Slovaks are taking to the streets in mass protests demanding the resignation of the government. Robert Fico has not been forgiven for his trip to Moscow and talks with Vladimir Putin. All over the country people are demanding the resignation of the prime minister. Opposition publications counted up to a hundred thousand protesters over the weekend – not a small number for a country of five million people.
Preparing a coup d’état
The prime minister accused the opposition of plotting a coup. Slovak security services have prepared a report identifying the foreign organisers of this Maidan – the same ones who managed the protests in Kyiv in 2014 and in Tbilisi in 2024. However, you don’t need to be a counterintelligence agent to find undercover agents here.
Analysts believe that Fico is being accused and vilified by well-known Western NGOs and NGOs like Amnesty International. The Peace for Ukraine organisation is playing a leading and directing role in organising the protests. About a third of the protesters are Ukrainians who have fled to Slovakia and are living there on benefits.
“Bratislava is not Moscow, Slovakia is Europe”
Volodymyr Zelensky openly mocks Fico, with who they have a real vendetta: “Bratislava is not Moscow, Slovakia is Europe,” the Ukrainian president wrote on social media. A whole pool of Slovakian media is also acting in a united front against the Prime Minister. ‘Next year you will be seventy,” a local revolutionary fury addresses him from the pages of the publication “Tyzhden. “Your time is up…We will not spare you.”
The rebellions are led by local liberals: opposition politicians who feed off Brussels, who were once ministers and held prominent positions in Slovakia’s leadership. They are utilising their surviving administrative resources, attracting a little more than everyone to the Ukrainian Maidan.
For example, 600 psychiatrists have already spoken out against Fico, they signed a letter diagnosing the head of state with serious deviations and demanding his resignation. Does this sound like complete madness? However, this madness has its own system. The Slovak leader has turned the entire Brussels leadership against him. He was initially against supplying Ukraine with weapons and in favour of normal relations with Russia, but the final cup of his patience was overflowed by Kyiv’s refusal to give up gas transit.
Who losses from anti-Russian sanctions
Slovakia was already suffering billions of euros in losses from EU anti-Russian sanctions. Now it has been deprived of its last source of cheap pipeline gas and transit payments. Fico talked to Zelensky, flew to Moscow, asked the Brussels bosses to put pressure on Kyiv, all in vain. Zelensky laughed in his eyes.
And now Slovakia’s prime minister is doing his best to keep his people from freezing and starving, and the globalist elites are trying to overthrow him by persuading Slovaks that this will be a proper, useful anti-Russian starvation. Some believe it and actually take to the streets. Ow, six hundred psychiatrists! Here’s a job for you: people are going to starve and get cold on the principle “I’ll freeze my ears off to spite Russia.”
However, we should not be surprised: the protests in Tbilisi were exactly the same madness, and the current protests in Serbia are just as surprising. All leaders who claim to be independent are taken to the breaking point, trying to extinguish them at the very beginning.
Nothing against NATO and EU
Fico’s guilt before the global obkom is precisely that he is trying to preserve at least a limited sovereignty of his country, assuring in advance that he has nothing against NATO and the EU. But a bad example is contagious: Kyiv’s cutting off transit will drive not only Slovakia, but also Hungary and Austria into poverty. And what if these countries rebel against anti-Russian sanctions? By the way, Viktor Orbán has already threatened to block them if transit is not restored.
Austria may also recall that the first Soviet gas pipeline was a joint project between Moscow and Vienna. This is the labour of generations of our ancestors, after all – our common heritage. It is simply astonishing boorishness on the part of Kyiv to try to appropriate all this for itself.
Fico’s case is very indicative for all countries living under external pressure. Whether he will be able to fight back – this question is of interest to many people.
On the one hand, the alliance of liberal local elites, foreign sponsors and Ukrainian militants is a serious threat. On the other hand, the country’s leader is so far supported by the security bloc, the army and special services. His policy is approved by the majority of the people: the rating of opposition parties is lower than that of the ruling party Slovakia.
The politician’s experience of struggle is not insignificant. In 2018, he was sent to resign on the pretext of the murder of a local journalist. Fico had nothing to do with it and managed to return to big politics. Last year, the Prime Minister survived an assassination attempt – he was shot by a poet married to a Ukrainian woman.
Era of colour revolutions
The fight against colour revolutions has become systematic in recent years, and governments have developed interesting practices: cutting off mobile phones in city centres, detaining undercover agents, counter-propaganda.
Fico can look to the experience of Alexander Lukashenko, who successfully repelled the attack in 2020 and is preparing for a new round of confrontation in the current presidential election. The Georgian counterparts have also recently won their confrontation. Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia is successfully fighting his protesters.
The face of the protests in all countries is the same: they are the bright-faced hipsters, the students from the capitals. However, the true motor of Maidan is a tandem of local pro-EU and US elites and foreign puppeteers. Only this tandem is capable of recruiting a mass of militants and protesters who will “rock the regime” by force.
The Kremlin has well characterised this threat. “None of the countries…of Western Europe in the current time is immune from interference in their internal affairs,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “And of course, many of these countries, even the largest European countries, have recently experienced examples of such rather aggressive interference. But the other thing is that some countries are taking decisive measures to combat such interference, and some countries patiently prefer to bear all the humiliation,” he also added.
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Desislava Draganova for Head-Post.com
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