Caputova: Anti-fascist tradition 'entered into Slovakia's birth certificate'

"All that is dear to us -- the right to life, freedom and the national and state existence -- was at stake during the Slovak National Uprising," President Zuzana Caputova said on Thursday at the central commemoration marking the 1944 SNP in WW2. The president thanked all those who 75 years ago had the courage to fight for the preservation of humanity, the rescue of European civilisation, their homeland and the free lives of its people. "I very much wish that we'll find enough courage and determination as they did to defend the values of democracy, the rule of law, freedom, justice and human dignity," she said. The president said Slovakia was a state with an anti-fascist tradition. "Thanks to the uprising, [this tradition] was entered into our national and state 'birth certificate'," she said. "Although we live in peace, there are still threats in the country that can't be ignored," the president added.