Although the Germans were the primary victims of this new policy, the Hungarians were also been subjected to it, especially in Eduard Beneš's reconstituted Czechoslovakia. In the course of 1945-1946, over 200,000 thousand of them were driven across the Danube, most of them in the middle of the winter and without proper clothing and provisions. This so-called "Košicky Program"—which became the Czechoslovak government's official policy vis-à-vis the Hungarians10—was a smaller version of the "ethnic cleansing" that had cleared Czechoslovakia of its German citizens. It is to the credit of Václav Havel, the President of the Czech Republic, that in his former capacity as the last President of Czechoslovakia he acknowledged the immorality of the policy.