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Slovak president warns against extremism

Xinhua, May 8, 2017 Adjust font size:

Slovak President Andrej Kiska commemorated the 72nd anniversary of the end of WWII in the eastern Slovakia in a speech against extremism on Monday.

"We shouldn't be overlooking this evil, showing indifference to it. We must intervene with all lawful means available," said Kiska at the Liberation Memorial in Kalinov, the first village liberated on Slovak territory in 1945.

"This evil, unfortunately, has survived in the heads of those who've again made the contempt for human dignity and incitement to hatred against people of different colors of skin and different religions their political program," Kiska said.

At the event, Kiska bestowed state awards to two Russian and two Ukrainian war veterans who took part in the liberation of Slovakia in WWII. One of them, Nikolai Alexandrovich Melnikov, received the award in person. Endit