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Article: The lessons of Yugoslavia. (failure of ethnic policies of reform Communism)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 30, 1990
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YUGOSLAVIA, long regarded as the most advanced nation in Central Europe, suddenly finds itself, because it has done no advancing over the last six months, left vrey far behind. So the problems it faces [see "Slouching toward Sarajevo?" "On the Scene," March 191 have not gotten much ink. This is a mistake, for Yugoslavia is in many ways a small-scale laboratory for the Soviet Union: a multiethnic society run by "reform Communists." Interestingly, they have made a botch of things.
Tito originally promised that, by downplaying national identities and suppressing them when necessary, socialism would produce a New Man. Serbs and Croats would he down as ethnic lions ...