The History of Czech Fascism: A Reappraisal

Hoaxes and Fake News of the Neo-Fascists in Slovakia: Communication Strategies, Reflections, Impact on Internal and Security Politics

“…In 1995, the Slovak Ministry of Interior registered Slovak Togetherness (Slovenská pospolitosť), originally a nationalistic civic association which came into public's consciousness a decade later as the most notable and visible neo-fascist organization with a neo-Nazi background, transformed in 2005 into a political party (dissolved by the Supreme Court a year later). As proved by many authors (e.g., Budajová, 2018;Drábik, 2019;Vasiľková and Androvičová, 2019), this 'founding mother' of Slovak political neo-fascists is ideologically and personally linked to as of 2020 active parliamentary movement People's Party Our Slovakia (Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko), 5 considered neo-fascist by academic and security experts. Prominent representatives (e.g., Marian Kotleba, Rastislav Schlosár) have been the leading figures of Slovak Togetherness during its most radical era; the others, including MPs, candidates and local party authorities (Milan Mazurek, Stanislav Mizík, Andrej Medvecký, Michal Buchta, Rastislav Rogel, Marián Mišún, Rastislav Jakubík, etc.…”