1880s – 1914Half a million leaveOdchádza pol milióna ľudí
SlovakiaSlovensko
There was too little land and no industry to absorb the children born on it, and for a whole generation the answer was a ticket to America. From the 1880s to the First World War several hundred thousand people left; by the mid-1920s around half a million Slovaks had gone, most of them to the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania. Districts in Šariš, Zemplín, Orava and Kysuce lost a very large share of their working-age population within a single generation and never got it back. What came back was money — the brick houses that still stand out among timber ones in poor villages were paid for from America — and something less obvious: the Slovak associations in Pittsburgh and Cleveland became, by 1918, one of the few places on earth where Slovak politics could be conducted freely at all.Pôdy bolo primálo a priemysel, ktorý by uživil deti narodené na nej, neexistoval — a odpoveďou celej generácie bol lístok do Ameriky. Od 80. rokov 19. storočia do prvej svetovej vojny odišli stovky tisíc ľudí, do polovice 20. rokov už asi pol milióna Slovákov, väčšinou do uhoľných baní a oceliarní v Pensylvánii. Okresy na Šariši, Zemplíne, Orave a Kysuciach stratili počas jednej generácie veľkú časť práceschopných ľudí a nikdy ich nezískali späť. Späť prichádzali peniaze — tehlové domy, ktoré v chudobných dedinách dodnes vyčnievajú spomedzi drevených, zaplatila Amerika — a ešte čosi menej viditeľné: slovenské spolky v Pittsburghu a Clevelande sa do roku 1918 stali jedným z mála miest na svete, kde sa vôbec dala slobodne robiť slovenská politika.
Half a million leaveOdchádza pol milióna ľudí
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