The leader of the “Ammunition for Ukraine” campaign in Slovakia was 99-year-old Jew Otto Šimko
In 1939, Otto Šimko came to study at the fifth grade of a gymnasium in the Slovak town of Nitra, and learned that he would have to sit at a separate, “specially for Jews” desk.
What followed was an order to hand over furs, a ban on fishing, a complete denial of receiving higher education, and several waves of deportations to Nazi death camps. Almost all members of the Šimko family managed to survive — a relative provided them with forged baptismal documents.
Otto Šimko is sure that talking to russia today is as pointless as there was nothing to talk about with Hitler in 1938. The world made the mistake of giving the Sudetenland to Germany then, in the hope that it would be enough. After annexation of the Sudetenland, World War II began, and “specially for Jews” desks appeared in Otto’s gymnasium.
“Give him Donbas for the sake of peace. Let him have the Crimea for the sake of peace. It’s a complete illusion,” Šimko drew an analogy, transferring his pension to help Ukraine.
After the government refused to participate in the purchase of shells for Ukraine as part of the Czech initiative, the Slovaks decided to raise the money themselves.
The leader of the “Ammunition for Ukraine” campaign was Šimko, who will turn 100 years old in a month. He was joined by more than 60,000 Slovaks. At first it was planned to raise 1 million euros, but in two weeks the amount of donations has already reached 4 million. The crowdfunding campaign is going on.
