The idea of Czechoslovakism had no hope of success. The Federation was again too much in the grip of the regime’s shackles
In order for a multi-ethnic state to sustain itself, there must be an idea that will permanently unite its peoples. But this cannot be invented from the table: it must spring from a long common history and a common assessment of the events lived together.
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