Making of a State : Czechoslovakia

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Extra Information and clarifications.
1:02 Large group leaving church services in Bohemia, Czech Republic in 1897.
1:26 The Area of today's Western Slovakia and Eastern Moravia had and still somewhat has a mixed Czech/Slovak population but I don't show that in these maps as A. A lot of People back than identified as Czechoslovak rather than one or the other and B. I am lazy and didn't want to draw it.
1:26 Keep in mind that the area populated by the Czechs is much more densely populated than the area populated by the Slovaks. So even though on the map it doesn't seem like a big difference, population vise the Czechs are far more numerous.
2:18 These are the official colors of the mentioned Czech parties, blue and darker blue. These tow parties weren't the only parties in Czechia at the time but they where the most prominent.
2:44 Most Czech movements at the end of the 19th century where also dictated by anti-westernism, Russophilia and antisemitism.
2:58 (SNS Slovenská národná strana) different from the current SNS, not the same party just the same name.
3:06 It was edited by Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský during the time we are looking at (1899 to the Great War), it had many other editors outside of this time (also a few brief ones during Vajansky's involvement).
4:39 The technical term is the "Eastern Slovak Dialect" (Západoslovenský Dialekt) but I found "Zahoracky Dialect" way more funnier.
4:45 He failed at being a farmer, locksmith, and a blacksmith in part due to his disdain towards those jobs.
4:56 Gymnasium- Type of a Central European grammar school.
6:56 He was later found not guilty and pardon just before the end of the War.
7:03 Masaryk was also quite a hothead with a nack for ending up in fights whether verbal or physical.
7:19 There was also a prominent Old Czech party which had the votes of the Czech higher class and Czech Germans.
8:10 Given the chance, a small majority 51% of Czechs and Slovaks would most likely choose independence, but considering the state of AH, many politicians rather officially supported the federalist state idea instead of a full blown succession.
8:16 There where also suppose to be various autonomous German enclaves throughout the empire.
9:42 "Austrian" here refers to any Austrian recruit not just German Austrian.
#Czechoslovakia #Czechia #Slovakia #ProjectHomecoming

[@puweul]

When he said Tatíček Masaryk, I felt that.

[@jebatevrana]

Me too, Czech sounds so soft to me and it was as if I was child and someone told me that.

[@AndrewVasirov]

Daddy Masaryk? Hahah, nice!

[@xxx_strawberrygamergaming_xxx]

Já jsem čechoslovák taky překvapuje mně jak umí ŽŠČŘĎŤŇ

[@woptiomko]

@@xxx_strawberrygamergaming_xxx Však on je slovák :D

[@lukas54cz71]

@@jebatevrana thx

[@Artur_M.]

It might be interesting to the English-speaking viewers that in Czech the word for Bohemia is "Čechy". Czechia as a whole is "Česko" and the adjective "český" means both "Czech" and "Bohemian". In Polish, both Bohemia and Czechia are simply called "Czechy". So depending on the language, there is greater sense of continuity between the historical Kingdom and the modern Republic.

[@Gosudar]

Good point. I'll just add that the whole Czechia used to be called Bohemia in English until 1918 as well. Masaryk himself named his 1915 proposal for the independent country of Czechs and Slovaks "Independent Bohemia". Bohemia is basically an exonym while Czechia (a Latinised version of the Czech original "Czechy") is an endonym. They were both used interchangeably for centuries. Today, Bohemia ("Čechy") is used only for Bohemia proper, while Czechia (Česko) designates the whole country.

[@janmacek1648]

we are proud of our Republic. So we use it always. I dont know people who use Czechia... its stupid. Coz if you once say Czechia, you need to say Moravia and Silesia (Czech Silesia) too.

[@Gosudar]

@@janmacek1648 Czechia literally means "the Czech state" or "the state of the Czechs". It's a centuries-old name. You do realise that the Czech state (a.k.a. Czechia) is one of the oldest countries in continuous existence? Whilst "the Czech Republic" is just 30 years old? The greatest Czech, Charles IV was not the king of the Czech Republic, was he? Why are we pretending to be a country without a history? Think about it. BTW, Czechia seems to be "stupid" to you just because you are not used to it. Trust me, I've been there..

