Why did Czechoslovakia Collapse?

Why did Czechoslovakia Collapse?

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A QUARTER of a century ago, as international attention focused on the bloody conflict in the Balkans, another multinational European state quietly split in two. The “Velvet Divorce”, the name given to the splitting of Czechoslovakia on January 1st 1993, echoed the bloodless Velvet Revolution that overthrew the country’s communists in 1989. It suggests the partition was amicable. The split “was not entirely inevitable, but the political and economic costs of keeping the country together would have been extremely high”, pointed out Jiri Pehe, political analyst and former advisor to Vaclav Havel. As the country lost its German, Polish, and Hungarian minorities, the Czechs reluctantly agreed to change the centralistic constitution into a federalist one. The Slovak Populists, headed since Hlinka’s death by Jozef Tiso, pressed Prague for full Slovak autonomy, which was proclaimed in ilina on October 6. Subcarpathian Ruthenia was also granted autonomous status. Meanwhile, the public knew little of the confidential negotiations being conducted in Vienna and Berlin by Tiso’s aides, who went along with Hitler’s preparation for the final takeover of Slovakia. On March 14, 1939, immediately after Tiso’s return to Bratislava from talks with Hitler in Berlin, all Slovak parliamentarians voted for independence. On the following day, Bohemia and Moravia were occupied and proclaimed a protectorate of the German Third Reich, while Slovakia became a nominally independent state under Tiso as president. In this video, we are looking into Why did Czechoslovakia Collapse?

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