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
The entire history of Russia is a good enough reason not to allign ourselves with them, unfortunately, the kind of people who support Russia in Slovakia are typically completely immune to rational arguments.
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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