“Hej Slováci, ještě naše slovenská řeč žije!” (Slovaks, our Slovak language is still alive!), Propaganda postcard based on a motif by Oldřich Cihelka, published by VKVK, Prague

For the Slovaks the evolutionary process in becoming a nation was shaped by the many difficulties facing this small ethnic group to assert themselves as “newcomers” among the nationalities of Central Europe.