 CHAR: Closely after the beginning of the movie, one of the  characters speaks about the fact that in Slovakia there are so many  women and so few men left because the war had nearly killed them  all. The last military conflict that took place in Czechoslovakia  (which at the time was formed by the actual Czech Republic and  Slovakia) was the soviet military intervention in 1968, meant to  stop the peoples movements against the communist regime, and it can  hardly be called a "war". But this may have simply been a ploy to  get them to go there.