Well You may have heard of a little thing called WWII
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Also, BRNO Rifles, now CZ Firearms.
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yes. This is iconic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ_75 Also don't forgem Semtex ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semtex
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Huh weird never thought of this although my family only bought Batas and my father had a Yezdi bike for like 10 years
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How did it end
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Bohemia was leading area of early industrialization in the Hapsburg lands
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I didn't know Bata was Czech. I went to the Bata shoe museum in Toronto years ago (it's awesome and I'm not even really into shoes) and I somehow just assumed they were Canadian.
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Czech here :-) tldr: German colonization + Habsburgs (language). Germans jumpstarted the industry, Czech learned and improved on that. Bata: he worked in US on an assembly line (wow moment). links:

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even now we are often called 17th Bundesland (huge export dependancy, especially automotive). We are like Germans, but like after they lived in Hobiton for ages :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeten_Germans#Before_the_First_World_War … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Ba%C5%A5a#Ba%C5%A5a's_leadership_for_quality_and_innovation …pic.twitter.com/YbIvkBtjYp
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skoda belongs to vw though, no?
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sure, but founded in Bohemia (ok, Austria-Hungary):https://twitter.com/ACryptberg/status/1311515082875170817 …
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