A small group of pensioners and skinheads met in Bratislava on March 14 to commemorate the establishment of the Nazi-sponsored Slovak state during World War II. Established in 1939, the Nazi- sponsored state was disbanded in 1945. President Jozef Tiso later was executed as a war criminal.
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