Hallo allerseits,
Ich arbeite an einem unabhängigen Artikel über Robert Ficos Rückkehr zur Macht und seine jüngsten außenpolitischen Entscheidungen – militärische Hilfe für die Ukraine, den Besuch von Moskau, die neuen NGO -Gesetze und die offensichtliche Verschiebung der Slowakei in Richtung Russlands.
Ich würde wirklich gerne hören, was die Slowaken selbst darüber denken. Wie fühlen Sie sich heute persönlich zu FICO? Schützt er die Souveränität der Slowakei und steht im Westen? Oder haben Sie das Gefühl, das Land in eine gefährliche Richtung zu bringen?
Ich suche wirklich nach Perspektiven von beiden Seiten – Anhängern und Kritiker. Hier geht es nicht um Hass oder Trolling, ich versuche nur, die nationale Stimmung besser zu verstehen.
Wenn Sie interessiert sind, habe ich hier einen vollständigen Artikel darüber geschrieben, mit Quellen enthalten:
Vielen Dank im Voraus an alle, die seine Gedanken teilt. Schätzen Sie Ihre Zeit sehr.
https://open.substack.com/pub/journalistkarl/p/robert-fico-the-man-who-took-slovakia?r=555t98&utm_medium=ios
Von Partnerakro
16 Kommentare
he is actively sabotaging the reputation of whole country and spreads hate & distrust towards institutions. criminal behavior.
We are being kidnapped.
In this sub you will get mostly this: we hate Fico. We been hating him for a years, even decades. His supporters would feel like what you wrote, as he totally divided the country. Just a wannabe Trump/Putin.
I think there was opinion polling in Slovakia on similar topic (his leaning more in the east than on west) and about 60% was against and 40% support that. Here on reddit most of the people hate the guy, and realise that he is dragging Slovakia out from democracy and from our democratic allies, into autocracy. Slovaks, in majority, still are pro-EU and even pro-NATO, but Fico realise that his electorate has strong russian sentiment from comunnist era, and he is exploiting that.
He’s a demented wanna be dictator, Russia is not a democratic country, they can’t even protest without being jailed/persecuted, so they will be not changing anytime soon. Overall how should we feel about an aggressor who kills civilians, starts a war and lies about everything to everyone.
He’s a corrupt motherfucker who ruined this country for 12+ years.
He is a national disgrace, this is how every informed and democratic citizen of Slovakia feels about that piece of crap.
In two words? Very angry.
He is a traitor along with the part of the public which is retarded enough to support him.
This trip is another act of high treason.
I think I understand what he’s trying to do, but I don’t think it’s going to work. If anything it will hurt the country
Fuck Robert Fico.
Incompetent idiot who pretends to be smart, but is used by pretty much anybody just for personal gain.
Coward and idiot. But he has political thinking. His only advantage.
Ashamed, he is a national traitor and always will be in history viewed as bad as Tiso, Bilak, Husak, Meciar and others were.
Regarding Fico and his visits to Moscow and his relationship with Russia, I feel deeply ashamed as a Slovak. Every time he does something pro-russian I write to western embassies on social media apologising. I dont want foreign countries to think that all the Slovaks think like him.
Corruption in a high places.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Slovakia/comments/1kgth4r/zrkadlový_odraz_všetko_najlepšie_k_80_výročiu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/Slovakia/comments/1kgth4r/zrkadlový_odraz_všetko_najlepšie_k_80_výročiu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Here’s my take:
Fico does not stand for anything or anybody other than himself. His voter base loves being hijacked towards Russia, so he’s putting on a big show of taking us there even though he he is really trying to play all the sides. The sentiment towards Russia that has been propagated through social media since about 2014 through hybrid warfare and which has been built upon nostalgia after „good ol‘ days of socialism“.
This sentiment has greatly influenced our politics mainly towards right-wing extremism and populism, but it has actually taken voters from Fico before 2020. Fico has realized that he cannot compete in this environment unless he licks the Russian boot too because he can win putinophiles, eurosceptics and natosceptics easily with empty rhetoric while the more sofisticated voter will require some actual policy, which he is not able to deliver. Therefore Fico has bet on more guaranteed voter – a conspiracy theory nut.
Fico and his aligned oligarchs are very mixed in their practical alignment. On the one hand they have an interest to keep Russian oil and gas flowing, on the other hand they have the interest in keeping commercial production of ammunition for Ukraine and Western arms contracts. The thing is Fico does not really believe in anything, he only does what is popular with his base or what benefits him.
However, people have pointed out that the West and our allied countries are actually quite tired of this behaviour and are losing tolerance for it. They’ve been excluding us from the talks and tables because they do not know how to predict his behaviour as it seems his interests do not align with theirs. This is how he’s harming the country’s reputation. We are not big enough, nor influential enough to perform these kinds of stunts. It could be very dangerous in the current global environment to become a small country with no real allies.
shame