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>people live in misery. People live in unimaginable luxury compared with what people had in Yugoslavia.
by 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.