Yes, I can compare Yugoslavia with Poland.
- Ethnic tensions were allmost nonexistant before very end of Yugoslavia, most of the tensions were- induced outside of Yugoslavia.
- Break-up of Yugoslavia happened at the peak of economical strenght and just after free-market was introduced, and finances reorganised.
- Spain under Franco , fascist dictator, was multinational and multicultural country, much like Yugoslavia, but surrvived transition from dictatorship to democracy. Belgium and some other EU countries are with ethnical tensions.
>>- Ethnic tensions were allmost nonexistant before very end of Yugoslavia, most of the tensions were- induced outside of Yugoslavia.<<
I have never seen ethnic tensions end in ten years... In 2,3 generations, yes but in a decade then can settle down for some time and not expire.
“After Tito’s death on 4 May 1980, ethnic tensions grew in Yugoslavia. They all used the legacy of the Constitution of 1974 to throw the system of decision-making into a state of paralysis, all the more hopeless as the conflict of interests had become irreconcilable. The constitutional crisis that inevitably followed resulted rise of nationalism in all republics: Slovenia and Croatia made demands for looser ties within the Federation, Albanian majority in Kosovo demanded the status of a republic, Serbia sought absolute, not only relative dominion over Yugoslavia.”
>>- Break-up of Yugoslavia happened at the peak of economical strenght and just after free-market was introduced, and finances reorganised.<<
your finances reorganization is creating “bankruptcy law”, that’s not what I call peak of economical strenght.
“In 1989, according to official sources, 248 firms were declared bankrupt or were liquidated and 89,400 workers were laid off. During the first nine months of 1990 directly following the adoption of the IMF programme, another 889 enterprises with a combined work-force of 525,000 workers suffered the same fate. In other words, in less than two years “the trigger mechanism” (under the Financial Operations Act) had led to the lay off of more than 600,000 workers out of a total industrial workforce of the order of 2.7 million. A further 20% of the work force, or half a million people, were not paid wages during the early months of 1990 as enterprises sought to avoid bankruptcy. The largest concentrations of bankrupt firms and lay-offs were in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. Real earnings were in a free fall, social programmes had collapsed creating within the population an atmosphere of social despair and hopelessness. This was a critical turning point in the Yugoslav tragedy.”
>>Belgium and some other EU countries are with ethnical tensions.<<
yes but:
1. tension are mostly between illegal immigrants and citizens
2. noone wants to make them as an example of immigration policy
3. Flamand confilct in Belgium is brought from the streets to the parliament, exactly where it belongs to...
>>Yes, I can compare Yugoslavia with Poland.<<
nope you can’t, “Shock Therapy” in Poland in 1990 (made by Balcerowicz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Balcerowicz) worked... the one in Yugo didn’t.