Czechs and Slovaks: The Tale of Two Nations

In this video, I analyse the peculiar case of Czechs and Slovaks, two very different nations that have nevertheless become irreversibly connected in the eyes of the world.
- timestamps -
00:00 - Introduction
04:04 - Czechs and Germans
09:57 - Slovaks and Hungarians
13:43 - The Czechoslovak Nation
26:31 - The Commonalities
30:30 - The Differences
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[@shk439]

TL;DR: Czechs are Germanized West Slavs Slovaks are Hungarianized West Slavs

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

And Hungarians are a mix of all the populations around them.

[@pasdpasse439]

And Russia's c. . . s.. ....

[@heksyn2706]

So are Poles default west slavs?

[@Rodzyniastyyyy]

@@constantinethecataphract5949 Hungarians are just mixed, drunken Austrians/Czechs/Slovaks larping as the Huns/Mongolians speaking gibberish.

[@Merle1987]

We wuz Germans 'n' shiet.

[@belstar1128]

what if Slovakia and Slovenia formed a union to avoid confusion

[@Black25284]

Will never happen

[@1237barca]

Better idea: Czech and Slovenia form a union known as Czechoslovenia. Maximum confusion!

[@radeksilar543]

How about Latvia and Lithuania. What if Poland would formed Poland-Latvia commonwealth.

[@FOLIPE]

Named Slovenia, Slo from Slovakia and Venia from Slovenia

[@jdawg8487]

@@1237barca BREAKING NEWS: CZECHOSLOVENIA ANNOUNCES SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IN AUSTRIA TO LINK BOTH ENDS OF COUNTRY

[@limao6880]

Baby, wake up, your favourite Czech released a new video.

[@Black25284]

Baby nie udri mňa 😂

[@rory6984]

Your Czech mate

[@julianbrabsche728]

Well I will watch it as soon as I can but I am in school at the moment.

[@nikobellic570]

I can't even name another Czech except the odd footballer. Shhhhh!! They don't want anyone to know they exist...

[@jacksarchive1]

My girlfriend asked me what I was watching, and I answered honestly. She didn't believe me.

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

As a Balkan Slav, I lived in Prague for two years, and met a lot of Czechs and Slovaks. I realized i connected way easier with Slovaks, my theory was that Slovakia has historically been agricultural like my country of origin and both of us entered Industrial age way later than Czechs or Slovenians. Great channel, mate, can't have enough of it, I am sharing it and bothering people like crazy. Much respect.

[@rehurekj]

Actually Slovenians entered Industrial age later than Czechs, they and Czechs share history of being part Holy Roman and Austrian Empire but unlike Czechia they fully industrialised only after WW1 not before it.

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

@@rehurekj I was comparing Slovenia to the rest of the former Yugoslavia, not to Czechia. Which doesn’t take value from your remark, just clarifies where I was coming from.

[@Aggoenix]

Well Czechia (Bohemia called historically) entered industrial age the earliest out of all slavic/today ex-eastern european countries, Austria-Hungary (today more than 8 countries) empire chose it to become industrial core for the whole empire. Poland, Hungary, all Balkans, Baltics, Romania, Slovenia all entered industrial age later. Thats why after creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 it became quite rich, cause it inherited 70% of all industrial capabilities of Austria-Hungary empire, exporting weapons, cars, airplanes, steel, most of other industrial powerhouses had much larger population like UK, Germany.

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

Fun fact - there is a 40k strong community of Slovaks in Serbia, and they are mostly Lutheran, and not Catholic, like in modern Slovakia.

[@metiupapluch]

Yes, the ones from Vojvodina. But i would not consider Slovakia as a Catholic. Yes, they are majority - about 60% are Roman Catholics. But the another 40% are not.

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

@@metiupapluch A major point of the video was the juxtaposition of predominantly anti-Catholic/Hussitic Bohemia vs Catholic Slovakia, so I wanted to add to the conversation that there are also Slovak protestants. While it is true that there is circa 55% Catholics according to the last census, there are only 5% Protestants, of which I would imagine there s some Hungarians as well. Besides, the author was referring to the historic religious affiliation, not necessarily the current one.

[@user-bh2kd6lb1q]

There was also a period in Slovakia when Lutherans had an absolute predominance.

[@JustMe-wm9zg]

Yup bački petrovac is the place

[@jdawg8487]

My brother visited the Czech Republic in 2016 (and a little bit in Bratislava) and said he had some great times. Oh and the Czechs make the best beer.

[@IceSpiceNationalist]

Czech Republic is such an underrated European country honestly the safest and most beautiful country in Europe I’ve seen from my personal experience

[@ManBehindTheMask]

I’ve heard about the beer, really inspires me to visit

[@jdawg8487]

@@ManBehindTheMask You can definitely buy a case of Pilsner Urquell somewhere!

[@FafnirSiggurdson]

“German” Pilsner is actually ursprünglich from Czechia

[@zolandia5262]

The Czech republic has some amazingly beautiful landscapes and castles, unfortunately I never made it to Slovakia as I was heading for Bratislava but the train broke down in Poland and I somehow got diverted to Prague

[@_braileanul]

Love to both Czechia and Slovakia from Romania 🇨🇿❤🇸🇰❤🇷🇴

[@CoteaGeorgeC]

I would love to see his takes on Romanian (and esp Transylvanian) history.

[@Black25284]

Romania is great 🇷🇴 💕

[@jirislavicek9954]

Romania was the only country of the Warsaw Pact that didn't participate in the 1968 invasion to Czechoslovakia. We will never forget that 👍

[@_braileanul]

@@momomarumomonga4885 I don't hate Hungarians

[@junak8823]

Thank you, I've been to Romania, very beautiful country. Greetings.

[@heartsofiron4ever]

Czechs have names like Vladislav Schmidt, Slovaks have names like Vladislav the Magyar, that's all you need to know.

[@Cicero_de_fato]

I’ve never met a Slovak who did not have at least one Hungarian grandparent.

[@ivoandrijko4435]

@@Cicero_de_fato I never met a Slovak who has one that doesn't live near the Hungarian border.

[@BuckNut-ck1sl]

@@Cicero_de_fato I doubt that because hungarians counted everyone who spoke hungarian as one of their own, even if they could be a slovak, romanian etc.

