Why did the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate and how?
After the Velvet Revolution of December 1989, when the country threw off communism, a rift soon became apparent between the more prosperous Czech area and the ‘rust belt’ that was Slovakia. In the latter, nationalists demanded independence and many Czech politicians were only too delighted to get rid of an economically backward region … After a referendum, the two part of Czechoslovakia split with effect from 1 January 1993.
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