>Hard to reconcile all that with the 'place in the sun' of the 80s. Interesting that I've read numerous times that the majority of people in the region were/are atheists.
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>You might find this article interesting. It was written in 1994. It is interesting to look at the situation then, his opinion of it, and then those countries mentioned in the article as they are today:
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979970,00.html"This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin." - the hero who sold out the whole country, while the people went hungry, and were paid in vodka or coffins, no money this month, sorry. The only president in the last hundred years who, so I heard, had family only at his funeral. Somehow he's the darling of the West. He actually sold us, too - at the last vote about 1999 bombing in UN SC I think he told his guy to abstain, not vote against, for some $8 billion loan, or was it just 5?
Now that Russia has a president who, oh shame, takes more pride in serving his country's interests than in obeying every wish of the West, he's depicted as a dictator, return of the GosPlan and whatnot.
"and Fujimori is highly popular." - we know how that ended ;).
>And here is something for you to cheer or rant about:
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http://greatersurbiton.wordpress.com/category/former-yugoslavia/"Give them a carrot over the war-criminals issue and they are likely to take the whole sack, indeed bite the hand that feeds them." - this guy should be writing critics for the Gilligan's reruns or something. If he ever gets seriously into politics, we may have an unnecessary war somewhere. He could PO anyone.
As long as EU et al see other countries as someone they feed, no joy.
>and another man's view:
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http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v13n3p20.htmNice and to the point, I actually found nothing seriously wrong in it, but...
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http://www.ce-review.org/99/12/blagojevic12.html...this is a pearl. Not only does she debunk most of the myths, but goes to analyze stuff thoroughly and with wide disregard for established "truths". One of the best accounts so far on what really happened and how it happened.
>What I find amazing is that most of what I read is very well thought-out and well-written. In many cases I have read polar opposite points of view (in some cases even reciting history) supported in writing. It's amazing how all views can be presented in a convincing manner when you are on the other side of the world.
Well, the first two articles didn't convince me any - except by ways of confirming my dislike for the likes of the authors ;).
