RES: RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian)

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

Agreed, that is why I said the analogy was imperfect.  Turkey is probably a 
better analogy. --jks

In a message dated 10/8/00 4:37:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
afenelon at zaz.com.br writes:

<< Probably in a caudillo-type regime like Milosovic's, parlaiment is a lot

 less

 important than who el Chefe is. In an imperfect analogy, who cared who ran

 the Supreme Soviet?

 

 -It seems Milosevic´s Serbia is a bit more democratic than former USSR. I

 would

 -consider it not a dictatorship, but a "half democracy" like Turkey,

 Malaysia

 -Peru, or Russia. Opposition is tolerated, but elections were always unfair

 due

 -to fraud and unequal access to media, not to mention some degree of

 repression. >>