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Re:About Ukraine by nakedrobot2 on Friday January 31, 2014 @10:48AM (#7157220)
Czechs and Slovaks are two distinct "tribes". The fact that they existed together as one nation in the first place was somewhat arbitrary.

That said, the fact that they were split again into two nations was somewhat arbitrary as well, not everyone was in favor of that, not by a long shot.

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Re:About Ukraine by a8da6b0c91d on Friday January 31, 2014 @11:44AM (#7157521)
The Slovaks were sort of reluctantly dragged into the union by the Czechs in the first place. The Slovaks were much more Catholic and traditionalist and quite comfortable with the Austro Hungarians.
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Re:About Ukraine by Squarex on Friday January 31, 2014 @02:40PM (#7158724)
I don't think they were comfortable with the Austria-Hungary at all. They were oppressed by Hungarians much more than Czechs by Austrians. Slovaks and Hungarians have pretty complicated relations even in present day.
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