Deleting duplicate contacts in iCloud

Is there a way to delete a duplicate contact in iCloud and not delete the other contact? I duplicated contacts in iCloud, not my PC. They are duplicated on my iPhone, but not the PC. When I delete one, the other is deleted and everything in the cloud and the original on my PC is deleted.

I had exactly the same problem .... apple care too wasnt much of a help. However i solved it and also informed them about it.
Please follow exactly and let me know if it helps.
First open icloud.com and sign it with your Apple id and password - you should see the contacts folder.
In the bottom left you should the gear wheel, click on it.
Click on one of the contact till its highlighted blue, then click cmd and A together - this will highlight all the contacts. Next use delete to delete all your contacts in the icloud (use the delete from the wheel gear)
You should see you icloud empty, now click on the gear wheel again and then click on import vcards, [to do this
make a folder on the desktop, highlight one contact in your contact list and them again press cmd and A - together to hightlight the whole list of contact. Copy to the folder on the desktop] Now the vcards can be imported to the icloud.
You have a fresh set of contacts on you icloud, which should be sent to all your devices related to your icloud account and password.
This solved my problem, hope it solves your too.

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