[@janmacek1648]

@@Gosudar nerozumíš tomu...

[@yerdasellsavon9232]

So Czech rhapsody is the same as bohemian rhapsody

[@kevinolmedo675]

Very smart dude ships his two loved nations, and convinced almost anyone to ship them too. He then went full Bismarck in politica and got what he wanted. Truly aj awesome intellectual.

[@IgnasV]

Ah yes, famous french city of "Prais"

[@MLaserHistory]

Mistakes happen, and if you're me, spelling mistakes happen quite often.

[@pavkus8598]

Captain Prajs :-)

[@stefansolciansky7302]

@@MLaserHistory ...Does that M stand for "Mistake?"

[@wrakytv3350]

@@stefansolciansky7302 savage

@@MLaserHistory Well, I made Sicily disapear on one of my map, no worries XD

[@stalkinghorse883]

Masaryk had a plan, Masaryk always had a plan.

[@greeses5482]

a man of culture i see

[@brandonproductions8401]

Wrong leader

[@nunodossantos3362]

I got that reference.

[@Michal-mc6co]

@@brandonproductions8401 Shut up

[@yprinxe]

Iďeme do Tahiti!

[@hilmermate317]

Highest quality, well done. Thankfully now we all work together in V4, EU and NATO. Wish you all the best from Hungary!

[@hilmermate317]

@Hungary #1 Maybe, but they are useful. We are stronger together. Through EU we can go anywhere within the EU freely, make businesses. EU helps greatly with exports and we are an exporter country. NATO is important to keep us safe. Hopefully we can do more, but at this point aswell we need each other.

[@hilmermate317]

@Hungary #1 You really think we are better off without EU and NATO? Oh boy. Okay. First of all, look at every country in Europe without EU. Even Norway and Switzerland has to be at least in economic partnerships with the EU or it wouldn't be good for them. Look at the Balkan or Eastern Europe, those are the examples you want to follow? What do you think, could Russia even have a say in Ukraine if Ukraine was in NATO? No. You just described the main point of the EU. We are a small country compared to USA, Russia or China. We have to work together to be important. I study agricultural engineering, you have no idea how many economic stats we have to watch and in every one of them we are small UNLESS we take the whole EU in to consideration, because then we have a saying in EVERYTHING in the world. We export 3 times more than we import just in agriculture. FREE OF CHARGE THANKS TO EU. Our number one Import and Export partner is Germany. Once again, for free. I name you a Company, Bábolna Tetra, probably the biggest chicken breeding company in the country. Not even mentioning how much money the EU put in Hungarian agriculture. For example, did you know we have close to same amount of tractors as Germany? How come? Oh yeah the EU paid for it, because they saw there is a big potential in our agriculture and guess what they were right, we have good lands. 50% of the country is infact are fields. EU doesn't force people to go and clean toilets, people choose that. If they don't like that go and do something else. Both of my parents are factory workers in SOmogy 2nd or 3rd worst county in terms of economical state and guess what I have everything I want. Sure I also work on summertime and sometimes next to UNI, but I don't have to worry about anything. How come they didn't have to go to London cleaning people's arses? It is in our best interest to be in EU and NATO, yes they could provide more for our brothers and sisters outside of the country, but we don't have any better. We have to take this and work for it to be good. Unless you want to live like people in Belarus or Montenegro. (Bless their hearts, I don't have anything against people on the balkan or farther to the east, I just state they don't live as good and wish they someday will.)

[@Rusty9017]

@@hilmermate317 Seems like you destroyed some1 with facts and logic, good for you, sad I cant read both parts of the argument.

[@christhefirst]

@@hilmermate317 bro you just killed them

[@galffygergojozsef7816]

@@hilmermate317 you destroyed a man so hard he ceased to exist

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting one! Czechoslovakian history is where I know the least of when looking at European history.

[@Armorius2199]

Yeah man me too.

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

Really you know more about Latvija?

[@MLaserHistory]

Really you know more about Albania?

