and after he was elected as a president, the Velvet revolution came to its finish. His popularity was higher and higher. Representatives of OF and VPN took over most important power branches of government. And Czechoslovakia was preparing for free elections, first after 40 years. First divisions were visible during Vaclav Havel’s address to people when he was elected as a president. He pointed out that Milan Knazko, main representative of the Slovakian revolution, was his advisor. Slovaks were angry because they thought that one of the most important person in Slovakian revolution was only president’s advisor and not something more. Other problem emerged when Havel was asked to come to Bratislava day after he was elected president, but he didn’t think it was necessary. And he visited some other countries first. But it was a big mistake that Havel didn’t realise. He came to Bratislava five months after his election and Slovaks thought that they are less important for him than other nations.And soon after even bigger problem turned up. It was the change of CSSR’s name. Havel and most of the Czech politicians thought that it will be an easy part, but they didn’t understand Slovakian feeling about this problem at all. This change of name was soon after called “the dash war”. Slovaks wanted the dash between Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Cesko-slovenska federativni republika). But Czech politicians didn’t want it because they though that it means that we (Czechs and Slovaks) are not together. Discussion among them finished when Czechs said: “OK, you can have that dash, but we won’t use it anyway”. This was so arrogant to Slovaks, that they didn’t even believed it.After this incident Slovakian public was shocked by the amateur way of dealing with such an important issue. Czechs didn’t understand them at all. We can’t be surprised that there were ...
