Why did Czechoslovakia break up? / Proc se Ceskoslovensko rozpadlo?

So, why did Czechoslovakia really split up?

• The arguments had started already back in 1989, right after the Velvet revolution in early November. Both sides were bickering about what should the future federation look like: “What it’s going to be called?” “Who is going to get “burned” on this whole deal? The Czechs or the Slovaks?”
• The very decisive moment came during the elections in 1992; the Czechs elected ODS as their major leading political party, where as majority of Slovaks voted for the HZDS. Both leaders of the party, Mr. Klaus (ODS) and Mr. Meciar (HZDS) just didn’t seem to agree on anything regarding the future federation.
• The negative atmosphere was also thickened by the fact that during the presidential elections in 1992 the Slovakian parliament decided not to support Vaclav Havel as a future president.
• By the end of September of the same year both parties (ODS and HZDS) finally decided to part ways.

The 31st of December 1992 Czechoslovakia had disappeared from the surface of Europe and became the Czech Republic and Slovakia (the word itself may still be used as an obscure password to get an entrance granted to some drug adict’s dungeon).At that time only 25% of Czechs agreed with the split; the polls in 2006 showed that up to 56% of Czech citizens agreed with the separation. Slovakia, however, was more conservative with their opinion: only 40% of Slovaks thought the whole separation it to be a good idea.

Proc se Ceskoslovensko rozdelilo???

• Jiz od samotneho roku 1989 (po Sametove Revoluci v listopadu) se obe strany hadaly o podobe budouci federace: “Jak se bude nase nova republika jmenovat?” “Kdo na tyto nove podminky doplati? Slovensko nebo Cechy?”
• Zasadni zlom prisel po volbach roku 1992, kdy v Cechach jasne vyhrala ODS ( predseda strany: Klaus) a na Slovensku vyhrala HZDS (predsteda strany: Meciar). Oba predsedove strany meli absolutne odlisne nazory o tom, jak by mel novy stat vypadat.
• Negativni atmosferu take umocnilo zablokovani slovenskymi poslanci, kteri odmitli podporit Vaclava Havla do funkce prezidenta (cervenec 1992)
• Koncem srpna 1992 se ODS a HZDS konecne rozhodli na rozdeleni

A takto byly 31.prosince 1992 secteny dny spolecneho statu Cechu a Slovaku; Ceskoslovensko trvalo celych 74 let. Co je zajimave je, ze pouha ctvrtina Cechu v teto dobe souhlasila s timto rozhodnutim, zatimco v roce 2006 se toto cislo zvysilo na 56%. Slovaci byli se svym rozhodnutim vice konzervativnejsi; pohych 40% souhlasilo s rozdelenim Ceskoslovenska (2006).

Source: http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/index_view.php?id=267909