WI : Slovakia and Czech Republic are separated by Cold War

Do you think they would be closer like "OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK !!! LET'S FEDERALIZE AGAIN !!!" or more distant than ever ? Because from what I know (it's only a one person testimony from someone who was a child when the separation between Czechia and Slovakia happened, so correct me if necessary) Czechs and Slovaks, on the contrary of Yugoslavs, were kinda happy together, there was a debate about representation and developpment of Slovakia, but they got along quite nicely.

The main point against it is that in this world, they are never force-fused again after the treason of Czechia by Tiso, so I don't know, what do you think ?
 
Do you think they would be closer like "OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK !!! LET'S FEDERALIZE AGAIN !!!" or more distant than ever ? Because from what I know (it's only a one person testimony from someone who was a child when the separation between Czechia and Slovakia happened, so correct me if necessary) Czechs and Slovaks, on the contrary of Yugoslavs, were kinda happy together, there was a debate about representation and developpment of Slovakia, but they got along quite nicely.

The main point against it is that in this world, they are never force-fused again after the treason of Czechia by Tiso, so I don't know, what do you think ?
Hehe Treason of Czechia by Tiso. Tiso had Independence voted in Slovak Parliament - he refused to proclaim it from Berlin. Ob other side, Benes accepted Munich without Parliament approval, resigned and then proclaimed himself President in exile. Interestingly Tiso was hanged for treason and Benes not.

Of course if countries stayed separated due to cold war there wouldn’t be much support for reunification. For sure some but not much.
I am curious though what kind of communist regime Slovakia would have. OTL Czech communist were more Stalinist then Slovak. Especially if Soviets wanted to use local communist - not like there were many others. Husak in power sooner? How would he changed if he was not jailed?
 
The usual scenario I have seen is Patton liberates Prague, the Soviets keep control of Slovakia while the Czech lands become a pro-western state, etc.

The problem with this is that, as I have posted before, the policies that were to determine Czechoslovakia's ultimate fate had already been decided on before the liberation of Prague:

"Benes had already made up his mind well before the liberation in favor of the policies which ultimately led to February 1948: a Soviet-friendly foreign policy, giving up Capatho-Ruthenia to the USSR, expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, a temporary government with representatives both from the London government-in-exile and from Communists who had been in Moscow, etc. The government he formed in March-April 1945 seems to have been on quite favorable terms for the Communists--they got the very important Interior Ministry (i.e., the police), the pro-Soviet General Swoboda got the Defense Ministry, and the pro-Communist nominal Social Democrat Fierlinger got the Premiership, etc. All this was decided on before the question of whether Patton should liberate Prague. Moreover, even if the Americans liberated Prague, the Red Army would still be in some parts of Czechoslovakia, and Benes would still want to preserve good relations with the USSR to get them out..." https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-communist-coup-in-1948.418279/#post-15111148

So we would still get withdrawal of both American and Soviet troops, a unified Czechoslovakia under Benes, and elections in 1946 likely to go rather favorably for the Communists--but whether or not the elections are as favorable for the Communists as those of OTL, Czechoslovakia is still going to be one country (Communist or not) for years to come.
 
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