To the West Slavic branch belong Polish and other Lekhitic languages (Kashubian and its archaic variant Slovincian), Upper and Lower Sorbian (also called Lusatian or Wendish), Czech, and Slovak. In the early 21st century more than 40 million people spoke Polish not only in Poland and other parts of eastern Europe (notably in what are now Meanwhile, one plank of the reform program had been carried out: in 1968–69, Czechoslovakia was turned into a federation of the Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic. The theory was that under the federation, social and economic inequities between the Czech and Slovak halves of the state would be largely eliminated. The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and most Warsaw Pact members invaded The Austro-Hungarian empire was steadily declining, and Czech and Slovak groups decided to break free and strike out as their own sovereign nation. Although their dream of a unified Czechoslovakia came to an end in January 1993, the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) held the promising title of the only continuous democracy in Eastern Czech Republic is a small landlocked country located in Central Europe between Poland, Germany, Austria and Slovakia. The Czech landscape is exceedingly varied. Bohemia ( Czech : Čechy ), to the west, is drained by the Elbe (Czech: Labe ) and Vltava Rivers, mostly surrounded by low mountains such as the Krkonoše range. This is because Czech is more common than Slovak. They have more resources, movies and such, that makes their language more familiar than Slovak. That's also the reason why Czech natives have trouble understanding some Slovak vocabulary (due to limited resources and lack of native speakers). The differences and similarities between them are revealed in a study released last week by the Median research company. In the 1980s Czechs and Slovaks earned almost the same amount of money, Czechoslovakia CZECHOSLOVAKIA , republic in Central Europe. Founded in 1918, it united within its political framework the Jewries of the "historic countries" (*Bohe…. Romania ROMANIA , country in East-Central and South-East Europe, in the Carpatho-Danubian region, north of the Balkan Peninsula, partly on the littoral of th…. Czech german shepherds are bigger than a standard shepherd, You can expect an average male to get up to 60 – 80 lbs. And females get 50 – 70 lbs on average. Females are usually smaller. The average height for males is 22-24 inches, females 20-22 inches. Males tend to be taller and heavier than females. The second free elections, in June 1992, created two very different, basically incompatible political spectrums in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the Czech Republic Klaus’s Civic Democrats became the leader of the new Czech government, while in Slovakia the government was led by the nationalist Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, headed XQSh26.