To: wideawake
Milosevic and his government allowed private property ownership, and the private sector was doing quite well and growing in Serbia - despite the sanctions. His government was also starting to return property seized by the Tito communist government installed after WWII, and they were repairing and building churches which had been left ruined are only partially built during Tito's entire reign. In fact, he had the economy running better under sanctions than the current more U.S. approved puppet government that now rules.
233 posted on
06/30/2006 10:03:23 AM PDT by
joan
To: joan
correction...the black market was the driving force behind the states economy. Slobo couldn't change it as he tried to control it. He failed to reign it in or he'd have a full-scale revolution on his hands.
His policies were "persona non grata" for the economy. The decisions he made were concocted by his wife and he was the 'messenger boy' too.
239 posted on
06/30/2006 11:02:53 AM PDT by
ma bell
("Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". Major General Chesty Puller, USMC)
To: joan
Milosevic and his government allowed private property ownership, and the private sector was doing quite well and growing in Serbia - despite the sanctions. His government was also starting to return property seized by the Tito communist government installed after WWII, and they were repairing and building churches.These were all measures he inherited from Tito through Tito's samoupravljanje initiatives that were introduced when Milosevic was 9 years old.
Milosevic preserved the Communist state he grew up under and inherited from Tito - he was not some kind of reformer.
240 posted on
06/30/2006 11:04:18 AM PDT by
wideawake
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