Komarno [1.]/ english

Komarno, Slovakia, the Holy Trinity column, in the background a building - a typical example of Czechoslovak modernism from the 1930s; photo taken around 2000; Kodak Portra 800 negative; scan from the negative 6x9 cm; Ercon II camera.

Komarno in Slovakia, a city on the Danube, divided in 1920 between Hungary and Czechoslovakia under the Trianon Agreement, which became the beginning of complexes influencing the current internal and external policy implemented by Orban's right-wing rule.

An example of the sources of this megalomania is, for example, a conversation that was reportedly carried out in 1941 by the Ambassador of Fascist Hungary in the office of President Roosevelt, making an act of declaring war:

AMBASSADOR OF HUNGARY: Dear Mr. President, I am sorry to inform you that today Hungary is declaring war on the United States.

ROOSEVELT: Hungary? What is this country?

AMBASSADOR: It's a kingdom, Mr. President.

ROOSEVELT: A kingdom? Who is the king there?

AMBASSADOR: We don't have a king, Mr. President.

ROOSEVELT: So who's in charge?

AMBASSADOR: Admiral Miklos Horthy.

ROOSEVELT: Admiral? Ah, so we'll have another fleet against us!

AMBASSADOR: Unfortunately, Mr. President, Hungary does not have access to the sea and therefore does not have a fleet.

ROOSEVELT: So what do you mean? Do you have any territorial conflict with us?

AMBASSADOR: No Mr. President, Hungary has no territorial claims against the US. We have a territorial conflict with Romania.

ROOSEVELT: So you're also at war with Romania?

AMBASSADOR: No Mr. President, Romania is our ally .....

[cyt. za: Krzysztof Varga, Gulasz z turula, Wołowiec 2008]

Following the trail of this megalomania, the conversation between our ambassador and the US president in a discussion on another problem would probably look similar (fortunately, we do not have to declare war). But since the current authorities in Poland are modeled on their Magyar ally, and Prime Minister Morawiecki joyfully announced the identity of the fate of Poland and Hungary during World War II, it should be said that there is actually no president in our country, and a private envoy is in charge (Jarosław Kaczyński). We have a conflict with countries from the European Union, which are our allies, etc. Only history has this to say that for the second time the same facts and attitude appear as a farce, which is the work of the current government in Poland. But why should we all be responsible for it and bear the consequences of the actions - as well as the realization of various phobias - of the individual madness of the individual MP?

Komarno, Slovakia, the church of st. Andrew from 1768 - 1771, the former monastery church of the Jesuits; photo taken around 2000; Kodak Portra 800 negative; scan from the negative 6x9 cm; Ercon II camera.

Komarno, Slovakia, the church of st. Andrew from 1768 - 1771, the former monastery church of the Jesuits; photo taken around 2000; Kodak Portra 800 negative; scan from the negative 6x9 cm; Ercon II camera.

And there will be more to modernism in the entry: Komarno [2.]