 Slota called the fascist leader Jozef Tiso "one of the greatest sons of the Slovak nation" and on February 17, 2000, 40 of the 41 city council members in Žilina, where Slota was mayor, voted to dedicate a plaque honoring Tiso.After World War II, Tiso was sentenced to death for his role in the murder of tens of thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.Slota told the Czech newspaper "Lidové noviny" that he "envies" the Czech people for their expulsion of Germans after World War II, implying that the same should have been done to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.