[joan]

"We got more out of Yugoslavia than the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I am not convinced we will get as much out of the EU."

Slovenia was a poor and neglected province of Austria before Yugoslavia existed.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

""The EU is not united like Yugoslavia. Then every country, under Tito, had a voice. In the EU the biggest countries have the biggest say," said Mr Sporar."

Like we didn't know this would happen.

It's sad to see my husbands ancestors country yearn for communism.

[Cyman]

Either tragically naive or ignorant of Tito’s wartime and post war atrocities ,eg Kocevski Rog, these persons seem to have adopted a western egocentric view of their country and their history.

[nckerr]

I served on a deployment with the US Army in Slovenia a few years ago and they seemed to love their Independence. In fact, I met the President of Slovenia while training their troops how to fight. Great people, great country. This is just a communist bias writer.

[goldstategop]

Tito was a Croat. The Serb wing of the League Of Communists never had much use for him. When he died, the Serbs revoked Kosovo autonomy and and went their own way. After that Yugoslavia began to fall apart.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[norton]

My guess would be that they were a part of Yugoslavia (and something of a thorn in the hide of the Soviets), versus being a subject of the Austrians and one of the smaller fish in the German/French dominated EU.

Note that one of the interviewees used "country" even when referencing Slovenia as a part of Yugoslavia.

That said, you could canvas any city in California and find people nostalgic for the days of mexican rule...while the sympathies are probably legitimate, I doubt they are close to a significant minority of the population.

[ken21]

a friend of mine here in socal emigrated from slovenia

to the states, and he says yugoslavia sucked.

these wimps are like the russians that look back to the good ol’

days of stalin.

[DTA]

One of Slovenian pre-WWII politicians said “Serbia gave us a parade horse. We will return them worn jade”. By that he meant that Serbia gave Slovenia place in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and that they will destroy Yugoslavia to get out.

It was carried out exactly like that. Slovenian propagandists
(with the help of BND specialists) prepackaged Austro-Hungarian propaganda and depicted Serbs as evil people who torment poor innocent Slovenes, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, Albanians etc.

This propaganda effort presented the core of Anti-Serbian hysteria, from the time of Slovene violent illegal seccession onwards.

Beside this, Slovenes helped bloody breakup of Yugoslavia with smuggling of weapons for Croatians and Muslims.

Despicable behavior to boot.

Now, when they are in EU, they are not content again. Austro-Hungarian Empire was not good enough to them, Kingdom of Yugoslavia was not good enough to them, post-WWII Yugoslavia was not good enough for them, EU is not good enough to them.

They show penchant for destruction, not for creativity.

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[aruanan]

I’d probably rather be called a Jug than a Slov.