It was addressed to Prime Minister Robert Fico, a member of the government and coalition parties. The letter was signed by more than 780 employees of universities and scientific institutions. “We consider our moral as well as work obligation to strongly enclose against the fact that you are taking steps aimed at questioning the principles of democracy, One of the most serious manifestations is the deviation of our foreign policy orientation from the developed democratic world towards the undemocratic and totalitarian states, “ It is written in a letter published on the Internet.
The authors cannot silently see how they are purposefully questioned, ridiculed or even denied facts under the patronage of Fico. They also strongly objected to the verbal attacks of government officials addressed to students. They consider them a worrying reminder of the aggression of the collapsing communist regime in Czechoslovakia of November 1989.
The academic community is convinced that the largest asset of Slovakia is its talented and intelligent residents and our greatest economic potential is the educational economy. “Based on our expertise from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, we would like to warn you that the continuation of the rule of the current way will result in an inevitable decline in the state in the foreseeable future. You are gambling with the already strongly broken coherence of the population, which can result in damages of extensive or even tragic proportions, “said Fico and his cabinet.
