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Civil War

Socialist Action, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1991 · scan p. 8 · about 242 words

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Croats were accused of wanting to shirk their responsibilities to the poorer republics and of cozying up to the imperialists. The same arguments have been used against the Slovenes in the past period.

In the wake of the Croatian crisis, the Titoist regime made important new concessions in the 1974-1976 constitution on the national question. It recognized the Muslims for the first time as a nationality (they speak Serbo-Croat but have a Near Eastern culture).

Titoism's false feathers

Autonomous provinces were established in Serbia to accommodate a large HungariDer Spiegel an minority in Voivodina and an Albanian majority in Kosovo.

The operation was in fact very similar to Gorbachev's "New Treaty of Union" scheme-that is, an attempt to head off growing demands for national rights by doling out concessions from above. It blew up in the face of the regime for the same reason that Gorbachev's proposals have already blown up in his face in several republics and will do so in others, as the process proceeds.

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