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When comparing the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the breakup of Yugoslavia during the same period, what factors led to the Velvet Divorce being conducted peacefully while the Yugoslav Wars resulted in genocide?

by /u/addisinmontgomery in /r/AskHistorians

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