Ian Murray's citation

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Greg Nowell wrote:
> 
> >This is related to my point about Yugoslavian
> >enterprises and subsidies, IMF, etc.  Note that
> >"non-market criteria" in this context is a signifier
> >for heavily skewed investment policies following region
> >and ethnicity.   The strong desire of most of the
> >member states to get out of the Yugoslav federation was
> >related to their belief 1) that economic development
> >was working against them (even in the prosperous
> >Croatia and Slovenia and 2) that this iniquitous system
> >was backed up by excessive force in a police and army
> >(major sources of plumb state jobs) that were dominated
> >by the Serbs.
> 
> They got what they wanted, didn't they?
> 
> Doug

Yep. Everybody in Yugoslavia got what they wanted, except for the 2
million Serbs trapped outside the ridiculous borders drawn by Tito, and
the 1.8 million Albanians in Kosovo. Both problems are on the way to
being solved, thanks to NATO: we are down to 1.4 million Serbs, courtesy
of NATO-supported Croatia, and anywhere from 1 to 1.4 million Albanians.

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