Originally Posted by
Watchdog
Just a note concerning Vilém Stanovský - the Czech Republic did not exist before 1st January 1993.
On 28th October 1918 the Czechoslovak Republic (or Czechoslovakia) gained independence on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, under which it definitely had not been a "republic". With the exception of the Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren (1939-1945), the country was still called Czechoslovakia. On 1st January 1993 it was peacefully split into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
Vilém Stanovský should have the Austro-Hungarian Empire as his country of origin, even if he then fought for France (or rather for the idea of an independent Czech and later a Czechoslovak state).
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