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Surely that's at least in part just because of the contrast to the bloodshed and absolute savagery that followed when Yugoslavia splintered and the erstwhile Se
by decimalenough 2y ago
Surely that's at least in part just because of the contrast to the bloodshed and absolute savagery that followed when Yugoslavia splintered and the erstwhile Serb, Croat and Bosnian brothers started murdering each other?
- pvg 2y agoNo - it was an authoritarian regime but there was also a genuine belief in the Yugoslav project. It wouldn't have lasted as long as it did without that, it wasn't just sloganeering and coercion.
- lmm 2y agoDidn't it all fall apart immediately when Tito died? That doesn't suggest a successful nation-building project that people believed in.