[@petemagnuson7357]

@@MLaserHistoryAlbania had some neat stuff fighting the Ottomans in the 1300s and 1400s, I think, and Skanderberg is kinda known in the gaming communities I'm part of. I think I might know less about Romanian history than Slovakian history, but it's close. They're both countries that seemed kinda random and didn't have obvious history to read about. Another contender are the Baltic nations, but I at least understand where some of the borders come from. Belarus is another blank spot when it comes to my understanding, but I think might they actually not have any historical reason to exist so I don't feel so bad there.

[@danielm.4346]

@@petemagnuson7357 . And as to the second part of the last paragraph of your comment, it makes no sense.

[@bacant_man]

"Masaryk wanting unity between czechia and Slovakia" Velvet split:I have never met this man in my life

[@ing_frantisek_mohykan]

von Döbrögi: "maššarik ugugu gugu kara tubu"

[@lucasroach7835]

Fucking Mečiar

[@bagandzi]

The fist Slovak republic in 1939- me neather.

[@vaclav_fejt]

@@bagandzi Fucking Tiso.

[@bagandzi]

@@rncmv Ou yeah,sorry. Got my years mixed up.

[@mrcs1037]

Another nice video as allways! Have merry Christmas I am a Hungarian from Slovakia Veselé Vianoce Boldog Karácsonyt

[@Entety303]

Felvidéki Magyar its sad that slovaks and Hungarians don’t really get along very well

[@mrcs1037]

@@Entety303 As a Hungarian I still want the pre Trianon borders,but every ethnicity should have the same rights

[@elythas128]

@@mrcs1037 That would be one thicc empire

[@hriscubogdan2292]

@@mrcs1037 You kinda want two completely different things, not to be rude.

[@mionellessi3086]

@@feco91 It is only fault of Hungarians that everybody wanted to leave their kingdom.

[@juliane__]

Tatíček Masaryk, I didn't know him till now. I love to hear, where the origins lie. Czechoslovakia had a founder who fulfilled his role as an inspirational figure. Very blessed start for a nation. Like the founding figures of the EU.

[@samuelneupauer6376]

Za 12 minút som sa o Slovensku naučil viac ako ma naučili roky v škole :D dakujem...

[@samuelneupauer6376]

@@collie8 Prosim ? Nechapem ako je tato reakcia relevantna.

[@MrSkittlez313]

As a Bosnian. I understood what you said. “ I learned about Slovakia in 12 minutes. Than I did in school “ hahaha. Correct

[@zdeno9832]

MrSkittlez313 “In 12 minutes i learned more about slovakia than what they taught me in school for years”

[@InauguralAgate6]

I've been with you since like 170 subs or so and I'm so proud to see you at pretty much 50k ❤️ Happy Holidays dude ^-^!

[@zippofeldman1734]

Love your videos man, keep it up

[@erosguerra6947]

Oh my God, this is so good and interesting, and your voice is so beautiful! I'm a Brazilian who loves history, geography and languages! Thank you! Keep it up!

[@SeSmokki]

I love Czechia 💜 Love from Finsko!

[@arnoldscully8906]

This is the type of History I really enjoy. Thank you very much.

[@jdelark6428]

Thank you for doing these videos - I don't know a lot about Central-Eastern European history, except where there was a role in broader world events (WW1) or Western European history (French revolution and the Empire, the Hundred Years' War, etc). Thanks again!

[@Barttek]

Pozdrowienia z Polski, Wesołych Świąt!

[@petrhanke8644]

Děkuji polský příteli, šťastné svátky i tobě ♥️

[@dirtyblock3894]

Didnt know you were from slovakia, but your pronunciation made me think you were slovak :) Greetings from Germany, i am half slovakian myself ^^

[@radovantoth7233]

Amazing work again! I would love to hear the continuation of the story

[@gafanhotogamer5993]

Brazilian living in Bratislava. Thanks for the video!

[@ramirezzRK]

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[@jozefpisudski6952]

Como é a vida aí? Nunca conheci um brasileiro morando nessa parte da Europa.

