IVAN DERER

(Ivan Dérer)


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Ivan Derer

This process of Magyarization, of implanting a Hungarian mentality in the Slovaks, was so intense throughout many centuries in former Hungary, and so completely dominated generation after generation, that even the breaking up of Hungary and the liberation of Slovakia has not entirely freed the Slovaks from the moral consequences of the thousand years of subjugation and serfdom.
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Slovak aspirations for autonomy have been constant despite the economic disadvantages. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Slovaks voted for independence from Czechoslovakia. See {613460} for Derer’s argument for a unified country.

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The Czechoslovak conception gives the Slovaks an all-State, more universal consciousness. This conception makes us a 10-million strong nation and not a mere 2-million fraction. How is it possible that there should be Slovaks who do not understand this
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Most of the Slovaks did not understand it then and didn’t after the fall of the Soviet Union when they voted for the independent state of Slovakia.

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Many of the former Slaves are only nominally free, for the servile spirit is still within them.
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The slaves to which he is referring were the serfs of Slovakia who for hundreds of years had literally been the property of the Hungarian nobility. The problem however has been observed about any long-term slavery.

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Ivan Derer
  • Born: March 2, 1884
  • Died: March 10, 1973
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Ivan Dérer was a prominent Slovak politician, lawyer, journalist and regional chairman of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party in Slovakia. Serving in 1920 as Minister for Administration of Slovakia, in 1939 to 1934 as Minister of Education and from 1934 to 1938 as Minister of Justice. He was one of the signers of Martin Declaration in 1918. His son, Vladimir Derer was a prominent British Labour Party activist who founded the influential Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.