czechoslovakia was pretty well off in comparison to most commie eastern countries. was up there with the gdr in terms of development and pay rates. there was a bit of a inequality between czechia and slovakia, urban czechia was a bit more well off than rural czechia or slovakia so a lot of development projects were set up there and in the mountains, of which my family was a pretty big beneficiary.
theres a plot of land out in rural czechia that my family has been living on for around 300 years. lots of old growth fruits and stuff. pretty big plot of land, most of its hills but theres a small area thats flat, and a small house thats very old (like 1600s but renovated) and then a newer one next to it (80s). family was mostly a mining / agricultural family over the ages. its said that a lot of our ancestors would steal seeds from lords and take em up into the mountains where we were technically living illegally but they couldnt do anything about it lol. one of our ancestors was in the hussite army (protosocialists) and walked pretty much the entire length of czechia in the winter to go join them. lost some toes or something.
in my family theres a lot of mixed feelings about the fall of czechoslovakia. my parents are libs and support it (ah yes we have iphone and can live in america now!) and most my grandparents are staunch commies cause they know how terrible things were before the commies but it got way better in their lifetimes. grandma was born in like 1939 or something so vaguely remembers the war and how some of our family just went missing without a trace after the germans annexed our area. my parents just say nazis and germans bad but my grandma says it was capitalisms fault which was based
nah like 80% of my fam did tho
czechoslovakia was pretty well off in comparison to most commie eastern countries. was up there with the gdr in terms of development and pay rates. there was a bit of a inequality between czechia and slovakia, urban czechia was a bit more well off than rural czechia or slovakia so a lot of development projects were set up there and in the mountains, of which my family was a pretty big beneficiary.
theres a plot of land out in rural czechia that my family has been living on for around 300 years. lots of old growth fruits and stuff. pretty big plot of land, most of its hills but theres a small area thats flat, and a small house thats very old (like 1600s but renovated) and then a newer one next to it (80s). family was mostly a mining / agricultural family over the ages. its said that a lot of our ancestors would steal seeds from lords and take em up into the mountains where we were technically living illegally but they couldnt do anything about it lol. one of our ancestors was in the hussite army (protosocialists) and walked pretty much the entire length of czechia in the winter to go join them. lost some toes or something.
in my family theres a lot of mixed feelings about the fall of czechoslovakia. my parents are libs and support it (ah yes we have iphone and can live in america now!) and most my grandparents are staunch commies cause they know how terrible things were before the commies but it got way better in their lifetimes. grandma was born in like 1939 or something so vaguely remembers the war and how some of our family just went missing without a trace after the germans annexed our area. my parents just say nazis and germans bad but my grandma says it was capitalisms fault which was based