[@porchofgeese_crockpot]

That's cursed

[@faustogiorno2300]

@@porchofgeese_crockpot said the guy with a country filled by subsaharians

[@robert9016]

The editing in these videos is just perfect

[@Hublium]

This video was great. It brought me some light into a topic I have not known a lot about. Great visualizations with the maps and all! I can't even imagine how much work that must have been! also LOL at 9:27. All my friends who have been conscripted into the Austrian Army would definitively agree!

[@mkrosova]

love your videos! Very informative

[@Omnigreen]

Such an interesting video, thank you for your content

[@martinfratric5304]

All of your videos are great. And I am so proud that you are Slovak as you said at the end of the video. Držím palce a teším sa na ďalšie skvelé práce o histórii.

[@rottencucumber1235]

I really respect your xork and what you do ! Don't stop !

[@EarPlugTV]

Great video, thank you for putting in the effort.

[@martinvrabel513]

I am glad, such quality videos are being made.

[@DenisBourveau]

i love this video. great job!

[@fajtik]

Pekná práca :) Prajem pekné sviatky!

[@sergeantmajor_gross]

Great video. Happy to learn more about the formation of this nation.

[@theeuropeanperspective3391]

Excellent introduction to the history of Czechoslovakia, thanks!

[@MafiHazlinsky1]

Wow, this documentary is pretty dense must be pretty hard to prepare it. Good job 😁

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Have you tried hitting the bell button? I know it can be annoying with the notifications but looks like KZbin has decided the bell button now is what the subscription button use to be.

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[@laussrensen4541]

Thank you very much for this!

[@user-sl1ht4fr2d]

Great video! I couldn't help but notice music choice though: around 11:00 "Journey to the past" from " Anastasia" 1997 starts, was impressed with it!

[@TerillaArtoria]

Great work and Cheers from America! Its really hard imo to find good stuff on Slovak history.

[@cantthinkofacreativename1769]

congrats for 50k subs!

[@MartinOzarek123abc]

Great video as always! Extremely interesting. Nollaig shona duit.

[@vooky7643]

Extrémek , říkal jsme si jak je možný že někdo z anglicky mluvící země dokáže udělat takhle super video ,takhle fakt dobrý video. Super fakt super. Gratulace veliká.

[@michalvicha7384]

on je slovák

[@S3Kglitches]

The unity of Czechs and Slovaks into one "nation" was just pragmatic. They just needed to outnumber the Germans and Hungarians in the territory to gain the right to form a new country.

[@paultonebyl]

No.

[@MrMajsterixx]

@@paultonebyl a reknes i nejakej argument ?

[@Asdasxel]

That's one of the reasons but it's not the only thing. Czech and Slovak intelligentsia were in close contact during the Austrian-Hungarian times. Thanks to that both nations were somewhat culturally and very much linguistically close. If they were not, forming a single united country would have been very difficult.

[@S3Kglitches]

@@Asdasxel They were not very culturally nor economically close however. Compare industrial Czech west during the beginning of the 20th century with shepherds with 5 to 10 children in Slovakia. Did they have anything else in common than language?

[@kacperwoch4368]

It's really impressive how even without a large population a nation state can be built.

[@jarskil8862]

You just need group of similar people with common goal. :)

[@OiySTCZ]

Great video, brother :) Díky

[@davidbohem6524]

Man what a great video!! I wish to play it in every Czech secondary school 😝😝

[@laszlovondracsek]

Interesting video and very well documented, just like a historical film, congratulations! Zdravim z Rumunska!

[@nagyadam8813]

Ez neked érdekes videó,a nagy marhasághoz van köze meg a hazug történelemhez. A déd nagyapám Felvidéki volt Groffi családból származott és egy egész megye az övéké volt a Felvidék északi részén,ott egy kurva szláv nem élt.

[@laszlovondracsek]

@@nagyadam8813 Nos...mit mondhatnek? En felig cseh vagyok, felig magyar, ez az en "kombinaciom"!!! Valojaban, magyarnak erzem magam, de csehnek is es azert nem tetszik egyaltalan amikor csunya vagy piszkos dolgokat hallok az egyikrol vagy a masikrol...Ez az!

[@iska788]

really great ! thank you !

