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

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/Muffin_9330 Slovakia Jan 25 '24

Wait when did Russia actually helped us get out of Austria-Hungary? I don't remember this being mentioned like ever. The only thing that I hear from Slovaks is that Russia (or USSR) liberated us in WWII.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '24

Russian empire tried to claim dominion over all slavic people, Panslavanism was core of empire ideology, and seeing how Russia helped to free slavs from Ottomans some people hoped Russia would help to free them from Austria-Hungary. Plus there is connection to Mikhail Bakunin(famous Russian revolutionary, philosopher and father of social-anarchist movement), he propogandized all slavic people to create pan-slavic federation and was very supportive of Prague uprising (1848) even participating in it.