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Slovak village votes to keep sign honouring fascist leader
Local council members in the Slovak village of Varin have rejected a request from state prosecutors to rename the country's sole street sign honouring Slovakia's wartime fascist leader, Monsignor Jozef Tiso.
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Tiso led the clero-fascist Slovak State, a client state of Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1945.
He was arrested in 1945 and hanged by the Czechoslovak authorities as a war criminal in 1947. He is venerated as a hero by the far right and some Catholic clerics.
Under his rule, some 70,000 of 90,000 Jews living in the territory of Slovakia - including all 25 of Varin's Jewish families - were deported and murdered in the Holocaust.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62240407
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Tiso led the clero-fascist Slovak State, a client state of Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1945.
He was arrested in 1945 and hanged by the Czechoslovak authorities as a war criminal in 1947. He is venerated as a hero by the far right and some Catholic clerics.
Under his rule, some 70,000 of 90,000 Jews living in the territory of Slovakia - including all 25 of Varin's Jewish families - were deported and murdered in the Holocaust.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62240407
Wow. The article doesn't say when the street name was first used - could have been during the war, but you'd have expected it to be dropped when he was executed as a war criminal. If not, then when did they first think it was a good idea?