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To: JMS

Tito weakened Serbian identity in Vojvodina?

Are you familiar with post-WW2 government-organized migration of Serbs from poor parts of Bosnia and Croatia to Vojvodina (to replace ethnic Germans who left Vojvodina at the end of WW2)?

Migrations and high population growth resulted in Serbs gaining Vojvodina and losing Kosovo.

Yugoslavian Constitution, adoped in 1974, gave autonomy to Kosovo and Vojvodina (while still being recognized as part of Serbia). Milosevic installed his puppets as leaders of these two autonomus regions, and used it to his advantage.

During 1980s Serbia had three votes in Yugoslavian Presidential Council. Together with Montenegro they had four votes: remaining four votes belonged to representatives from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia.
This allowed Milosevic to block any meaningful reform of Federal government. Ultimately this pushed Slovenia and Croatia to seek independence. Bosnia and Macedonia reluctantly followed because they did not want to remain in a Milosevic-dominated “new” Yugoslavia.

You cannot blame Tito for failure of Milosevic’s policy.
Ethnic cleansing and attrocities commited by Serbs in Bosnia resulted in NATO protecting Kosovo Albanians from same, if not worse, fate.


13 posted on 12/03/2018 1:46:17 PM PST by nosf40
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To: nosf40

I won’t go into a defense of Milosevic as you seem to want to blame the systemic problems Tito created in post-war Yugoslavia on him. I will say that the Federal policy of allowing Albanian terrorism in Kosovo is what brought Milosevic to power originally. Croatia’s Franjo Tudjman began pushing Ustashe symbolism and a push towards independence while taking no responsibility for the Yugoslavian national debt as he was targeting EU membership at the time. His use of Ustashe symbols is ultimately what fractured Yugoslavia as Slovenia left with little problem. Tudjman brought opened all the unhealed wounds papered over by Tito following WWII.

As regards the civil war in Bosnia, you seem to think that atrocities were all one sided. However, you had people in the post-breakup Bosnian government that were clearly war criminals who blatantly attacked and murdered civilians. I’m just bringing some perspective to the article.


16 posted on 12/03/2018 2:59:45 PM PST by JMS
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