[@tomjones8235]

@@Cicero_de_fato My grandparents claimed to have no Hungarian ancestors. I take them at their word. I refuse to take a DNA test because I do not want them to be proved wrong.

[@sandokan5410]

​@@Cicero_de_fatoIn the south maybe. In the north there is practically zero Hungarians. Plus dont forget forced magyarisation of names in 19th century. Having Hungarised surname =/= being ethnic Hungarian.

[@Alex_Urs]

"The world is not perfectible. You won't change it. Why try? You might as well get completely sh*tfaced instead." As a Romanian and fellow Eastern European, I felt that.

[@rolandowagner7775]

I believe that comment was made in the context of rejecting "woke utopianism". Dostoyevsky predicted and warned against the whole communist- nihilist- woke nonsense 150 years ago. I hope all of the eastern/ Central European countries band together and completely reject the woke (aka globalist invention) nihilism of the west!

[@asborodo]

As Pole living close to borders both Czech and Slovakia I always wondered why Czechoslovakia divided and what kind of differences those nations have. Great take on that topic, greetings from Silesia.

[@vh5663]

It divided because 1) Czechoslovakia in the form it took in 1918 made absolutely no sense. There was more Germans than Slovaks in the country and only Bohemia and Moravia were fully developed with Slovakia being basically a paperweight to make the country bigger. Everything that mattered was in the Czech part. 2) For Slovaks the main difference brought by 1918 was that the centre of power move couple of hundreds of miles west and instead of Hungarians who treated them badly they got Czechs who treated them like a stupider smaller brother. The chip on their shoulder considering their identity and independence got a bit smaller, but it totally remained a thing as they kindly demonstrated in 1939 already. Honestly, the only *real* similiarity is the language. In many other things I see Slovaks as a combination of Poles and Hungarians.

[@asborodo]

@@vh5663 Great comment, thanks for additional feedback. Now it makes even more sense.

[@rastislavlassak7268]

​@@vh5663Slovensko patrilo k najpriemyselnejším oblastiam Uhorska. 27.februára 1872 boli zrušené cechy, a tým sa uvoľnila cesta živnostenských a priemyselným podnikateľom. Poľnohospodárska kríza spôsobila, že statkárski podnikatelia sa začali sústreďovať na priemysel. Celkovo však Uhorsko v priemyselnej výrobe zaostávalo nielen za Predlitavskom, ale aj za európskym priemerom.Čo sa týka vzťahov medzi Čechmi a Slovákmi tie boli veľmi živé už v stredoveku, hlavne s Moravou, vôbec nie je pravda že majú spoločný len jazyk,len za 80 rokov bolo uzatvorených viac ako 800000 manželstiev medzi Čechmi a Slovákmi.

[@ManBehindTheMask]

Didn’t know you had a son, good on you!

[@ManBehindTheMask]

Also I briefly was seeing a slovak girl, her family made amazing alcohol, super strong too

[@Black25284]

​@@ManBehindTheMask are you American?

[@ManBehindTheMask]

@@Black25284 I’m British

[@franciscosantiago4921]

​@@Black25284 If he were American, what would you make of it?

[@rixorobert]

I would love more videos on Central/Eastern European countries such as Poland, Romania or Bulgaria :)

[@crusader2112]

Throw in Austria and Hungary as well.

[@TsarIsBack]

Never forget the Turks, there is Istanbul!

[@wszechbytdoskonay3071]

@@TsarIsBack not for long

[@AG-lz2gg]

You’re my favourite KZbinr. Thanks for all the interesting videos about things few talk about.

[@gaba3342]

Hi Kaiser! Very fair description, approved from Slovakia! I am enjoying also other of your videos, keep it coming.

[@jonobidonofanas3677]

Would love a full length video covering the czech national revival. I find it very interesting how a nation was able to resist cultural oppression so well. As a lithuanian it hits close to home.

[@gombe793]

An interesting parallell. When I visited some years ago I was surprised some clerks knew a word or two of Polish. I would think that would be much more true 3 generations ago with following generations knowing more Russian and now English as secondary.

[@jonobidonofanas3677]

@@gombe793 most of them aren't exactly polish. They are what we call tuteišiai (tutejszy in polish). Their language is a mix of polish and belorussian. This happened because the region firstly went through belorussification and then experienced polonization, which created this hybrid culture.

[@konplayz]

@@jonobidonofanas3677belorussification? I do not think that the belarusian language and identity has been forced onto literally anyone, ever.

[@jonobidonofanas3677]

@@konplayz not by force. The region simply went through a period of becoming more belorussian through migration and cultural assimilation. If that is not what belorussification is then I am sorry for using the wrong term.

[@konplayz]

@@jonobidonofanas3677 Considering the weakness of Belarusian identity both in the past and today, i just found it peculiar you “blamed” it on belarusians and not russians.

[@prasakmanitou4925]

It was there, but I will still allow myself two comments: 1. Bohemia became an industrial powerhouse in the 19th century, not because of golden Czech hands. But for extensive deposits of coal and ore. So companies from all over Austria-Hungary built their factories there. Then the seizure of Czechia by one ambitious Austrian 20 years later was not so surprising. 2, After WWII, Transcarpatia with their language was lost to the Soviet Union, and in 1947-48, Czechoslovakia got rid of a large part of the German and a smaller part of the Hungarian-speaking population. Which greatly simplified federalization.

[@henningbartels6245]

"Got rid" makes this process full of hardship and economical consequences sound so banal.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Defenestration intensifying

[@Li_Tobler]

I'm a Ukrainian with 100% Slovak father (surname Hitric(h?)). I have no idea how he ended up here, but I'm very excited to learn about this part of my heritage ❤ You never miss with your topics, proud to say that I've been with you since your first vid!

[@Black25284]

Perčo rozprávaš po anglicky?

[@Black25284]

No ty hovoríš že si Ukrajinská a polovicu Slovenska.

[@Black25284]

Li ty by si malá vedieť Slovensku históriú 😂

[@Black25284]

Mimochodom vieš slovenský?

[@Li_Tobler]

@Black25284 Hi! I meant that I'm Ukrainian by nationality, I was born and raised here. While ethnically I'm Slovak, some Baltic and broadly Eastern European. Unfortunately I only know English, Ukrainian and a bit of German, I chose English because that's what most people will understand :) I was hoping someone would know if his surname is Slovak and what it means!

