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Before there was a map of Slavic nations, there was a dream.
Born in Mošovce (🇸🇰), Ján Kollár was the butcher’s son who said no to knives and yes to books. He studied with František Palacký, wandered through Jena (🇩🇪), soaked in German Romanticism, and returned to Pest (🇭🇺) burning with a mission: to awaken the Slavic spirit.
His weapon? Not a sword, but poetry.
His vision? A united Slavic soul.
In 1824, he published Slávy dcera (The Daughter of Slava) — a 151-sonnet love letter to the Slavic people. It was history, prophecy, and hymn all in one. Slavic defeat and glory. Real sorrow and imagined future. One blood. One body. One people.
Kollár believed the nation was above the state. Not in rebellion, but in duty — to protect language, memory, and the sacred bond of kinship among the Slavs. He fought not for politics, but for culture, language, identity. He dreamed that the Serbs, Poles, Russians, Czechs, Bulgarians, Ukrainians — all of us — might recognize each other as brothers and sisters.
Was he naive? Maybe.
Was he necessary? Absolutely.
While the empires divided us, Kollár whispered across borders:
“We are not alone. You are not alone.”
Today, as Slavs face division, manipulation, and external pressure to turn against one another, we remember Ján Kollár — not as a forgotten romantic, but as a visionary prophet of Slavic unity.
Let the cynics laugh.
We carry on his torch.
One blood. One body. One people.
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