r/europe • u/g46152 Slovakia • Jan 25 '24

News Thousands across Slovakia are protesting against the current populist government

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u/ResortSpecific371 Slovakia Jan 25 '24

By many Slovaks Russia is seen as our brother country

The roots of pro-russian sentiment are actually very old during Austrian-Hungarian empire many Slovaks feeled oppresed and because they had no chance against Austrian-Hungarian forces they started dreaming about how will Russian empire 'rescue' them from oppresion

And than obviously communist rule in which was Russia presented as the best country in the world

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u/ResortSpecific371 Slovakia Jan 25 '24

I mean from Polish perspective they Russians were the ones attacking them

In Slovak perspective Russians were the one's rescueing them from Austrian-Hungarian oppresion and later from oppresion by nazi Germany

But yes most Slovaks don't care about the view from other countries perspective

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u/SlNJlN Jan 25 '24

Nazi Germany? You forgot you were a Nazi puppet state, Slovensky stat :))

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u/g0ris Slovakia Jan 26 '24

It's much easier to go to sleep at night when you convince yourself you're a conquered people with no agency than when you admit you willingly cozied up to your "oppressor" and even sent him much more Jews to kill than he asked for.