Challenge: Yugoslavia in the EC/EU

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Yugoslavia under its Cold War borders a member of the European Community/Union by 2000 with a POD after the ratification of the 1974 federal constitution.
 
after communism starts to wobble and nationalism starts to rise calmer heads prevail and Yugoslavia is reformed into confederation. This removes main gripe Slovenia and Croatia had, that is money earned in these two republics being squandered in other parts for no visible result. Republics also gain more power and some allow some sort of non-communist opposition. After communsim is definatly gone (as per OTL) Yugoslavia goes through shoprt crisis but republics see mroe benefits to sticking together (larger market, more resources) then splitting. Opposition is allowed and regime slowly transforms into democratic, some parts more, some parts less. With such reforms Yugoslavia could join by mid/late 1990s

What you need are something of:
-lesser effects of oil crisis or improvements in industry to cope with such giving long term benefits
-remove Milosevic
-some sort of concessions to soft liners withing communist party
 
i think kill Miloshevich, send Tuđman packing and give people like Alia, Budiša and Mesić a chance and things would of worked out, as long as hostile aquisition of the whole economy does not ocur as it did in Croatia with the privatisation

that and no tv reporters, radio hosts, and priests vomiting copious amounts of hate and fear from their respective pulpets
 
You cant have Tito surviving for more than two or three years longer. And you cant have communism breaking down and having multi party elections before 1989.

First, you need fix economic problems that made people seek enemies and reasons why stuff was going from bad to worse. Major cause of economic collapse was increase of foreign debt after '70es oil crysis, and disasterous programs by IMF to repay that debt. Following as good as possible IMFs programs Yugo just kept breaking its ecconomy more and more, having more and more debt to pay up. I dont have a clue how to settle this.

Fixing nationallism is much more difficult. If Slobo and Tudjman and Alija werent there, some other folks would have "stood up for the rights of thier people". Tito played everyone against everyone to be sure he is on top and no nationality is too dominant. Sure it ended with Serb and Montegerin dominated millitary and high ranks of party and ecconomic structure dominated by Croats and Slovenians, but for a time it worked. But after Tito died that created more problems that it solved by everyone conisdering other nationalites taking too much power and being responsible for everything bad.
Second parallel problem is the unresolved memories of WWII. In "brotherhood and unity" doctrines everyones crimes in WWII were shoved under the carpet in order to not poor more gasolene on fire. And so everyones hatred and revenge wishes fermened in dark for 40 years.


But maybe. If each of these causes is lessend a bit somehow, not eliminated as that is impossible, just decreased a bit... you might hope for a express admition into EU in 1992. or 1993. as a Europe's finanical sacrifice to prevent a war on the continent.
 
You cant have Tito surviving for more than two or three years longer. And you cant have communism breaking down and having multi party elections before 1989.

First, you need fix economic problems that made people seek enemies and reasons why stuff was going from bad to worse. Major cause of economic collapse was increase of foreign debt after '70es oil crysis, and disasterous programs by IMF to repay that debt. Following as good as possible IMFs programs Yugo just kept breaking its ecconomy more and more, having more and more debt to pay up. I dont have a clue how to settle this.

Fixing nationallism is much more difficult. If Slobo and Tudjman and Alija werent there, some other folks would have "stood up for the rights of thier people". Tito played everyone against everyone to be sure he is on top and no nationality is too dominant. Sure it ended with Serb and Montegerin dominated millitary and high ranks of party and ecconomic structure dominated by Croats and Slovenians, but for a time it worked. But after Tito died that created more problems that it solved by everyone conisdering other nationalites taking too much power and being responsible for everything bad.
Second parallel problem is the unresolved memories of WWII. In "brotherhood and unity" doctrines everyones crimes in WWII were shoved under the carpet in order to not poor more gasolene on fire. And so everyones hatred and revenge wishes fermened in dark for 40 years.


But maybe. If each of these causes is lessend a bit somehow, not eliminated as that is impossible, just decreased a bit... you might hope for a express admition into EU in 1992. or 1993. as a Europe's finanical sacrifice to prevent a war on the continent.

not necesarily would there alvais be someone to "stood up for the rights of thier people"
numerous people identified with Yugoslavia more than their tribal ancestry and religious denomination
if right then in 1971 the party didnt crack down so hard on the students, and Tito helped put some federalist reforms into practical use, instead of it all remaining dead letters, there might be a lot less nationalistic frustration bottled up

also the final triumf of nationalism was by a large part the responsability of certain individuals
manny things could have gone completely diferent if there was a decisive stance against Milošević even at the cost of civil war
also no Tuđman would get ider Mesić or Budiša in power, both of wich were and are rational, profesional experienced politicians, not ex general and unknown historians

the point about the WWII warcrimes is a valid one, but in my opinion not a crucial element, just one easily manipulated and used by the propagators of fear and hatred on all sides
what was really eating the sistem from the inside out, more than state tirany, more than coruption and even dependancy on forein credit, was the inherent incompetence of the party sistem
right at the start in 1945 so manny important places were taken by ignorant, primitive, powerhungry ex-pesants
it was basically the same as in 1990is when Tuđman got bus drivers to be generals, smuglers got hold of whole industries, and uneducated lackeys got laureate doctorates so tehy could get into the parlament
olnly it was worse coz these people in the 194ois and 1950is were truly incapable ignorant proleters
its not like they didnt have enough educated and faithfull comunist intelectuals, but those could not be "trusted", yes?
i mean i could tell you stories on the shit those people pulled, for no reason
in the end it was them, the miriad of incompetent small time party functionares and office vice-directors that doomed the sistem
even without the war it would take a revolution to set things staright
 
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I know what your trying to say. (I'm from xYU) "Connections" and corruption working together, people hiring their cousins to be directors and managers... The whole shebang.

But all that just helped kill economy. xYU was in deep trouble, but there have had to have been option other than ASB intervention to prevent war. Maybe, maybe its just something I personally want to believe.
 
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