So I've come into contact with my unit's expat community of Croats, Serbs, Makedonijans ect. And I've found that they kinda share a weird form of Yugoslav nationalism, or atleast identify with Yugoslavia on a cultural level. Note these are people who were born after its collapse and they are from Yugoslav countries, not people born in the UK. I thought it might just be nothing, but then I did some digging.
Yugoslavstalgie is a pretty strong thing with thousand strong pilgrimages across the former countries, and all the Yugoslav countries have pretty strong disengagement rates. Add to that Žižek's article in newsanon's post today about the rediscovery of panethnic solidarity in Bosnia and it makes me think: is there a hope for Yugoslavism? Could it be used to create or restore a social patriot yugoslav identity and work towards reunification? Would just like some thoughts from Yugobros here.
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Yugoslavism today
Not surprising at all, I mean they went from one of the best countries in Europe to live in to a bunch of failed piece of shit broken states.
Born in 1990. Can confirm, even though I was born at the breakup, and never got to live in Yugoslavia I miss it so goddamn much.
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It was a world superpower, and now it's 6-7 shit countries.
yugoslavia is such a weird thing because there are even anti-communists who hail at is "the only form of socialism that works" and lots of people on Zig Forums for example seem to really like tito.
it's like the only socialist country that doesn't get shat on for "muh starvation" or "muh secret police" or any of the slander thrown towards other states like the USSR of the DDR.
i think yugoslavia can be useful as a gateway to not only unite the balkans but to act as a gateway for normies to get invested in socialism.
Yugoslav communism was unique for the few amount of jews involved in it, Moshe piade petitioned Tito to allow all of the Yugoslav jews to leave for israel in 1949 and he obliged
Can confirm. I went from socdem to MarkSoc to Leninist.
wow such insightful commentary with so many sources to back it up
Yeah but is it just nostalgia or a legitimate form of unificatory nationalism: could a new national front be founded to run for election across South salvia?
*slavia, feck.
Was talking to an older Croatian guy who lived in Yugoslavia and is old enough to have remembered Tito and served in the army. He was a communist but he didn't like Leninism. Basically he said if you had democratic socialist Yugoslavia instead of a Leninist-style one, and people really believed in communism, it would have been fucking awesome. Actually, it was pretty cool and overall pleasant but he said but he didn't like the lack of freedom of speech, which he felt was humiliating.
He also said most of his family (parents, grandparents) joined the communist resistance during World War II, but after a time people were kinda going through the motions and you couldn't trust whether the leaders really believed in it anymore. He was also a big fan of Milovan Djilas, who he thought was brilliant morally and intellectually. Djilas was at one point going to be Tito's successor but had a falling out and went into exile. Anyways, I noticed a local bookstore where I live (in the U.S., oddly) has Djilas' partisan memoir Wartime which I've been meaning to go pick up.