Challenge:Czech Corridor leads to Panslavia

During the Paris Peace Conference there was a proposal to create a strip of land linking Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, now what would it take to not only create this territory but what would it take for unification to take place between the two nations?

info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Corridor
??? Czechs and Slovaks speak rather similar languages, being in the same language group with Polish (West Slavic?). Yugoslavia is the union of the SOUTHERN slavs (hence the name - Yugo=south (not slow and unreliable as you might think - car joke)).

So why on earth would the Czechoslovaks and the various Southern slavs even want to merge?
 
The idea was being circulated. If you want it justified you should ask someone who believes in it.

I'm not a believer or an expert, but in Slovakia there is even today a strong feeling of historical rivalry with Hungary, so the idea of "correcting" the Magyar invasion didn't sound quite so whacky to them as to everyone else. And then there was quite a concentration (still a small minority compared to Germans and Magrars, though) of the Croat and Slovak villages scattered on the fringes of the Carpathian basin.

OH, and 'Pan'slavia would HAVE to include Russia, or it's hardly 'all'!

Well, that was the Russian line, certainly! But "pan-Slavism" has been seperate things historically, and although they overlapped, the "Austro-Slavist" cultural and political co-ordination among Czechs, Croats, Poles et al was definately distinct from the idea of Russia as a protector of Slavic nations (which was heavily bound up with eastern Orthodoxy anyway).
 

Susano

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Well, I think primarily it should be stated that the Czech Corridor idea was quite lunatic to begin with... I mean, the Paris Suburb Treaties shat all over the rights to national self-determination when Germans and Hungarians were involved anyways, its true, but a corridor from Czechoslovakia to Yugoslavia is nontheless simply a weird and "out there" idea.
 
While this idea seems to be 'lunatic' as Susano pointed out, it would probably lead to more belligerent political stance of Czechoslovakia. I wonder how WW2 would look like with such significant butterfly effect.
 
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