Yesterday, the European Commission and members of the European Parliament met in Strasbourg, France, for a plenary session: a four-day-long, monthly session in which members of the European Union gather to debate and vote on topics proposed by the Conference of Presidents. One of the topics up for debate this time around was the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, a proposal from the movement more commonly known online as Stop Killing Games.
The debate section of a plenary session allows for any member of the European Parliament to have their say, which, unfortunately, means that members and viewers of the livestream were subjected to an off-topic screed against Assassin’s Creed Shadows featuring an African samurai from a man named Milan Uhrík, who is the leader of the far-right Slovakian party Republic Movement.
“Wokeness and aggressive momentization is destroying video games,” began Uhrík’s unhinged rant. “You wanted to talk about what’s destroying video games here in the European Parliament? All right, I will say it loud: one thing that is definitely destroying video games is the crazy, woke ideology and political correctness, which is being forced into the games.”
Uhrík, who described himself as a “computer game player,” mentioned two examples of said “woke ideology” during his speech: a non-specific game in which you “play as a queer character,” and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
“For example, if we want to play as a samurai, obviously we want to play as a Japanese warrior and not be forced to play as a black person warrior or female warrior, as it happened recently in Assassin’s Creed,” Uhrík continued. “Or, to play as a queer character without any other choice. This is an issue, really, for players.” His bizarre aside was similar to remarks made by a random angry Ubisoft shareholder during a 2025 investor briefing.
Now, before the blue-check marks on X step in to say “based” and claim Uhrík as one of their own, I just want to point out that Republic Movement, the party which Uhrík leads, has been labelled as a “neo-fascist” party by the Slovakian media. The party was founded by members who defected from the People’s Party Our Slovakia in 2021.
The party split in 2020 as several of its members found themselves embroiled in a wide range of controversies. Anton Grňo was fined for giving a Nazi salute in January 2020. It was discovered in 2020 that the party spokesperson, Ondrej Ďurica, was the frontman of a neo-nazi band called “White Resistance.” And, the year before, party MP Milan Mazurek was convicted by the Slovakian Supreme Court for racist anti-Roma statements during a local radio broadcast.
I’m suddenly very curious to find out what Uhrík thinks of the Wolfenstein games.
