Romania
In reply to Petru Popescu’s article “Breaking With Precedent, a Nation Fights Its Past” (Opinion, June 24):
The statement “Austria-Hungary occupied Transylvania until 1918” has to be refuted. Everyone who is even superficially acquainted with European history would know that Transylvania was part of Hungary for over a thousand years, precisely until June 4, 1920.
Millions and millions of people were forced to leave their birthplace and even now the same thing is happening. There are many Transylvanian refugees in Austria, Germany, not to mention Hungary.
It would be desirable to achieve democracy in Romania so that people will not flee their homeland.
SUSANNE L. TERNOVSKY
Santa Monica
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