Czechs to change their name?

[CavLancer]

Slovakia should change its name to Baulunces and rejoin the Czech Republic creating Czechs and...

I refuse to finish, its just too stupid. Never held me back before but there's a first time for...

Too cliche.

 

[Winner]

It would be quite hilarious or see the Poles going up against the Czech military. Sure, go for it.

What military are you talking about, exactly?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Don't you at least have a Golem?

 

[CavLancer]

Iirc during the Cold War the Czechoslovakia had...6 divisions?

 

[Domen]

It would be quite hilarious or see the Poles going up against the Czech military. Sure, go for it.

Especially the "going up against" part would be hilarious:

Watch out! Dramatic music + nice video, AHA! - Czech military is mobilizing to resist!


Link to video.

And then... Not a single shot is fired...

 

[Lord Baal]

What military are you talking about, exactly?

Any. They're Poles. I'm pretty sure you riding a white horse and swinging a pistol would be able to rout at least a third of their army.

 

[Winner]

^Don't you at least have a Golem?

If we do, it was probably procured for 400% the normal market price and we forgot to buy the shem.

Iirc during the Cold War the Czechoslovakia had...6 divisions?

16, actually.

Any. They're Poles. I'm pretty sure you riding a white horse and swinging a pistol would be able to rout at least a third of their army.

I can't ride on horseback, sadly. Our military is pretty much a joke; the only formations theoretically combat-capable are deployed abroad.

Especially the "going up against" part would be hilarious:

Watch out! Dramatic music + nice video, AHA! - Czech military is mobilizing to resist!


Link to video.

And then... Not a single shot is fired...

Czechs always surrender without unnecessary delay.

 

[Domen]

I'm pretty sure you riding a white horse and swinging a pistol would be able to rout at least a third of their army.

So apparently in entire Czechoslovakia there was not a single white horse in October 1938:


Link to video.

Czechs always surrender without unnecessary delay.

Not always - for example those brave Hussites did not surrender.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Thx Domen for the video but there has been at least couple of shots fired. And there has been documented some 20 suicides of young guys who prefered death to hanging over guns to Nazis without fight. Credit where credit's due.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Czechoslovakia was the Holland of central Eastern europe

(although i am not sure if Holland was supposed to also lose territory, it fought equally valiantly though).

 

[Domen]

Thx Domen for the video but there has been at least couple of shots fired.

Indeed, there had been several small skirmishes and firefights before the Czechs gave away entire Sudetenland - according to this forum thread:

http://www.dws.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=9224&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

For example on 31 September 1938 there was a firefight against German Freikorps in Moravská Chrastová - 4 Czech soldiers were killed.

Not very impressive resistance. And let me remind you, that Sudetenland was a fortified zone:

Czechoslovakian border fortifications (built mostly between 1935 and 1938):

German annexation of borderland territories of Czechoslovakia in 1938:

Why did Hitler annex this fortified territory ???

To make Germans happy or to make Czechoslovakia defenceless before his next annexation of entire country in March 1939 ???

Czechoslovakia was the Holland of Eastern europe

Czechoslovakia was in Central Europe. Together with Poland.

 

[Winner]

Not always - for example those brave Hussites did not surrender.

No, they just turned on each other and destroyed themselves as a relevant power...

@Kyriakos:

Holland? We had an army of 35 divisions fully mobilized and covered by an excellent system of fortifications. The Dutch had nothing, but at least they tried...

 

[Domen]

No, they just turned on each other and destroyed themselves as a relevant power...

Yes but that was only after over a dozen or so years of kicking German crusading butts.

We had an army of 35 divisions fully mobilized and covered by an excellent system of fortifications.

You gave away entire system of fortifications to Germany almost without a single shot in October 1938.

Then you no longer had any fortifications when Hitler demanded the rest of your territory in March 1939.

Even Belgium defended Eben-Emael fortress for a longer time (another thing is that it was captured by just a few paratroopers).

 

[Domen]

Belgium also had strong fortifications in 1940 (as well as over 22 divisions) - but it did not help them too much:

http://niehorster.orbat.com/021_belgium/forts/_forts-part_02.htm

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Well, I understand that we didnt fight to keep peace in Europe. There can be no doubt the morale was very high at the time of the mobilisation.

Maybe if the French keep their threaty, maybe if Germans where not almost completely surrounding all of Bohemia, maybe if Polish and Hungarians didnt join in the grab for teritory and maybe if there where not 2 milions Germans living in Czechoslovakia....

 

[Domen]

Maybe if the French keep their threaty

It was actually British Prime Minister Chamberlain who is famous for cheerfully shaking hands with Hitler during the Munich Betrayal.

Of course France is also to be blamed, but it was Britain which was advocating "Appeasement" policy more than France.

Poland joined the land grab (it was opportunistic behaviour) - but it did it already after Czechoslovakia was sold to Hitler at Munich.

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This is how a "happy British fool" looks like - since 6:35 of the video:

"(...) the settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. [public: hurrah!, hurrah! yay! willow!, willow!] This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor Herr Hitler. And here is the paper which bears his name upon it, as well as mine [showing the worthless paper with a worthless promise; public: yeah!, hurrah!]. Some of you perhaps have already heard, what it contains. But I would just like to read it to you. "We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor and the British Prime Minister have had a fellow meeting today and we agree in recognizing that the question of England-German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe. (...)"


Link to video.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Domen you are the best

 

[CavLancer]

Was he left wing or right?

 

[Domen]

He was British, at that time they were all equally foolishly pro-German regardless left wing or right wing.

He was from this party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)

BTW - 4 Power Conference at Munich was: Britain, France, Germany and Italy.

 

[Domen]

When exactly Medieval Czech Kingdom became part of the Holy Roman Empire?