PS leader Michal Šimečka during the September 30 election night. (source: TASR - Jaroslav Novák)
Czech film director Jan Hřebejk wrote a few hours after the Slovak election that "in Slovakia, the opinion that the Slovak president is an American **** and that good never comes from the West, but from the East" won.
His remark is part of the rebukingly condescending style of some Czech public opinion, which is convinced that Slovakia has always been and will always be a lost border country, the periphery of the periphery, where only Russian propaganda and populism thrive.
Uhrík, the biggest anti-fascist fighter
However, the results of the September 30 election actually show something quite different, and if anyone is aware, it is precisely Smer. During the campaign, this political party traditionally bet on mobilising the most disgusting human qualities and political decadence in the form of vindictiveness and primitive Russophilism when Vladimir Putin can travel just to Sochi.
The draining of the people's family sap from the neo-Nazi parties in cooperation with far-right Republika leader Milan Uhrík led to the liquidation and partial control of the remaining neo-Nazi voter base. For his unquestionable contribution to the destruction of two neo-Nazi parties, Uhrík certainly deserved membership in the Slovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters.
In addition to these anecdotal and episodic events, something quite different actually took place in Slovak society, an event that will shape the country's political imagination for the next few years and influence the modernisation of our mentalities.
