Quote Originally Posted by Kamion
If you use "the" you will refer these specific articles, the ones we are talking about right now, but if you omit the "the" you will claim that slavs have problems with articles in general.
It's absolutely impossible to me to decide if the article is specific or not here. The unique objects like the Sun or the Earth always have "the". I thought that articles (since there are only two of them) are unique too (I mean grammatic articles, not magazine ones).