Juliu Hossu: Nagy-Románia kihirdetőjéből a román kommunisták ellenségévé lett görögkatolikus pap

Absztrakt

When we mention Romanian communism, we often emphasise its national communist character. This concept, in simple terms, means that Romanian communist leaders, unlike Hungarian communists and in defiance of Marxist ideology, thought primarily in national terms. Despite the emergence of Bolshevik ideas, they defined themselves first and foremost as patriots, and only then were they communists. In our country it was quite different. The communists in Hungary rejected everything that was national, denied their Hungarian identity and wanted to become first and foremost ‘homo sovieticus’. At the same time, the example of the Greek Catholic pastor Iuliu Hossu shows that, national communism or not, if someone went against a decision of the Romanian communist state, however much merit he or she may have had in the creation of Greater Romania, he or she was cleared out of the way, tortured and persecuted mercilessly.