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The People's Court of Budapest justified in a decree on February 25, 1947, that it acceptsthe definitive verdicts passed by the National People's Court and declared them enforceable. Thismeans that it orders the beginning of life imprisonment for Szombathelyi.INSTEAD OF AN EPILOGUEConstantinus Porphyrogenitus wrote in the third part of his work: The Governing of theEmpire, about the Southern Slavs: Xenophobia; hatred towards strangers is a generalcharacteristic of their attitude. Are we justified in stating that even in the era of Porphirogenitus,the Hungarian conquerors had felt and behaved just the opposite? If our standard is inaccordance with St. Stephen's "Admonitions", we might be.At the time of the Turkish army's advance to Esztergom, if not before, the Hungarianshad learned the source of fear (often of horror). It is unlikely that all those bloody crimesdescribed in previous chapters of this book, could be explained by some kind of mutualxenophobia. Political and military history can give a more general reason for such or genocide.The Paris Peace Treaty that was forced on the country after the great defeat of theAustro-Hungarian Monarchy in World War I, has increased the Hungarian's fear and antipathyof all neighboring nations. The atmosphere of hatred and the knowing of being hated had beenfirst of all due to the incredible injustice of one and a half million Hungarians who remained justoutside the borders. In all of the bordering countries, the succession states had no need for themnor the two and a half million Hungarians further away from the new borders.These countries in the course of seventy years have plainly made all-out efforts to clearthe Hungarian dominated borderland of the Hungarians with all devices at their disposalpeacefull or criminal..Let us be content with Bacska this time. In comparison with the population of 1918, thenumber of Hungarians in the South has decreased by 170,000, while the so called "dominantpopulation" (i.e. the Serbs) has doubled or tripled.The Hungarian population of Bacska continues decreasing161nowadays as well. The last decade brought fewer births than deaths. In this respect, Bacskafollows the trend of Hungary and even surpasses it in a way.The sad habit of suicide surpasses the Fatherland.The number of "invited deaths" ofthe Hungarian minority exceeds the Yugoslavian average by a margin of 5 to 1 or 6 to 1. InHungary the dark paradise of suicides are Csongrad and Bacs-Kiskun counties. The Hungariansin the neighboring Szabadka exercise this kind of death at double that rate .The whole Hungarian nation suffers in its heart from the wounds of the great defeats ofthe century. It not only feels defeated, but also cast to the mercy of its neighbors. These woundsare even fresher in the souls of Hungarians in Bacska.During the last forty years the general attitude of the Hungarians in Bacska has been onthe defensive and dominated by suffering; they live in fear, feel homeless. They feel they can