I Come From The Nation They Had to Destroy to “Prove” Capitalism Right
Yugoslavia was a thriving, independent, socialist federation. Multiethnic, non-aligned, & working well. Too well—so The West dismantled it piece by piece, & I can prove it.
The U.S. deliberately sabotaged a socialist success story to protect the lie Americans were fed by their corporate-backed politicians.
Before the ethnic cleansing and the splintering of borders, before NATO arrived to “stabilize” what it had destabilized, there was Yugoslavia.
A nation that dared to show the world that socialism didn’t have to fail.
A nation that refused to bow to Washington or Moscow.
A nation that worked.
And that made it a threat.
The Myth is “Yugoslavia collapsed because of ethnic conflict.”
The Truth is it was deliberately dismantled, economically, politically, and militarily by the West, and I Can Prove it.
The Yugoslav Model: A Socialist Federation That Defied the Cold War
From its founding in 1945 to the death of Josip Broz Tito in 1980, Yugoslavia was one of the most unique political systems in the world:
A socialist economy, but not Soviet-style command and control
A non-aligned foreign policy, refusing to join either NATO or the Warsaw Pact
A multiethnic, multi-religious federation of republics with a shared military and governance structure
A robust system of worker self-management, where workers, not bureaucrats, ran factories
Universal healthcare, education, subsidized housing, and one of the highest literacy rates in the developing world
Yugoslavia, surely no utopia, was nonetheless functional, independent, and most importantly, it demonstrated that socialism could function without gulags, cults of personality, or starvation.
What Yugoslavia Contributed to the World
Despite being overlooked or erased by Western narratives, Yugoslavia (SFRY) was not only functional, but also highly innovative, producing world-class advancements in:
Diplomacy
Science and medicine
Engineering and infrastructure
Culture, cinema, and arts
Military and space technology
Below is a breakdown of major world-class contributions Yugoslavia made during its peak as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
Education & Literacy Reform
By the 1980s, Yugoslavia achieved one of the highest literacy rates in the developing world (over 91%)
Implemented tuition-free universities with international student exchanges
Created polytechnic high schools that trained skilled workers in mechanics, medicine, and electronics for export labor markets
Global Leadership in Non-Aligned Diplomacy
Co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement (1961), alongside India and Egypt
Yugoslavia helped create a third bloc for post-colonial countries to avoid being pawns in the Cold War
Tito was a respected global statesman who personally hosted leaders like Nasser, Nehru, Castro, and Kennedy
It played a key mediating role in international conflicts, including between North and South Korea, and India and Pakistan
Its foreign policy was based on sovereignty, mutual respect, and anti-imperialism
Medical & Pharmaceutical Innovation
Galenika and Hemofarm, two major Yugoslav pharmaceutical firms, produced affordable and high-quality generic medications distributed across Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe
Yugoslav doctors pioneered mass vaccination campaigns, significantly contributing to smallpox eradication and immunization against tuberculosis
Developed an advanced primary care system based on decentralized clinics, preventive care, and patient cooperatives, which inspired later WHO rural health models
Opened world-class medical universities (e.g. Belgrade and Zagreb) attracting international students
Engineering & Infrastructure Pioneering
Constructed the largest underground military air base in Europe: Željava Air Base (on the border of Bosnia and Croatia) — fully self-contained with nuclear protection
Built autonomous energy grids and advanced hydroelectric dams (e.g., Perućica, Đerdap) still in operation today
Developed the first modern high-speed railway segments in the Balkans and one of the earliest transnational highway networks in Southern Europe
Created worker self-managed factories that built advanced turbines, precision tools, and locomotives used worldwide
Aerospace & Military Innovation
Partnered with France’s Dassault Aviation to create the Soko G-4 Super Galeb, a world-class subsonic jet trainer — still used by multiple countries
Developed the M-84 tank, a superior Yugoslav upgrade of the Soviet T-72 — one of the most powerful tanks in the world at the time
Designed and produced Galeb and Jastreb fighter aircrafts, which rivaled NATO-era jets in function and export
Played a role in Soviet space support logistics, producing launch facility parts and telemetry systems
Cinema & Cultural Exports
Yugoslav cinema earned international acclaim:
Emir Kusturica, Palme d’Or winner (When Father Was Away on Business, Underground)
Dušan Makavejev, innovator in surrealist political cinema (WR: Mysteries of the Organism)
Hosted the Pula Film Festival, one of the longest-running in Europe
Yugoslav authors like Ivo Andrić won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1961) for The Bridge on the Drina
Music, Arts, and Architecture
Produced globally acclaimed jazz musicians, including Dusko Goykovich
Yugoslav design schools helped pioneer Brutalist architecture — seen in iconic monuments like Spomeniks, which are now studied in Western design academies
Created state-supported theaters, museums, and art academies that promoted both classical and avant-garde arts
Yugoslavia Proved Development Without Exploitation Was Possible
Yugoslavia proved that a non-aligned, socialist economy could:
Educate its population
Innovate across industries
Build modern infrastructure
Export culture and diplomacy
Lead without occupying or exploiting anyone
That model — functional socialism, without imperialism or totalitarianism — terrified Washington and Brussels more than any Cold War enemy.
