Today’s Chabad only has a tiny segment that survived from prewar Lubavitch. Depending on how you count them, most of them are or descend from relatively recent BTs. The old time chasidim (they have a special name for them) are only a small portion. They’re the fourth largest chasidus, with Satmar being the largest with over 200,000 chasidim worldwide. While Satmar chasidim are also mostly from joining after the war, those that joined Satmar were mostly of Hungarian (including Romania, Czechsolovakian/Carpathian, historical Hungarian lands) stock.
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