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    In Slovakia, children of the Velvet Revolution lead fight to be 'normal'

    Mar 28, 2018 4 minutes
    Protesters spontaneously marched to Parliament in Bratislava, Slovakia, jangling their keys like this woman here, and calling the ruling party Smer the 'mafia,' March, 23, 2018. Young people have taken a leading role in a movement sparked by the murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak, who had been digging into state corruption and mafia ties, and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova.

    Marian Kulich is one of tens of thousands of protesters on the streets of Slovakia in the biggest show of people power since the Velvet Revolution. What began as an outcry over a young journalist’s murder has in the past month morphed into a mass general movement to end cronyism in this post-communist state.

    The call “For A Decent Slovakia,” as the protests have been dubbed, has already taken down three-term Prime Minister Robert Fico and his administration. But Mr. Kulich is determined not to stop there. A change at the top of government is not the time for people to let down their guards, he says. 

    On Friday afternoon he joined 25,000 protesters in a candlelight vigil in downtown Bratislava, the

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