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A Short History of Yugoslavia (IV)

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Part I, Part II, Part III The declining of Yugoslavia (1967‒1981)     In the last years of the Cold War (1949−1989), the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the SFRY) was the largest, most developed and ethnoculturally diverse country in the Balkan peninsula (South-East Europe). It was a non-aligned federation comprised […]

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A Short History of Yugoslavia (III)

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Part I Part II Titoslavia: The national questions and interrepublican boundaries    After WWII, the official state-sponsored myth, based on notorious lies and forged historical facts, of the anti-fascist combat and the liberation of Yugoslavia by Tito’s Partisans acquired a political life of its own until the 1990s. The official […]

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A Short History Of Yugoslavia (II)

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Part I Partitioning of Yugoslavia during WWII (1941−1945)  Regardless of the reached agreement on the Croatian ethnopolitical autonomy in Yugoslavia, the (Roman Catholic) Croatian traditional and historical animosity and even a hate against the (Christian Orthodox) Serbs remained extremely strong – a fact which both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini […]

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