The Slovak villagers don't. The French very much do, and they (along with the British, who have very similar views) are sending Osusky along to - very politely - read the riot act to the Slovaks. If they try to sit out the war any longer, then there is the potential to see British and French troops helping the Czechs under Benes "re-establish order" in Slovakia and deal with the various Nazi collaborators they find. If they join in, then there is the potential to see Slovak troops in the Czech parts of the country helping to re-establish a government under Osusky.
This will be very stable Czechoslovakia.
Well what they will do? Execute 50% of Slovak Population as Nazi collaborators? That was app. number of Slovaks which voted for HSLS pre war. What will be definition? Everybody involved with Slovak Republic government? Well again that will be tough and huge number. Even OTL when Slovakia collaborated much more with Nazis, majority of Slovaks were able to reenter Czechoslovak services, including military personnel. Including Jan Reznak, 32 victories from Eastern Front and guy couldn't even claim part in Uprising as he never made it (or didn't want to) to center of Uprising.
And as you said in posts before hardly French or British will want to bleed to really help Czechs in prosecuting Slovaks. Can be used as a threat though.
Prosecution of Slovaks will just bring very unstable Czechoslovakia.
Because this is their last chance to snatch a compromise from the jaws of disaster. Sitting still will mean Slovak separatists being treated like Germans in the very near future...
Disaster? Will they be expelled from Slovak territory? Will Allies sent them to concentration lagers or as communist did to Uranium mines in Sudetenland? Again this barely happened even OTL during communist!
Either there will be Czechoslovakia or independent Slovakia. Slovaks were cheating and had chips in both sides.
That is still to be determined, depending on how well Osusky does...
I guess he will pretty well as one of your posts post war was talking about post war Czechoslovakia.
But anyway even with Slovak independents, it was still Czechoslovak government in exile. Only Czech government which existed was collaborating with Nazis in Protectorate. Czech Government army (app 6 battalions), Czech Police etc at Protectorate etc.
However for Czechoslovakia to really have future Osusky needs to succeed. Slovakia may be even suppressed but without genocide, Slovaks will eventually try to separate again. How long can Czechs keep Slovaks suppressed. Even communist came with Federalization in 1968. And as history showed... Slovaks did it again.
I think the Ruthenians are doomed to the status of bargaining chip...
Poor bastards.
The Slovaks probably never had the petrol to start with, so will be purely foot and horse drawn.
Well there were 2 refineries in Slovakia - Apollo in Bratislava and one in Dubova plus some strategic reserves in central Slovakia. OTL used during Uprising.
Slovak Romania relations were pretty good. Also there were oilfields close to Bratislava. Not big but I would guess big enough to supply military demand - Slovak army had only few units fully motorized.
Why would the Slovaks be denied Petrol? The Slovak would have been viewed as the second closest nation to the 3R diplomatically (surpassed only by Denmark which doesn't have any choice) but officially Neutral in the war. The Slovaks would been able to trade with nations that could sell them petrol, wouldn't be *that* constrained by anyone in what they can buy and sell and have probably been the county to make the most money smuggling in and out of the 3R.
According to the Wikipedia article in Czech at the time of the invasion of Poland they apparently had a motorized unit with a company of tanks, a company of armored cards and a company of anti-tank guns later was reinforced by a platoon of tanks (so it had a total of 19 LT-35 tanks). Why would they have gotten rid of any of it?
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polní_armáda_„Bernolák“
Slovakia had 49 or 50 LT-35 available, 17 OA vz30, 3 OA vz27, 27 LT-34 and 30 vz. 33 tanketts organized in tank regiment. In war against Poland only smaller armored contingents were used. Tank regiment had also some 228 trucks, 96 cars and 73 motorcycles. OTL in November 1940 21 LT-40 tanks were delivered (bit smaller version of LT-38 originally ordered by Lithuania) but not sure if delivery will happen ITL.
For example Slovak Artillery regiment had 150 trucks, 5 tractors, 39 cars and 30 motorcycles. For sure not all artillery units had this number of vehicles though and infantry was far less motorized part.
In 1941/42 motorized Slovak Fast Division did pretty well on Eastern Front (motorized infantry, artillery and elements of tank regiment).
