1 résultats pour "velvetrevolution"

• Czechoslovakia put an end to the communist regime with the "velvetrevolution" in 1989.

  Czechoslovakia put an end to the communist regime with the "velvet revolution" in 1989. The writer Vaclav Havel, became Head of State and was unable to withstand nationalist tensions, but on 1st January 1993 nationalistic pressures gave an end to the Czechoslovak federation and gave birth to the independent republic of Slovakia. The economic legacy of the partition has greatly handicapped industrial development centred on armaments. The presence of a large Hungarian minority in the South of Slov...