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TIL of the Beneš decrees, laws which allow Slovakia to steal property from its ethnic Hungarians. The post-WWII era laws came from the former Czechoslovakia, where it was used to take property and citizenship away from ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and subject them to forced labor.

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