Their schools are increasingly merged with Rumanian schools. the use of Hungarian in public is dangerous at best. forbidden in many areas. the Hungarians who succeed in receiving diplomas are involuntarily transferred to areas outside of Transylvania. or into overwhelmingly Rumanian districts of Transylvania. while local autonomy has been a sad joke. even in the socalled MuresMagyar autonomous region. ever since 1961. Street brawls about the use of Hungarian in public resulted in largescale arrests of Hungarians last summer after the amnesty. and the psychological situation of the persecuted 1.75 million Hungarians in Transylvania may be best summed up as being that of one fact and one opinion. The fact is that 133.000 Transylvanian Hungarians signed up for emigration to equally Communist Hungary. Thus even Kadars regime is preferable to them than the Rumanian Communist order. The second is the letter of a Hungarian professor of languages. at the merged BabesBolyaiRumanianHungarianuniversity at the capital of Transylvania KolozsvarCluj: I would rather be a simple member of a collective farm in Hungary. than a professor at this university.
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