President: I'm Saddened We're Building Our Own Mental Berlin Wall

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) - I'm saddened by the fact that we're building proverbial fences between ourselves in Slovakia, even though no one and nothing compels us to do so, President Peter Pellegrini stated to mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "The Berlin Wall was erected as the result of the Cold War that was dividing the entire world, the result of a dispute between the two superpowers. Its consequences befell one specific nation and forced it to split into two irreconcilable worlds. I'm saddened that we're building such a wall in Slovakia too, even though no one and nothing compels us to do so," Pellegrini claimed in a video posted on a social network on Saturday (November 9). Pellegrini called the Berlin Wall the symbol of the worst fault line that ever divided the world, Europe and the German nation. Hundreds of people died near it and thousands ended up in jail for their attempts to cross it, all because they refused to live in unfreedom and yearned either to be in control of their own fate or meet their loved ones, sequestered from them by the wall for entire decades. "Fortunately, no people have died yet around our mental wall. But what is dying is the hope that we will share more peaceful and better future together as one nation," noted Pellegrini. mf