[@jangelbrich7056]

German living in Sweden. Your maps are brilliant as background for history explanations!

[@MLaserHistory]

Thank you.

[@_badger_9902]

"Překvapení to nečekané, ale vítané"

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

Vive la Tchéquie et la slovaquie 🇸🇰 🇫🇷🇨🇿🇸🇮

[@franciscojcsa6127]

Mr french person, why the slovenian flag?

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

@@franciscojcsa6127 because my origin is slovenian

[@franciscojcsa6127]

@@Bracus.Reghusk ah that's nice no problems then

[@AllanLimosin]

I don't have the same origins but I am french and Longue Vie à ces pays slaves 🍻

[@nickthompson7584]

Here from OverSimplified shout out, look forward to your material!

[@squidboy01]

Dobře video kamaráde!

[@zachbaird4717]

Great video, very informative, I enjoyed this as much as you can enjoy history content ( which is a lot for me) Take my sub good sir.

[@avideoyoumaynotknow8085]

thank you this helped me czech my work

[@davido6170]

Very interesting. I wish you had mentioned the Pittsburgh Agreement which Masaryk authored. This was signed 31 May 1918 by Czech & Slovak expat communities in America committing to among other things a union of the Czech and Slovak lands into a Constitutional republic. Masaryk was in Pittsburgh when this agreement was signed.

[@olleolio3155]

Very good video!

[@michalvarga3369]

Vravel som si že nejak veľmi dobre vyslovuješ mená

[@martincerveny2284]

Až na Ř :-D

[@WSADKO]

Dude, im a ukrainian guy who lives in Lodz and works near Chyzne in Poland. I'm touched by your video and subbed instantly. Also - last summer ive ascended slobodne kralovstvo Rysy, if you know what i mean :D P.S. I'm into history now, thanks!

[@markobednarovsky9158]

Good video, but you shoud talk more about Štefánik and Beneš too. For example štefánik knew a lot of important people in France and iit was a huge deal because france was a major pover. Also it was work of all three that Czechoslovakia formed if it would be Masaryk only it would never happend. Overall nice video but for next time talk more about them too

[@luboskovac4466]

Yes i think the same Štefánik was very important.

[@prolamer7]

But in the end nations splited - because slovak wished so and because of that both nations are insignificant as Masaryk predicted, that was Slovak choice. In short time period it might seem like good decision but in long runn its worst what could happened.

[@markobednarovsky9158]

@@prolamer7 it wasn't slovak choice. It was just choice of politicians both Czech and Slovak. There wasn't any voting about it

[@petr7694]

Betting on France has proven to be one of the major "design flaws" of Czechoslovakia (let's keep that in mind next time Macron talks about destruction of NATO a "EUropean defense"). By today's standards, Masaryk built a huge personality cult around him, which I believe Is something that has no place in democracy. Masaryk shouldn't had been elected for his last term, because at that time he was in such a poor physical condition that he was unable to even read the presidential oath. Without Masaryk and his personality cult, Beneš would have never been elected president. Beneš was perhaps a great diplomat but definitely no leader in times of crises. He failed in 1938 and was allowed to fail again in 1948. It was Beneš's effort to overcompensate for his failures, that he sleepwalked Czechoslovakia into Stalin's arms in 1943. He then provider cover for communist takover od the country from 1945 to 1948. Being severly impaired after suffering brain strokes he was just a communist sock puppet. I am willing to believe, that Beneš was the mastermind behind Štefánik's aircraft accident in 1919. It would be interesting how things would Evolve differently, had Masaryk's sucessor been Štefánik, a soldier and a renaissance man instead of Beneš, the bureaucrat and vengeful intriguer. Sadly, Czechs and Slovaks have one thing in common: living in denial and tendency to create an entire mythology around people who objectively failed them. For Czechs it's Beneš and Dubček for the Slovaks.

[@markobednarovsky9158]

@@petr7694 Big truth said here. I too think that Beneš wasn't good for president. He was bureaucrat very talented bureaucrat but not president. It would be very interesting if Štefanik was President due to his personal connections and abbility to make them but we can't change past. And the part about denial is sadly true too

[@nilu555]

Ďakujem za videá.

