“The row over the term 'Česko' was a big issue for many years, but then things settled down. The linguists and politicians must have realised that you can't actually force people to say Česko anyway. The athletes wore strips sporting the mindless term 'Czech'. … The reasons for Zaorálek's initiative are unclear. Perhaps he found the little signs he always sat behind which bore the wordy descriptive 'Czech Republic' odd. … In the end it doesn't matter: for one half of the world we will always remain 'Czechoslovakia' while the other will keep mixing us up with Chechnya.”