Naš Tito
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You can't erase history. Same dictators already tried that, but they failed. You can burn books and destroy sculptures, but people will still remember their past. Tito is part of our history, no matter how hard "they" try to annihilate him. Regarding YU-nostalgie that it pretty popular in these days. Funny how things change over the years... I was teenager in mid-eighties and I really don't remember that we liked socialistic system that much. To be honest, we didn't like it at all. In fact, we were starving for capitalism with all its materialistic goods that were not available in our "wonderful" country. Now we are sick and tired of this hyper-capitalism and we want the good-old communism back. Anybody still remember electriciry reductions, hyper-inflation, foreign currency black market, even/odd numbers, gas coupons, etc. Nice life experiences :) IMO we are looking at those times with nostalgia for one simple fact: we were young back then. And when you're young anything look beautiful.
# Posted by Saša on 18.4.2009 11:23Thanks, Edi. Loved reading your comment. I agree with the point you make - people seem tend to look back with affection at times of their youth - even though the economic, social or political conditions were far from perfect. I remember my grandma telling me about life before, during and after the ww2 - life was hard but people helped each other sharing the little they had. Today we have the rich and the poor and those in between but not much of that communal spirit left. We drive better cars and travel freely and but may not know the person living next door.
# Posted by Vojko on 19.4.2009 16:28Each person has positive and negative manners (Jing-Jang) Tito as well. The fact is that he was some kind of dictator, but I think that he was the dictator who also did a lot of good things for people in former Yugoslavia. Many people in these days talk of how was terrific communist system in the former Yugoslavia, but nevertheless, people were allowed to go the churches and they can believe in their religions, every have jobs (I could say that you were "criminal" if you didn’t had a job, social welfare has been on a higher level and so on many more can be listed. It is true, that we are been not allowed to speak freely in public against the current system. But what we have now. Unemployment, a lot of people at risk of poverty, the huge gap between rich and poor, an increasing number of them go to church (even the most inveterate former communists), may express your opinion, but who cares is about what are you talking about, but also in these days if anybody praise communism, those become a enemy (refers mainly to the previous government of 2004-2008), social work is a way down, health care also. And if at the end take the line between both political systems. Now we live in capitalism, as the Communists called rotten capitalism, may be a peaceful soul, yes they were right. We are in deep shit. All reefs only for poor job and we are most happy when we get a salary, we are looking forward to even obtain. Because of these concerns, employers can manipulate us as they want to. I think that many people badly miss previous system, because most people lives better in former Yugoslavia, than most people live of now. At the end. In the absence of Tito, Nove Gorice wouldn’t be here where is now, and people in this region will speak Italian.
# Posted by Saša on 21.4.2009 13:11Right, Vojko - such is life - gray rather than black or white. It's good that we generally tend to remember the good and forget the bad. I wish Tito and the rest of the dead peace wherever they are.