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Article: 3,000 Jews are target in Slovakia power struggle.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- July 29, 1994
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - On the baroque Hlavne Square, Cafe Roland captures a rare glimmer of this city's Hapsburg past. With Mozart's music in the background, Austrian diplomats, German tourists and Slovak literati leisurely sip creamy Viennese coffee and mineral water from the Tatras.
At one table, reading the weekly Zmena, sits 18-year-old Jan. "Zmena is the only paper in Slovakia that tells the truth," he says. The paper is, not coincidentally, what his mother (a professor) and his father (a businessman) also read.
According to Jan, there are three forces competing for power in Slovakia: the Catholics, the Bolsheviks and the allied Jews and Free ...