AHC: Make Yugoslavia and/or Czechoslovakia survive up til present day

So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make Yugoslavia and/or Czechoslovakia survive up to the present day with relative stability and preferably democratic reforms. The only rules are that the POD has to be after 1900, no Alien Space Bats are permitted, and these countries' continued existence has to be more than just in name only. Any takers?
 
No Korean War prevents massive American military spending curtailing Soviet military spending allowing the USSR to lean more into the consumer sector allowing for a better economy keeping War-Pac together and, by extension, Czechoslovakia.
 
To quote an old post of mine at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...92-slovaks-accept-milovy-draft-treaty.391674/

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Perhaps the last chance for a compromise to prevent the breakup of Czechoslvakia in 1992 was the Milovy Draft Treaty, "the government's last serious attempt at writing a new constitution." "The Milovy Draft Treaty represented a significant compromise between the Czech and Slovak sides. The treaty proposed that Slovakia would be able to maintain independent relations with other countries, as long as these relations were in harmony with Czechoslovakia's foreign policy, and that Slovakia would be able to sign treaties with other countries and receive foreign representation. Milovy also required the Czech and Slovak National Councils to ratify the constitution and any amendments to it. To satisfy Czech concerns about having dual economies, the treaty also proposed that there be a single market and a single central bank, and that the national government have control over legislation regarding borders and customs."
https://books.google.com/books?id=G9b0dbUAYEgC&pg=PT72

It "was approved by the Presidium of the Czech National Council 'as a basic platform' for talks on the final version of an agreement. It was rejected by the Slovak presidium a day later by a ten to ten vote, with eleven votes required for approval."
https://books.google.com/books?id=1UYYMn4GKzIC&pg=PA172

It is tempting to say "if only one more Slovak had voted for it..." True, Milan Zemko, who cast the decisive negative vote, has insisted that the accord would not have been accepted by the full Slovak National Council.
https://books.google.com/books?id=LllN7rChpeYC&pg=PA22
https://books.google.com/books?id=1UYYMn4GKzIC&pg=PA173 But what if he was wrong?...

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I don't know how long the agreement would last or whether it satisfies the criterion that Czechoslovakia exist in more than "name only"; arguably the Czech and Slovak states would be less constrained by Czechoslovakia than either of them is now by the EU...
 
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