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Miami Herald: It was a dismal city under a communist regime. But Bratislava has found its wings
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia and once nearly a ghost town, is one of the big surprises of my recent travels. Its compact old town bursts with colorfully restored facades, lively outdoor cafés, and swanky boutiques. Its ramshackle industrial quarter, just east of the center, is rapidly being redeveloped into a forest of skyscrapers. The hilltop castle gleams from a recent facelift. And even the glum communist-era suburb of Petržalka, right across the Danube, has undergone a Technicolor makeover. It’s arguably the fastest-changing city in Europe.
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WNU Editor: I always viewed Slovakia as a backwater country in central Europe. Once stayed for a few days in Bratislava in the mid-1990s, and I was not impressed. After reading the above article yesterday I sent an email to two of my friends who live in the Czech Republic. Both responded this morning praising on how much the country has grown up in the past decade.
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They have sensible immigration laws and don't bow to the EU on it. It used to be a joke that the former bloc countries were leaking people into the west due to economic migration, and everyone was training their Polish replacement before being laid off. Nowadays it's people in the west who are trying to move to places like this to escape from the clown world our politics have become. It turns out that preserving your culture and long-held norms actually IS valuable, in spite of EU demands that everyone flood their countries with sub saharans and war refugees.
50 years from now it is possible that Eastern Europe will be the only part of the continent still recognizable as Europe.
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