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Security Is First, Democratic Freedoms Are Back, and the Enlargement Is for Real – QUICK TAKE
17 April 2024
As in some other Central and Eastern European countries, the Slovak society understood overnight that it lives in a state that has been seized and transformed into Mafia state. And it is not only about the accusations of collusion between the obscure Italians from ‘ndrangheta and the highest government officials.
The people in Slovakia understood with anger and shock that the corrupt political elite created a system that is not a simple kleptocracy, but a sophisticated scheme of how to dominate the landscape and get rid of the illusion that it can be changed.
In Slovakia, many do not want to admit it today, but all that started at the beginning of the transformation in the early 1990s.
Thomas Masaryk’s idea that states are reproducing by ideas on which they were founded is very popular these days in Slovakia.
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