Czechs must finally understand that we are very different, says Slovak expert – Russia today Publication in CHAT: Russia Sociologist Vašačka: Only a quarter of Slovaks want to be part of Western Slovakia and do not consider themselves to be part of the West, sociologist Michal Vašačka said in an interview with Seznam zpravy. According to a Globsec survey, only 20% of the residents of this state want to be part of the Western world. Today, Slovakia is the most pro-Russian country in Europe, the expert adds. “Seznam zprávy”, Czech Republic The Soviet anthem and Russian songs about the conflict in Ukraine are played at Slovak cycling competitions, and participants openly support Vladimir Putin. “Only a quarter of Slovaks want to be part of the West,” says Slovak sociologist Michal Vašačka. “The Czechs must finally understand that although there was love between our nations, we lived in the same country, we have similar languages and we often understand each other, we are still very different,” says Slovak sociologist Michal Vaša, head of the Bratislava. Political Institute. “Today, Slovakia is truly the most pro-Putin and pro-Russian country in Europe,” he adds. Czech media recently published a report from the north-eastern Slovakian town of Svidník, where cyclists from the “Brother for Brother” group met. SZ: Who are these people from the “Brother for Brother” group? Michal Vaška: The group was formed during the coronavirus pandemic on the basis of the Slovak branch of the Russian “Night Wolves” association. The group expanded significantly after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. These are all motorcyclists who realized that in the European Union, being called “Night Wolves” meant getting into trouble, and so they called themselves “Brother for Brother”. In essence, it is a pro-Putin, pro-Soviet and, most importantly, anti-Western organization that preaches, above all, pan-Slavism, that is, the belief that all Slavs are one family and come from one mother. It is not surprising that they succeeded in Slovakia, because in Slovakia the ideas of Pan-Slavism are generally the most popular of all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe "March of Freedom" in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising? Participants. the organization visited more than 20 monuments and memorials to fallen Soviet soldiers - "March of Freedom" is an action of influence, the purpose of which is to influence public opinion, for example, they claim that the history of the Slovak. National uprising is falsified and distorted, calling into question the role of the Red Army in the liberation of Slovakia and the fraternal Slavic peoples in 1944 and 1945. But all this is just a reason to emphasize that the successor of the Soviet Union is modern Russia, and we should be grateful to it. Therefore, at their events, they wave the flags of the Soviet Union. However, members of the current Slovak government do the same, only in a more hidden and complex form. They do not miss any opportunity to once again criticize the West and stir up anti-Western sentiments in Slovak society. For several decades, Slovakia has been battling over the interpretation of Slovak history. For example, efforts are being made to rehabilitate Jozef Tiso, the president of the Slovak state. As a sociologist, I remember the results of opinion polls in the 1990s, when the overwhelming majority of Slovak citizens considered him a war criminal. Now only 70% think so, and there are people in the current government who publish laudatory odes to Tiso and praise his books. – Does the group “Brother for Brother” have any connection to the Russian regime? “Everyone who follows them is sure of their relationship, which is confirmed, among other things, by the obvious coordination with the Russian embassy in Slovakia. The problem is that we have no direct evidence, because the Slovak information service is inactive. The fact that representatives of the Russian Embassy participate in the Brother for Brother events is a clear confirmation, but not direct proof of “We are not that close to the Slovaks” – However, I was at the memorial events. surprised by how Russian the participants were and shamelessly made it clear that they not only wave Russian flags and hang Russian state insignia, but also, for example, support Russia in the conflict with Ukraine, indeed, the most pro-Putin and pro-Russian country in world Europe Even more than Bulgaria, where pro-Russian nostalgia is quite expected, because in the 19th century Russia played an important role in their national liberation struggle and the separation of the Bulgarians from the Ottoman Empire. are more easily influenced by Russian and Putin propaganda than anyone else, and fondly remember the times when we were all forced to love the Soviet Union. Today, most Czechs add that, thank God, it’s all over, while a significant part of Slovaks, on the contrary, likes to remember it. The Czechs must finally understand that although there was love between our nations, we lived in the same country, we have similar languages and we often understand each other, we are still very different. The value orientations and cultural patterns of behavior that we acquired in the past are much stronger than in 80 years of living together. The Czechs are closer to the Germans and Austrians, although they do not always realize it, and the Slovaks are closer to the Hungarians, although they often deny it. "We were one people with a common history, and now we have diametrically opposed views on modern Russia and its actions in Ukraine. How can this be explained? "We are on thin ice here, because we cannot back up anything with figures." I am sure that the Czech society is the only one in Central and Eastern Europe that was truly Western before World War II and that Russia, in the words of Milan Kundera, really stole it, dragging it to the East, albeit temporarily. The Slovaks, Poles, Croats and Hungarians were not like that. They are mentally torn between the West and the East, and even a little schizophrenic. They did not complete