Comments by "Luis Aldamiz" (@LuisAldamiz) on "Serbia's Departed Semiconductor Giant" video.

  1. Yugoslavia was such a great socialist country! It was a total disaster how it imploded into absurd pseudo-ethnic strife.
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  2.  @jobrock1079  - I know, I knew the ravaged country in the 90s quite well, but also Serbian ultra-nationalism was absolutely destructive: it broke the country from inside and made the first genocide in Europe since Hitler. Chetniks made Croats and NATO look nice by comparison. I've met way too many Chetnik victims, from Krajina, Bosnia and Kosovo not to thing that the worst enemy of Yugoslavi was other than Serbian fanatics.
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  3. Yes, Yugoslavia was utterly looted and it forecast what is now happening to all Europe.
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  4. Only partly self-inflicted: there was strong Western will to dismantle and loot Yugoslavia as well. I visited the countries during the Bosnian War in info-gathering mission for the Spanish antimilitarist movement and one Montenegrin liberal politician told us that he had the following conversation with his US embassy friend, whom he believed to be a CIA agent: -- Your country has become strategically irrelevant. -- I'm glad to hear that. -- I would not be happy if my country became strategically irrelevant overnight, really. Just months later the war broke out. I largely blame Serbian ultra-nationalism, which was an inherited problem since the days in which Yugoslavia was first created, after WWI, however Croatian ultra-nationalism was promoted by Germany, Austria and Italy (and later adopted by the Anglosaxon powers as well, not France however, which resisted the trend and tried to keep Yugoslavia united to no avail) and it got the share of the lion in the "federal" partition of Bosnia, gaining large swathes of Serbian-majority territory for its satellite Herzeg-Bosnia entity. I do not blame ethnic Albanians: for all I could gather they were always very constructive, they just wanted full recognition even if they are not Slavs, they followed the democratic and nonviolent path for a very long time (until the unavoidable 1998 war) both in Kosovo and in Macedonia, they suffered very cruel terrorism by Serbia.
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  5.  @dzonikg  - I know the facts first hand, you're probably too young to know. There was no ethnic cleansing of Serbs before the last months of the war, when Croatia and their satellites in "Herzeg-Bosnia", heavily armed by NATO actually did some of that (but AFAIK it was mostly that ethnic Serbs were scared and run away, they've been allowed to return anyhow). The genocidal side was mostly the Serbians and only to a much lesser degree the Croatians (definitely not the Bosniaks who were like: WTF, weren't all just Serbocroats/Yugoslavs a moment ago?, as were many other of mixed ancestry or just common sense, I've met several).
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  6. AFAIK Yugoslavia used to be the most advanced South European country, even ahead of Italy!
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