Long live Slovakia!
In 1992 the split of Czechoslovakia was becoming a reality after the federation's fragility took a direct blow following the victory of the party of the vocal Slovak nationalist Vladimir Mečiar in the ...
14. 11. 2014 | 15:40
Články / Society
Daily life in Communism
Everyone knows communism was a dark era in the history of Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia. Katarina Richterova talks to Marína Zavacká from the historical institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences about ...
13. 11. 2014 | 10:57
Fear Came with the First Sirens
26 years ago, thousands of people went out onto the streets of Bratislava, lit candles and gathered for a quiet prayer ... and the police charged against them with batons and water cannons ... this was ...
12. 11. 2014 | 13:00
Then some uninvited guests came and stayed for two decades
On the night of August 20, 1968 the armies from five Warsaw Pact countries crossed the border into the former Czechoslovakia. During the invasion, Soviet tanks occupied the streets. 72 Czechs and Slovaks ...
12. 11. 2014 | 12:08
“Electricity was in the air” in Bratislava in 1989
A folk legend, a peacenik and a fighter for social change, Joan Baez came to Bratislava in mid October and reignited many memories. In 1989, just before the Velvet revolution, during her performance in ...
12. 11. 2014 | 10:56
We promised to love each other
With the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in then Czechoslovakia, and the so called Velvet Revolution that peaked on November the 17th, 1989, we bring you a special ...
11. 11. 2014 | 14:27
Political Prisoners Calling for Justice
It is illegal in Slovakia to deny the crimes of the fascist or Nazi regime, or to claim there was no Holocaust that claimed the lives of millions of people. Now, denying the crimes of the communist regime ...
11. 11. 2014 | 13:03
Every day we survived was a victory
In mid-July 2013 Slovaks buried one of their last survivors of the Soviet Gulag-Jan Košut. Born in Central Slovakia in 1926, Košut was one of about 7,000 Slovaks who experienced first-hand the horrors ...
11. 11. 2014 | 13:02
First and Only Slovak Child Spy Talks
The Czechoslovak state security - the ŠTB, which operated during the time of communism, used following, wiretapping, pressure, and blackmailing as a common practice. Moreover, they recruited, trained and ...
11. 11. 2014 | 12:52
Love Is Blue
Speaking from an aesthetic point of view, using blue and white together is considered to be a very elegant colour combination. It is also very popular, all around the world. In Slovakia, when speaking ...
10. 11. 2014 | 14:33
