Moravians

And I'm like, cool.

What about Moravia? And like Moravians also are not big into it.

Moravians are constantly being overlooked.

Moravia is actually really banging and you should go there.

Really, really wonderful part of the world.

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Hello, and welcome to Czechast, the podcast in English about all things Czech.

I'm Vit Pohanka.

So in this episode, I explore Vaclav Havel's leadership, the care he devoted to his speeches, and the strengths and shortcomings of his presidency in the views and experience of Alexandr Vondra.

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Whether you're an English-speaking expat living in Czechia and Slovakia, or a descendant of the Czechs, Moravians, and Slovaks who left for a better life in America, Australia, Britain, or Canada so long ago that you don't speak the language of the old country, this podcast in English is for you.

I don't remember a, a date or [laughs] but this young, uh, guy, young man, uh, in Prague, uh, I was of course, uh, interested in freedom and in freedom fighters, uh, because it was under the communism and we did not like it.

I mean the, the totalitarian, uh, environment in our country.

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Hello, and welcome to Czechast, the podcast in English about all things Czech.

I'm Vit Bohanka, and today I have something I would call perhaps a Czechast curiosity for you.

They lie in the settlement pattern and in the local autonomy that individual villages in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia developed over several centuries, and this is what this special episode of Czechast is about.

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Whether you're an English-speaking expat living in Czechia and Slovakia or a descendant of the Czechs, Moravians, and Slovaks who left for a better life in America, Australia, Britain, or Canada so long ago that you don't speak the language of the old country, this podcast in English is for you.

Radim Berlin is a social geographer who heads the Rural Geography Research Center at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague.

He explains that it all began with the landscape itself.

Uh-

Moravian pie?

No, no, we don't have the, we don't have the chicken pies.

We had just fried chicken that you, that you get from the grocery store.

Uh, but yeah, the, uh, the, the chicken pies are gonna be hitting...

They're making them right n- actually, I think they're literally right now, they're, the, the guys at the church are making them, um, assembling them and everything, but th- we'll be selling them in December.

Why don't you tell people who may not know what a Moravian chicken pie is?

Okay.

German engineering.

The Moravians were famous for their beautiful architecture and their amazing handmade structures on doors.

And their musicians, they brought... classical music to a wilderness down the Great Wagon Road.

That was the Moravians.

And there were three Moravian settlements along the Great Wagon Road.

So it really is the artery that brought culture, civilization, ingenuity, engineering, and good old American pluck.

Because it's probably estimated, one historian said to me, there's not a family who traveled down that road.

Yeah.

And they, they look down on the Moravians in like Ostrava and Brno because, you know, they're basically Slovakia, so.

And it, it's sort of a joke, right? And you can have this joke with Europeans that have read a book.

You can't have this joke with a lot of people because they get-

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Hello, and welcome to Czechast, the podcast in English about all things Czech, with Pete Pohanka.

Today my guest is Bart Van Besien, a Belgian intellectual property lawyer who works mainly in copyright and, in his spare time, a passionate reader and traveler.

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Czechast, a podcast in English about all things Czech.

Whether you're an English-speaking expat living in Czechia and Slovakia, or a descendant of the Czechs, Moravians, and Slovaks who left for a better life in America, Australia, Britain, or Canada so long ago that you don't speak the language of the old country, this podcast in English is for you.

Well, uh, my name is, uh, Bart Van Besien.

I'm, uh, I'm actually f- like, like, uh, my, my, uh, as a profession, I, uh, I am an intellectual property lawyer in, uh, Belgium.

And as with Hebert, the committee have muddied the waters by throwing in a load of random people, bankers and things.

There's a Dutchman, a Belgian, there's two Moravians, there's a Dane and there's a Spaniard.

I mean, to be fair, everyone hates a foreign banker.

They do.

Out of the bite of the sea, from among the great iron human troops, he plucked like a tornado, and Kobyaka dropped in the town of Kiev, in the guardroom of Sviatoslav.

Now the Germans and the Venetians, now the Greeks and the Moravians, sing glory to Sviatoslav, but chide Prince Igor, for he let abundance sink to the bottom of the Kayala and filled up the Cuban rivers with Russian gold.

Now Igor the Prince has switched from a saddle of gold to a thrall's saddle, pined away have the ramparts of towns and merriment has drooped.

And Sieteslav saw a troubled dream in Kiev upon the hills.