Slovakia
Ivan D., Bratislava: "One of the stupid dogmas of European civilizations is the politically correct but otherwise wrong idea that everybody wants to live in a democracy. What bullshit. I do not want to live in a democracy where the rules are made to temporarily (at election time) appeal to the average idiot, including me. I want to live in a society ruled by wise men who can craft rules that are more appropriate than what average idiots can think of."
Vienas kvailas dogmas Europos civilizacijos yra politiškai teisingi, bet kitaip neteisinga ideja, kad kiekvienas nori gyventi i demokratija. Kas bullshit. Aš nenoriu gyventi i demokratija, kai taisykles yra padaryta, kad butu laikinai (ne rinkimu metu) skunda vidurkis idiotas, iskaitant ir mane. Aš noriu gyventi visuomeneje valde išminciams, kurie gali amatu taisykles, kurios labiau tinka nei vidutiniškai idiotai gali sugalvoti.
From Wikipedia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia /slo?'v??ki?/
(help·info); Slovak: Slovensko (help·info), long form
Slovenská republika (help·info)) is a landlocked country in
Central Europe with a population of over five million and an
area of about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi).
Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west,
Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the
south. The largest city is its capital, Bratislava. The
second largest city is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of
the European Union, NATO, UN, OECD, WTO, UNESCO and other
international organizations.
The Slavs arrived in the territory of present day Slovakia in
the fifth and sixth centuries AD during the Migration Period.
In the course of history, various parts of today's Slovakia
belonged to Samo's Empire (the first known political unit of
Slavs), Great Moravia, Kingdom of Hungary, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire or Habsburg Empire, and
Czechoslovakia. An independent Slovak state briefly existed
during World War II, during which Slovakia was a dependency
of the Nazi Germany 1939–1944. From 1945 Slovakia once again
became a part of Czechoslovakia. The present-day Slovakia
became an independent state on January 1, 1993 after the
peaceful dissolution of its federation with the Czech
Republic.
Slovakia is a high-income advanced economy with one of the
fastest growth rates in the EU and OECD. The country joined
the European Union in 2004 and was the first Central European
state to join the Eurozone on January 1, 2009. As of 2010,
Slovakia together with Slovenia are the only former Communist
nations to be part of European Union, Eurozone, Schengen Area
and NATO simultaneously.
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Jan Garanoz
Juhu Tara Road, Juhu,
Mumbai - 400049 India
Last updated: June 25, 2010