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The Czech nation at the stake of the Habsburg Empire, anti-Habsburg propaganda postcard, published by Bratří Jarušků, Brno, after 1918

The double eagle hovers threateningly above the tortured creature of the personification of the oppressed Czech nation.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Objekt aus der Sammlung Dr. Lukan

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    The aim of state independence: from Utopia to a programme for the masses

    The loss of authority in the organs of government happened at breakneck speed (particularly in the sight of the failure to provide for people’s everyday needs) and created a vacuum into which the advocates of Czech state independence could penetrate. This originally avant-gardist idea became a feasible option for more and more people as the year 1918 wore on.