Perché Bratislava fu assegnata alla Cecoslovacchia se era l’antica capitale dell’Ungheria e la sua città di incoronazione?
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Perché Bratislava fu assegnata alla Cecoslovacchia se era l’antica capitale dell’Ungheria e la sua città di incoronazione?
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Masaryk wanted access to the Danube, and we Hungarians couldn’t muster an army to massacre every Czech and Slovak fucker who wanted to push us well south of the language border.
Because it’s population was mainly German speaking /s
Bratislava was a 3-nation city and the Entente wanted to fuck Hungary… That’s it.
What I find more funny is how Burgenland was handed to Austria, although Hungarian politicians meticulously opposed the war in the beginning… My colleagues in Vienna joked about this that even Austrians don’t care about Burgenland.
It mainly comes to **strategic reasons -** Czechoslovakia wanted border on the Danube (and there isn’t many countries who would refuse free extra land) and the Entente powered favoured it over Austria and Hungary in 1919, as they were suspicious of the left regimes, especially Béla Kun. That’s also why Slovakia got a small part on the other side of the Danube to act as a bridgehead to allow for a smooth invasion if Czechoslovakia was ever asked/needed to intervene – which was considered several times in the early 20s, for example during the restoration attempts of 1921.