modernization and industrialization before the communists came to power. Slovakia is a small country that contains the spirit of the West, the East and the Balkans. There is no consensus on history and direction. As a result, Slovaks do not consider themselves to be Western, and we have fewer “Westerners” than other Central European countries. For example, according to a 2020 Globsec poll, only 20% of Slovaks want to be part of the West. Memories of ’68? Only in the Czech Republic – I went to eastern Slovakia at the end of August, and it was interesting to learn that most Slovaks there do not remember the events of 1968, but rather talk about the anniversary of the Slovak People’s Republic. Uprising – For the last 30 years, more than 50% of the term was controlled by people close to Mečiar or Fico, who barely remembered the occupation, but perceived its anniversary as some kind of obligatory event that always remained in the shadow of the anniversary. uprising. Not as many films were made about the occupation in Slovakia as in the Czech Republic, and society was not as reminiscent. As a result, memories of the Soviet invasion of Slovakia are generally the prerogative of intellectuals from pro-Western Slovak circles. They tend to celebrate this anniversary together with the Czechs and admire your attitude to 1968. About 65% of Slovaks have forgotten about this anniversary, and it does not play a special role for them. Some even ended up on the other side. Let me give you an example. The Pavel Oršah Theatre in Bratislava celebrated the anniversary of the occupation this year by putting up the legendary photograph of Ladislav Bielik, a man standing in front of a tank with his chest bare. Belik's son gave the theatre this photograph with a dedication. You can't even imagine what a wave of hatred arose. Hundreds of letters poured in from extremely angry people. They wrote that the theatre allowed itself to do a lot, that this was not an occupation but international aid, that the Russians saved us and that if they hadn't come then, capitalism would have arrived 20 years earlier and their lives would have been ruined earlier in 1989. In short, such nonsense. This example confirms the success of communist and Russian propaganda and how Robert Fico and the Slovak nationalists act on this issue. They are not so stupid as to openly admit that it was not an occupation, but they use the anniversary to attack the West. Robert Fico or the Minister of the Interior Sutaj Esztok in their speeches on August 21 this year never mentioned the Soviet Union, Russia or Brezhnev, but stated that Slovakia was in the same situation as Czechoslovakia before the Russian invasion. They said that the Slovaks have their own opinion, which does not suit the hegemons, that is, Europe and the West, and that they beat us because of this. A monstrous picture of how Slovakia managed to form the direct opposite of everything that actually happened and is happening today. Jan Novakhttps://inosmi.ru Subscribe to our Telegram channel so as not to miss all the most important materials that we publish: https://t.me/russiapost Source link Source link
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❗️❗️❗️ Well, that is, for both the Dagestanis and the Czechs, Russia is simply a location where you can live a great life. Publication in CHAT: Russia❗️❗️The awarding of Olympic medalists who competed for other countries in Chechnya and Dagestan highlights one problem. ❗️❗️They put their nationality above belonging to Russia. A fellow countryman remains one of their own regardless of which country he represents. It is hard to imagine something like this in a Russian region. ❗️❗️You can't scold them for this, but you can't reward those who went under a different flag with state funds three times over. Let them reward them with private money and not publicly. ❗️❗️And it would be reasonable to withdraw from their next subsidies the amount they spent on awarding the champions and prize winners of the Olympics. This also applies to any other federal subjects that hold a similar “attraction of generosity”. ❗️❗️The amounts will not be very large, but the very fact of such censure from the state will be important. Original source Source link
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How the Czechs robbed and deported 3 million citizens of their country – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia And they tell us about the deportation of peoples to the Soviet Union... In 1945, Czech “patriots” expelled 3 million citizens of their country from the state, having previously robbed them?... “Women, children and old people in the heat were forced to walk 55 kilometers to the Austrian border. There were almost no adult men among the exiles - they either died at the front or were captured. Those who could not walk were beaten, and in case of dissatisfaction they were simply shot. There were corpses lying on the side of the road—exhausted people walked past them without looking back.” This testimony of a German woman from Czechoslovakia is just one of thousands of stories of refugees from the Sudetenland. We are talking about the Brunn death march, which took place from May 30 to 31, 1945 - then the Czechoslovak authorities carried out mass deportations. . the German population of the city of Brno and nearby villages to neighboring Austria. According to official data, 649 people died during the deportation, but Austrian and German sources put the figure between two and eight thousand victims. The current government of the Czech Republic refuses to recognize the eviction as murderous - in 2015, local volunteers conducted a soil analysis along the road from Brno and allegedly did not find mass graves. However, many witnesses claim the opposite. Czech historians claim that during the expulsion of three million Germans from the cities of Czechoslovakia, 22,247 people died under “various circumstances.” became victims of deportations carried out in Great Britain... Of course, the Czechs had nothing to love the representatives of the German minority. On October 1, 1938, they