1989 – 1993 The arrangement comes apartDohoda sa rozpadá

The Velvet Revolution of November 1989 ended the one-party state, and within a few years it also ended the industrial arrangement the upland villages had been living on. Plants that had been kept running because the plan said so now had to sell into a market, and several of them could not. Czechoslovakia split at the end of 1992 and Kobeliarovo woke up on 1 January 1993 in the Slovak Republic. For a village of a few hundred people at the top of a side valley the change of state mattered much less than the change in who was hiring.Nežná revolúcia v novembri 1989 ukončila vládu jednej strany a v priebehu niekoľkých rokov ukončila aj priemyselné usporiadanie, z ktorého horské dediny žili. Závody, ktoré dovtedy bežali preto, lebo tak znel plán, sa zrazu museli presadiť na trhu — a viacerým sa to nepodarilo. Koncom roka 1992 sa Česko-Slovensko rozdelilo a Kobeliarovo sa 1. januára 1993 zobudilo v Slovenskej republike. Pre dedinu s pár stovkami obyvateľov na konci bočnej doliny znamenala zmena štátu podstatne menej než zmena toho, kto dáva prácu.