The regimes of the successor states were usually oblivious and or hostile to remnants of the
erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a
superimposed imperial power and an alien - democratic pluralistic liberal - tradition.
Notwithstanding that fact erasing the Habsburg Empire from maps of Europe did not entail the
entire cancelation of its legacy on the former Habsburg territories. Although officially
neglected or suppressed this legacy made itself felt overtly or tacitly in discourses
present in the public sphere of the countries that superseded the Monarchy.How the Habsburg
heritage has been undermined and sustained in East-Central European Discourses
