No definitely not funny... for them. For Americans its not funny either, cuz if one believes the news most of us could not even place either of them on the map.
Seriously System of a Down was pretty big a couple of years ago.. wouldn't at least that group of kids know about that war?
I admit I am bad with country names... I still call Kampuchea, Cambodia. But not old enough to call it the afor mentioned countries Austria-Hungary or Czechoslovakia
(okay old enough to call it Czech.. but know better)