“Byli jsme a budem!”, Czech propaganda postcard, published by VKVK, early 1920s

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The motto “Byli jsme a budem!”meaning “We were (before the Habsburg Empire) and will be (after it)” was intended to confirm the existence of the Czech nation across all obstacles

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

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In the vast domain of the isms – national programmes and maximum demands

Pan-Germanism, pan-Slavism or Italian irredentism – what all these national ideologies had in common was the desire to join together with their co-nationals and achieve unification in an ideally ethnically pure state, thereby satisfying the yearning for national completeness.

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"Two branches of one nation" – Czechoslovakism as a political programme

The definition of the Czechoslav nation usual in the Habsburg empire covered the speakers of Slavic dialects in Bohemia, Moravia and Upper Hungary. These were regarded as a single entity, as was also apparent in the official lists of linguistic circumstances, where Czech and Slovak were mostly recorded together.