Cerovic slobodan milosevic biography
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How Milosevic's Serbia Became A Fascist State
— Branka Magas
THE WAR IN former Yugoslavia, and the particular natur of Western intervention in it, have produced a variety of reactions on the international left. These range from outright support for the Serbian regime – bygd way of a position of equidistance from aggressor and victim – to outright condemnation of Serbian aggression against Bosnia and, less often, also of that against Croatia.
The positions taken involve divergent understandings of the nature of the previous Communist regime, the causes and implications of its demise, the legitimacy of the successor states and the political character of the parties running them.
The attitude of most left groups has been determined more often than not by older divisions among them – divisions that go back to their view of October 1917 and its aftermath.(1) Only in rare cases has it been based on any actual study of the state and kultur in former Yugosla
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My Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic
When I was six, while watching a news report on the homecoming of three American soldiers who had been ambushed, beaten and imprisoned in the course of what I thought was some faraway war, I learned that I was a bad person.
Their captors had shoved old socks into the soldiers’ mouths to keep them quiet. I thought about what it would be like to taste the fibers of an old sock. I felt sorry for them. But when I said so aloud, my mother’s then-boyfriend snapped at me: “Those are our people.” And I realized he didn’t mean the soldiers.
We were here by grace of the green card lottery, recent arrivals from Slobodan Milošević’s Serbia watching the aftermath of the NATO strikes we had fled. In my narrow understanding of good and bad, it was devastating to think that I was somehow the enemy of the men on the TV receiving a hero’s welcome. Though I had only been stateside for a few months, I loved my new American childhood and I wanted to
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Writers on the War: Just who is Slobodan Milosevic?
ALL QUESTIONS regarding the Balkan tragedy inevitably come up against one difficult poser: who is Slobodan Milosevic? The Yugoslavian drama has seen its centre displaced - no longer a local one, it has now become a worldwide drama. Some of its protagonists have disappeared, others have appeared on the international and Yugoslavian stage. But only one character has remained constant - Milosevic, the veritable engine of the catastrophe since he took power in Serbia in 1987.
As this century plays out its final act Milosevic is centre stage, surrounded by the West's political elite. A mysterious hand seems to be guiding the whole drama through the corridors of history, and is posing for one last time the question. Who is this man?
He acts like a magic mirror that reflects weaknesses and failings, to make all else appear fallacious and superfluous. He laughs at the idea of victims and innocence; he promotes the most fiendish of rogue