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To: joan
No, Tito supported collectivization - there are even many Serbs, including kosta50 of FR - whose parents' property was taken under Tito's rule.

Tito seized all private property in Yugoslavia in the years immediately following WWII.

In 1950 he introduced his "self-management" policies - in which the seized, collectivized property became the collective possession of the "workers" who were managing the stolen property.

These "workers" were allowed to benefit from the excess value their production generated - in other words theyw ere allowed to participate in the "profits."

This is basically a combination of Soviet collectivization and syndicalist Communism.

After 25 years of this, Tito began allowing individuals favored by the state to begin profting individually.

Milosevic's policy, of granting property concessions to favored cronies was not different in any noticeable respect from Tito's late 70s policies. Milosevic was a Communist and Tito was a Communist and they pursued the same economic policies.

Tito, who directed U.S. and British bombing - they allowed him to choose targets - had them bomb directly Serbian churches to harm their faith and show them there was no God. The U.S. wrote hateful messages on the bombs which could be read when they didn't explode.

Thanks for the added lying, anti-American propaganda.

Again, I point out that it is hilarious that you America-bashers are questioning my ancestry and patriotism.

246 posted on 06/30/2006 11:28:49 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake
"Milosevic's policy, of granting property concessions to favored cronies was not different in any noticeable respect from Tito's late 70s policies."

No, there were a lot of entrepreneurs and start-ups by the littler peoples all over who were not his cronies nor influential/involved in politics and did not know him personally.

And Tito's late 70s policies were only at the very end of his reign, after 30 years under his wieldy, inefficient, wasteful governance - with ugly architecture to boot.

Tito also made Yugoslavia heavily indebted while Milosevic tried to resist IMF dictates.

Milosevic also did an amazing a lot of rebuilding after the NATO bombing from June 1999 until October 2000 - many, many times the pace of this puppet government.

249 posted on 06/30/2006 12:13:54 PM PDT by joan
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