months the Institute "Median" for Surveys and Marketing
has achieved two surveys about border revision. Results show that the
irredentist slogan of between the two World Wars has changed to its
opposite: the big majority of people reject a change of the Trianon
borders. Behind this can be found both the fear of war and the lack of
solidarity with Hungarian minorities.

In September 2/3 of people said they would not find desirable a change
of the Trianon borders, that is the present borders. Only 29% said the
opposite, and 1/20th of people did not answer. With school achievement
getting higher the proportion of people opposing border revision has
grown until "erettsegi" diploma [before entrance to University], but
people with higher diplomas still are a smaller proportion to answer 
this way.  Even "revisionists" would not make the sacrifices it would
take, 97% of them would change borders only with peaceful means, and
only 2% of them (0,6% of the whole population) would use military force.

Here are the rates in % of the acceptance of sentences concerning a change
of borders (meaning of figures, in order: totally agrees, rather agrees,
rather does not agree, does not agree at all, cannot decide):

Insisting on border questions can bring the country to war: 53, 29, 8, 4, 7

The government should rather care with Hungarians here than with those
living in neighbouring countries: 51, 29, 11, 6, 4

Changes to occur in neighbouring countries will make possible a peaceful
change of borders: 10, 14, 21, 43, 12

Hungary should do all to get back territories separated from it: 11, 11,
23, 48, 7

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> From: Hungarian-News-Distribution <hun@cs.uchicago.edu>
> Subject:  HIRMONDO 3.153, 92/12/11

> Kozvelemeny-kutatas a hatarreviziorol (NSZ)
>
> Az elmult honapokban a Median Kozvelemeny- es Piackutato Intezet ket
> kutatast is vegzett a hatarreviziorol.  Az eredmenyek azt mutatjak, hogy
> a ket vilaghaboru kozotti irredenta jelszo a visszajara fordult: az
> emberek tulnyomo tobbsege elutasitja a trianoni hatarok
> megvaltoztatasat.  Emogott egyarant megtalaljuk a haborutol valo
> felelmet es a magyar kisebbsegek iranti szolidaritas hianyat.
>
> Szeptemberben az emberek ketharmada azt mondta, hogy nem tartana
> kivanatosnak a trianoni, azaz a jelenlegi hatarok megvaltoztatasat.
> Csak 29% allitotta az ellenkezojet, es minden huszadik kitert az
> allasfoglalas elol.  Az iskolai vegzettseg emelkedesevel az
> erettsegizettekig nott azoknak az aranya, akik ellenzik a hatarreviziot,
> de a diplomasok mar megint kisebb aranyban valaszoltak igy.  Az ezzel
> jaro aldozatokat a "revizionistak" sem vallalnak, 97 szazalekuk csak
> bekes eszkozokkel valtoztatna meg a hatarokat, csupan 2 szazalekuk (az
> osszlakossag hat ezreleke) alkalmazna katonai erot.
>
> A hatarok megvaltoztatasara vonatkozo megallapitasok fogadtatasa,
> szazalekban (a szamok jelentese, sorrendben: teljesen egyetert, inkabb
> egyetert, inkabb nem ert egyet, egyaltalan nem ert egyet, nem tudja
> eldonteni)
>
> A hatarkerdesek feszegetese haboruba sodorhatja az orszagot: 53, 29, 8,
> 4, 7
>
> A kormanynak inkabb az itteni magyarokkal kellene torodnie, mint a
> szomszed orszagokban elokkel: 51, 29, 11, 6, 4
>
> A szomszed orszagokban bekovetkezo valtozasok lehetove teszik a hatarok
> bekes megvaltoztatasat: 10, 14, 21, 43, 12
>
> Magyarorszagnak mindent meg kell tennie az elcsatolt teruletek
> visszaszerzesere: 11, 11, 23, 48, 7