Author(s): Valentin-Stelian Bădescu / Language(s): English,Romanian
Issue: 2/2021
The issue of the Hungarian optants in Transylvania is a file, a writing, about an end and a rebirth, the end of the Central European empire and the rebirth of the nations liberated by sacrifice from the dungeon of that empire. A file about the collapse of an empire at the time of its sinking, the dual Austro-Hungarian empire, and the springing of the nations into the light of the rebirth of the long Habsburg night is a special phenomenon in a culture. It is a picture that we can contemplate with amazement, but also with fear, the monstrous grandeur of an empire where the Hungarian electors evolve on a twilight stage, on which are distributed nations, chancellors, governments, embassies, armies, political internationals of the time, on which already foreshadows the ghost of a panid that seems to be coming back to life today. Today, Romania has found itself vulnerable due to poorly designed legislation and corruption and is put in a position to return in full properties, buildings or land for which the Romanian state anyway paid compensation in tons of gold, in the 30s of last century. In other words, Romania is damaged two or even three times if we consider that the taxes used to build many of the buildings in Transylvania were paid by the lower social strata, ie by peasants and small craftsmen or merchants, who in the sea most of them were Romanians, the nobility of the three privileged nations being exempt from taxes.
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