Yugo was not a Warsaw Pact nation. It's slide into dissolution was probably more directly influenced by deteriorating unity in the decade after Tito died, rather than the USSR's collapse.
Well, no. It took almost a decade of direct sponsorship of "Separation" idea plus propaganda bombardment that Montenegrins would be awashed in Western money the day they split from Serbia before it really took off. Milosevic was a Montenegrin (his cousin is/was a prominent Montenegrin "nationalist", the family never shied away from any idea it could exploit to ascend to power).The Serbo-Montenegrin side which died the instant Montenegro was permitted to vote on whether or not to remain in Yugoslavia?
I did not call it "proof". I called it "indication". And yes, off-hand remark dismissing carved in stone tradition of "independent coverage" as propaganda lie is pretty indicative.So the proof that the Economist lied about Serbia consists of statements made in one article about Congo in the Economist?
I don't remember that Macedonia was exceedingly fond of separation idea. And Bosnia is non-entity, as far as "group" is concerned. It is a mishmash of 3 major groups. So, it can be said that there were only two groups (Croats and Slovenes) who actively opposed Yugoslavia.There were no saints in the former Yugoslavia, however, there was only one group which felt a need to preserve Yugoslavia by throwing out any political basis for Yugoslavia's survival and dispensing with the rights granted to all the republics.
I'm not aware that Serbia was in favour of significant restrictions of local power in Yugoslavia. Milosevic and his supporters were leaning toward more federalist (as opposed to confederation) model, but this "weren't going to accept the basic rights" thing goes farther than calling G.W. Bush "the new incarnation of Satan".You ignore the point that the Serbs weren't going to accept the basic rights of any of the republics(which Kosovo wasn't), not even Slovenia or Croatia
CanadianGoose, the Yugoslav Constitution explicitly gave the constituent republics(NOT Kosovo) the right to separate if they wished to.
I never disputed that Kosovo was not a full fledged republic, simply that by the time Kosovo's final status became a concern Serbian upholding of Yugoslav law no longer had any credibility.
You can't wage war on every other republic save Montenegro for exercising their rights under the law and then credibly insist that the law is sacred and must be upheld when applied to Kosovo.