Vladimír Mečiar
Vladimír Mečiar was a HZDS politican and prime minister of Slovakia.
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History
Mečiar was ejected from the KSS following the Warsaw Pact invasion.
During the Gentle Revolution, he became involved with VPN.
Policies
Mečiar rapidly rose to power in the new VPN-KDU coalition government in 1990.
In 1991 he led a faction out of VPN to found HZDS.
He initiated the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.