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While few people were happy with the name, it came into use quickly. Czech and Slovak tensions, of which this was an early sign, soon became manifest in matters of greater immediate importance which made the country's name a comparatively minor issue and at the same time even more impossible to
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a year later. The resultant compromise, after much behind-the-scenes negotiation, was Constitutional Law 101/1990, passed on 20 April and in force since its declaration on 23 April. The law changed the country's name to "Czech and Slovak Federative Republic"; unlike the previous one, it also
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remained in force up to 1 January 1993. It was also heavily amended to remove its Communist character. Work on a permanent constitution was still underway at the time of the
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for descriptive words such as "federative" and "republic", nor for adjectives derived from proper nouns. Both rules were broken at once as a compromise.
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Conventional wisdom suggested that the country would resume the name used from 1919 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1960,
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announced that "Socialist" would be dropped from the country's official name.
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explicitly listed both versions and stated they were equal.
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Since 1960, Czechoslovakia's official name had been the
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Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
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Czech
Slovak
Flag of Czechoslovakia
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Coat of arms of Czechoslovakia
Coat of arms
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Slovak
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Kde domov můj
Nad Tatrou sa blýska
Location of Czechoslovakia
Prague
Czech
Slovak
Government
Federal
parliamentary republic
President
Václav Havel
Prime Minister
Marián Čalfa

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