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The Czech Republic achieved independence from the Soviet Union through a velvet revolution, or a revolution without bloodshed

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It was actually Czechoslovakia that achieved independence from the Soviet Union through the Velvet Revolution (peaceful revolution) in 1989. In 1993, the country peacefully split into two other countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 
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