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Can the term "oxymoronic state" be paraphrased somehow like "a state of paradoxes?"

I know that "paradox" and "oxymoron" are completely different, and I need to translate an article for my thesis, so I need to be really sure that I understand correctly.

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The new Czechoslovakia was one of a number of nominally national but in fact multinational states created in East Central Europe after the collapse of empires in 1917-1918. In the Czechoslovak case, the high-minded principle of Wilsonian self-determination combined with the Realpolitik of postwar alliance politics to produce what is perhaps best described as an oxymoronic state.

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Yes, you can render oxymoronic state as a state of paradoxes, or, if you like, a state of contradictions. The unified country of Czechoslovakia embodied contradictions or opposites within itself, much as an oxymoron does.

This article summarizes the differences between the Czechs and the Slovaks, and gives you an idea what an oxymoronic state it created when they were thrown together into a single country.

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  • Well, I am actually a Czech woman and that is -maybe paradoxically- why I wasn´t sure :-) Because I would say that we differ(ed) just with the speech (and just a bit), the mentality and so on is more or less the same. Thank you.
    – user59134
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 1:24
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    Yes, Czechoslovakia seemed be much less of an oxymoronic state than, say, the disparate entities that constituted the former Yugoslavia.
    – Gnawme
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 1:33

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