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It was a place where people lived good lives and had plenty of opportunities to succeed, along with free education and healthcare. I'm kind of tired of being a
by saubeidl 1y ago
It was a place where people lived good lives and had plenty of opportunities to succeed, along with free education and healthcare.
I'm kind of tired of being an economic powerhouse where most people live in misery.
- robotnikman 1y ago>I'm kind of tired of being an economic powerhouse where most people live in misery. This. What's the point of being an economic powerhouse when most people end up living poor quality lives?
- Ray20 1y ago>people live in misery. People live in unimaginable luxury compared with what people had in Yugoslavia.
- saubeidl 1y agoAs somebody who's from there, no, they don't.
- WalterBright 1y agoWhy did you leave?
- saubeidl 1y agoBecause it was destroyed by right-wing extremists in the 90s, funded by Western capitalists that were scared it would show the world a viable alternative on how to run an economy
- nec4b 1y agoI really like what you wrote, because it demonstrates what kids in Yugoslavia were thought from a young age. There was this idea of a foreign enemy that it there to get them and any economic and political fault in the country was because of the sabotage of this invisible foreign enemy.
- saubeidl 1y agoAnd they were right :-)
- selimthegrim 1y agoSurrounded by brigama doesn’t seem like a slogan from a trusting environment.
- nec4b 1y agoIn Yugoslavia you couldn't even get bananas or coffee or jeans. People had to go to Italy or Austria to buy it. You had to wait more than a year to get a car. Of course then there was no gas for it. Inflation ate your paycheck before you could spend it.
- nradov 1y agoYugoslavia also had severe political repression, with peace between the provinces only maintained by a (near) dictator with a cult of personality. Their economy and standard of living was mediocre at best, and only even possible within a limited geopolitical context where they sat between competing superpowers. It wouldn't be possible to create something like Yugoslavia today. Stupid to even try.
- saubeidl 1y agoI'd argue the repression of reactionaries was part of the secret sauce that made it work so well. We saw what happened when they were loosened in the 90s.
- nradov 1y agoRepression like that is never acceptable regardless of the reasons or results.
- saubeidl 1y agoI'd posit that the rise of the Nazis (which caused the rise of the SFR Yugoslavia as a resistance movement) taught us differently. Karl Popper, himself an Austrian that saw the rise of the Nazis and had to live in exile as a result famously formulated it as the paradox of tolerance.
- nec4b 1y agoThank you comrade to alleviate us peasants of having to think too much on our own.