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Article: Yugo going and gone. (The End Of A Balkan Experiment).(eulogy for Yugoslavia)
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- The Christian Century
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- March 8, 2003
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AS I WAS DRIVING home from the office on February 4 I heard the announcement from Belgrade: the parliament formally voted to end the Republic of Yugoslavia and establish instead the state (or states) of Serbia and Montenegro. Tears came into my eyes--some part of me had also come to an end. Perhaps the end of an illusion.
I was born in Yugoslavia, even though my American passport says I was born in Croatia (that is also true). I came to the U.S. in 1957 as a 21-year-old student. Then I became a permanent resident and finally a citizen. My wife and I deliberately and passionately assimilated. We didn't make much of being from Yugoslavia--which, in any ease, many ...