Warum wurde Bratislava der Tschechoslowakei zugeteilt, wenn es doch die alte Hauptstadt Ungarns und seine Krönungsstadt war?

Masaryk wanted access to the Danube, and we Hungarians couldn’t muster an army to massacre every Czech and Slovak fucker who wanted to push us well south of the language border.

Bratislava was a 3-nation city and the Entente wanted to fuck Hungary… That’s it.

What I find more funny is how Burgenland was handed to Austria, although Hungarian politicians meticulously opposed the war in the beginning… My colleagues in Vienna joked about this that even Austrians don’t care about Burgenland.

Same reason why the super-majority german speaking lands of Deutschböhmen & Mähren were assigned to the newly found Czechoslovak State – they had the diplomatic edge, prepared for the emerging of their new state for years beforehand militarily (Czechoslovak legions) and due to superb public relations with the Entente, leading to them being considered a allied participant in the war.

Meanwhile the german-austrian people, at that point the relative majority in Pressburg/Bratislava, were exhausted from the war and spiritually at a low point, with no politician preparing them properly for the wars over the newly established borders in st. germain, trianon and versailles. Meanwhile Hungary, technically still in possession of the city, had its hands full with Bela Kun and his communist regime as well as the Romanians.