With any POD after WWII, find a way to create a better and more stable Yugoslavia. Bonus points if it becomes a full-fledged Democracy, and manages to make it to the year 2010 intact.
Someone suggested moving the capital to Sarajevo. That would strengthen the idea of Yugoslavia as belonging to all ethnic groups rather than being a Serb empire in drag.
Someone suggested moving the capital to Sarajevo. That would strengthen the idea of Yugoslavia as belonging to all ethnic groups rather than being a Serb empire in drag.
and have a designated successor in place
In the beginning, he did have a successor - someone by the name of Milovan Ðilas. So why didn't he succeed Tito? Because both of them had a falling out as Ðilas became critical vis-à-vis the formation of a new élite which Communism was supposed to avoid. So he got purged and fled. If you can keep Ðilas in Tito's good graces, then you have your successor.
Actually, as a Serb, I am pretty certain that we wouldn't have opposed moving the capital to Sarajevo, if its prestige was strengthened before becoming a capital or if there was a sizable propaganda campaign on the government's part. Of course, you would need Tito's approval.
So, centralization is a possible option:
1. Move capital to Sarajevo;
2. Curbstomp the growing nationalism in Serbia, Croatia (and Slovenia, perhaps); 3. Appease the Serbs by adding Vojvodina and (maybe) Kosovo to Serbian administrative unit;
4. Have Tito acquire a capable or at least a decent heir (optional);
5. Make certain to have Ante Markovic in your government when the Soviet Union falls. When people are in an economical bliss, they care little about holy lands, old wars and other such crap.
3. Appease the Serbs by adding Vojvodina and (maybe) Kosovo to Serbian administrative unit;
Gotta add a 6th one: Butterfly Reagan's presidency, or at least his concerted economic warfare against Yugoslavia. If the Yugoslav economy is in decent shape at the time the USSR falls, it may be able to avoid becoming beholden to IMF "structural adjustment", which exacerbated many of the political problems. Austerity in a time of political instability and ethnic strife is never a good idea.
3. Appease the Serbs by adding Vojvodina and (maybe) Kosovo to Serbian administrative unit;
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Yugoslavia, the Communist country that was a de facto Western ally and actually exported cars (albeit crappy ones) to the United States?
Do elaborate.
Another conspiracty theory, nothing more.
Yugoslavia, the Communist country that was a de facto Western ally and actually exported cars (albeit crappy ones) to the United States?
Do elaborate.
That was Greater Serbia in all but name.