Lets say markovic's reforms succeded and yugoslavia democratized and de-centralized but still existed, would life of ordinary citizen be better now?

I think it would be 1T dollar gdp and wages aswell as cost of living would vary not a much by republic (like vojvodina in serbia irl).

Also ONE of bigger tourist destinations due of nature-city diversity with lower prices than in lets say italy or france which historicaly attracted alot of tourists mainly from germany and austria and other nearby nations.

Today, i talked with my Sister about books and how she had too few books to read... Mid-conversation, my Mom (born in YU) joined the talk and mentioned how she loved reading Dostojevksi back when she was younger. I was suprised at this comment since i only heard about him in those incel memes, along with the Nietzsche stuff.. she said she once read it in school. Was it really Part of the literature you would have learned about back in school?

I was raised in Germany, so we had other authors as Part of school topics and it really Made me wonder.

NOTE EDIT: Guys please, i am not ridiculing Dostojevski... I'm not saying he's incel material, it it simply just how i first got to hear of him. I did hear he's great and i also have in mind to read him in the future. I also dont mean to make fun of YU education.. i was just suprised because his Name never got mentioned in my schools even once. Please do not fill this Post with negative interpretations or assumptions. Please don't shit on me because im not familiar with his works.. i'm Sure everybody here has some major topic that they dont know about.

I know one of these is Bulgaria…

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AND English is only allowed once every 4 days!

r/Yugosphere

Jedna moja dobra prijateljica je ovo uradila; iako je bilo jednostavno, uradila je to iz divljenja prema velikoj zemlji kakva je Jugoslavija nekada bila. Pozdrav iz Južne Amerike!

When I went to Belgrade recently, I made it my mission to see Tito's blue train.

As chief train fanatic of the family, I dragged my parents - both having grown up in Yugoslavia - who were keen to come along and see an element from their past.

Tito's train is one of the only presidential trains in the world.

Since opening times for picking up a telephone is just a suggestion in Serbia, sometimes it's better to go directly to the source of operations.

Full blog post here!: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/posts/a-tour-of-yugoslav-trains

Pozdrav 🤜🏻 🙍

Da li neko ima i želi da podeli fotke Rovinja iz 70-ih i 80-ih?

Vezuje me detinjstvo za Rovinj - iako se stari grad nije mnogo promenio, neki delovi jesu i drago bi mi bilo da se podsetim kako su izgledali u to vreme.

Škaraba, picerija pored, diskoteka u šumi iznad plaže, Monvi, kino u centru, ulica Carera i tadašnje prodavnice. Poslastičarnica / prodavnica sladoleda na trgu (sad je tu hotel), brojni slikari na rivi uveče, pijaca...

Ako ne želite javno da delite slike a rado bi podelili lično sa mnom, javite mi se u DM. Nemam društvene mreže i ne planiram da kačim te fotke javno.

Hvala unapred! ❤️

When a Chinese person went to Bosnia and Herzegovina to play, the traffic reminder sent by a Chinese mobile operator was the most conspicuous place of traffic reminder was "Yugoslavia" (Bosnia and Herzegovina jumped back and forth with Yugoslavia, forget that Bosnia and Herzegovina was also a member of Yugoslavia 😄)

A young student of the „Maršal Tito” Primary School, today „Vis” Primary School, in the city and island of Vis, SR Croatia, looking at a 1948 sculpture by famous Yugoslav sculptor A. Augustinčić, titled Maršal Tito.

A weird alternate history question about 1991:

Instead of the Yugoslav government/JNA trying to prevent Slovenian independence simply to keep Slovenia inside the existing federation, imagine they offered Slovenia something extreme: you can’t leave Yugoslavia, but you can run it.

Suppose the federal presidency and government were put under Slovenian leadership, Slovenes were placed in charge of major federal institutions and state enterprises, and Slovenia was effectively allowed to impose its political and economic model on the rest of Yugoslavia.

Basically, instead of Serbia dominating the increasingly centralized Yugoslav state, imagine an authoritarian Yugoslavia with Slovenia as the dominant republic.

Would Slovenian political leaders or the Slovenian public have had any interest in such an arrangement by 1990–91? Could Slovenian leadership conceivably have kept Yugoslavia together by pushing it toward Slovenia’s economic and political model, or were the conflicts between the republics already too deep for it to matter?

And how would Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, etc. have reacted to a Slovenian dominated Yugoslavia?