It takes time for historic events to reveal their consequences. The new borders were not drawn on the basis of plebiscites. By ignoring the ethnographic borders, the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian empire, population 48 million, resulted in16 million people becoming ethnic minorities.
當時劃分國家疆界時，並未考慮「全民公投」的原則，忽視不同種族所形成的無形疆界，使得解體後的奧匈帝國中三分之一的人口（奧匈帝國人口四千八百萬，其中一千六百萬被劃入其他民族為主的國家疆界內），淪為少數民族。