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Originally Posted by jayswin
Any Czechs I've talked to absolutely hate the name change, especially just to make it easier when literally no one had trouble with it before.
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It doesn't help that when Hitler devoured Czechoslovakia in 1939, he used Slovak separatists as catspaws to divide the country. Slovakia was ‘independent’, taking orders from Berlin, right through WWII. The other half of the country was briefly referred to as Czechia before the Germans annexed it outright.
With a history like that, the name naturally stands to be unpopular.