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Originally Posted by Marulus
However, the structures of power of the Yugoslav Federation, dominated by Serbia, were fiercely opposed to any peaceful break-up for Yugoslavia, nay, they even envisioned a reform of Yugoslavia, whereby it should end up being even more centralized country, with all power residing and emanating from Belgrade.
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Indeed, at that time more than 25% of the federal capital was under direct Belgrade control(the rest was to be spent on the other regions). That fact induced the internal economic conflict between the two existing factions: the unitarists(Belgrade centralist economic circle) and decentralists. The unitarists were in charge and (mis)used the
stabilization program(which was supposed to stop the inflation and stabilize the prices) to inflict damage to the decentralist circles, but by doing so they triggered the hyperinflation(
1198%) and crippled the entire economy. Aside from that, by increasing the monetary mass by
2500%, the Federal State of Serbia(hoping that Croatian and Slovenian economic growth will be sufficient to cover their robbery) caused the final downfall of the ex-common economy.
While the other socialist economies were in crisis during the 80-ies, the Yugoslavian one was literally falling apart.
Why would the Croats continue to live in such country, when there was a giant leech on their backs?