Comments by "Tomas Vrabec" (@tomasvrabec1845) on "Czechs and Slovaks: The Tale of Two Nations" video.

As stated here. Until 2001 the birth rate was higher in SVK. Then similar. After that, Slovak birth rate went down. Reason is rather simple - Slovakia is worse off hence far more of the younger and able migrate abroad - and mainly migrate into Czechia. That's since 2004. 20 years later - a one Generational circle in Theory, Slovak birth rate is smaller because the Population within Reproductive Age migrated out. Whilst this would likely boost Czech birth rates by the same amount that Slovakia lost it's (more or less). Which seems to align.
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Central yes but Czech east is also nominally poorer than the west (Bohemia Vs Moravia). But Czechia also has sudets which became desolated after expulsions.
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Not surprised. The dialectal continuum was almost perfect prior to 1800s. After 1850s it split between Czech and Slovak a LOT due to the standardisation. Hence Moravian declined and standardised Czech (based more in Bohemian Czech) rose up. Meanwhile Slovak, based more on Central and western dialects rose in slovakia, and the regional dialects declined. Even today, a lot of Slovaks from center to west struggle to understand Eastern Slovaks but have no problem with Czech language or even the most Western Czech dialects.
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@poonczey That's your personal perspective. Not a fact for everyone individually. My grandparents loved Czechoslovakia and unity with Czechs... My great grandparents also supported Czechslovakia. Heck my great grandfather who was a Slovak partisan during the war also supported the union... Equally my father also supports the union despite being within Slovak armed forces. They are all from different parts of my family and all are from North of Slovakia. Quite frankly even within Slovakia I could always notice a pattern where the more south and east you go the less Czech loving they got, but the north and north west remained very favourable towards the Czechs.
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Irrelevant
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Actually, Czech was more defined than Polish even in 1300s. Plus Poland didn't even have a well defined alphabet which is why you ended with so many letters.
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@fdhgbjskthe first point makes very little sense since LGBT make a rather small part of the society. Secondly, woke is not LGBT. Woke is many things from race to sexuality, to transgender issues , to Extreme feminism. Especially as the flag he showed was not a pure LGBT flag and includes race. (Plus, the LGB has basically nothing in common with the T) I am gay and I would agree that the woke idea in the extreme sense makes nonsense. I agree with pretty much all of his content regarding demographics. But I fail to see how gays would impact this.. especially as many gay people do want kids and have families. Heck lesbian women often try to conceive themselves. So sure they may not add to the fertility rate but they do aim to raise kids via adoption - which, in many ways, should still increase fertility rates as those who give their kids. Away can still reproduce without the burden of care.
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The best things that could happen would be for Russia to lose its influence and propaganda and for Czechia Nd Poland create a "pan-wester Slavism" which they could try to promote at least as a cultural and linguistics connection to be celebrated. This would diverte a lot of pan Slavism and those who find appeal in pan Slavism but aren't keen on Russia.
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@vh5663 it equates. It was the begging of a civilisation in that region because Celts never had a legal nor unified state in the region. Hence the first civilisation - but yes Sami was the first.
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There were many things like this. Czechslovakia has Talent for example, or any such cultural singing/performance events are both joined. A lot of Sports are also joined - eg Paragliding always has Czech and Slovak championships at the same time in the same races.
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@richie_pp yes there are Non-Serious ones. Both by youth romanticism of the first Czechslovakia and by the communists elderly who like to claim Czechoslovakia akin to some Czech on the desolate Scene.
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IT not wrongly labeled. It's not a historic map. Just because Czechoslovakia made it illegal to label it doesn't make the map wrong...
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Not sure how it is a betrayal. If one shows issues which prevent people from having kids... They can't betray their argument by having just one kid.
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@IgorDruzhinin-qo2vj why would Rusyns and other Western Ukrainians not be peaceful? In fact, western Ukrainians are likely more peaceful than those in the east. As far as Peace goes for Slavs, Western Slavs are undoubtedly the most peaceful of all Slavs. Essentially being between a Hammer, Second Hammer and an Anvil (ottomans, Germans and Russians) made them not war among one another much, nor expand outwards. Eastern Slavs are war full, the just comes with Russia. Balkans also have some nasty stuff but overall for Europe not that much, and not that much compared to Russia.
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Personally I grew up pretty much considering slovaks and czechs as the same nationality (Narod - nationality - in cz and svk traditionally equated to ethnicity in many ways). I always saw the linguistic continuum/ dialectal continuum from western czechia to eastern slovakia - a single stream of accents and dialects. It also cool to.see that in writing, prior to the Standardisation of both kanguages in the 1800s, the dialectal continuum was far far stronger. But it does sadden me how separated we are now. Many of the cities is slovakia remind me of czechia but there is a lot of small desilated rural areas which oull it all down.
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I wonder where you lived. I came from the north, north west Slovakia and growing up everyone agreed communism was quite bad. You had few unusual people who liked socialism because it basically gave them a job but they weren't loud nor affluent. Even within the military people kept liking Czechslovakia and hated Russia, especially hated 1968. I listened to countless stories by elderly about the events of 68 and the fear and nonsense it brought. And strong hate towards Russia was definitely a thing even among kids in school in Žilina. Dno how that changed. I would even say that Slovaks have a now cultural sentiment to raise their kids with the words "leave as soon as possible" and many were told this in my wider family as well as in school. Hence probably why... They were from the more liberal, Czech liking and Russia hating population that kept seeing the continuous decline.
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@vh5663 just because they named the land doesn't make them Civilised in any particular way. The Celts were all but gone even before Western Roman empire or even the Full Roman empire fell.. So yes the Celts were not really a civilisation in their own sense and had no unified nation or state there...
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@radeksilar543 well no. Despite the thousand year rule many Slovaks have nothing to do with any Hungarians. Heck, even after doing genetic tests there are no Hungarians in them for many. Czechs have been more mixed with Germans.
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I always thought and still think tht the biggest mistake of Czechoslovakia was not industrialising and not urbanising slovakia fast enough. Sure, sending educated class there is a help... But czech police won't produce Slovak police supporting Czechoslovakia. The industrialisation and urbanisation would have cretaed a class of inteligencia slovaks wmthat Wii have grown within Czechoslovakia.
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