----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Lyon" <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Anti-communism
> On 5/23/05, John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Does anyone know someone from the former Yugoslavia (from any side) who
>> would claim that the fall of communism was a positive development for
>> that
>> country? (Apart, that is, from people who got rich from war crimes and
>> profiteering, or people who are on crack?)
>
> Yugoslavia's a difficult one because the present dire conditions in
> much of the region quite patently have to do with a lot more than
> merely the fall of communism. I know a lot of people in Serbia who
> would say that the end of communism was a good thing in and of itself
> and that it was the rise of Milosevic, specifically, that destroyed
> the country. But I need to point out that my Serbian friends are a
> bit more .. let's say .. progressive than a lot of their countrymen
> and women; there are certainly plenty of other Serbs who don't accept
> that their postcommunist leadership was largely responsible for the
> disaster that is their country now, and among these people you do
> often find a nostalgia for the communist era. Of course, Tito's
> communism was a very different animal to Soviet communism.