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Article: Country profile: Macedonia.
- Article from:
- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 New Internationalist Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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IN central Skopje two storeys of poured concrete and plate glass house the National Museum of Macedonia. On a Saturday afternoon the place is deserted, except for the warden and some friends who have set up a TV in the entrance hall. They slouch in front of dubbed American soap opera, spellbound. The warden follows me round, switching the lights on and then off as I enter and then leave each gallery in turn.
There is no money to replace the old displays, so they still relate how Macedonia joined Tito's Yugoslavia and fulfilled its destiny. But the Yugoslav Federation, which it left in 1991, is only the most recently discarded of its `destinies', and the demise of ...
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