The Non-Aligned Threat
Under Tito, Yugoslavia was a founding leader of the Non-Aligned Movement — a coalition of countries that refused to take orders from either Washington or Moscow.
This made it strategically dangerous.
The U.S. didn’t just tolerate anti-communism. It exported it.
But Yugoslavia? It was post-colonial, socialist, and economically self-sufficient.
And it wasn’t failing.
It was integrating global trade while maintaining public control over essential industries. It was growing a middle class while keeping Western capital at the door. It was forging diplomatic alliances across Africa, Asia, and Latin America — not through military bases, but through solidarity.
So long as Yugoslavia remained unified, independent, and thriving, it undermined the West’s favorite propaganda line: “Socialism always fails.”
After Tito: The Economic Sabotage Begins
When Tito died in 1980, Yugoslavia lost its central, unifying figure — but it did not collapse.
What happened next wasn’t natural. It was engineered.
The West, primarily through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, saw an opening. They imposed a series of “structural adjustment programs” on Yugoslavia in exchange for debt refinancing.
These programs forced:
Massive cuts to public spending
The dismantling of worker-run enterprises
Privatization of state-owned industries
Cuts to subsidies between republics, fueling resentment
Caps on wages, triggering inflation and unrest
Michael Parenti, political scientist:
“The real crime of Yugoslavia was that it showed that market socialism, with self-managed workplaces and a welfare state, could work outside the control of multinational corporations.”
The IMF reforms weren’t just economically brutal — they were deliberately destabilizing. They eroded the financial glue that held Yugoslavia’s republics together.
Poorer regions like Kosovo, Bosnia, and Macedonia were cut off from federal support. Ethnic grievances were amplified by economic desperation.
This was economic shock therapy as nation demolition.
The IMF and World Bank’s structural adjustment demands on Yugoslavia played a crucial role in Yugoslavia’s destabilization.
1. Massive Cuts to Public Spending
Slashed federal subsidies to poorer republics (e.g., Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo)
Defunded public transportation, housing, and rural infrastructure programs
Froze government hiring and imposed limits on pensions
2. Defunding of Social Services
Deep cuts to free healthcare and education systems
Closure of rural clinics and universities
Shift toward privatized service provision under the guise of “efficiency”
3. Privatization of State Enterprises
Mandated sale or closure of publicly owned factories and infrastructure
Forced “market competition” on previously self-managed cooperatives
Opened up foreign ownership of key industries (telecom, energy, banking)
4. Wage Suppression and Inflation Controls
Wage freezes across all public sectors
Limitations on collective bargaining rights
Devaluation of the Yugoslav dinar to increase exports, which fueled inflation
5. Interest Rate Hikes and Deregulation
Raised interest rates to curb “government overspending,” strangling local businesses
Removed banking regulations, allowing private and foreign capital to dominate credit markets
6. Decentralization of Economic Power
Dismantled federal redistribution programs
Pushed economic autonomy onto individual republics, worsening regional inequality
Fomented nationalist resentment by withdrawing funds from poorer republics while wealthier regions (Slovenia, Croatia) kept surpluses
These policies did not reduce debt. They deepened inequality, gutted federal unity, and triggered the economic freefall that preceded Yugoslavia’s collapse.