[@Manny_CZ]

..moc se mi to líbilo, díky Ti ;-)

[@painevan5304]

Hello all my Czech and Slovak brothers from the grandchild of a Czechoslovakia n immigrant!

[@verasmith4767]

Same here.

[@martinmracek6885]

As a Czech I have to say its spot on thanks fo your vids

Skvělé!

[@GAtTheTop]

Great video, from a fellow Slavic Serb!

[@samuliqq]

Super! Naučil si ma za tak krátky čas niečo, čo sa napríklad v učebniciach dejepisu nikdy nepíše.. Škoda,že sa tieto videá nemôžu pozerať na hodinách, pretože by určite dali deťom a aj mne veľa. Zaujímam sa o históriu Československa a o celú históriu Slovenska. Zaujal si ma :) Len tak ďalej.

[@markderen205]

My grandmother was born in Horna Krupa, Slovakia.. She emigrated to Landsford, PA in about 1917. (I think this is accurate).

[@18roselover]

Thank you for the detailed interesting explanation of czechoslovak history.. I am from Kosice or kassa in hungarian

[@nikita424]

The song from Anastasia is a nice touch

[@sedukai5924]

Austria in Czechia: Ok this is Bohemia, and here is Moravia, and over there is Silesia Hungary in Slovakia: MINE, ALL MINE

[@robertgyiran]

Well, if you could tell me any historical state on that land in the past 1000 years. Oh right, that's Hungary :) I'm sorry, but there were no historical state for slovakians, and therefore no "legal" claims based on that, not like the czechs.

[@arvoresdoinfinitogameplay-3482]

@@robertgyiran yes there isn't a slovak State but, there's the Slovak people. " The people form the nacion"

[@robertgyiran]

@@arvoresdoinfinitogameplay-3482 great, then tell me, how Slovakia got southern-slovakia, where the population was 100% hungarian. Double standards

[@filipburic5194]

Tatíček Masaryk, love it. Great video, good to see someone not butchering Czech names 😆

[@itshenry8977]

for english people not understanding 4:20 Tatíček Masaryk means Daddy Masaryk

[@lako5118]

Som si pôvodne myslel že si z Rakúska ale toto video ma prijemne prekvapilo. Btw tvoj kanal som objavil vtedy ked som musel opravit jedneho mojho kotlebovskeho kamarata ohladom historie.

[@MLaserHistory]

(typing in English because I am on my phone and it has an English keyboard) Ufff I mean I already had to delete like 5 comments on this video from people who where unable to grasp that a hero to the nationalists like Masaryk could ever help a Jew like Hilsner. It's really funny what logical contortions and made up theories these people go through to justify their beliefs of hating a group of people.

[@lako5118]

M. Laser History Najlepsie je že si ten dotyčny o sebe tvrdil aky je velky Slovak ale nevedel zakladne fakta z dejin Slovenska

[@sukromnevideo]

@@lako5118 Tito ludia nevedia ani pisat po slovensky, nieto este aby mali nejake fakty, hlavne ked radi citaju anti-fakty :)

[@NihilsineDeo1866.]

Very interesting video, good job:)

[@NeOCsati]

"We had to choose between creating Czechoslovakia or holding a referendum" - Tomas Masaryk

[@geoffreycharles6330]

What's the context of this sentence?

[@terrypennington2519]

I don't know much history about the Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians, so this was a pretty nice enlightenment om that whole area

[@joliettraveler]

Very good!

[@MrChuba001]

Hey! Thanks a lot for the great vid. You won't find a lot of content of THIS quality about East Europe region =) One question: why did you omit the fact that mid-wars Czechoslovakia was comprised of 3 ethnical regions (Czechia, Slovakia, Ruthenia)?

[@MLaserHistory]

The video was suppose to be about how Masaryk helped create Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia itself and how it existed wasn't in the scope of the video even though I hinted at its ethnic problem, it had to face as a new country, at the end of it.

