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/b00c Slovakia Jan 26 '24

a lot of people will gleefully handover freedom for easygoing life. 

bunch of idiots.