Slovakization

Slovakization or Slovakisation is a form of either forced or voluntary cultural assimilation and acculturation, during which non-Slovak nationals give up their culture and language in favor of the Slovak one. This process has relied most heavily on intimidation and harassment by state authorities.^[2][3][4][5] Another method of Slovakization was artificial resettlement.^[6] In the past the process has been greatly aided by deprivation of collective rights for minorities and ethnic cleansing, but in the last decades its promotion has been limited to the adoption of anti-minority policies and anti-minority hate speech.

The process itself is limited mostly to Slovakia, where Slovaks constitute the absolute majority by means of population and legislation power as well. Slovakization is most often used in relation to Hungarians,^[7] who constitute the most prominent minority of Slovakia, but it also affects Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Rusyns (Ruthenians),^[8] and Jews, and Romani.

Fico's governence often violates minority rights and is openly hungarophobic for its disrespect of the indigenous Hungarian minority, ^{[9][10][11][12][13]} and Fico himself in 1998 lobbied for the Party of Hungarian Coalition to not be let into the Slovakian parliament, ^[14] and stated that the Beneš decrees (promoted the violation of human rights and racial discrimination of Hungarian and German population) was unchangeable.^[15] By keeping the laws the Slovak government could make millions of euros in profit in a few years.^[16]