Czechoslovakia is nothinglikeScotland

Your correspondent Allister Band cannot be serious when he says that the division of Czechoslovakia forms an example for the separation of Scotland from the rest of the UK.

Czechoslovakia was established in 1918 in the aftermath of WWI and it only existed from then until 1993.

Between 1938 and 1945 it was divided into the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (effectively the modern Czech Republic) and “independent” Slovakia under a Nazi puppet government.

From 1948 until 1989 Czechoslovakia was a Soviet satellite. Czechoslovakia was only a democratic country in its own right for 20 years between 1918 and 1938 and two further brief periods between 1945 and 1948 and 1989 and 1993.

It is beyond absurd to suggest that the division of a country which really only functioned as such for a combined total of about 27 years is in any way equivalent to the break up of a union