The successor states which were created attempted to solve their minority problems through denationalization, ethnic cleansing, deportations, expulsions, transfers, dispersions and many other forms of uprooting. Hungarians had to choose between their nationality and their property.
捷克斯洛伐克、南斯拉夫及羅馬尼亞嘗以開除國籍、種族屠殺、驅逐出境、強迫遷徙與驅散，以及其他種種斬草除根的方式來解決其境內的少數民族問題，匈牙利人被迫在國籍及財產之間作抉擇。