Economy practically fell apart. Before you could move goods from Prague to Ljubljana without encountering a hitch. Now you had three separate borders in your w

Economy practically fell apart. Before you could move goods from Prague to Ljubljana without encountering a hitch. Now you had three separate borders in your way. This led to decline in virtually every sector, as things previously available on internal market suddenly became exports. Currency was the next catastrophe. Before 1918 you could buy bread with the same kroner in Vienna, Brno, Budapest and Krakow. Now you had to handle multiple currency swaps. Finally, war erupted almost immediately between successor states. Poland against Czechoslovakia, Council Republics in Slovakia and Hungry, Poland against Ukraine ... And to top the list you had domestic repressions, like in Czechoslovakia against Germans. So yes, it was a crisis. After crisis, after crisis. The only reason we in central Europe don't see this era as one of horror is because things got even worse afterwards. General economic collapse by end of 1920s and well into early 1930s, followed by WWII, genocides, communist takeover etc. Well, there is one other reason. Nation states were seen as "progressive" and "modern" for most of the 20th century. The propaganda is kind of pervasive. Just some of the wars I mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_Wa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_and_interventions_in_Hungary_(1918%E2%80%931920) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_and_interventions_...