Daniel Dräxler

"Well then, then after the revolution, again ... so now we are approaching the subject of Hungary again, basically because, because the nationalism was not some anti-Hungarian, which broke out very soon after the revolution, but there, already the nationalism appeared there and then, then, then the Hungarian card was very strong later, so how did you perceive this, that is, in the context of your parents and yourself? Yes. Well, I've always been so inclined ... as I said at the beginning that nationalism ... it's annoying to me in every form. And so I always tried to get that helicopter look, the view, over the thing. And as a young boy in the 1990s, I argued that political parties should not be based on nationality or religion or belief. This means that I already said at the time that the KDH also bothered me that it simply did not belong ... that religion simply did not belong to politics, and I also claimed that the national question did not belong to modern politics, that neither Slovak or Hungarian, none, well so that's how I perceived it and, and maybe what I experienced or what my family somehow experienced, so. There I skipped maybe some more things ... some grandfather who was Slovak had to… Tell me, tell me. It will be inserted into that, into that historical part. Well. So, actually, the grandfather, who was from my mother's side, who was from Bardejov, was called Ján Huščák. So, of course, he had the classic story of how he had to learn Hungarian as a child, yes - so he was forced to speak hungarian in primary school, even though he was a Slovak from Bardejov and then during, during the occupation, during World War II. , when he wanted to stay in Košice with his family… We know that Košice belonged to Hungary during the war, so he simply got the choice that whether he wants to be enlisted and wants to go to the front or whether he wants to stay in the position of military judge, but on the hungarian side. So he basically worked for the Hungarian side in Košice, as a military judge and he was in great trauma, he talked about it when he was ninety years old. Of course, the communists disciplined him in the 1950s and sent him somewhere. Just before Subcarpathian Russia managed to secede, I do not know exactly what year it happened, so he still managed to be detached in Uzhgorod as a punishment, so. So there were a lot of those wrongs and, and that is why when you ask me how I perceived it, I always perceived it negatively when someone drew a national card, whatever, one way or another. When you say that I would… Now maybe as such a detailist, but when you say that this topic should not be raised, it means, for example, that even MOST, which was actually the party that should unite, which connected Hungarian and Slovak intellectuals, whether or not it was in your opinion... Not. Things are not black and white, of course. That project was good, yes ... that project was good, just because he didn't even have national parties, he didn't have it, it's a hungarian party or not, so that MOST as a principle is fine and joining was definitely a good idea . ”

"Both my parents had a native language of Hungarian. My mother comes from Košice, from such a bourgeois, classic, Košice family, and my father came from southern Slovakia, from Polipie also from a Hungarian-speaking family, but rather, rather from such a rural one. So there was, there was also such a moment that it actually met ... the bourgeois hungary met the rural hungary. There were some interesting differences, observable. Both parents had a native language of Hungarian, but we are at home - that is, at home with me, my older brother and me, they only spoke slovak, so my native language is already Slovak. They led you to it ... they didn't lead you to it? They did not lead us to Hungarian at all. Hungarian had a form at home, a kind of ... position, a position of some kind of adult language, partly secret maybe, well, when the parents were talking something to each other, which we should not hear, they used Hungarian. And ... but it's interesting that basically we were exposed to the Hungarian language all our childhood, but because our parents didn't talk to us, we didn't really learn it as a child, yes. But parents watched Hungarian television, they listened to Hungarian radio ... Petofi radio, Košút radio, it ran at home. And so it got in my ear, in my ear. While my classmates said that Jesus... hungarian, I don't know what, for me, hungarian was the music of my childhood. It was something very pleasant, which to this day, when I listen to such hungarian or watch a hungarian show somewhere, it evokes those nostalgic feelings in me. So this was my childhood. And so a little stuck to us with my brother from my childhood in Hungarian, but partly little, and it was then more a question of a conscious decision then at puberty that I want to learn that hungarian. And so I started to try a little harder and I'll get to that, I'll come to that later after I went to Hungary for the holidays with my aunt and cousin and there I was showelled into the water because they only knew hungarian. So, that's probably where I learned the most. "