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It was a place where people lived good lives and had plenty of opportunities to succeed, along with free education and healthcare.

I'm kind of tired of being an economic powerhouse where most people live in misery.

>>saubei+(OP)
>I'm kind of tired of being an economic powerhouse where most people live in misery.

This. What's the point of being an economic powerhouse when most people end up living poor quality lives?

>>saubei+(OP)
>people live in misery.

People live in unimaginable luxury compared with what people had in Yugoslavia.

>>Ray20+GI
As somebody who's from there, no, they don't.

>>saubei+(OP)
Yugoslavia also had severe political repression, with peace between the provinces only maintained by a (near) dictator with a cult of personality. Their economy and standard of living was mediocre at best, and only even possible within a limited geopolitical context where they sat between competing superpowers. It wouldn't be possible to create something like Yugoslavia today. Stupid to even try.

>>saubei+8L
Why did you leave?

>>Walter+BE1
Because it was destroyed by right-wing extremists in the 90s, funded by Western capitalists that were scared it would show the world a viable alternative on how to run an economy

>>nradov+IN
I'd argue the repression of reactionaries was part of the secret sauce that made it work so well. We saw what happened when they were loosened in the 90s.

>>saubei+oL1
Repression like that is never acceptable regardless of the reasons or results.

>>nradov+8a2
I'd posit that the rise of the Nazis (which caused the rise of the SFR Yugoslavia as a resistance movement) taught us differently.

Karl Popper, himself an Austrian that saw the rise of the Nazis and had to live in exile as a result famously formulated it as the paradox of tolerance.

>>saubei+8L
In Yugoslavia you couldn't even get bananas or coffee or jeans. People had to go to Italy or Austria to buy it. You had to wait more than a year to get a car. Of course then there was no gas for it. Inflation ate your paycheck before you could spend it.

>>saubei+oL1
Thank you comrade to alleviate us peasants of having to think too much on our own.

>>saubei+bL1
I really like what you wrote, because it demonstrates what kids in Yugoslavia were thought from a young age. There was this idea of a foreign enemy that it there to get them and any economic and political fault in the country was because of the sabotage of this invisible foreign enemy.

>>nec4b+Dw3
And they were right :-)

>>saubei+2z3
Surrounded by brigama doesn’t seem like a slogan from a trusting environment.