That such should be the case is not surprising, though one might say, following Július Mésároš, that the situation of fear in which the Magyars lived was created by themselves:
The more that the Magyars pushed through their idea of a reformation of Hungary into a Magyar nation-state, thus increasing for themselves the resistance of the non-Magyar Nations against this politics of hegemony, the more the Spirit of Pan-Slavism waxed in Hungary, and consequently the struggle against the Plan-Slavic danger.38
With Austria out of the question, and the attempts at uniting the Austrian Slavs under the Habsburg crown proven to be pipe-dreams, Ľudovít Štúr plays his last and final card: the only hope for Slavic autonomy is in the annexation of all the ‘tribes’ of Slavdom under the sceptre of Russia