[@chsgrate5362]

Love this type of videos, please continue

[@Winner8501]

There is interesting history of stereotypisation too, for example: during the commie times, the evening news on TV were presented by two anchors: one male and one female. But in most cases, the male anchor was Czech and the female Slovak. Slovakia was, in Czech public imagination, always the wilder, more emotional, feminine part of the country, while the Czechs were the more sober, rational, masculine husband. Thing is, I as a Czech only started noticing this when I read about it, while I am sure Slovaks always subconsciously perceived this and it irked them :) How many times have they heard that Slovak is such a beautiful language - when girls speak it? Greetings from Brno, the true capital of Slovakia.

[@chicobeirao2578]

Last time I was this early, Czechoslovakia was still a thing.

[@Black25284]

Czech and Slovaks are independent since 1993

[@peternagy6067]

As a hungarian this facinating to listen to

[@ShunShufen]

Great video which summarised a lot of what I already knew and a lot I didn't know about Czech and Slovak culture. :)

[@johnepavek]

This is great! My grandparents came over to the US around the turn of the century and settled in Minnesota. My dad moved to Montana when he was a kid during the depression and stayed there till I came along. He was a “proud Bohemian” his entire life and instilled that pride in us kids too. I appreciate hearing historical accounts of that area, so thanks for making this!

[@Omnigreen]

Very interesting topic, great work, hope to see more

[@adammichalik3349]

Good video, especially the end

[@BICAFL]

Very interesting and informative!

[@Turkeyslam]

I could really see your passion for the subject during this video essay. Absolutely excellent.

[@matejkovalcik9976]

For me, the biggest tragedy is, that for the 70 or so years we did not adapt some more of the usefull czech characteristics, like pragmatism and inovativness. And about alcohol, you got it wrong my good man. We usually take a shot of spirit, flushed down with beer. Much love to Czechia

[@TsarIsBack]

I hpoe to come to Praha, as a Leninist-Marxist Turk. I would like to also taste the beer, but you should try Turkish rakı. On the politics though, I think that Czechoslovakia shouldn't be just "greater Czechia", just like the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Czechs and The Slovaks should have equal bullsh*t.

[@KokosNaSnehu2]

Don't bother. Commies are not welcome here.

[@MorderkaiEdelblattsteinmeyer]

So they are basically like Norway and Sweden.

[@lovelypolishperson5566]

but much poorer

[@konstantinpiontkovsky3067]

Thank you. That was very informative.

[@admonster11]

I loved it! Now, please do Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks. We don't need to go back so long in time; when we did, we could talk to each other and understand.

[@dalimillazan2877]

well, Poles and Hungarians are in terms of ties pretty similar, so it should be more like Visegrad 4 then, which he already did I think

[@MacintoshMen]

Thanks for the in depth explanation of both countries; I always love visiting both our neighbours :) Greets from Austria

[@rehurekj]

7:25 Czechs didnt have to accept interpretation of history. Catholic church was objectively connected to Habsburgs and loss of Czech independence and recatholisation/ Germanisation. Before 30yrs war Czechia was overwhelmingly non-Catholic and only after our defeat Catholicism artificially became dominant religion after mere one generation, it was forceful and largely superficial conversion( and i guess one of causes of Czech contemporary atheism) ordered by winning Habsburgs, just like end of independent Czech statehood and factual and later also formal inclusion of Czech lands among their hereditary lands and preference for german language for simplified administration and as centralisation tool. thats no interpretation but actual fact based on what happened and who ordered it to happen( unlike e.g. later demonisation of Austria- Hungary)

[@jcoker423]

Great reply. So why has the Marian Column been re-erected in the Old Town Square in the last 2 years ?

[@rehurekj]

@jcoker423 why not? Its been part of the square for centuries and been only demolished after WW1 cos the mob incorrectly assumed this common accessory found in almost all Czech cities is some sort of symbol of Habsburg and/ or Catholic rule over Czechia. It wasn't true and in my opinion destroying buildings and statues and indiscriminately erasing symbols of one's history, complicated as it may be, is barbaric and I'm glad this act of such primitive barbarisms been corrected recently.

[@jcoker423]

@@rehurekj Totally agree about erasing history - terrible. I've know the Sq for 30yrs - I was here for your revolution in 1989. So I find it 'unusual', but I like the way Cz's enjoy their history. Where I live there is the Ringhoffer Walk - a family hated by the Communists, but now folks remember that they were a family that cared for the land and people. But Czechia sounds horrible, Bohemia would be a much better name for me.

[@user-yc2dn4cz6o]

Great video, I have briefly been to both CZ and SK but it's always good to learn about countries you don't usually hear much about

[@Black25284]

As a tourist right?

[@user-yc2dn4cz6o]

@@Black25284 Yes, I spent about a week combined in both countries as a tourist and enjoyed it. Enough time to get an idea but only a pretty superficial one when you don't speak the language

[@merocaine]

I learned a lot. It's a testament to your even handedness that you presented such a sympathetic history of Slovakia, I had no idea.

[@vladimirskala]

19:00 At the wake of the break up of the Hungarian Kingdom there were even protests in Eastern Slovakia by Slovjaks, who considered themselves separate from Slovaks, and preferred autonomy within Hungary.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Not surprised. The dialectal continuum was almost perfect prior to 1800s. After 1850s it split between Czech and Slovak a LOT due to the standardisation. Hence Moravian declined and standardised Czech (based more in Bohemian Czech) rose up. Meanwhile Slovak, based more on Central and western dialects rose in slovakia, and the regional dialects declined. Even today, a lot of Slovaks from center to west struggle to understand Eastern Slovaks but have no problem with Czech language or even the most Western Czech dialects.

[@perseus274]

@@tomasvrabec1845 eastern Slovaks are Poles. You can see it on dialect and names of the cities and villages. For example Košice were called "Kasa". That's a polish word. Even Slovjaki sounds Polish. The surnames are Polish etc.

[@vladimirskala]

​@@perseus274 Some of the Slovjaks were actually Rusyns who assimilated during the 19th century after their migration north-to-south into predominantly Slovak speaking settlements, which saw the expansion of the Greek Catholic Church. Earliest census still counted these folks as Rusyns. It's important to note, however, that there was never a separate Slovjak category on any census.

