Although he did at the beginning oppose the split of the country he did welcome the division and the creation of the new republic. His son, Pavol
“I remember that we went for a walk in the Bratislava Slavia. Suddenly he grabbed my hand. With emotion, said: "Twenty years I've fought, and now it
The so called “crumbling” of the Republic took place after the Velvet Revolution. As it goes “someone will return to their place of action as
was the case of Dubcek after working in Prague, and other finish the work of your opponent” as was the case of Meciar, who as a former ardent
federalist jumped into the role of the Slovak “patriot.” Thanks to his skills he managed to put the visions of
into practice. But it wasn’t about what he wanted to do for the people.
Independent Slovakia was established as a by-product of the struggle for power between Meciar and Klaus. Meciar wanted not so much an independent
republic as an independent power over it. Klaus, however, refused to take responsibility for part of the state, which he did not have under control
and so the federation collapsed.
Now the two former ardent federalists met at the question of the President. However, Meciar was backed by his own party
which he considered the most important to strengthen his position. Dubcek was backed by the
which did not have representation in the parliament. However, he was
backed by his former voters and foreign countries, mainly left-wing Social Democrats and Socialists. But at the same time he became more of an alert
to the right-wing circles. It became evident that even without function or influential party he would become a major exponent of the Slovak political
scene. The dismantling of socialism would continue which was what Klaus and Meciar wanted to pursue. Therefore it became clear that Dubcek stood in
the way of their plans.
Although after the division of the federation he was no longer a threat to Klaus, it was clear that as a Slovak politician with strong support by the
European left-wing circles he would remain his opponent and plans of Czech economists to decimate Slovak economy so that the Czech koruna would be 1:3
to the Slovak koruna, would be hard to put into practice. Especially if his opponent was the President of Slovak Republic himself.
Over the years there have been several “suspects” taken into account on the death of Dubcek, the death never being ruled a murder instead the
official story ruling it as a mere accident. At first Meciar was mainly considered a strong suspect as Dubcek, in his good health, was in his way at
least until 2002. Although Meciar took the position as a prime minister, Dubcek even without the position of the President was a 'next in-line'
opponent who could be backed by all of Meciar’s opponents.
Even more evidence seems to point towards Meciar's involvement also. For example the driver of Dubcek’s BMW was a man called 'Jaroslav Reznik' who
was a former driver of a man called Cimo, who at the orders of Meciar raided Tiso’s villa in Trencin and transported several members of the StB
(State’s National Security). Reznik never mentioned a car pushing him off the road, nor that he had lost complete control of the vehicle. He simply
stated that the road was wet and he just skidded.
edit on 6-2-2012 by Cayla19 because: (no reason given)