The Political Fragmentation: West-Backed Nationalism
In the 1990s, as the economies of Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia buckled under austerity, nationalist leaders emerged. Many of them were former communists who had turned opportunists.
But here’s what’s critical:
The West didn’t try to stop the fragmentation. It accelerated it.
Germany unilaterally recognized the independence of Croatia and Slovenia in 1991, despite EU and U.S. calls for negotiation.
The U.S. quickly followed, giving diplomatic cover to secessionist republics before any peace framework had been secured.
This broke the back of the Yugoslav federation and made war inevitable.
UN special envoy Cyrus Vance at the time warned:
“Recognition of independence outside of a negotiated framework will almost certainly lead to war.”
They were ignored.
And within months, Yugoslavia descended into inter-republic warfare, fueled by unresolved ethnic tensions, economic collapse, and the strategic encouragement of separatist movements by Western powers.
Weaponizing Destabilization: From Austerity to Civil War
Western destabilization of Yugoslavia was not just economic. It was tactical.
The U.S. and European powers didn’t just impose austerity. They deliberately triggered the conditions for ethnic conflict, and then ensured that only one side had the weapons to fight.
What came next was not failure. It was the plan.
First, They Imploded the Economy
As detailed earlier:
The IMF mandates stripped federal transfers between republics
Poorer republics like Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo were left isolated
Unemployment surged; inflation skyrocketed
Wages were frozen
Worker-owned factories were shuttered
Public infrastructure collapsed
This created deep regional resentment, which Western-backed nationalist parties quickly exploited. The West knew this would happen — because it always does. It’s a feature, not a bug, of structural adjustment.
Then, They Stoked Ethnic Division
In the early 1990s:
Germany unilaterally recognized Croatian and Slovenian independence in December 1991, ignoring UN protocol and diplomatic warnings
The U.S. and EU quickly followed, providing early legitimacy to secessionist forces
This broke the Yugoslav federation’s legal framework and made war inevitable
Western diplomats, under the banner of “self-determination,” encouraged nationalist leaders to declare independence, while publicly calling for restraint.
Meanwhile, the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), now under the control of Slobodan Milošević’s Serbian regime, retained:
The military high command
Heavy weapons
Ammunition stockpiles
Federal base control in Bosnia and Croatia
The Serb nationalist bloc had the army.
The other republics had nothing.
Then They Disarmed Everyone Else
In 1991, just as Yugoslavia was disintegrating and war was breaking out, the European Union — under U.S. pressure — imposed a blanket arms embargo on the entire region.
This embargo froze Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo from acquiring weapons while Serbia and the JNA remained fully armed.
This was not neutrality. This was complicity.
Bosniak civilians had no meaningful defense during the siege of Sarajevo, the massacres in Srebrenica, or the campaigns of ethnic cleansing in Prijedor and Foča.
President Alija Izetbegović pleaded with the West to at least lift the embargo:
“If you will not intervene to stop the slaughter, at least allow us to defend ourselves.”
He was ignored.
This Was Not Incompetence. It Was Cold War Realpolitik.
The U.S. and NATO:
Knew war was coming
Knew who had the arms
Knew who would be slaughtered
And let it happen
Only when it became politically useful and militarily manageable did the West step in to impose “peace.”
Until then, the policy was clear:
“Let them bleed a little. When they’re exhausted, we’ll make a deal.”
— Unnamed Western diplomat, quoted in The New York Times, 1995
(The diplomat was not named, and the source was granted anonymity due to the sensitivity of ongoing negotiations, but multiple journalists and insiders have suggested it likely referred to someone within the Clinton State Department, possibly linked to Richard Holbrooke’s peace team during the lead-up to the Dayton Accords.
None of this was an oversight.
It was a deliberate delay, a doctrine of denial until dominance became possible.
The CIA Didn’t Stay Neutral — It Helped Light the Fuse
As Yugoslavia collapsed into war, the West didn’t act as a neutral bystander.
It acted as an active combatant, arming, training, and positioning key factions for dominance.
