, government passed new laws which adjusted relations between CSR and SSR. CSR and SSR joined together as national state formations into the higher federational state – CSSR. Those should be the historical reasons of split. Same importance in this act had economical situation of Czech and Slovakia during the whole period of our common state. From the very beginning Czech always had more industry. The industrial revolution took over in Czech in the times of Austria-Hungary and Czech was one of the most industrialised countries in the whole world. On the other hand, industrial revolution hadn’t touched Slovakia at all. It was mostly agricultural state with almost none industry.After the foundation of Czechoslovakia those differences became more visible. On one side, Czech was industrialised state with high level of education, culture etc. On the other Slovakia didn’t have almost anything. They didn’t even have good schools. So Czech started to build Slovakia. They sent engineers, teachers, politicians and all needed people to Slovakia to help them rebuild their state. In those years it was great impulse for Czechoslovak economy which sooner became in the top ten in the world. Until 1948 when communist took over Czechoslovakia.After then, they started to rebuild Slovakia as an industrial country with huge steel manufacturing companies. During those years Czech economy in comparison with the rest of world went down, but industry in Slovakia was rebuilt from the roots. Because of that, Slovakian economy was pretty much at a same level as Czech in 1980’s. And that was one of the reasons why Slovakia could become a sovereign country.This should be all about economical background of split. However the most important time of change were years 1990-1992. Because after the accession of democracy, original federation from the communism had to be rethought. In the year 1990 Vaclav Havel visited lots of foreign countries...
