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  • ...that the Michael's Gate in Bratislava is the only gate that has been preserved of the medieval fortifications and ranks among the oldest town buildings?
  • ...that the ceiling of the State Theatre Košice is decorated with scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedies Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream?
  • ...that with the Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1946, the last one before communist rule was established, voting age was lowered to 18 years, many former Czechoslovak citizens of Hungarian ethnicity were stripped of their citizenship and unable to vote, six political parties united under the Communist-sponsored National Front were allowed and additional two were added a few moths before elections, voting was compulsory, and, nevertheless, the Democratic Party won over the Communists?