Almost 100 years after the fact we find Europe still having to deal with the legacy of WW1. IMO, a grave injustice was done to the Hungarian people after that war by not allowing them the right of self-determination as outlined by Pres. Wilson's 14-points. Still, I believe this issue will be resolved through peaceful measures. I seriously doubt we will see any major violence erupt in this region.

Language Wars: Frustrations Grow Among Slovakia's Hungarian Minority - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

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Many peoples right for self determination was ignored by the victorious Allies in Versailles, creating problems for decades to come, I´d for example also include the Germans of upper Silesia, Alsace , Lorraine and the Sudeten region ( providing the Nazis with an excellent propaganda tool), or the ethnically extremely split state of Yugoslawia ( whose political survival was mildly put, questionable from the beginning, because it included countless minorities that were not asked to be part of it)
Regarding Slovakia and Hungary violence except maybe on the local level is out of the question though. Both nations are EU members and Brussels has tools to force them to work out their issues at the conference table, if they don´t do so out of economic pragmatism and realpolitik. Also Slowaks and Hungarians may be fighting over cultural issues but they are far from having a history of violence like for example Serbs and Croats.
This will boil down again sooner or later because both nations have more important, and common issues.

Totally agree. However, sadly, those problems have been 'solved' by force.

Again, I agree. There is simply no history of violence between the two people. While that doesn't mean it couldn't possibly devolve into something where violence comes to the fore, I agree with you that there are simply too many different mechanisms in place (EU) to ensure that something like that doesn't happen.

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Perhaps re-introducing German in it´s Austrian form as official language would solve the problem ?

Schweijk:

" Nach dem Krieg um sechs im Krug "



Funny though, mainly responsible for the present upflare is the country of the feller who wrote
"Much Ado About Nothing"

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of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

Ha, I doubt they would like that very much. "Oh shit! Dad is home!"

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Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

Did you have a chance to read " Der brave Soldat Schweijk" ?

Hilarious to read.

A little "bemisch" (bohemian) soldier caught in the austrian olde worlde army in WWI.

I´ll see if can can find a download for one of the movies in english if possible.
On success I´ll PM you.

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

Edit : this is not legacy of WWI. Let say that WWI did not solve a pre-existing problem ...

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True. You ask someone from the Balkans, and will get a lecture on interethnic relations from the dawn of times.

I meant in the sense that the peoples of the former Austro-Hungarian empire were separated into various states by people without a real, clear grasp of the ethnic differences

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Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

LOL ... But that was Wilson and his 14 points. He was an idealist and a foreigner. As an American he did not have a clear grasp of all these different minorities, which sometimes and very often, this should be added, lived in perfect harmony.

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But his 14-points called for peoples to be allowed self-determination. This was never applied here, otherwise the region in question would probably be part of Hungary.

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I am a liberal, a classical liberal. Classical liberalism is liberalism, but the current collectivists have captured that designation in the United States. In Europe they are glad enough to call themselves socialists. But no one in America wants to be called socialist and admit what they are.

Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

You´re right, it didn´t solve anything.
But it created a lot more problems than were already there.

Greetings to Berlin

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises