So, you guys who are saying there is a need to be more centrist… Shouldn’t you just be saying “Give the Nazis Czechoslovakia, then they won’t attack England?” I mean, how’d that work out for Neville Chamberlain in 1938?
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In the last 50 years, we've had many examples of citizens taking back democracy from autocratic regimes through direct action:
1986 Philippines
1987 South Korea
1989 Czechoslovakia
2000 Serbia/Yugoslavia
2011 Tunisia/Egypt
It can be done. We all want to know...
2025 USA ?
2026 USA ?
Never USA ?
1986 Philippines
1987 South Korea
1989 Czechoslovakia
2000 Serbia/Yugoslavia
2011 Tunisia/Egypt
It can be done. We all want to know...
2025 USA ?
2026 USA ?
Never USA ?
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Composer, author, musician and cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner was born #OTD in 1922. With his brother and father in concentration camps, fifteen-year-old Gerhard left Austria alone in May 1938, fleeing to Czechoslovakia. His brother Oskar died in Dachau.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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And Hitler wouldn’t have invaded Poland if we allowed him to have Czechoslovakia.
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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2) After a violent change of power or economy comes a so-called period of “normalization”. “Normalization” is a cynical term from Soviet propaganda: when tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968, Comrade Brezhnev declared, “Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized.” 3/8
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I saw the discussion, but you mention Czechoslovakia being a close ally, and without the wars and the iron curtain surely whatever rail connection is way better than what exists today?
Well maybe Munich isn't as big of a city in the alt timeline, with less rapid growth in the late 20th century?
Well maybe Munich isn't as big of a city in the alt timeline, with less rapid growth in the late 20th century?
October 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Czechoslovakia of 1968, Hungary of 1956 and Finland of 1939 were too russophobic for no reason, apparently.
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Hey now I play HOI4 multiplayer but refuse to play anything but democracies because I think fascists are boring.
The only time I played germany I spent 4 years staring at the espionage screen and czechoslovakia trying to do some cute thing and I still don't know how so many people can be so bad.
The only time I played germany I spent 4 years staring at the espionage screen and czechoslovakia trying to do some cute thing and I still don't know how so many people can be so bad.
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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15. WOLF'S HOLE. Chytilová. 1987. From the former Czechoslovakia: The (No)Thing. Taking the gory out of allegory. #31daysofhorror #31daysofhorrormovies
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I can respect a historian with adventurous metaphors but comparing a medieval narrative about the Franciscans to the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia is maybe a bit much. (From David Burr's "The Spiritual Franciscans")
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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It was extremely common for Czechoslovakia to spy on citizens who moved overseas. They weren't specifically interested in Trump at the time. It's a crazy coincidence that the intelligence report came out one year after Trump's first planned campaign announcement.
Today in 1987, three months after his first Russia meeting, Donald Trump arrived to what was supposed to be a presidential campaign event. He told the crowd the US should attack Iran for their oil and cut off aid to our allies. Then he announced he would NOT run for president.
Donald Trump gives first campaign speech, says he's not running (October 22, 1987)
Donald Trump gives a not-a-campaign speech at a luncheon for the Portsmouth Rotary Club in New Hampshire, the home of the earliest Republican presidential primary. The event draws a bigger audience than other club events for verified Republican candidates, including Sen. Bob Dole, Rep. Jack Kemp, and Rev. Pat Robertson.…
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October 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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maybe even 1919 stuff!
Czechoslovak legions held the transsib at the time, with involvement from Czechoslovakia proper and Poland, they could have deposed the Bolsheviks, prevent a new iteration for Russian empire from forming and bring back the legion members a year earlier.
Czechoslovak legions held the transsib at the time, with involvement from Czechoslovakia proper and Poland, they could have deposed the Bolsheviks, prevent a new iteration for Russian empire from forming and bring back the legion members a year earlier.
October 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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BTW my favorite alternate history scenario is the one where Czechoslovakia and Poland resolve quickly the Těšín/Cieszyn dispute in 1919, form an alliance based on this successful cooperation and late 1930s stuff turns out very differently because of that.
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Just a little piece of Czechoslovakia. You'd hardly know it had gone. I think Herr Hitler is a reasonable man and he is willing to make a deal.
October 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Incredible article, incl. this about the neighbors:
"Teller’s wife, Jeri Zbiral, left Czechoslovakia in 1949 to escape Communist rule."
"Iuliana Pascu is an immigrant from Romania who recently got her U.S. citizenship."
"Larry Bauer’s Jewish mother grew up in Germany in the 1920s and the ’30s."
"Teller’s wife, Jeri Zbiral, left Czechoslovakia in 1949 to escape Communist rule."
"Iuliana Pascu is an immigrant from Romania who recently got her U.S. citizenship."
"Larry Bauer’s Jewish mother grew up in Germany in the 1920s and the ’30s."
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I'd bet the first HSR would go then via Moravian gate (Wroclaw and Ostrava) with conventional rail being upgraded to 200 km/h on that rouse already in 1930s. HSR through Bohemia would only come later.
Czechoslovakia happened only by a historical chance and the same can be said about its dissolution
Czechoslovakia happened only by a historical chance and the same can be said about its dissolution
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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No. To break A-H, Prussia ended up funding nationalist movements across Central Europe, hoping that Czechoslovakia and Hungary would end up as German vassals, which worked for the latter but not the former, which zigzagged between Germany and France+Poland more successfully. bsky.app/profile/alon...
I forgot to say: Czechoslovakia minus the Sudetenland and Pressburg is an independent state, but it's allied to Germany (not quite a vassal state the way Hungary is) and so trains could go Berlin-Dresden-Prague-Brno-Vienna.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I forgot to say: Czechoslovakia minus the Sudetenland and Pressburg is an independent state, but it's allied to Germany (not quite a vassal state the way Hungary is) and so trains could go Berlin-Dresden-Prague-Brno-Vienna.
October 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Everyone loves interventions. The Japanese had a lot of them in the 30s all across Asia, the Germans liberated Czechoslovakia and all of Europe from the yoke of Communism...
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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bit of perspective: I grew up in socialist Czechoslovakia. Born early seventies. The concept that people could be hungry would be bizzare there. We always had full fridge and pantry. Always. In school there was snack, youghurt and pastry then full lunch, soup and full meal, like in a restaurant.
October 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Hey Mia. My mother was a LEGAL immigrant. She left Czechoslovakia before the Communists took over in 1948. When she got here, unlike the 20 million Biden invader migrants, she wasn't greeted with endless free benefits and a free hotel room. SHE HAD TO GO TO WORK!
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Kind of reminds me of the time Hitler took Czechoslovakia then Poland then…well, we know the rest of the story. Only question is: who will stop this build up? Are there any American “greatest generation” type characters to stand against this?
October 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Beneš signed an agreement with Stalin in 1943 to secure Soviet support for the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia after the war. He served a second term as president from 1945 to 1948, stepping down due to health reasons. Shortly thereafter, the Communists took power.
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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One of the most fascinating books I've read in a long time - especially for someone whose grandparents were born in Austria-Hungary, grew up in Czechoslovakia, had kids in Germany and returned to Czechoslovakia after WW2, all while never leaving their actual village. Until they got expelled in 1946.
Delighted to announce that Borderlines is one of @waterstones.bsky.social paperbacks of the year!
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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