This wasn’t humanitarian policy. This was geostrategic engineering through covert militarization, and it happened in violation of the very international law the U.S. claimed to uphold.
CIA Weapons Channels — Through Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Black Networks
In 1992, the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on all of former Yugoslavia (U.N. Security Council Resolution 713). The purpose, in theory, was to stop the conflict from escalating.
In practice, it did the opposite, because only one side, Serbia, inherited the Yugoslav military’s full arsenal. The Bosniaks, Croats, and Kosovo Albanians were left defenseless.
But instead of lifting the embargo or formally backing resistance, the United States chose a deniable path.
According to multiple investigations and direct reports by The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, the U.S. government covertly approved and facilitated arms shipments to Bosnian Muslim and Croat forces via Iran, Saudi Arabia, and black-market intermediaries.
The Washington Post (1996):
“The Clinton administration, while publicly supporting the embargo, had knowledge of and in some cases actively coordinated secret arms shipments to the Bosnian government, including shipments originating in Iran.”
This wasn’t rogue action. It was a parallel CIA operation, backed by the National Security Council, and kept off the books until internal leaks exposed the network.
The plan — as reported by The L.A. Times — was called “The Third Option.”
Let the embargo stand, but secretly allow Iran and others to arm the Bosniaks. Look neutral. Play both sides.
Iran sent tons of small arms, anti-tank weapons, and ammunition into Bosnia with U.S. knowledge. Saudi money backed Croatian shipments. Turkish intelligence helped train fighters.
This is how America armed one side of a war it claimed to be neutral in, while publicly hand-wringing about peace.
MPRI: Private U.S. Contractors and the Ethnic Cleansing Nobody Talks About
In 1995, the Croatian Army launched a massive military assault on the Krajina region, then home to over 200,000 ethnic Serbs. Over four days, Serb civilians were expelled, homes burned, and villages destroyed.
The result?
You guessed it, ethnic cleansing.
Who trained the Croatian military to execute this?
MPRI — Military Professional Resources Inc.
A U.S.-based private military contractor made up almost entirely of retired U.S. generals, NATO officers, and ex-Pentagon advisors.
Despite official denials, it is now well-documented that MPRI was granted a U.S. State Department license to “train” the Croatian military just months before Operation Storm.
The New York Times (1996):
“Though the Clinton administration denies direct involvement, the timing and effectiveness of the Croatian campaign, and its coordination with American strategic advice, raise questions about MPRI’s role.”
MPRI claimed to provide “democratic civil-military training.”
But what they delivered was a blueprint for coordinated ethnic expulsion.
Retired U.S. General Charles Boyd (former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command):
“There is no question MPRI trained the Croats. And there is no question that training helped enable Operation Storm.”
All Sides Were Armed — But Not by Themselves
Let’s be clear:
Serbian forces were armed by leftover JNA weapons and supported by Russia
Croatian forces were trained and advised by U.S. contractors
Bosniaks were armed through a CIA-sanctioned backchannel using Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey
Kosovo’s KLA later received CIA training and material support through NATO intelligence cutouts
This wasn’t a civil war. This was a proxy conflict, carved up by American covert logistics, foreign weapons, and Western geopolitical engineering.
And every side was pitted against each other in a war none of them chose, but all of them bled for.
Historical Clarity: Yes, the West Manipulated the War, But Serb Nationalist Forces Were the Aggressors
Everything in this article about Western sabotage, IMF strangulation, and CIA proxy warfare is true. But that does not excuse, erase, or relativize the fact that Serb forces launched the majority of offensives, committed the worst atrocities, and used ethnic cleansing as a formal military strategy.
This is not a matter of narrative.
It’s a matter of documented, judicially affirmed genocide.
The Numbers Speak for Themselves
Bosnian War (1992–1995):
100,000+ total deaths
Over 80% of civilian casualties were Bosniak Muslims
More than 2 million people displaced
50,000+ women raped, including in systematic rape camps
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), established by the U.N., confirmed through forensic and testimonial evidence that Serb nationalist forces committed the vast majority of war crimes during the Bosnian conflict.
Srebrenica: Europe’s Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust
In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), under the command of General Ratko Mladić, entered the UN-declared “safe zone” of Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys had taken shelter.
