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Originally Posted by Galaico
I'm sure many Slovenians suffered under Tito's regime, but you must admit that Yugoslavia was the land of freedom compared to the USSR and to the Warsaw Pact states.
I understand the desire for independence of the Slovenian people as they are the most differenciated nation of all those which made up Yugoslavia, if I'm not wrong Slovenian language began separating from ancient South Slavonian in the 9th century, while for example Serb and Croatian are still very close nowadays, considered the same language by most people (Serbo-Croatian).
I support the idea of the disgregation of former Yugoslavia, as it was an artifitial nation, but it has been done in a wrong way in my opinion, it has weakened all the European nations in the region in favour of Muslim Bosniaks and Albanians.
Slovenia seems to be alright, Croatia needed to be independent, despite their linguistic closeness to Serbia they hate each other, but Serbian land in Croatia and vice-versa should've been exchanged, Bosnia and Herzegovina should have been divided between Croatia and Serbia, Montenegro should still be united with Serbia (Croatians in Montenegro to Croatia, and Albanians to Albania), Kosovo should have been depolluted of Albanians, and FYROM should have been divided between Bulgaria and Serbia (Albanians to Albania).
The apparition of small states with large Albanian minorities such as FYROM or Montenegro will only provoke future Kosovos.
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Well, it was just the best barrack of the great communist lager, as it was Hungary.
In Hungary an old woman got berserk seeing me with an old Stalin's work i had bought as an historical relic for my library: she was angry and distressed at teh same time.
As in hungary, the early communist period meant mass murder, torture and annihilation of entire classdes of people.
Than some less brutal regime was established, in Yugo it happened because Tito had detached from Soviet Union, possibly to save his skin from that Stalin he had served so well by denouncing comrades during the purges of 1938, when he was an exile in Moscow.
The fairy tale of a human faced communism in Hungary, Romania and Yugo was a legend: as for Tito, it depended largely from his dalliance with the West after his break from Moscow.
As for Ceaucescu or the hungarian regime, police brutality and dissent stifling was the rule, simply Hungary had a barely decent economic system, while ceaucescy played maveruck with teh West for his convenience but he was just another staunch commie.