A map that shows Bohemia as a stylised Hapsburg rose. The stem firmly connects the flowering Bohemian rose to the fertile soil of Vienna, the Habsburg’s political centre.
huh “so many thingz we can learn from Chechoslovakia!!111” like perhaps learning how to spell the name of the country properly (whether it “still exists” or not is absolutely irrelevant)
also, yes
all what the Hungarian freedom fighters
ever did was
throwing rocks and bottles
it’s not like they were burning and taking over the tanks, nope
The Czechoslovak leaders in 1968 knew that armed resintence would have resulted in bloodshed and thus explicitly called on the people and the armed forces not to resist the invading troops.
like seriously (regardless of whether you support or not the idea of people having arms), there was little armed citizens could do agains organized Soviet/ Warsaw Pact troops and
Also this post is gross and I don’t want to ever see it again
OP makes it sound like Czechoslovakia ceased to exist because of USSR invasion. And us Czechs have been falsely blaming Slovaks all this time!
Also good thing that there are people from first world countries to educate us about our own history. I’m sure with guns we would destroy the military force of the Soviet Union and its allies in no time. Think about it! We could have stopped the Cold War!
Čechy (Bohemia) – often confused with the Czech Republic as whole but to make it even more difficult, the whole country has been in past also called “Čechy” (or in English “Bohemia”). Nowadays the name “Čechy” is only used for historical land Čechy and not for the whole country. In older Czech literature you still can find previous usage of the word, Polish language for example also uses the term “Czechy” for the whole country.
Next we have Morava (Moravia) and Slezsko (Silesia). Together with Čechy (Bohemia) they form the Czech Republic.
Now it gets a little complicated. The Czech Republic is predominantly inhabited by Czechs. But there are also Moravians and Silesians
Moravians (Moravané or in spoken Czech Moraváci) could be divided into three groups. Those who feel like Moravians only and wouldn’t want to be called Czechs (those are incredibly rare cases). Then there are Moravians who would call themselves Moravians but also Czechs (meaning that one is part of the other). And then there would be simply Czechs of Moravian origin.
In past there were nationalist political parties who asked for Moravian autonomy but they never had a larger support. Though many Moravians feel that there could be something done with the way state money flows into unnamed non-Moravian cities, they don’t want to be separated from the Czech Republic.
Larger part of Silesians (Slezané in Czech but also known as Ślůnzoki, Schläsinger, Ślązacy and Schlesier) doesn’t actually live in the Czech Republic but in Poland, where their national requirements are much more heard than in ČR. The distinction between them works in a similar way as with Moravians.
But in overall the Czech Republic is very homogeneous by nationality. In 2001 90,4 % of its citizens wrote down their nationality as Czech, 3,7 % as Moravian and 0,1 % as Silesian.
There is one ethnic minority also worth of mention – Roma (Romové in Czech). In 2001 only 11,746 people (0.1% of the total population) declared themselves as Roma. But the actual number is much higher, estimated at 200–300,000 people (2–3% of the total population).
The number of foreigners in the Czech Republic is growing. At the end of 2008 there were 438 301 foreigners registered in the Czech Republic. Most of them were from Ukraine (30%) and Slovakia (17%). Further most represented nationalities were: Vietnam (14%), Russia (6%) and Poland (5%).
T. G. Masaryk’s funeral (the first president of Czechoslovakia and most probably its biggest founder) 1. Funeral procession at Wenceslas square 2. Next to the Rudolfinum (former parliament) 3. Prague Castle 4. two minutes of silence
K. H. Mácha’s ‘second’ funeral during the Nazi occupation 5. Mácha’s first funeral took place only with the presence of his brother as his poetry wasn’t truly understood until later, however, in 1939 his last march on Vyšehrad cemetery wasn’t modest in attendance and turned into a silent protest against Nazism
Jan Masaryk’s funeral 6. and 7. The death of the last democratic politician in 1948, a month after the communist coup. The snowdrop next to his ear was suspected to be hiding a bullet hole. Jan Masaryk was said to have “fallen” from a window.
Klement Gottwald’s funeral(the first communist president) 8. and 9. Gottwald was something like a Czech Stalin and followed him to the grave only two weeks after. He was mummified and put on display in the same way as Lenin, however, his body had to be cremated 20 year later because it was falling apart.
“the living torch” Jan Palach 10. The funeral of a student Jan Palach in 1969 was attended by thousands of people. He lit himself on fire as a protest against the Soviet occupation and to rouse citizens of Czechoslovakia from indifference. His coffin was exhibited in the building of Charles University.
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