Over the course of several days:
The men were separated from their families
Blindfolded, bound, and executed
Their bodies dumped in mass graves, then reburied with bulldozers to hide the evidence
ICTY Final Judgment (2017):
“These acts were committed with the specific intent to destroy the Bosniak population in Srebrenica. This constitutes genocide.”
This wasn’t a battlefield tragedy. It was genocide by military order, executed with cold, systematic precision.
And it was broadcast in real time to Western intelligence agencies, peacekeepers, and diplomats — none of whom stopped it.
Serbia’s State Policy of Ethnic Cleansing
The war crimes were not isolated.
Serbian forces in Prijedor, Foča, Višegrad, Zvornik, and Bratunac:
Set up concentration camps (Omarska, Trnopolje, Keraterm)
Conducted mass executions, rape campaigns, and forced deportations
Destroyed mosques, libraries, and cultural sites as part of an intentional strategy of cultural erasure
These policies were not rogue actions. They were authorized at the highest levels of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and backed politically by Milošević’s government in Belgrade.
Kosovo: The Pattern Repeats
From 1998 to 1999, Serb forces and police launched a brutal campaign of terror against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo:
12,000 civilians killed, mostly Albanians
Hundreds of villages burned
Over 850,000 people forcibly expelled across the region
Mass rapes, arrests, and disappearances
Entire regions depopulated through fear and systemic violence
The ICTY and Human Rights Watch confirmed these actions as part of an organized policy of ethnic cleansing.
Can Anyone Even Say Justice Was Served?
Slobodan Milošević was indicted for war crimes and genocide; he died in The Hague in 2006 during his trial
Radovan Karadžić was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity
Ratko Mladić was convicted in 2017 for genocide, war crimes, and extermination
These were not scapegoats. They were the architects of ethnic cleansing and they were brought to trial by evidence, not propaganda.
Why This Clarity Matters
Critiquing the West’s role in Yugoslavia is not the same as denying who started the killing.
It is entirely possible — and necessary — to hold two truths at once:
The U.S. and NATO deliberately destabilized Yugoslavia, manipulated its collapse, and armed proxies.
But it was Serb nationalist leadership that initiated the wars of aggression, committed mass atrocities, and carried out genocide.
Any historical analysis that fails to include both truths is either a Western whitewash or Serbian revisionism.
This one is neither.
The Battlefield Was Built, Then Sold as Chaos
The West didn’t intervene to stop genocide.
It created the conditions for ethnic conflict, selected which sides to arm, and hired its own people to teach them how to fight.
When the body count hit six figures and the region was in flames, only then did NATO show up to impose order and claim moral victory.
But the war didn’t need to happen the way it did.
It was deliberately designed and managed from the shadows for years.
And the people of Yugoslavia, all of them, paid the price.
Kosovo: From Atrocity to Occupation
By 1998, the final break came in Kosovo, where Serb forces, under Slobodan Milošević, responded to growing Albanian calls for independence with more ethnic cleansing.
This did amount to ethnic cleansing as well, and NATO intervened militarily in 1999.
But even here, the humanitarian crisis was the direct outcome of decades of Western interference:
Kosovo’s autonomy had been stripped in 1989
Its economy gutted by IMF mandates
Its people radicalized by poverty and disenfranchisement
Its uprising funded and armed, in part, through U.S. channels
The NATO bombing campaign that followed targeted Serbia, not just military sites — destroying infrastructure, power grids, hospitals, and media stations.
After the war, Kosovo became a de facto NATO protectorate, complete with:
U.S. military bases (e.g., Camp Bondsteel)
Foreign-led privatization of public assets
And a government structure dependent on Western financial and military support
This wasn’t liberation. It was an occupation rebranded.
The Final Looting
After the wars ended, what remained of Yugoslavia was sliced into weak, neoliberal republics, each pushed into:
IMF debt
EU dependency
NATO integration
And the privatization of nearly every state-run asset
Across Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, formerly public services like telecoms, railways, water utilities, and mines were sold off to foreign investors at fire-sale prices.
The West destroyed Yugoslavia not just to “save” people, but to open markets, break unionized industries, and erase an economic model that had worked too well without them.
