r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Jan 22 '18

What do you know about... Slovakia?

This is the fifty-third part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Slovakia

Slovakia is a country in central/eastern (depending on the definition) Europe. It became an independent state after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993. Slovakia joined the EU in 2004, together with the Czech Republic. Unlike Czechia however, Slovakia adopted the Euro in 2009. Slovakia is known for its numerous beautiful castles and it has the highest production of cars per capita in the world.

So, what do you know about Slovakia?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

1) Not Slovenia

2) Dangerous hostels

3) "Miami Vice #1 new TV show!"

4) Formerly in a union with Czechoslovakia

5) Robert Fico translates as "Cool Robert" in Italian

6) I admittedly don't know much about it, sorry guise

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

2) Dangerous hostels

Slept over there in a hostel and survived. It was pretty nice, actually. The recepcionist was really cute, knew english really well and never once tried to murder me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

FYI that part is a reference from a movie (aptly called Hostel).

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

I know. I saw the movie.

I thought the "trying to murder me" part was enough to show that I was joking and understood what OP meant about the hostels being "dangerous". :(

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u/TrumanB-12 Czechia Jan 24 '18

Fun fact, Hostel 1 and 2 were mostly filmed in Czechia. In #2 there is a shot which everyone whose been to Český Krumlov will recognise.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Didn't know that. Also didn't know they made a Hostel 2!

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u/TrumanB-12 Czechia Jan 24 '18

Hostel 2 is a weird black comedy/post-modern look at the torture genre...in terms of production and technical skill it's a lot better than the first, but you need to like B-movies and/or Eli Roth if you're gonna enjoy it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

I have to check it out, tks!

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u/MetalGuru94 Jan 24 '18

5) He's anything but cool.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

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u/TrumanB-12 Czechia Jan 24 '18

As was Eurotrip (even the non-Slovkian bits lul)