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Brand new user. Being from a post-yugoslav country, I've experienced lots of the nostalgia, but the longer time goes on, the more liberal takes I've seen on Yugoslavia in my own country. Apart from growing liberalism, I've noticed the distain for the USSR that many people who lived during socialism have (I assume due to the entry of more western opinions due to the soviet-yugoslav split) . The only ML takes I've heard about Yugoslavia were from Marxism Today (together with Yugopnik), aswell as TheFinnishBolshevik, with the latter mostly spending several hours calling Yugoslavia revisionist, and having some extremely strange (and frankly ultra) takes like saying yugoslavia led a campaign to colonize macedonia, or things in that vain. I'd like to see some takes that aren't completely dismissive or approving of the state, and look at things from a proper materialist point of view.

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[โ€“] kromida@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... why do you think that? That's literally any group X and group Y in the Balkans. Yes, that was an issue in Yugoslavia, but that's because it wasn't being dealt with properly, especially under socialist development. That can and will be fixed in future projects.

[โ€“] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, I wasn't singling out either Serbians or Bosnians. But there was a genocide, we can't forget that. That and other aggressions in the Balkans between other groups take time to heal. Now, let's take it further: what will take for US and NATO populations deserve trust under socialism/communism? Do you think that can be done without reparations? That the victims don't want retribution? Even the late Marx was elevating the importance of the National Question.