Quiz what you know about the Czech Republic?

[European21]

Some czech girls for ya
(not pornstars)

and more and more....

[European21]

Czech republic got 2 part
bohemia major city is Praha (Prague)
Moravia major city is Brno (Brunn)
I live in Moravian part of country and i like slovak people.Morava and Slovakia is brotherly countries.In Bohemia is litle bit different.
Germans dont like us but that is looooooooooong story.

[European21]

robertlouis you doing great
and i want thanks anybody who wrote something about my country thank you!

[Stavros]

If we must discuss the over-rated misogynist Franz Kafka, most of whose published books were 'finished' by Max Brod, at least acknowledge that he was born a citizen or rather, a subject of the Hapsburgs, as Prague/Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when Kafak was born there in 1883. A vigorous independence movement achieved some of its objectives with the creation of Czechoslovakia after 1918 and Kafka spoke fluent Czech and actually preferred it to German, his mother's favoured tongue -it was a matter of snobbery; rather like the 19th century Russians who thought their own language was vulgar and preferred to speak in French.

I have long wanted to go to Prague, where Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni both received their premieres, Mozart loved the place, that's a good enough recommendation.

[dderek123]

Lots of beer drinkers there. Most in the world actually.

Insane sex tourism industry as well. Even bigger than Thailand.

[European21]

dderek123 thats true, shame
but i dont think czech republic is better for fuck that thailand

[robertlouis]

"ethnic Germans"?

At the end of the second world war there was a huge transfer of peoples across Europe, a kind of revenge ethnic cleansing, if you will, in which ethnic minorities were either forcibly expelled and/or returned to their racial homelands.

In 1938 Hitler's premise for seizing Czechoslovakia was that ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland, in the southwest of the country, were being mistreated. His troops entered via the Sudetenland where they were greeted with open arms and then marched on Prague, where their welcome was rather less enthusiastic.

The Czechs remembered, and the Sudeten Germans were all expelled, most of them returning to the broken mess of Germany. It happened all across the continent, in East Prussia, Hungary and other states which had previously had substantial German minorities.

It's not well known, but it was in fact the biggest forced migration in history to that time.

And European21, my part of England is dotted with former Moravian chapels, so clearly there was a large presence, if not of actual Moravians, then at least of your particular brand of protestantism.

[European21]

robertlouis i just say bravo

[European21]

also born in czech republic in MORAVIA!!!
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[Stavros]

I should have added to my post on Mozart in Prague that I have been listening to Janacek's operas for years and years, especially Jenufa, and Katya Kabanova. Jenufa was premiered when Janacek was 60. His music is the antithesis of Wagner: what the German takes two hours to do Janacek compresses into two minutes, but without sacrificing either drama or intensity, or beauty in music. His operas are dramas of village life, its oppressive impact on women particularly if they want to be free of the expectation heaped on them not just by the men, but by the women too: in both Jenufa and Katya there are two elderly women, like dragons, embittered from their own experience of life, but socially respected, who impose impossible demands on their young women: I can see these social pressures working badly on young 'men' who want to transition.

I don't rate Dvorak's operas much, but his chamber music is divine: the piano quintet op81, piano quartet op87; the string quartet 'the American', the string sextet op48, but esp the string quintet op 97 whose climax is one of the most joyous passages in music!!! Love it!