[@MrChuba001]

@@MLaserHistory Thanks! Eagerly looking forward to further content on similar topics. Czechoslovakia during WW2 would be a nice continuation =) As there is not much quality content on this topic on YT

[@Lokislav]

@@MrChuba001 dunno if it will make you feel better but many Slovaks are aware of Rusyns and Ruthenia itself as being a part of what was then Czechoslovakia, I also have some (now Ukrainian) classmates who are aware of that fact too... it must've been quite interesting, I wouldn't mind that repeating once more but then again, Ukrainian politicians and nationalists would definitely be against it

[@ivanthominski1085]

4:47 this man learned all these Languages just to read a book as a teenager but me when I was 12 struggled to learn Traditional

[@far-an2027]

I am from Czech Republic and that all is truth and its good you maked this video, like and share

[@gabriels32]

Faras Animate,... good you made...

[@demistr7435]

Fucking hell, you do your research. This is on the college level history class. Truly great work.

[@jakub8094]

I am Slovak. Thank you for your videos about my home Czechoslovakia. :)

[@Mirinovic]

A já děkuju, že jako Slovák si vážíte ČSR

[@matejspiller6470]

Very good pronunciation for czech names 👍 Zdravím všechny čechy a slováky

[@grankoman]

Konečne vidím, že môj obľúbený kanál je Slovák. Pozerám ťa už dlho, ale nevedel som, že si náš🤗. Podľa mňa Slováci, ako národ, ale i krajina dostávajú malo poznania a pochopenia, i keď tu boli pri najväčších rozhodných chvíľach a 100% aspoň dajako zmenili dejiny. Som rád, veľmi veľmi rád, že máme takých ako ty od nás, ktorý aspoň trošku pripomínajú Slovákov do zahraničia. Máš môj obdiv. Diki

[@milansvancara]

Hlavně během ww2:P

[@matej_grega]

Mate, you got this.

[@vl9194]

Ďakujeme.

[@MLaserHistory]

Dakujem! Ak sa ti pacilo ("sa vam pacilo"? nikdy neviem ci mam vykat alebo tykat na internete) toto video tak len pockaj do 29. Septembra ;)

[@petrsukenik9266]

shame that it ended by german ocupation and after that 40 yeas of commnunism

[@DavidJGillCA]

It was a monumental tragedy, really.

[@petrsukenik9266]

@Yaroslav L actualy it was the france whitch act like a dick britan had no aliance wit czechoslovakia so it wasnt a treason

[@brandonproductions8401]

The Nova renaissance there is also bewegungskreig and Fort buster plus Germany had an Air Force

[@Wickedonezz]

German occupation didn't change anything they became independent then were invaded by the soviets

[@austinbosh7402]

Not to be rude, but get your facts straight before you make assumptions. There actually was the possibility of Czechoslovakia remaining one country, even after they were freed from communism. It's just that some Czech and Slovak politicians couldn't agree on some things so they mutually decided to just split. So the breakup of Czechoslovakia actually is the fault of the Czech and Slovak people themselves

[@jakubbenco5143]

A to som myslel že som tu snáď jediný Slovák. Dobrá práca!

[@MLaserHistory]

I mean for better or for worse Czech and Slovak KZbin is huge. Sadly also pretty bad in my opinion.

[@vojtechspinler6363]

@@MLaserHistory No, vy aspoň nemáte Tvtwixx :D

[@MLaserHistory]

​@@vojtechspinler6363 lol ako no Gogo neni o nic lepsi.

[@vojtechspinler6363]

@@MLaserHistory Ten aspoň nehází petardy do autobusu a podobný píčoviny :D

[@23Drazse]

Czechoslovakia like a miniature Austria-Hugary. (In this country was lived Czechs, Slovakians, Germans, Hungarians and Rusyns.) This was not working.

[@piaIy]

"Austria-Hungary is too diverse, we need to do something!" "Yes, we should divide it between smaller areas that not only won't follow any ethnic, cultural or strategic borders in most cases therefore won't solve ethnic tensions, but will f***k the region so hard it probably won't recover in the next 1000 years." "Such a genius idea, let's do it!"

