Slovakia has beautiful countryside. It keeps me attached home

@Martina-Kosicanka

2 жыл бұрын

@Louise 22 y.o - check my vidéó Thanks 🙂 And do come! Nineties were weird, transition period in whole Eastern Europe, things are much better now, I presume (I was only a child back then). I imagine, Canada must have plenty of woods, almost untouched by humans. That is a blessing, such surroundings.

@ZemplinTemplar

2 жыл бұрын

The one criticism I'd have is when people, rather than decently reconstructing an older cottage or house in a village, tear that old structure down, and build a kitschy new house in its place. Often in a style that doesn't fit that area at all and looks artificial. I don't like that disrespectful approach to older village architecture, and its replacing with kitsch eyesores. Many older buildings in rural areas, unless they are completely unstable and dilapidated, can actually be very easily refurbished and modernised, rather than starting some overblown house from scratch. Thankfully, I do think some people are a little more sensitive about this these days, but you still see rural places where nice-looking houses were replaced with kitsch pseudo-villas by people rich in money, but poor in sense.

Next time you should definitely visit Orava castle, Bojnice castle, Trenčin castle, cities Trnava, Nitra, Trenčin and the capital of Slovakia: Bratislava, which is the only capital that has border with 2 another countries (Hungary, Austria). Also Banska Štiavnica is worth to visit.

Slovakia is a wonderful country. The nature with mountains everywhere and small, medieval towns like Levoča and Bardejov are glorious. Plus the castles, wooden churches (tserkvas), cuisine, friendly people. I live in Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany now, gonna go back to Kraków in a few months, so Slovakia will be a short trip away, can't wait!

Thanks That was a nice review of eastern Slovakia. I a Canadian who lived and taught English in Kosice and Poprad from 1992 - 1997. Some day maybe I will get back for a visit.

@Martina-Kosicanka

2 жыл бұрын

You probably wouldn't recognize it. The street, where my parents live (next to the campus of the Technical university), has changed very much since my childhood in the nineties. I hope, at least (that you wouldn't recognize it 😊)

@gypsymanme

2 жыл бұрын

@@Martina-Kosicanka The Technical University was one of the places I taught. I am sure so much has changed in 20 years.

@Martina-Kosicanka

2 жыл бұрын

@@gypsymanme What a coincidence!

Story behind Lunik 9 is as folows: Politburo decided it would be best for gypsies to stop wandering and be productive for society. So they created jobs for them. Also second part of plan was to provide housing with all benefits of communistic country. So they build this new and magnificent city part. Flats were spacious, definitely more luxurious than common ones. For only reason- to be appreciated from newcomers. One third was for gypsies,one for army personel and one for police personel. Or ABC in slovak( armada, bezpečnosť(police) and cigáni(gypsies). Yet one part of the community made it unbearable for others and take over whole city part.

@ZemplinTemplar

2 жыл бұрын

The key issue there is that they forced the community into new housing, new jobs, a modern lifestyle, all ostensibly "for free", but without bothering with education and acceptance for those people. The commie era didn't even recognise Roma as a distinct nationality, nevermind bother to work with them in education, cultural institutions, home economy, etc. You can't change a whole group's lifestyle overnight with forced handouts, they'll resist it and feel disrespected. Think you're just shoving them around. They'll disrespect rules, especially if they lose a job, end up in poverty and often just give up on life. That's no solution and they have themselves to blame as well, but if no one ever showed them a different approach and how they need to work on their self-respect, it's obvious they'll become almost self-destructive or going around in circles. (I'm talking purely about Luník IX and how short-sighted and careless the commie government was.) The thing with the commie government of the 1970s and 1980s was that they focused on "keeping up appearances" ("Look, we gave the Roma new flats, forced them into jobs ! Now they'll be happy forever and suddenly become modern socialist citizens !"), without doing the hard work of adressing social issues in that group, or lacking education. You had similar things with commies pretending there are no homeless people in the country (there were plenty of poor and homeless people, they just drove them off the streets or persecuted them as criminals). Mutual prejudice of people at the Luník IX housing estate also didn't help things. Luník IX has many good, honest, working people there to this day, but it and other similar places would never have even come into existence if pre-democratic governments weren't so short-sighted and focused on their "Potemkin village" model made up by some bureaucrats who never even met and honestly spoke to a Roma face-to-face (you expect they'd do at least that bare minimum, instead of treating people like numbers). Luník IX nowadays also isn't the quasi-hellhole it used to be years back. Plenty of the old apartment blocks have been demolished, a lot of the newer generations put up an effort... But it'll still take some time until it becomes a nicer place. It's nowhere near as bad as it was twenty or so years ago. More of a shabby and bland place, but it is getting gradually better.

