P. Gajdoš: A restored WW2 partisan bunker sited above the village of Malinová will remind our citizens that freedom is not for free
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Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš along with Parliamentary Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Security Anton Hrnko opened a WW2 partisan bunker sited above the village of Malinová. The bunker was restored just recently by local village residents and members of the Slovak Anti-Nazi Fighters Association in a self-help project.
On the lasting legacy of the struggle for freedom in WW2, SVK Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš said: “I highly welcome that there is a new bunker in the place where the original one used to be, because whoever passes by will be made to think about the events that occurred here. We must remember that freedom has never been and is never for free.” The Minister praised the initiative of all those who had participated in building the bunker, thereby preserving the site as a treasured memory of an important period of our history for future generations.
Parliamentary Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Security Anton Hrnko said: “Our national traditions include defending and struggling for our rights and freedoms. We must defend our country under any circumstances, because every piece of land has been sprinkled with the sweat and blood of our predecessors. With their sweat – because they have cultivated the land, and with their blood – because they have defended it.” He said this in reference to the need to preserve traditions and remind people of our history even in this way, i.e. restoring WW2 partisan bunkers.
Mária Luprichová, mayor of Malinová, praised the Slovak Anti-Nazi Fighters Association for restoring the bunker in tribute to all those who had fought for liberation in WW2.
After suppressing the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), the original bunker above the village of Malinová served as a shelter for the Ernest Thälmann Partisan Group. Most of the 70-member partisan group was made up of local residents from Malinová (then Cach) and thereabouts. 22 village residents died in the anti-Nazi operations. Still today, the Minister paid tribute to them at the SNP Fallen Heroes Memorial in the village.
On the lasting legacy of the struggle for freedom in WW2, SVK Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš said: “I highly welcome that there is a new bunker in the place where the original one used to be, because whoever passes by will be made to think about the events that occurred here. We must remember that freedom has never been and is never for free.” The Minister praised the initiative of all those who had participated in building the bunker, thereby preserving the site as a treasured memory of an important period of our history for future generations.
Parliamentary Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Security Anton Hrnko said: “Our national traditions include defending and struggling for our rights and freedoms. We must defend our country under any circumstances, because every piece of land has been sprinkled with the sweat and blood of our predecessors. With their sweat – because they have cultivated the land, and with their blood – because they have defended it.” He said this in reference to the need to preserve traditions and remind people of our history even in this way, i.e. restoring WW2 partisan bunkers.
Mária Luprichová, mayor of Malinová, praised the Slovak Anti-Nazi Fighters Association for restoring the bunker in tribute to all those who had fought for liberation in WW2.
After suppressing the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), the original bunker above the village of Malinová served as a shelter for the Ernest Thälmann Partisan Group. Most of the 70-member partisan group was made up of local residents from Malinová (then Cach) and thereabouts. 22 village residents died in the anti-Nazi operations. Still today, the Minister paid tribute to them at the SNP Fallen Heroes Memorial in the village.
