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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by oytis on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:06AM (#26887487)
Former Yugoslavia countries are doing pretty well actually. Genocides has been stopped, nations were able to establish their own countries, none of them returned to a dictatorship, all have democratically elected governments. Definitely better than before.
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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by hulitu on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:08AM (#26887502)
And the economy was destroyed. Definitely better than before.
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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:48AM (#26887781)
You have things backwards. It was an economic decline that helped to motivate the collapse of Yugoslavia. If things in Yugoslavia had stayed as nice as in the 1960s and early 1970s -- the era of the vikendica and middle-class holidays in Bali, -- nationalist grievances might not have gained ground.
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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by oytis on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:20AM (#26887561)
That's a bold claim. It was a communist dictatorship first - not sure if there is a reasonable way to compare GDP of a communist country with a normal country. Then there was an endless civil war - that's hardly good for economy too.

Today these are quite comparable to other Eastern European countries. Croatia has a larger GDP per capita than Romania, Montenegro is somewhere in Turkey's league, Serbia is pretty poor, but still much better than Belarus and Ukraine.

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