My ancestors are from this region - sadly you have seen more of it than myself (I live in California). The region around Presov & Bardejov is influenced by the Rusyn/Lemko tribe and by Greek-Catholicism - the rest of Slovakia is predominantly Roman Catholic.

I visited Lunik 9 on my travels through Kosice once at 7:30 A.M. on a Sunday morning, and absolutely nothing happened. Frankly, I've seen worse-looking places in the USA. I did notice the satellite dishes everywhere for internet connectivity, and the fact that the borough received far less transit service than any other borough. But after all these years, it finally looks like the community has taken the initiative to clean the place (I saw large garbage bins being used), the garbage is gone from the grounds, and even a new bar has opened.

Ako Slovák môžem povedať že najkrajšie miesto na Slovensku je malá dedinka na strednóm Slovensku (v blízkosti Žiliny) a tá dedinka sa volá Terchová Inak super video Uvidíme či to preložíš😜

Cant believe you passed Levoča. Next time ;-)

Filmmaker fact: I am surprised to see it was shot with 360° camera! At the end, notice how he holds "nothing", an actual phenomenon that is common, while shooting 360°.

Ah, pity I've only now found this vid. Glad to see you two have had an interesting stay. :-)

I plan to visit Slovakia soon. Been to Poland two times already and might go for third time soon also lol ::)

Levoča?!

Visit this citys - Banská Bystrica, Zvolen Detva- Poľana forest, Poľana - Kaľamarka

Sasza jesteś cudna.

ah lunik 9 the gypsy paradise

@RS-eq2dn

2 жыл бұрын

City can clean it many times and they will still make their homes look horrible but even there are always few nice people who keep their home clean.

Lunik 9 is a settlement built in the late 70's originally to acommodate army and police members and Gypsies (as a substitute for their removed hamlet). However right from the beginning there were much less army & police residents than planned (making only 50% of the 2400 people capacity). As time went on the whites moved out and defaulters and "inadaptable" ones got in and destroyed the spaces. Nowadays it's overly overpopulated with 6600 Gypsies which are to be honest impossible to "civilize" (not the currently living generations).

You mispronounced the name. It's called Spišská Novà Ves

To understand how this may look like on Lunika 9 today, one must understand how it worked under communism. In the days of communism, everyone had to! work and therefore everyone had a salary / income. Each person could own only one apartment, if someone had more apartments he had to hand them over to the state. After graduating from school and starting work, everyone could apply for an apartment and was included in the counseling center. And now Lunik 9. This settlement was the most beautiful in Košice and the gypsies got it for free and without waiting. Every gypsy had to work and therefore had an income. If they lived normally like most people from Košice, they could have nice apartments and a nice life. But Lunik 9 was destroyed by gypsies in the last years of communism. After the fall of communism, when many gypsies lost their jobs, it got worse. The city, the church, the state and various organizations tried to solve the problem, but the main problem was the gypsies themselves. They got everything for free and they didn't appreciate it. And in general, why deal with Lunik 9? It is the biggest attraction of Košice. :) The Pope has already been here. And everyone who comes to Košice does not see the sights but is only interested in Lunik 9.

Horrible picture quality. Too dark. Can't watch it.

you know there was communism in the post-communist countries and that's why there is also the typical communist architecture. isn´t it logical? Should we apologize? No! It´s as much a part of our history as the Gothic and Renaissance seen on the square of Spisska Sobota (it is not the down town of Poprad). It is very annoying to keep hearing from foreigners that the communist buildings are ugly or scary, they are also very expensive for local people. what´s wrong about the communist architecture? Btw, it´s the right name of it, diplomacy is not neeeded here. What is so scary? The low crime index? No drug addicts on the streets? At least there is a nice aquapark in Poprad! you immediately feel safer :) Btw 1, you could stay in a hotel in the communist style or you could pay more and stay on that nice square in Spisska Sobota, as it is full of hotels and pensions. Btw 2 the Middle Ages were very cruel times, we wouldn't like them, but we like the buildings from those times, because they are simply nice and people don't associate anything with them as people have no knowledge about them.