[@cdgncgn]

@@perseus274 Magyar Kassa is read as K-h-ss-h alsmost. Your knowledge is very superficial.

[@cdgncgn]

@@vladimirskala why there was migration, I suppose lots of diseases and a revolt of peasants against habsburgs, that meant the Habsburgs after they won called in new subjects from elsewhere to provide them rent.

[@jakubbriza7274]

Herr Kaiser, das ist wunderbar!

[@drrma]

I wish someone made a version of this video for Croats and Serbs. There are just as many differences between these two.

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

I know one thing - the comment section would blow up.

[@stipe3124]

You can always have a test video with Croatia and Slovenia difference or Serbia and Montenegro difference 😅

[@BozaCukuranovic3223]

@@stipe3124 Serbia and Montenegro wouldn't have the same effect, since there is probably 40% ethnic Serbs living in Montenegro and a few percentage more of ethnic Montenegrins. The census has been done last year but results are still being processed, so take this with a grain of salt. Not to mention that in Montenegro prior to 1945 there was almost unanimous Serb ethnic feeling, so the story resembles slightly that of Austria vis-a-vis Germany. Croatia - Slovenia would also be tricky, since Slovenia was fully under Austria, while Croatia was (with Slavonia) under Hungarian side, while Dalmatia was governed as an Austrian crownland.

[@lkrnpk]

Then again I fear such a video would be made by commie pro-Yugoslavia Serbian who'd say that it is all nonsense and they would be still one people if someone similar to father god Tito came to power after him

[@ianstobie]

Often wondered why they split. Now I know in vast and exhaustive detail! Excellent thorough briefing.

[@robertsnapp1445]

Wonderful video! Bravo.

[@eliskaplichtova2362]

Nice video! :)

[@EduNauram]

Great video! Please do another one on the identitarian issues between Bohemia and Moravia (and Silesia), thank you!

[@narcispana9361]

Keep up the sound good enterta8jing work!Grazie!

[@kaiserbauch9092]

Thank you!

[@FOLIPE]

It's an interesting case of ethnogenesis and how sometimes even people who are incredibly similar, by differences in shared history, become two distinct nations. It is also interesting that the ethnogenesis of Afrikaaners was talked about a little bit in the previous video, and it's a different case where people of mostly Dutch origin assimilated certain other minorities (Portuguese, French etc) in their ethnogenesis. The ethnogenesis of the USA was touched upon in a pervious video, and especially the black American population has an (even greater) component of this assimilation of people of different origins in their emergence maybe in the 17th or 18th centuries. Given, however, the segregationist character of the two aforementioned multi-racial societies, the ethnogenesis of the different Latin American nations would be an interesting complement to the overall understanding of the dynamic of ethnogenesis.

[@markdouglas8073]

Thank you for answering thoroughly a question I have been wondering about for 40 years. Here in Texas we have many historically Czech families.

[@tennesseeprepper5102]

Outstanding video. Thanks you Kaiser. Very Detailed. My father was Slovak, grew up in a Slovak enclave in USA and maintained relations with extended family there who he would never meet. I didn’t understand his attitude then but I do now.

[@lukaspesek1761]

neskutečně dobrý/propracovaný videa děláš, lepší a lepší

[@lukaspospichal9362]

Fenomenal !

[@bradbel]

Wow. That seems pretty fair and balanced to me. Nice job.

[@adamrogowski2748]

A kaiserbach video? Czech yeah!

[@LuckStroN]

Very informative video! Great to know more about my neighbours. Greetings from Hungary!

[@viktorsmith1366]

Skvělý a trefný)

[@foolproofman]

Zdravím z čech. Skvělý kanál, jen tak dál!

[@perun5984]

I'd like to see an episode like this, but about Poles and Lithuanians

[@maciejpietka1391]

Poles and the rest of western slav would be also interesting.

[@KirkMun]

Very interesting material, greeting from Poland... Always happy to visit Slovakia or Czech when im on a vacation

[@makarypelcovic]

Great video - after watching it, the difference between Czechs and Slovaks is graspable. I like how you briefly summarized history, culture and mentality for a deeper look. As a Polish, I am always wondered what the actual difference is between these two

[@richie_pp]

As a Slovak I find Czechs as our brother nation and always will. Unfortunately, I was also born after 1993 and thus never experienced the joint state. Yet if there was a vote if we should get back into a federation, I would vote yes. Thank you for probably the best video on Czech and Slovak differences and similarities. Great work as always!

[@poonczey]

This romanticism is getting ridiculous. During the joint state there was no love for Czechs, after the separation relations got a lot better and people assume it was just like this during those times.

[@vh5663]

Im afraid vast majority of Czech has absolutely no interest in joining with Slovakia. Quite frankly, I do believe that Czechoslovakia was a mistake. It would make 1000x more sense for Czechs to form a kind of federation with Sudetenland Germans and for Slovaks to do their on thing, which is something you wished for and made clear more than once.

[@kvetusefikar127]

Pozdrav z Kanady. Jsem puvodne Ceska ale Slovaci jsou nasi bratri. Snad se jednou oba narody sp[oji.

[@giovannituber2827]

Czechoslovakia wasn't a mistake. Czechs achieved what they wanted, getting a rule over land which was for a centuries controlled by ethnic Germans. Slovakia managed to become independent. Sure Hungarians would like to revise that. While Germans have a basically no chance of getting Suddetenland back. Therefore we don't need to be together anymore, but close nontheless.

[@vh5663]

@@giovannituber2827 Germans have no chance of getting Sudetenland back because it was never German to begin with (except ww2, of course, when the whole country became a part of Germany). Sure, most of its regions had huge German majority, but it was a part of the Bohemian kingdom since always and that didnt change with Czechoslovakia becoming a thing. What Czechs wanted was to be independent of Austria, not to "controll" Sudetenland.

[@crusader2112]

I've been recently interested in Austian and Central European history so this was a fun surprise. Love your channel, keep up the great work. 👍🏻 Do you think you could do a video on Austria and its future and its relationship with the Habsburgs? Me: Sees Wilson. ***Anger begins to rise*** P.S. Ironic how the slavic nationalists who wanted their own states separate from the mult-ethnic Austria-Hungary and yet their own states were mult-ethnic and the Czechs and Serbs became the dominant ethnic groups in their respective countries. Great video 👍

[@julianbrabsche728]

Who is Wilson?

