1918–1938 A Hungarian village wakes up in CzechoslovakiaMaďarská dedina sa zobudí v Československu

In 1918 the border of the new Czechoslovak state was drawn well to the south of Plešivec, and a village where everybody spoke Hungarian found itself in a Slovak state without anyone moving house. Slovak became the language of the office, the school and the railway timetable. The village kept working — the junction still worked, the plateau was still grazed — but the twenty years between the wars are when the people of this belt learned to live as a minority, and many of them never accepted the arrangement. That unresolved feeling is what made 1938 possible.V roku 1918 viedla hranica nového československého štátu hodne južne od Plešivca a dedina, kde všetci hovorili po maďarsky, sa ocitla v slovenskom štáte bez toho, aby sa niekto sťahoval. Slovenčina sa stala jazykom úradu, školy aj cestovného poriadku. Obec fungovala ďalej — uzol jazdil, planina sa pásla —, no práve v dvadsiatich medzivojnových rokoch sa obyvateľstvo tohto pásu učilo žiť ako menšina a mnohí to nikdy neprijali. Ten nevyriešený pocit umožnil rok 1938.