This became very clear to me after the pandemic, visiting Slovakia. Before the pandemic, I heard some weird things from older Slovaks, such as EU has decided t

This became very clear to me after the pandemic, visiting Slovakia. Before the pandemic, I heard some weird things from older Slovaks, such as EU has decided that kids must name their parents "parent1" and "parent2", and if they don't they will take your kids away. Absolutely bonkers. Then during the pandemic, all the typical anti-vax rhetoric really took hold there, like crazy. Then after the pandemic, all those anti-vaxers all of a sudden got pro-Russia. Which makes no sense when you think about that, because both have nothing to do with each other. At that point, I realised Russia was doing their campaigns way before covid already, but it got an extra boost thanks to it. And now Slovaks elected prime minister Fico attended the Russian military parade. The ironic part is that these anti-vaxers like to call the rest of us "sheep", but in the end they are the sheep that are lead straight to the slaughter house.