A BLOG ABOUT SLOVAKIA AND LIFE IN BRATISLAVA AND THE EU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YEfgueY172g#t=332s History of Bratislava - Pozsony - Presporok - Pressburg Bratislava City capital of Slovakia. Settled first by Celts and Romans. As Pressburg, it developed as a trade centre and became a free royal town in 1291. The first university in what was then Hungary was founded there in 1467. The city served as the Hungarian capital (1541 – 1784) and was the seat of the Diet (parliament) until 1848. The Treaty of Pressburg (1805) was signed here by Napoleon and Francis II following the Battle of Austerlitz. After World War I, on the formation of Czechoslovakia, it became capital of the province of Slovakia, and it became the national capital on Slovakia's independence in 1992. Bratislava is an important road and rail center and a leading Danubian port. A well-diversified industry produces textiles, chemicals, and metal goods; during the Communist period, heavy industry was focused on the production of armaments.
Decided to start a Blog about Bratislava, and the politics of the country because most of the blogs about Slovakia and Bratislava in english were either brief entries from travellers passing through Bratislava with no idea about the place and commented largely about beer and other "vital issues" like that, or the more serious ones usually run by moronic americans preaching their judaeo-christian hyper-religious extreme-pro-capitalist & oligopolistic anti-democratic religion coupled with their famed grasp of geography.
There are also some Brits that have a slightly better grasp of geography than their US cousins. However brits are largely trying to recreate colonial glories and their grasp of facts in Bratislava tends to be confused even at the BBC. Most of the experiences the brits have are from lager-lout type pissups in Bratislava and use that crap movie "Hostel" as their intellectual compass.
This blog aspires to discuss serious matters with humour and no-nonsense analysis. Its unapologetically intellectual and refuses to allow this term to be ascribed with a negative meaning the way that the word liberal has become negative in the US.
Clearly there is much love about this great city and country, but without pandering to any special interests or prejudices.
Comments are welcome and will never be deleted or blocked if they offer a contrarian view.
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Clearly this is a 'love' thing between you and Roger ..I suggest tonguies at dawn !...
ReplyDeleteRoger Heyes is an interesting bloke at times, gathers lots of useful info, but actually he has a major fault. He is rather naive and almost always fails when puting all the bits of the puzzle together, or when trying to add it all up ...2+2 does not always make FOUR in the polly world, even in Slovakia ..Plus the fact he can be emotionally unstable and prone to wobblies when put on the spot about his own personal sidewinder views ;-)))
Still, keep up the good work chaps ..I am sure someone, somewhere else, other than me, he and you are reading all this Blog.
man its bad and nasty world, why so much hate and nastyness?? I am a peaceloving person, its only Meciar and Slota that make me angry.
ReplyDeletePersonal remarks are kind of irrelefant (Groucho) so what can i say, i dont know Roger but i like how he used that piece about the young ones. Rik Mayall and Fico is there a relationship? I think we should be told.. and i always enjoy the miraculous conversions of "communists" to sharp suits and mercedes upon winning elections, Darling Bastard bullyboy is appropriate :)
Hi Macko - just discovered your blog after receiving your comment on mine. I shall watch your blog with interest also! Kind regards.
ReplyDeleteIt's handy when sites link to each other and a dialogue can begin and people can find new sources of information.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't care how many people read my site as long as they're people who're interested in the topic.
That may be naive and over-optimistic but we all need our illusions.