Czechoslovakia - published by the Czechoslovak Government Information Service in New York City (1939)
‘A bit surreal how the (at the time) ongoing by Nazi Germany is just noted as the latest historical bulletpoint. You’d think this would include some kind of appeal to contribute to the Czechoslovak government and military in exile or something like that.’
Ethnicities of Slovakia (Slovaks, Hungarians, Rusyns, Roma) - based on the 2021 census
‘Love to see the Rusyn ethnicity represented. A micro Slavic ethnicity that developed in the mountainous region between Slovakia/Poland/Ukraine.
For more information please see the Wikipedia entry.
They are a very controversial “ethnicity” however, as Ukrainians claim they are just Ukrainians living in Slovakia, which is a claim Slovaks tend to take great offense at.
Indeed, the Transcarpathian Slavs that used to be called Rusyns during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were also one of if not the most radical groups that participated in the Ukrainian liberation movement in the early 20th century.
The languages are also identical as far as I can tell. They have some distinct dialectal vocabulary, but this is not specific to “Rusyn language” but just Transcarpathian dialects of Ukrainian.
Also, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, before the term “Ukrainian” was invented, speakers of the Ruthenian language (which split into Ukrainian and Belarusian) called themselves, you guessed it, Rusyns or sometimes Rusnaks.
I’m just saying all of this so you can judge for yourself. Of course, at the end of the day, it’s up to the Slovakian Rusyns themselves how they choose to identify, but in my limited experience they seem to be quite ambivalent in regards to the matter, unlike Slovakians for some reason.’
Dominant mother language in Slovakia by municipality, based on the 2021 census
‘Wondered why the Hungarian-Slovak border doesn’t track further north on the left/west and then looked up on another map -the southern border there is the Danube.
Geopolitics. The goal of trianon was to dissolve Austria-Hungary forever and create a set of countries having more or less equal geopolitical potential so it would be harder to recreate the Austrian-Hungarian state, one of the two engines of central powers.
Hungary had been punished in 1920 as part of the Habsburg monarchy which has lost the I world war along with Germany and the whole state has been partitioned.
Also an argument against Hungary had been that they were pushing policies of hungarization on territories with other nations majority.
I’ve also heard that the southern strip had been given to Czechoslovakia because in post-WW1 times Slovakia hadn’t had enough of rural terrain to feed themselves. Especially that in those times Czechoslovakia was fighting with Poland over Trans-Olza where the only trains from Czechia went trough and the outcome of that conflict had been unknown yet.
Also, Romania had been rewarded for their military intervention ending 3month lasting communist Hungary state in 1919.’
” In 1938-1939 Slovakia lost some lands to Hungary (marked here with a dashed line in the south, where a significant part of population was Hungarian). Having entered WWII on the Axis side, Slovakia was rewarded with parts of Polish territory, marked with a dashed line in the north”–Wandrownik
