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Originally Posted by Table 5
How could he be born in Slovakia and not Czechoslovakia? It was the same country back then...and only split apart LONG after Mikita had left. Calling him the Uncheckable Czech made sense back then...the NHL press wasn't going to tinkering with in regional dialects. I was born in Kosice (same as Martina) as well, and I always tell people I was born in Czechoslovakia since that's exactly what it was during my birth.
FYI, Slovakian girls are pretty slutty (and damn hot) in general...i seriously doubt this is the Swiss part of her acting out.
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Incorrect! Mikita was born during the brief period between 1939 and 1945 when Czechoslovakia was split by the Germans into two separate countries. Although technically, it was the First Slovak Republic, rather than Slovakia.
edit: oops, FoL beat me to it.