Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:27:44 +0200Paramilitary boot camps and Slavic blood rhetoric: When the War Comes lifts lid on Slovak Recruitshttps://english.radio.cz/paramilitary-boot-camps-and-slavic-blood-rhetoric-when-war-comes-lifts-lid-8165280© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalJan Gebert’s powerful new documentary When the War Comes delivers sometimes shocking insights into the Slovak Recruits, a group that run paramilitary boot camps and promote an extreme nationalist ideology. One scene even shows their charismatic leader extolling the virtues of Slavic blood in a talk at a primary school, while the film ends with the fresh-faced autocrat announcing plans to enter politics. When we spoke, I asked Gebert what it was about the Slovak Recruits that first grabbed his attention.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/az_prijde_valka2.jpg?timestamp=1607127031 Paramilitary boot camps and Slavic blood rhetoric: When the War Comes lifts lid on Slovak Recruits https://english.radio.cz/paramilitary-boot-camps-and-slavic-blood-rhetoric-when-war-comes-lifts-lid-8165280 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9