Romania – On Sunday, October 22, as reported by several Transylvanian news portals, some 200 members of Romanian nationalist organisations commemorated the Day of Romanian Armed Forces at the military cemetery in Úzvölgye. Úzvölgy (Valea Uzului in Romanian) is located in the Harghita county of Romania, where speakers of Hungarian – belonging to the Hungarian sub-ethnicity known as Szeklers – are a clear majority in the local population.

The call to demonstrate, posted on social mediaby the nationalist organisations Calea Neamului (Path of the Nation) and Frăția Ortodoxă (Orthodox Brotherhood), was in response to what they said was „enormous pressure from Hungarian political organisations” on Romanian authorities to remove the 151 wooden crosses arbitrarily erected on 8 July to replace the 50 concrete ones removed at the end of June following a court order.
Those crosses were erected in that international military cemetery in order to commemorate fallen Romanian soldiers, bearing plaques with the words „Romanian hero” (Erouromân) and the colours of the Romanian flag.

A crowd of about 200 people, mostly dressed in Romanian folk costumes and waving Romanian flags, marched to the cemetery, also carryingan openly anti-Hungarian banner with the slogan „Hungarians, go back to Mongolia where you came from”, in incorrect Romanian spelling. An Orthodox ceremony was held and the names of Romanian heroes whose remains are believed to be buried in the cemetery in Úzvölgywere read out. The participants responded to the names by shouting „Present!”.

In his anti-European and anti-foreigner speech, the leader of the march, Mihai Târnoveanu, also spoke out against foreign guest workers, stressing that “Romania belongs to Romanians”. He also criticised the teaching of Jewish history and the Holocaust.

The international military cemetery of the depopulated settlement of Úzvölgye has been the site of a Romanian-Hungarian conflict for four years.
On Romanian Heroes’ Day 2019, thousands of Romanians forcibly forced their way into the cemetery to attend the Orthodox consecration of the Romanian plot and monument, which hundreds of Szeklers tried to peacefully prevent, to no avail.

In a summary published on 12 June 2019, the National Office for the Memory of Heroes (ONCE), which is subordinate to the Romanian Ministry of Defence, clarified that those Romanian soldiers were not buried in Úzvölgye.