[@crusader2112]

@@julianbrabsche728 Woodrow Wilson

[@julianbrabsche728]

@@crusader2112 Ah okay the US president

[@jym22jym22]

Thanks!

[@mariusamber3237]

It's interesting that the middle of Czech Republic is the most affluent. Shows how it's not always the eastern part that's the poorest, as many seem to think (like in Slovakia, Poland or Romania), but rather how it's dependent upon cultural/historical factors, not just geography. Very interesting video, it explains really well the main differences between the countries.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Central yes but Czech east is also nominally poorer than the west (Bohemia Vs Moravia). But Czechia also has sudets which became desolated after expulsions.

[@FOLIPE]

As explained in the video that's because the borderlands, which used to be richer, were disrupted, depopulated and then repopulate with outsiders

[@Ioulimontium]

@@tomasvrabec1845 That’s just a stereotype. If we omit Prague (Which we should), Bohemia and Moravia are about the same in terms of development. Maybe even a little in favour of Moravia.

[@jirislavicek9954]

Capital / large cities are almost always affluent. Except for nations with sea access, where ports may play more significant role. Czech Republic is similar in size with Ireland. In Czechia the center is rich and the periphery is poor. In Ireland the centre is poor and coastal cities are rich.

[@happyfelix1440]

The border land = mountains. They were inhabited by Germans, because the regions were poor.

[@redknightsr69]

My wife is half Czech but completely beautiful

[@morhaimtyr4173]

You are missing one important point - forceful recatolization of the Czech population. We have lost lots of good people, who didn't want to submit and have been forced to flee the country (like J.A. Komenský). I woud say we have lost some of our spine too - so many people changed their faith out of convinience... Freedom of religion wasn't a thing for a long time. Prague used to be czech city in medieval ages before it become "German" for a time, so I wouldn't say that Prague was build exclusively by Germans..

[@CocoSon-we2rg]

Cyril and Methodius did their apprenticeship here.

[@miroslavdusin4325]

Yes, he is pro German even I would say little masochistic from Czech point of view 😀. Germans originally inhabited mostly the mountains and during the recatolization period moved more into the country because it was almost empty after the 30 years war. So the areas which were purely Germany lets say in the late 19th century were not German at all before 17th century.

[@morhaimtyr4173]

@@miroslavdusin4325 Yeah. For us Czechs is some sort of self-deminishing very typical :D

[@rehurekj]

yes, if i didnt know better from the vid i wouldnt know majority of Czechs was for like 2 whole centuries non- Catholic and they been forcefully( and superficially as shown by contemporary atheist majority) within one generation converted back to Catholicism after defeat of Czech estates by Habsburg army. In the vid it was merely stated the 17th century loss of sovereignty and often violent recatholisation and Germanisation ordered by our newly hereditary Habsburg monarch is just the accepted interpretation of history of Czechia...

[@boerekable]

@@morhaimtyr4173it is a very human thing though to s*** on people who are long time dead.

[@Molkepulver]

Ďakujem za video, je to naozaj zaujímavá téma, najmä pre mňa ako Slováka narodeného v zahraničí. Spomínal si, že Škótsko je "ultra protestantský región", si si tým istý?

[@Shmidtk]

I moved to Czech Republic 3 years ago and your channel is a way to look deeper into history and culture of these lands. I am Russian, so for me it is interesting to know perspective of people around me, who has their own agenda on their mind.

[@erichamilton3373]

You really hit the nail on the head with the woke-protestant connection. In the US specifically New England Puritanism...also the most "progressive" region, and with a zealot's religious flavor.

[@tedkapusta2136]

The zealotry of the New England Protestants in the decades prior to the Civil War precluded any reasonable compromise on the slavery question.

[@jojo6970]

As a belgian this video and the history of Czecho-Slovakia in general is very interesting because it echoes a lot with our own situation right now. I also have one of my best friends who happens to be a Czech woman and she always says that the fate of Belgium is the same as Czechoslovakia, just with more hatred between the north and the south in Belgium.

[@jrjrjrjrjrjrjr]

Except that there is almost nothing correct in the video (to put it mildly). The topic is much more complicated.

[@loathecraft]

will you make more content on central and eastern european countries in particular? if yes poland, romania and ex-yugoslavia would be the most interesting i think

[@unstable_7071]

good video

[@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558]

I don't agree with the association of woke-ism with Protestantism, especially not in the American context. Although New England like pretty much all the original 13 colonies was originally very Protestant, New England and the Northeast have for over a century been the part of the United States with the highest percentage of Catholics. The South (Southeast) is comparatively the most Protestant/least Catholic and the most anti-woke portion of the country.

[@FOLIPE]

Neopentecostal evangelicams are not the traditional type of protestants. As for the point he was making, it's not that protestantism=wokeism. It's that the subjacent cultural trends of idealism, universalism, radicalism etc which manifested themselves in the protestant reformation are the same that manifest themselves in wokeism and that is why wokeism is stronger in areas where classic protestantism was also strongest - since they speak to the same and still existing underlying characteristics of those cultures. Nowadays in western countries, according to Todd, religion mostly exists in a zombified state, and people are post-religious. In areas where religion is still more relevant, you'd not expect less typically non-religious forms of their trends to manifest

[@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558]

@@FOLIPE All of the United States is traditionally Protestant, but the North became majority Catholic and the South remained overwhelmingly Protestant. If any line is going to be drawn between Protestant and Catholic parts of the US, the North clearly is the part that would have to be considered Catholic. Associating it with Protestantism more so than the South is completely backwards.

[@mitonaarea5856]

The thing is that most of the new England settlers of the 17th and 18th century moved westwards, especially to places like Nortwestrn Pacific region or northern California. It is not a surprise that those were the most "progressive" areas in the world in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and nowadays those regions are still well know for being very liberal. Yankee culture is still very alive in modern America.

[@FOLIPE]

@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 Yes of one were to make that distinction it would be between the north and west and the south, however the point is more about the northeast as the core of American civilization than a contrast to the south. As I said, too, it's historical not contemporary protestantism (or catholicism) since religion today is often zombie

[@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558]

@@FOLIPE Virginia is the oldest of all the US states. The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was a Virginian. The father of the US Bill of Rights was another Virginian. The lead author of the constitution was yet another Virginian. 4 of the first 5 US presidents came from Virginia. Virginia in 1776 was far more populous than any northern state. As of the first census in 1790, Virginia and North Caroline were both (individually) more populous than any northern state, and Virginia and North Carolina together (not even counting the other southern states) were more populous than Massachusetts and the 5 other New England states put together. It's the South and particularly Virginia that represents the core of American civilization.

