There is the well-known story of the western visitor who asked an elderly citizen of Mukačevo in Ruthenia (or some other such location) about his career. Born in Hungary, was the reply; then apprenticed in Czechoslovakia; saw war-service in Hungary; married in the Soviet Union; and now retired in the Ukraine. “You’re a much-traveled man,” observes the stranger. “No, I’ve lived in the same house all my life.”

From R.J.W. Evans’ Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 132.