Orginally posted this in the Viktor Orban thread in football, but it isn't the place.
Yesterday saw Bratislava's biggest demonstration since 1989, with an estimated 50,000 gathering in SNP Square to back the movement for a 'decent Slovakia', pay tribute to mudered journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova, and call for Robert Fico and his bunch of bandits to resign. Fico says these people, and the further 50,000+ who demonstrated all over the country at the same time, were being 'manipulated by (George) Soros and his allies'. Fico also said that to participate in such demonstrations is to 'put one's health at risk'. It is truly scary.
But Slovakia isn't letting this rest just yet, and hopefully that will continue to be the case. There's an open-air concert here in Zilina on Sunday eve, in which a few Czech/Slovak bands who were part of the pre-89 underground are going to take part. I'm looking forward to that, it could be an exciting night. Other comparisons between 89 and this are being tentatively made too. For example, the SME daily (definitely not to be confused with Smer, the name of Fico's party) published, in today's print edition, an elevated view of yesterday's demo alongside one of the November 89 demo, with the numbers looking very comparable.
Any thoughts on where this might be leading? I live here and I genuinely don't know.
Yesterday saw Bratislava's biggest demonstration since 1989, with an estimated 50,000 gathering in SNP Square to back the movement for a 'decent Slovakia', pay tribute to mudered journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova, and call for Robert Fico and his bunch of bandits to resign. Fico says these people, and the further 50,000+ who demonstrated all over the country at the same time, were being 'manipulated by (George) Soros and his allies'. Fico also said that to participate in such demonstrations is to 'put one's health at risk'. It is truly scary.
But Slovakia isn't letting this rest just yet, and hopefully that will continue to be the case. There's an open-air concert here in Zilina on Sunday eve, in which a few Czech/Slovak bands who were part of the pre-89 underground are going to take part. I'm looking forward to that, it could be an exciting night. Other comparisons between 89 and this are being tentatively made too. For example, the SME daily (definitely not to be confused with Smer, the name of Fico's party) published, in today's print edition, an elevated view of yesterday's demo alongside one of the November 89 demo, with the numbers looking very comparable.
Any thoughts on where this might be leading? I live here and I genuinely don't know.
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