The Dayton Accords: Peace Through Partition, Not Reconciliation
In December 1995, after more than three years of war, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.S. brought the warring parties to a military base in Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton.
There, the presidents of Bosnia (Alija Izetbegović), Croatia (Franjo Tuđman), and Serbia (Slobodan Milošević) were pressured to sign what would become the Dayton Accords — a peace agreement drafted and dictated largely by the U.S. State Department, under the direction of Richard Holbrooke and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
On paper, Dayton ended the war.
In practice, it froze ethnic cleansing into constitutional law.
What the Dayton Agreement Did
Stopped open warfare between Bosnia’s main factions (Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs)
Recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as a single sovereign state — but divided into two autonomous entities:
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosniak-Croat)
The Republika Srpska (Serb-controlled)
Created an extremely complex, ethnically partitioned political structure:
A rotating tripartite presidency, one from each ethnic group
Separate parliaments, police forces, and education systems
Shared foreign policy, but decentralized internal governance
Gave international actors sweeping powers:
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) was created — an unelected foreign official with authority to impose laws, veto legislation, and remove elected leaders
What It Really Did: Legalized the Results of Ethnic Cleansing
Dayton was not a justice process. It was a geopolitical ceasefire agreement masquerading as a peace accord.
It rewarded the very crimes it claimed to stop:
Republika Srpska, which was carved out through war crimes and genocide (including Srebrenica), was enshrined as a legal entity
War criminals were allowed to run for office while awaiting indictment
The population remained segregated — ethnically cleansed towns and villages were never reintegrated
Refugees and displaced persons were never truly returned home in meaningful numbers
Bosnian writer Zlatko Dizdarević:
“Dayton didn’t heal Bosnia. It embalmed it.”
Why Did the U.S. Impose This Structure?
Washington’s goal was not justice or democracy. It was stability on Western terms:
Stop the war before Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign
Prevent further refugee flows into Europe
Create a diplomatic win for the U.S. and NATO after years of inaction
Lock in a Western military presence in the Balkans (NATO remained in Bosnia under IFOR/SFOR missions for decades)
This required a deal that:
Gave Serbia something to protect its narrative
Let Croatia secure its military gains
Appeared to preserve Bosnian sovereignty — while functionally dismantling it
So they created a constitution based on ethnic quotas, not civic identity — a system so rigid it could barely govern.
Dayton’s Long-Term Impact: A Dysfunctional Frozen State
Nearly 30 years later, Bosnia still suffers under the Dayton framework:
Government is permanently deadlocked by ethnic veto power
Corruption thrives due to institutional fragmentation
National identity is fractured — children attend segregated schools in the same towns
National elections are shaped by ethnicity, not policy
Republika Srpska has repeatedly threatened secession, encouraged by Serbia and Russia
Even U.S. diplomats who helped broker Dayton have since admitted its limits.
Richard Holbrooke (2005):
“Dayton was not designed to be a permanent constitution. It was an end to war, not a beginning of unity.”
Yet it remains — unmodified, unchallenged, and incapable of healing a country it legally divided.
Dayton Stopped the Killing — But Locked In the Divide
What Dayton Did Well:
Ceased open hostilities after 3 years of war
Created a framework for democratic elections
Stopped mass displacement and active shelling
Brought in international peacekeeping forces to maintain order
What Dayton Made Worse:
Cemented ethnic partition as a legal structure
Made civic governance nearly impossible through ethnic vetoes
Failed to reverse ethnic cleansing or restore pre-war integration
Installed permanent foreign oversight through the unelected Office of the High Representative
Created a bureaucracy so complex it paralyzed reform
It wasn’t that Yugoslavia couldn’t work, it’s that it worked too well.
What happened in Yugoslavia wasn’t a tragedy of ancient hatreds. It was the assassination of a working socialist state by Western capitalism.
Tito kept it together. The IMF tore it apart.
Its people were divided by maps, but united in poverty.
Its economy was self-sufficient. It was turned into a resource mine.
Its social unity was imperfect, but real. And it was shattered by design.
The West needed to prove that socialism never works.
Yugoslavia proved it could.
So it was destroyed.
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