Clipper747
Banned
The WP countries like Romania, Hungary,Czechoslovakia, Poland had a limited "Yugo" type economy but the Soviets were the overlords and would look down on any further "liberalization" of their respective economies.
I traveled throughout Yugoslavia from 1969-1988, and my father ran a university student exchange program in Economics from 1961-1992 in the former Yugo. He tried so many times to explain monetary theory and free markets and for the most part received a blank look with the exception of a few brave intelligent academics, politicians, and notable persons in that country.
The problem in Yugoslavia was simply that the Slovenes and Croats were itching to ditch the country as far back as the early 60s. The Communist Yugo slogan "Brotherhood and Unity" was anything but.
In the summers of 1972-1976 I stayed at a camp outside Belgrade called Pionirski Grad which was filled with kids from all over Yugo. Kids whether they were Croat, Bosnian, Serb, Macedonian, Slovene mixed and hung out but each had derogatory nick names for each other's respective ethnic backround. To this day I still remember a chubby fat kid named Mladane who was from Bosnia. He was called "Bosanac" and everyone generally regarded him as slow, stupid and because he was from Bosna.....a real dullard.
Yugo was great while it lasted, they all had something to gain until the evils of WWII which hibernated in that country during the Cold War woke up when the Wall came down.
I traveled throughout Yugoslavia from 1969-1988, and my father ran a university student exchange program in Economics from 1961-1992 in the former Yugo. He tried so many times to explain monetary theory and free markets and for the most part received a blank look with the exception of a few brave intelligent academics, politicians, and notable persons in that country.
The problem in Yugoslavia was simply that the Slovenes and Croats were itching to ditch the country as far back as the early 60s. The Communist Yugo slogan "Brotherhood and Unity" was anything but.
In the summers of 1972-1976 I stayed at a camp outside Belgrade called Pionirski Grad which was filled with kids from all over Yugo. Kids whether they were Croat, Bosnian, Serb, Macedonian, Slovene mixed and hung out but each had derogatory nick names for each other's respective ethnic backround. To this day I still remember a chubby fat kid named Mladane who was from Bosnia. He was called "Bosanac" and everyone generally regarded him as slow, stupid and because he was from Bosna.....a real dullard.
Yugo was great while it lasted, they all had something to gain until the evils of WWII which hibernated in that country during the Cold War woke up when the Wall came down.
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