[@2SSSR2]

Good video, I never knew the true relationship between Czechs and Slovaks. And this video shed a lot of light into that topic. It was very neutral, showcasing Czechs in a negative light as well (like their plan to "solve" the German question). I also wanted to note that Slavs being pacifist is not entirely untrue, they are one of the most generous and helpful people you would ever meet. But damn if they are too prideful when it comes to religion and history - and very bad in choosing politicians to lead them. I would love to see you making similar video about Yugoslavia as well, seeing how more and more people (mostly Serbs) see it as a mistake as well.

[@radeksilar543]

We are Czechs, not Checks. It could create a confusion, that Slovaks was opressed by constant legal controlers :D :D (I had to do its, it is great pun in misswriting :D :D)

[@2SSSR2]

@@radeksilar543 It's ok, I edited it. What can I say? I am a South Slav, I write as I speak. Not that English type where you say one thing and write another.

[@IgorDruzhinin-qo2vj]

If you dont count western ukrainians, slavs are pretty peaceful people.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

​@@IgorDruzhinin-qo2vjwhy would Rusyns and other Western Ukrainians not be peaceful? In fact, western Ukrainians are likely more peaceful than those in the east. As far as Peace goes for Slavs, Western Slavs are undoubtedly the most peaceful of all Slavs. Essentially being between a Hammer, Second Hammer and an Anvil (ottomans, Germans and Russians) made them not war among one another much, nor expand outwards. Eastern Slavs are war full, the just comes with Russia. Balkans also have some nasty stuff but overall for Europe not that much, and not that much compared to Russia.

[@sandokan5410]

@@IgorDruzhinin-qo2vj Screw off Kremlobot

[@paulterpstra6705]

Very interesting video. I recognize a lot, but has some really interesting details I wasn't aware enough mainly about the Slovaks. I'm both a Czech and Dutch citizen, grown up in the West, but spent many holidays at my grandparents in Prague since the 70's. I also felt a lot of sympathy for the Slovaks, but I was really shocked how the people could vote for their current PM and President. You gave a good background for this.

[@leifiseland1218]

Interesting.👍

[@Pan_Z]

This was a nice break from your usual videos that end on the glum note of demographic collapse. This is a subject many are aware of, but not particularly knowledgeable about. You have a talent for presenting history in an easily understandable format. Could probably tackle similar subjects just fine.

[@davidcooper177]

I didn't like Czech PEOPLE 😮😮 . They were unfriendly, unhappy, distant, and racist. I like the Slovak people. Slovakian people are very friendly, outgoing, nice, and beautiful people. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 To Slovakia

[@Hejhouyou]

Growing up in Slovakia as a kid all I was hearing from older people is that life under the communist regime was better. This wasn't just in my family, but it feels like it was a general sentiment of the people at the time. Of course nowadays most people see this period as negative especially younger people who never experienced it. Also I've never seen anyone hating Russia in Slovakia .. at least not before the war in Ukraine started. This is contrary to Czechs who seem to have deep rooted hatred towards Russia almost to the point where you can't even say anything positive about Russia and have rational conversation with them.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

I wonder where you lived. I came from the north, north west Slovakia and growing up everyone agreed communism was quite bad. You had few unusual people who liked socialism because it basically gave them a job but they weren't loud nor affluent. Even within the military people kept liking Czechslovakia and hated Russia, especially hated 1968. I listened to countless stories by elderly about the events of 68 and the fear and nonsense it brought. And strong hate towards Russia was definitely a thing even among kids in school in Žilina. Dno how that changed. I would even say that Slovaks have a now cultural sentiment to raise their kids with the words "leave as soon as possible" and many were told this in my wider family as well as in school. Hence probably why... They were from the more liberal, Czech liking and Russia hating population that kept seeing the continuous decline.

[@Hejhouyou]

​@@tomasvrabec1845 I am from western Slovakia. My family were basically your average lower class people .. construction workers, mechanics, farmers etc ... It's possible I lived in a bubble or something, but that's what I remember from 90s and early 2000s. The thing is I also have a lot of family living in Serbia, and it was the same story there. They had their own communist regime and older people there were saying the same thing as here .. life was better under communism... I don't know how old you are, but the anti-russia thing in schools is probably more of a recent thing. Like last 10-15 years mabe.

[@PeterKoperdan]

I can assure you that plenty of Slovaks hate Russia with passion. I would say that mostly middle-aged people. I don't know what the general sentiment is among young people. Plenty of seniors that actually lived in socialism for many years don't have a problem with Russia or the socialist regime. I think that it's probably because of their life experience. They are less naive and can see that all regimes and countries have their share of problems. Perhaps life was great in the West before 2000s, but then things started to change...

[@user-bu3sn6kd5n]

Whenever you hear someone say that “things were better back then“, look at what age they are. My grandmother, born 1902, had fond memories of both Austria and 1st Czechoslovak republic. When I was a child, I saw plenty of old people, praising “The Order” that there was during Nazi occupation. Now I see a lot of people beyond 50, who worship the age of “freedom and common sense” - the 1990s… A and yes, the commie fanclub is huge. Thanks to the modern, read, WESTERN, medicine, they are still around in their 80 years of age and bless us with their observations…

[@AuslanderViko]

I když jsem se z Česka odstěhoval hned po střední, tak se vždy podívám na nějaké video. Moc se povedlo.

[@ZiggyBoon]

Your explanation for some of the differences between Czechs and Slovaks actually also helps explain the current Slovakian political tilt toward Russia in its war against Ukraine, and why the Czech government is a strong supporter of Ukraine.

