In the Czechoslovak republic the Kysuce found itself with two state frontiers close by, the Czech lands over the pass beyond Makov and Poland to the north-east, where before 1918 there had been none. Turzovka kept growing regardless: by 1939 there were 11,030 people living in 1,634 houses, spread up every ridge and side gully of an enormous municipal territory. It is worth stopping on that ratio — nearly seven people to a house — because it is what upland poverty actually looks like from the inside: three generations in two rooms, and sons waiting for a share of a farm that cannot be divided again. The interwar republic brought schools and roads but very little work, and with America closed the men went to Moravia and Ostrava instead. The town's population has never been that high again.V československej republike sa Kysuce ocitli hneď pri dvoch štátnych hraniciach — české krajiny cez sedlo za Makovom a Poľsko na severovýchode — hoci pred rokom 1918 tam nebola ani jedna. Turzovka napriek tomu rástla ďalej: v roku 1939 tu žilo 11 030 ľudí v 1 634 domoch, roztiahnutých po každom hrebeni a bočnej rokline obrovského mestského chotára. Pri tom pomere sa oplatí zastaviť — takmer sedem ľudí na dom — lebo presne takto vyzerá horská chudoba zvnútra: tri generácie v dvoch izbách a synovia čakajúci na podiel z gazdovstva, ktoré sa už deliť nedá. Medzivojnová republika priniesla školy a cesty, ale veľmi málo práce, a keď sa Amerika zavrela, muži chodili na Moravu a na Ostravsko. Toľko obyvateľov už mesto nikdy nemalo.
