Long Reads: The Life and Death of Yugoslavia w/ Catherine Samary (Part 1)
Jacobin Radio
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The Problem of Inequalities in the Second Yugoslavia
In the early years of the new regime, any pressure in the direction of introduction, a kind of national Yugoslavia was opposed. The minorities were not considered as constituent nations on the new state. And for instance, Hungarians minorities, Albanians minorities, which had another state of reference outside Yugoslavia. They were not called national minorities because that formulation was associated with a negative experience to previous experiences of oppression of minorities. So we can instead anyway, understand it as meaning a national community, which is not a constituent people.
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