[@janjurik660]

As a Slovak, let me tell you, that all this russophile stuff is bullshit. It is essentialy a theatre play that current gouvernment parties use to gain support from Husák's children (basicaly our own version of baby boomers). Our gouvernment currently met with Ukrainian foreign minister with whom they discussed potential highway to Ukraine. So no, we are not Putin's little bitch

[@ysy662]

It is amazing... to see how different Catholicism is taken by the Czechs and the Poles. In Czechia it was seen as an enemy to the national identity... while in Poland as a protector of the national tradition, that was keen for us to survive wars, partitions, and the communism... We are so close, but at the same time so far apart. 😀

[@rafel73]

Same thing happens here between spaniards and catalans. The Catholic Church was a big supporter of Francoist regime and now Catalonia is one of the less religious nations of Europe, which makes catalan nationalism very diferent from irish one

[@rehurekj]

Czechs been Hussites for 2 centuries and been forcefully converted only after they lost war against Catholic Habsburgs, within one generation Czechs lost sovereignty and right to elect own kings, German language was given priority in administration, and majority of people was forced to change, at least superficially, their religion, so one can argue the link between religion and nation, people, was broken by this external action, and as such catholicism was never internalised as a basis of Czech identity and country very quickly secularised once Catholicism stopped being enforced and protected by state after the break up of Austria Hungary. Christian/ Catholic holidays and traditions are still widely observed and happily celebrated in Czechia but they are generally viewed as Czech traditional and not religious holidays in their nature, e.g. Baby Jesus is bringing Xmas gifts but Czechs mostly dont think of him as the same Jesus from Bible and Christian religion.

[@Weisser.Teufel]

We are not close, on the contrary: we are miles apart. Mentality is completely different, I would say the only thing that makes Poles and Czechs close is their languages being part of the Western Slavic group - and even with that Czech is a VERY different language.

[@ysy662]

@@Weisser.Teufel This is what I am saying. Languages are close enough that we can understand each other without much difficulty. However there are words that sound the same but mean completely different things, sometimes this can be very fumy ... like Polish word 'szukać' means 'to look for' Czech word that sounds the same means 'to f*ck'. So when the Pole says 'szukam żonę' which means I am looking for my wife....the Czech will interpret this like "I am f*cking my wife'

[@Abrahamlincoln7890]

Can you make a video about the Netherlands? I really like your videos👍 keep going

[@Atricapilla]

So neither country have a large muslim community, the beer is great and the women are pretty. Do you have a job for me?

[@robertrussell5856]

The map you showed at the end is outdated, Ukraine, Baltics, and Finland don't have a Communitarian family structure. I don't quite remember what type they had, only that it was the type that was in Poland, which was greyed out.

[@weswhite6058]

@4:11 is my favorite painting of all time

[@petarristovski8530]

Love me Brothers, greethings from Skopje,N.Macedonia

[@aleksandercirilkozar2769]

I'd love to see a video about slovenians and croats and serbs and other nations regarding national tensions and history. Probably that should be a series of videos. 😁 Great work btw! 💪✌️👍

[@cossackhistorian7425]

About Czechia being the most atheist country In the world. I think many people who say they are religious simply say that on censuses/polls because it’s a part of the ethnic/cultural identity. While for Czechs they never had that link with a specific religious denomination as the Catholic Church was more associated with the Germans. On polls like “do you believe in an afterlife” or “do you think there is a heaven and hell” Czechia isn’t so different from the rest of Europe

[@morhaimtyr4173]

It's more like dislike for organized religion and clergy. Not aversion towards spiritulaity, or even god/s.

[@radeksilar543]

About refusing atheism, it was done mostly by church refusing to use Czech language (or any old slavic from back then), while latin and specificaly German was used commonly. Same issue as rular/urban population like in the video. And all attempts to create own church was burried, or remained separated only to countryside, by rulers, crusades, by Vatican rules etc. It naturaly created sceptisicm towards Catholicism or other larger churches. Also, there is a lot of history of power corruption did specifialy by Catholic church, like selling indulgences, taxing religious services, while keeping all taxes for themselfs > banned to have childred, or be excomunicated (was not always complied by small villages comunities, priests was in same position as others, except literacy). Oh, and do not forget for 30 years war, which resulted to crash of most of elites of other churches and also many lords, back then in 16th century.

[@crusader2112]

@@radeksilar543 Why is Celibacy considered apart of church corruption?

[@radeksilar543]

@@crusader2112 well, it was not part in the original church, before it was common for priests to have children. Celibacy was created to avoid heritage of the church. But issue was, when they started to be hypocritical, in short term, ,,Preach water, drink wine".

[@crusader2112]

@@radeksilar543 I agree Hypocrisy is a problem, but that’s not just a problem for the church, that’s a problem with elites in general.

[@DJMacX]

I talked with a slovak recently about this topic. He told me that working mentality vastly differs. And even he was surprised when he worked in prague for a time.

[@NotanEmpire]

The first time I feel I really understand the founding and break up of Czechoslovakia. An artificial state that wouldnt last, but luckily could be peacefully separated in two. I like your honest reflections in this video, thanks.

[@fautqucabele2070]

I read all Kundera's books when I was young, this is most of what I know from Czequia. Fantastic writer by the way.

[@jesperburns]

I would love a similar deep dive on the Baltics and their history.

[@crusader2112]

I concur. 👍

[@nicbahtin4774]

does this video has something to do Warhorse Studios with announcing their next game in 2 days ? hope so

[@jirislavicek9954]

This video is a masterpiece on a Czech - Slovak relations. Well done. 👍 As someone who lived in formerly German dominanted borderland (Ústí nad Labem), I can confirm that these regions haven't recovered from the expulsion of Germans till today. Sudden demographic change brings terrible results.

[@serebii666]

It wasn't the expulsion of Germans, but deindustrialization itself that characterizes the blight of the Ústecký and Karlovarský region. Economic metrics show that Czechoslovakia grew in line with Western Europe throughout the late 1940s and 1950s - there was no GDP loss from expelling a large segment of the population. This was due to the Party's focus on heavy industry development. However, by the 1960s this growth slowed and the plans for economic reform from the early 60s were destroyed by the Soviet invasion in 1968. But had Czechoslovakia remained in the Western bloc, deindustrialization would have hit these regions hard regardless, as we see from the cases of similarly highly industrialized regions like Wallonia in Belgium, Hauts-de-France or England's North. Those places also have the same issues, with only some having been able to refocus - often to service sector niches, like biotech, etc. Socialism for these regions only delayed this by 2 decades from the 1970s, through heavy Soviet subsidies and non-functional markets, so when it did come in the early 90s, it the impact was immediate, since the COMECOM trade network (RVHP) suddenly collapsed and all the Eastern Bloc countries went bankrupt. After all, there were no buyers for these inefficient, dirty and expensive goods and the factories were incredibly outdated compared to the post-Industrial states of the West. Of the factories that did survive, through large FDI capital injections, like Škoda or Zeiss in East Germany, restructuring and investment went hand in hand with firing the surplus employees who were not needed in technologically advanced factories.

[@LegiyonEhellout]

I have a question KaiserBauch. How come the Slovak birth rate in 2021 is 1.63 and Czechia's is 1.83? By all acounts I expected this to be the opposite, with the more traditional rural Slovakia having larger birth rate than the more secular progressive Czechia. Do you have an explanation for this?

[@rumenok]

Slovakia is way more depressing

[@LegiyonEhellout]

@rumenok Well, North Korea is much more depressing than South Korea, yet it has a much higher birth rate, so that can't be the answer (assuming you are being serious!)

[@rumenok]

@@LegiyonEhellout yes, but you forget one small detail - Slovakia is EU member so youth just go to another countries to find proper job and etc. to Czechia as well, North Korea is closed so...

[@FOLIPE]

Interesting point, looking it up it seems that history birth rates were higher in Slovakia until 2001, then on par between the two for roughly a decade, and the Slovakia recovers more slowly from the bottom. Perhaps it's explained mostly by economic differences and migration, but migration would reduce the pool of fertile women so both the nominator and the denominator

[@tomasvrabec1845]

As stated here. Until 2001 the birth rate was higher in SVK. Then similar. After that, Slovak birth rate went down. Reason is rather simple - Slovakia is worse off hence far more of the younger and able migrate abroad - and mainly migrate into Czechia. That's since 2004. 20 years later - a one Generational circle in Theory, Slovak birth rate is smaller because the Population within Reproductive Age migrated out. Whilst this would likely boost Czech birth rates by the same amount that Slovakia lost it's (more or less). Which seems to align.

[@scanzachaz9989]

🔥

[@cazwalt9013]

Can you do a video about anything related to Greece and Italy 😭

[@vladimirskala]

As to Stur's rejection of liberalism, it's important (so as not to allow modern discourse to distort the historical context) to note that liberalism was mostly associated with Hungarian nationalism, which called for one Hungarian nation and rejected equal rights to all other people (I refrain from the term 'minority' since there was no one people who made up a majority within the kingdom of Hungary).

[@perseus274]

Yes. Based on the surnames, there's around 2 000 000 Slovaks in Hungary. All top 3 surnames are of Slovak origin. Nagy (Nahý), Tóth (Slovák), Kovacs (Kováč)

[@hdaNhun]

@@perseus274 That's quite a stretch. "Nagy" means big/grand, "kovács" is smith. While the origins of the word kovács is slavic, that doesn't mean every guy named "Smith" (which is just a profession) is a slav, and I don't think "nagy" has anything to do with Slovaks. "Tóth" used to refer to all slavs but was later narrowed down to Slovaks, true, but even if we assume all the 200k people with the Tóth family name had Slovak ancestry that'd only be ~2% of the population.

[@perseus274]

@@hdaNhun sorry my bad. I forgot that "Nagy" is pronounced as "Naď". Your "GY" is our "Ď", "Magyar"(Maďar). If I'm not mistaken, other slavs were called by their name of the land. Cseh (Czech), Rusznák (Rusyn), Szerb (Serb), Lengyel (Pole), Horvát (Croat), Orosz (Rus). So, people with surname "Tóth" are all Slovaks, just like "Olah" are all Romanians, "Német" are all Germans etc. There's also a lot more other and less frequent Slovak surnames in Hungary, such as Meszáros (Mäsiar), Liptai (Lipták), Nitrai (Nitran), Molnár (Mlynár), Takács (Tkáč), Murány (Murár), Orbán (Urban),.... You can for sure find atleast 2 000 000 Slovaks in Hungary.

[@hdaNhun]

@@perseus274 I think you're mistaking words that are kind of shared between the 2 languages as a sing of Slovak ancestry. For example Molnár comes from the German Müller while Mészáros means butcher, these are just professions. So people with the name Müller, Molnár and Mylnár had the same jobs with different ethnic or regional backgrounds. Orbán actually comes from latin but was mostly used by jews. But it's kind of a complicated thing to argue, since after 1000 ears of shared history I bet most families on both sides could find a Slovak or Hungarian ancestor in their family tree. Especially considering how in the 16th century a lot of Hungarians had to flee north from the Ottoman conquest and after the Ottomans were defeated many other ethnicities were also settled into central Hungary to repopulate devastated areas. One of the towns on southern Hungary (Békéscsaba/Békešská Čaba) still has a significant Slovak minority because of that. I think Slovaks as the closest to us culturally and it's a shame how the 20th century turned out. If we currently had the WWII borders along ethnic lines we'd probably be besties by now, since politically both countries seem to be on the same wavelength.

[@perseus274]

@@hdaNhun Molnár comes from Slavic/Slovak "Mlynár" and it means the same thing, just like Meszáros and "Mäsiar". The reason why I believe people with those surnames are Slovaks is because the words are derived from Slovak not Magyar language (Slovaks had the most diverse jobs in Kingdom of Hungary out of all ethnicities based on statistics btw.) But during Magyarization, the surnames were "Magyarized", so Mlynár became Molnár, Mäsiar (older Mesziar) - Meszáros, Tkáč - Takács, Kováč - Kovacs etc. Slovaks are closest to Magyars, because we're the same people, divided by language. I too would like to have WW2 Hungary borders, but also with Slovakia part of it. Atleast we would be bigger and not part of Eastern block, so we would be richer and much more beautiful country, than we're now as 2 separate countries.

[@orava2008]

Czechia and Slovakia are like the two sides of a same coin! I enjoyed very much travelling these two lands which are different but not really foreign to one another. Hopefully, time will bring these countries and their people more close than apart.

[@hiroshimanagasaki616]

Im half czech and I find this video really interesting its great to know more about my ancestral homeland

[@BoboSLO1]

Slovaks are Slovenes , SLOVENCI in both languages 🇸🇮+🇸🇰= brothers in DNA samples 💪

[@maciekszymanski8340]

So they can't interbreed with each other...

[@kasubarukun22]

Very interesting, this was way different from history class. And i think our history classes aren't too bad. In Finland that is.