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Not anti-racist but anti-capitalist. In Yugoslavia no one could own a business that employs more than 8 people, so all bigger companies were owned by the govern
by drno123 6y ago
Not anti-racist but anti-capitalist. In Yugoslavia no one could own a business that employs more than 8 people, so all bigger companies were owned by the government, because anti-capitalist. As a result, management of all but micro business was selected not based on ones success and merit, but based on political connections, and in addition to that, there was no competition. The products mostly sucked and companies were performing badly. The economy was mostly surviving on international loans, and when this stopped, as a result, we had enormous inflation in the mid and late 80s. Food became scarce, I remember one time when you could buy only 1kg of sugar per household. Electricity was also scarce and there were periodic blackouts. Under such economic conditions, all it took is few “charismatic” sociopaths to start two bloody wars (the first one being in Croatia and Bosnia between 1991-1995 and the second one in Kosovo 1998-1999).
Again, anti-racism has nothing to do with it, and I am appaled at how you have tried to mark me as a racist.
- the_why_of_y 6y agoThanks for your answer, which I've upvoted. I'm sorry that I caused you offense - I don't know much about Yugoslavia, so I couldn't parse your comment as referring to anything else but the wars of the 1990s, so I couldn't get your point in the context of an article concerned primarily with anti-racism.
- inglor_cz 6y agoPoland in the 1980s was fairly similar, including drowning in national debt, devaluation of the Zloty and omnipresent shortages of food and clothing. Without black market, nothing would be available. (I grew up close to the Polish border and we had a lot of visiting Polish workers in my city, so I had the information first hand. I can still speak and read some Polish even 30 year later.) Unlike Yugoslavia, Poland was ethnically homogeneous at that time and did not disintegrate in an orgy of violence, but the living standards were nothing short of appalling.
- Dracophoenix 6y agoDidn't Slovenia have a looser grip on economic activities and private ownership than the other republics?