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Every nation, every country can be rightly proud of their national anthem. Some anthems talk about their monarchs, others about their battles to victory. The anthem of Slovakia, our close neighbour, goes on about their weather conditions, mainly the thunder and lightning raging over their mountains. The Czech one, not so much.
Written in 1834, the Czech national anthem was first heard on a stage in Stavovské Theatre in Prague. It was written as a part of the play Fidlovačka, story about spring festival of Czech shoemakers. It wasn’ t an overnight sensation. The play came and went and nobody would think of it ever again. But then the First World War raged through Europe and in its wake it left remains of Austrian-Hungarian Empire with newly formed republics.
And the Czechoslovakia was born. During the process to ensure everything was in order, one of many things Czech and Slovak politicians couldn’ t agree upon was the anthem. What was the best way to represent both brother nations? The answer was very simple. They took one song representing the Czech nation, another song representing Slovaks and sang them happily together.
With minor tweaks here and there it remained the same to this day. Little addition from the Soviet Union which was years after dropped. And during the Velvet Divorce in 1993, each Slovaks and Czechs got their half to keep.