ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent

Rob Cameron interviewing Vaclav Klaus

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What can Scotland learn from Czechoslovakia?

BBC News

17 September 2014

Scotland went to the polls on September 18th, 2014 to decide whether to leave the United Kingdom and begin a new chapter as an independent state. The only country in Europe that has peacefully divided in recent decades is Czechoslovakia, which split into two on January 1st, 1993, without a drop of blood being spilt. So what advice would Czechs and Slovaks give the Scots?