Talk:Hungary–Slovakia relations

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Destroying Budapest by tanks
Probably drunk at a party rally on 5 March 1999, he reportedly threatened to send tanks to "flatten Budapest" should Slovakia's Hungarian minority, once the ruling class and still about 10 percent of the country's population today, attempt to teach the Slovaks "the Lord's Prayer in Hungarian" once again.

Crooked-legged Hungarians
In a television debate a few days before the elections he allegedly quoted a Frankish bishop in an anti-Hungarian context:

Hungarians: a 'tumor' on the body of the Slovak nation
In 2006, Italian Member of the European Parliament Michl Ebner created a compilation of Slota's comments of xenophobic nature and sent it via e-mail to all members of the Parliament. The eleven-page document includes this remark, made by Slota: :

The same quote appeared in the Der Spiegel and various international media outlets, who reported Slota's words as “The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation.”

Statements about Hungarian symbols and identity
Slota compared the indigenous Hungarian population of Slovakia to the Moroccan and Algerian immigrants to France:

Pál Csáky, chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition called the statement "primitive crudeness".

While Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico were meeting in Brussels, Ján Slota called the Turul, a Hungarian mythological falcon an "ugly parrot", and insulted the first King of Hungary, King Saint Stephen by calling him "a clown on a horse from Budapest", referring to the mounted statue of the king standing in the Buda Castle. The latter was on the occasion of a law about education, arguing with a Hungarian history book (containing the picture of the statue in question) in favor of the law.

Insulting the Hungarian foreign minister
Slota repeatedly insulted the then Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kinga Göncz, among others by criticizing her hair and comparing her to Adolf Hitler.

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Hungary–Czechoslovakia relations‎
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Hungarian revolution 1848
It should be mentioned how Slovaks supported Vienna in the Hungarian revolution of 1848. 2A00:23C7:5882:8201:9447:D8B7:AEA9:483 (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)