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26 March 2024
Ever since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Slovakia has been busy fighting corruption. Although the country has made impressive progress, corruption is still seen as a big problem.
Despite all the effort which has been made over past three decades, corruption stubbornly persists.
The murder of Jan Kuciak is a tell-tale sign that something is not quite right. Why? In the search of answers, we need to plunge into the shadows of this hard-tried nation. Its turbulent past caused some deep – but invisible – wounds that have not healed yet and that manifest on the surface as corruption. At the root of it all is a chronically bad reputation of the state and dispirited population.
Slovakia did not have the luxury of growing into democracy. It was imported in the great rush of post-1989 liberalisation.