As was the case 25 years ago, Slovaks continue to view the so-called third way, or a kind of middle ground between socialism and capitalism, as the best social arrangement, say findings of a study on the attitudes of Slovaks towards politics, public engagement and 17th November, 1989.
According to Miroslav Tizik, head of a team in charge of the study at the sociological institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the proportion of people who were proponents of the 'third way' was 51 percent. “We rejected state bureaucratic socialism in November 1989, and the ideal became the non-totalitarian model of a state such as Sweden or Austria that offered a combination of high standards of living and social certainties,” said Tizik.
Katarína Richterová
