Czechs assess Velvet Revolution better than Slovaks - poll

Two-thirds of Czechs and more than a half of Slovaks assess the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which triggered the collapse of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, positively, according to a joint poll presented today. Slovak respondents consider the armed anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising, starting on August 29, 1944, and the establishment of the independent Slovak state in 1993, after Czechoslovakia's split, more important than the Velvet Revolution, called "gentle" in Slovakia.