HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Conservative Coalition, Currency Union
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1 of # essay related to second half of course. 1 of # essay related to whole course. Though reform demands were largely met, further pushes for reunification. Reunification prevented a reformed east germany, instead just got one unified west. Roundtable efforts to draft own constitution thus a waste. Bad for firms, must pay debts in west german currency. Part of the soviet bloc now completely integrated into western europe. Warsaw pact ended, soviet troops leave eastern europe. Workers conduct votes of confidence in directors. Couldn"t dissolve communist parliament because it had gotten havel elected. Vaclav klaus--purged civic forum, turning it into a proto-conservative party in the model of margaret thatcher. These conservative politicians cannot agree on how to form a government. 2/15 million sign petition asking for referendum, but denied. Thus czechoslovakia broken into 2, against the will of most czechs and. Solidarity still wins majority, but jaruzelski is also still president and many communists still in power.
