Editing Pan-Nationalism (section)

=====[[File:Cball-Poland.png]] Western Slavs and Czechoslovakia [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]]=====
19th century Pan-Slavism has influenced [[File:Cball-Poland.png]] Poland. It inspired sympathy for other oppressed Slavic peoples seeking to restore independence. While Pan-Slavism fought against [[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] Austria-Hungary for the freedom of the South Slavs, the Poles inspired other Slavic peoples for the liberation struggle with their insubordination. It was the melody and motive of the Polish national liberation song called ''Mazurka Dobrowski'' that served as the basis for the creation of a number of Slavic hymns and the pan-Slavic anthem ''"Hey, Slavs!"''

The creation of the Pan-Slavic Federation was promoted by [[File:RomanDmowski.png]] [[National Democracy|Roman Dmowski]], a Polish neo-Slavist and one of the fathers of modern independent Poland. After Poland gained independence in 1918, they to some extent considered Pan-Slavism as a vector of political development, in particular, there were plans to create a Central European Federation - ''Intermarium'', which would unite the majority of Slavic peoples, with the exception of [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Soviet Russia]]. During the communist era of Polish statehood, Pan-Slavic rhetoric was used as a tool to promote friendship with the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|USSR]] to justify its control over the country. The issue of Pan-Slavism was not part of the main political agenda and was widely viewed as an ideology of Soviet influence.

[[File:PLB-Cesko.png]] '''Czechoslovakism''' appeared as early as the 19th century, its most notable ideologists were Bohuslav Tablic, Juraj Palkovič, Ján Kollár and Pavel Josef Šafařík. During the WWI it was the basis for the national liberation of [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czechs and [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]] Slovaks and the basis for the creation of a common Czechoslovak state. The concept of Czechoslovakism was the most successful concept of liberating Czechs in the Czech lands and Slovaks in Slovakia from unequal position in the [[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] Austro-Hungarian monarchy based on Kollár's and Palacký's ideas of Czech and Slovak unity.

[[File:Kolovrat-450x450.svg.png|220px|left|thumb|The 'Swarga' also called a 'Kolovrat' ('pinwheel' in Russian) and a 'Słoneczko' ('Little Sun' in Polish) is a variant of the swastika prevalent in Slavic cultures. It is sometimes used as a symbol of Slavic peoples in general, and commonly used as a symbol by Slavic Neo-Pagans.]]

However, Czechoslovakism cannot be defined only as a concept of the origin of the Czechoslovak nation or tribe from defense and national tendencies, the idea had a supra-national meaning, which wanted to overcome the provincialism of environment and thought, wanted to change the excessive isolation and modesty of Czech or Slovak politics and democracy. After the establishment of the [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czechoslovak Republic, it became a state doctrine, which was enshrined in the constitution of 1920.

Not all Czechoslovaks supported this ideology. When the Czech Republic was occupied by [[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism|Nazis]] before the World War 2, a Slovak Nazi puppet state was formed on the territory of [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]] Slovakia. Following the end of the war Czechoslovakia was reunited, but the ideology of a "single nation" was not fully restored. The end of this concept was the 1968 Constitution, which proclaimed Czechoslovakia a federation of two national republics.

In 1993 Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and two independent nations of [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czech Republic and [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]] Slovakia formed shortly after.