STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 332, sig. 109-4/76 Page 7 · 7 of 35
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 332, sig. 109-4/76
English Translation
B___io_hti Subject: Specialization in the Mihrian Slovakia. The subject of the consideration is Moravian Slovakia in the narrow sense. The report does not refer to the ethnographically closely related and in autochthonous linguistic stock also- if Slovak-speaking Walaohei. Only in Moravian Slovakia did certain political efforts directed against the Czech Centralism of Prague, which had their cause in the tribal type of the population (Slovak folkdom) and in the political supremacy of the Czech element in these areas, have been established again and again after l9l8. The Moravian Slovaks were treated politically in the former republic, like the Slovaks in Slovakia. Techechen strived to completely match the still not completely blurred Stam nesunterechied of the population with the political construction of "Czechoslovak peoples of the Czech people". The ethnographic structure of the Mihrian Slovakia (r - zone) offered good foundations. Proven starting points were the administrative organization, the school system and finally also the church organization. The management of the virtuous movement (personal policy) and especially the Stütgpunkt Zlin have a lot to do. It modernised, Americanized a significant part of this rural world and also czechized thousands of Muhrian Slo-waken. As in the actual Slovakia, higher and lower administrative services, soul pipes and parishes were created, The Slovak mother tongue was increasingly "pushed out of circulation", the colloquial language of the Intelligent, society became Czech, after already from Austria's time the written language of Moravian Slovaks was only the Czech language through the Czech school. Where more intensive work was possible, especially in urban centres, the Slovak Uagang claims were ignored.