In August 1997 he publicly defended the exiled historian Stanislav Durica Milan in connection with his controversial book "History of Slovakia and Slovaks" which advocated several policies from the period of the first Slovak Republic.
V auguste 1997 sa verejne zastal exilového historika Milana Stanislava Ďuricu v súvislosti s jeho kontroverznou knihou Dejiny Slovenska a Slovákov, ktorá obhajuje viacerých politikov z obdobia prvej Slovenskej republiky, ako aj vojnovú republiku samotnú.