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Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, circa 1918.
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Credit: Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

A prominent statesman and intellectual, Thomas Masaryk is considered by many the father of modern Czechoslovakia. His writings and political advocacy helped unify reluctant ethnic Czechs and Slovaks and were instrumental in forging the modern nation state after the First World War.

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