[@dougr.2245]

My father was born in Slovakia in 1903. He told stories of the Magyarification by the Hungarian authorities. Slovak was not taught in schools. The Hungarians were much more oppressive to the other nationalities under their control than the Austrians. Dad used to say "You can make me kneel & put my hands together, but you can't make me pray" meaning that no matter how oppressed they were Slovaks like him would not agree to be Magyars.

[@peterivan9187]

1903 :D

[@dougr.2245]

@@peterivan9187 It's hard to imagine now, that my father grew up as a child in a town with no electricity; Water came from a wellhead with a hand pump, toilets were outhouses in the back yard. He came to the USA in 1927 as a furniture maker & got a job working on cars because they were still made at first like a horse carriage with a wooden frame covered with sheet metal for a body. I was born in 1950. In two generations the world is unrecognizable from what it was when he was born.

[@poonczey]

there was no slovakia in 1903, mate.

[@dougr.2245]

But there were Slovaks!!! My father taught me what they used to say to Magyarization: Slovak som aj Slovak budem ( I am a Slovak & I will always be a Slovak.) There was a Slovakia though politically it was included in Hungary at that time. @@poonczey

[@poonczey]

@@dougr.2245 "There was a Slovakia though " No, there wasn't. Just as there was no Portugal during the Roman Empire. It is that simple. And your story is full on BS btw. There was a cultral domination and the goverment did not respect the law about minority schooling, however we had been left to our own devices. The greatest "sin" of magyarization was you had to speak hungarian to get into any meaningful position within Hungary. And you had to speak german to make it on an Imperial level. Guess what, hungarians in Slovakia have to speak slovak if they want to get to a higher up position. Same in Romania. Or the U.S., where you have to speak English if you want to become someone important. My grandmother was the first of our family to learn hungarian in school. We're slovaks from Csongrád county, Hungary .

[@LexUniverse]

I am not sure about that, but I have a feeling that the word "český" when used in the national context prior 1918 should be Bohemian, not Czech... but maybe I am wrong... otherwise really interesting video :) new sub here

[@kitfisto5132]

Greetings to world from Czechia. Lets make it Czechoslovakia again

[@lukas54cz71]

Thanks to u other guys from nomczechoslovakia know us!

[@strex9610]

Oh so you are from slovakia i was thinking that its weird that you speak slovak so well :DD

[@GameKvasir]

Background music please? for dnd purposes. In any case very well made video that kept me watching till the end, thumbs up :D Edit: Found it for those who are unlucky musical enthusiasts as i am, name is The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár

[@MacoLmao]

This is the only video that makes czechoslovakia interesting

[@goofygoober1009]

lol, there are tons of other interesting topics that concern Czechoslovakia, you are just ignorant about all of them. The Czechoslovak legions in Russia, Czechoslovak pilots in RAF or assassination of Reynard Heydrich. If that isn't interesting, then I don't know what is.

[@aaauto705]

Dostala som sa sem z tvojho videa o aztec human sacrifices a to že si slovák som fakt nečakala, ale nesťažujem sa

[@TomasSluka]

Brilliant. Do you have any reference on the Masaryk's injury in the Austro-Prussian war? I never heard about it and cannot find any info.

[@MLaserHistory]

The only reference about him even being involved in the war, that I could find, was from the letter of purpose he wrote in 1875. This letter is held by the University of Vienna but a copy is in the UCL School of Slavonic studies. Also a translated copy is in the books Winters, S. B., T.G. Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1; Thinker and Politician, London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL, 1990. and Selver, P., Masaryk A Biography, London, Michael Joseph LTD, 1940.

[@TomasSluka]

@@MLaserHistory thanks a lot

[@alfawaretutorials6262]

Hello from Czechia 🇨🇿

[@Apokalypse456]

austro-prussian war of 1866 is knows as the brother's war, not the unification war. the unification war was 1871 against france.

[@MLaserHistory]

Rudolf Winziers (April 17, 2001). "Unification War 1866". Royal Bavarian 5th Infantry.

[@Apokalypse456]

@@MLaserHistory alright, I stand corrected. In school it was always called the "Bruderkrieg".

[@migoro6211]

In school we learned yet another name for the austro-prussian war. "Der deutsch-deutsche Krieg" or "the german-german war".