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Slovakian Prime Minister Challenges EU's Dictate Not To Celebrate Defeat of Nazis

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico called out the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, for her threat to retaliate against any EU member, or even prospective EU member nation, that should dare to find common cause with Russia in their celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany’s regime. It should be recalled that Fico survived an assassination attempt last year May 15 by an inflamed Russophobe. Fico wrote on his X account:

“WARNING AND THREAT BY MS. KALLAS ARE DISRESPECTFUL AND I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THEM.

“The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, is warning EU leaders against participating in the May celebrations of Victory Day in Moscow. She claims that such participation will not be taken lightly.

“I will go to Moscow on May 9th. Is Ms. Kallas’s warning a form of blackmail or a signal that I will be punished upon my return from Moscow? I don’t know. But I do know that the year is 2025, not 1939. Ms. Kallas’s warning confirms that we need a discussion within the EU about the essence of democracy. About what happened in Romania and France in connection with presidential elections, about the ‘Maidans’ organized by the West in Georgia and Serbia, and how the abuse of criminal law against the opposition in Slovakia has been ignored.

“Ms. Kallas, I would like to inform you that I am the legitimate Prime Minister of Slovakia—a sovereign country. No one can dictate to me where I can or cannot travel. I will go to Moscow to pay tribute to the thousands of Red Army soldiers who died liberating Slovakia, as well as to the millions of other victims of Nazi terror. Just as I have paid tribute to the victims of the Normandy landings, or those in the Pacific, or as I plan to honor the RAF pilots. And let me remind you that I am one of the few in the EU who consistently speaks about the need for peace in Ukraine and does not support the continuation of this senseless war.

“Ms. Kallas’s words are disrespectful and I strongly object to them.”