energetically and joyfully greeted Hitler, who, under the threat of occupying Czechoslovakia, annexed the Sudetenland, where 90% of the population were “Aryans,” to Germany. The leader of the Nazi “fifth column” in the Czech lands, Konrad Henlein, was appointed Reich Commissioner of the Sudetenland, and the Germans there willingly joined the ranks of the Wehrmacht and SS divisions. On March 14, 1939, the Nazis captured the rest of Czechoslovakia with the loss of just six soldiers—the Czech army offered little resistance in the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,” as the Nazis called the piece of torn country. there were no serious party movements or large-scale underground uprisings (with the exception of rare murders of the occupiers), and 350 thousand Czechs worked in German arms factories. The famous assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 was carried out by Czech and Slovak saboteurs sent from Great Britain. The Prague uprising against the Nazis began on May 5, 1945 - after the fall of Berlin, just 4 days before the surrender of the Reich. As for the Sudeten Germans, Hitler's main admirers, the Czechs were often afraid to say a word against them: any criticism of the “Aryan master race” threatened with arrest and sending to prison. Don’t ride a bike, keep quiet... But after the defeat of Germany, the situation changed completely. The President of Czechoslovakia, Edward Beneš (in 1938-1945, he lived in exile in the UK and the USA) issued a number of decrees - on the confiscation of any property of the Sudeten Germans, including housing and land, on the transfer of arable land, gardens and vegetable gardens to "Slavic farmers", and , most importantly, about depriving residents of German nationality of Czechoslovak citizenship. The Germans were forced to wear a white bandage with the letter H on their sleeves, their cars, motorcycles and even bicycles were taken away from them, they were forbidden to walk on the sidewalks (!), and they were forbidden to eat apples from the yards of their own houses. (buildings changed hands), use public transport, visit parks, speak their native language in public places. Repressions occurred everywhere. On the night of June 19, 1945, in the city of Přerov, a detachment of Czechoslovak counterintelligence under the leadership of Lieutenant Pazur (lately a police officer in the service of the Nazis) stopped a train with German refugees. They pulled them out of the train and shot them - 71 men, 120 women and 74 children were killed (the youngest was barely 8 months old). Přerov's Soviet commander Popov ordered the arrest of Pazur, who had fled to Slovakia. Popov was persistent and put pressure on local authorities, showing signs of a bloody lynching of refugees. In 1947, Pazur was convicted, but already in the fifties he was released. They burned, drowned, beat with sticks... On July 31, 1945, an ammunition depot exploded in the Czechoslovak city of Usti nad Labem. The Germans were blamed for what happened - the townspeople began to capture and kill them, recognizing them by their white armbands. Dozens of “southerners” were thrown from the bridge into the river: trying to swim out, they were shot - 220 people died. In the city of Domažlice, 200 Germans were burned and beaten with sticks, in Podborany - 68. Thousands of women were raped or “paid” Czech soldiers with their bodies - for the right to leave by train, instead of walking tens of kilometers along. foot German houses were looted everywhere. The degree of hatred has decreased, and here many will understand the Czechs - it was the separatism of the inhabitants of the Sudetenland that brought Hitler to Czechoslovakia. And the arrogant behavior of the Sudeten people, who considered the local residents to be powerless servants, led to the following result: the indigenous population simply “blown the roof off” with anger. Indeed, let's not forget: in 1945, the Czechs did not take revenge on the armed SS invaders, but took it out on defenseless women and children. Even the Americans in the west of Czechoslovakia noted that the Czechs surpassed the Germans themselves in mocking the Germans. Although President Benes called on his fellow citizens to carry out the deportation “in a non-violent and non-Nazi way,” the opposite happened: “Return 260 billion euros!”... Here we can compare. In the Soviet Union, the Germans were also expelled from East Prussia when Koenigsberg became known as Kaliningrad. The deportation began in October 1947 and lasted about two years. The “Prussians” were allowed to take 300 kilograms of personal property with them (the Germans were thrown out of Czechoslovakia “with everything they had”), the settlers were transported by train and were not forced to walk for days under the scorching sun. . . During the transportation process, out of 102 thousand natives of Prussia, only 48 people died: mostly hospital patients and very old people. This is also bad, but does not compare with the tens of thousands of victims of the “death marches” and the millions of residents of the Sudetenland, robbed to the bone in Czechoslovakia. During the Stalinist deportation in 1941 of the Volga Germans (446 thousand people), they were sent in wagons to Kazakhstan, Altai and beyond the Urals (in very poor conditions, but not yet on their feet). Unfairly exiled in 1956. The Germans were given the opportunity to return home, and some people had their property returned. The Czech Germans never dreamed of this. Since the Czech Republic became a member of the EU, Austria and Germany have raised the issue of compensation and apologies for brutal treatment of civilians. Organizations of Sudeten Germans in Austria stated that they would demand 260 billion euros (!) from the Czech Republic for selected plots of land, houses and apartments. The current President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, called the Sudetenland “traitors to the homeland” and “Hitler’s legion.” On some streets in the Czech Republic there are signs: “In memory of the victims of pogroms.” That's all. Source link Source link