Czechoslovakia was a communist USSR satellite state.
The Czech Republic came to be in the '90s after they revolted and gained independent political control of their own country.

A buddy of mine is fiercely proud of his birth country, the Czech Republic and is quick to set people straight when they get it wrong.

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen