Raţiunea etnică în înfăptuirea Marii Uniri. Studiu de caz: alte realităţi istorice (cazul Boia şi „The world’ s today”)

In his published works, Eminescu states that “the Romanian people has a very acute sense of history due to their very rich cult of ancestors” – making the “need for the diachronic (historical) identity of the human being” clear, a fact which gives meaning to history itself. That is why an accurate interpretation on history is mandatory, revealing at least a partial truth, on the grounds of which some clarifying assessments can be made. The problem appears when the assessments themselves represent a threat to the historical facts, which may become distorted in the public’s perception, thus creating new tools for compromising a historical reality, jeopardizing even the possibility of explaining the birth-process of the Romanian nation. As a result, we have chosen to analyze a few of the assessments with the most driven conclusions, which are particularly aiming towards the historical reality concerning the primordial Romanian entity and the stages of its becoming, namely highlighting those that question the unity of the Romanian nation. Two cases appeared to be worth mentioning in the present situation: (1) the essay-like constant discourse of Lucian Boia regarding events of great historical significance, and (2) the tendency of enclavement of the Hungarian community presented by The World's Today as a factual state of interethnic relations in Transylvania.