Hungarian daily claims 1968 invasion was “lost opportunity to annex part of Slovakia”

On the eve of the 55th anniversary of the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian pro-government newspaper Magyar Nemzet published an article describing the invasion as a wasted opportunity to annex part of southern Slovakia to Hungary. When Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, Hungarian soldiers controlled the territory of southern Slovakia, home to a large Hungarian minority. According to Magyar Nemzet, the term "occupation" is not appropriate because “Hungarian soldiers could not be occupiers on the territory of Felvidék” which was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and which Hungary lost in the 1920 Trianon agreement.