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Many politicians were jailed or kept under police surveillance. Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavija / Југославија [juɡǒslaːʋija]; Slovene: Jugoslavija [juɡɔˈslàːʋija]; Macedonian: Југославија [juɡɔˈsɫavija]; lit. Serbian uprisings in Croatia began in August 1990 by blocking roads leading from the Dalmatian coast towards the interior almost a year before Croatian leadership made any move towards independence. Yugoslavia was a southeastern European country that existed between the years 1918 and 1992. These armed conflicts between the Croatian armed forces ("police") and civilians mark the beginning of the Yugoslav war that inflamed the region.

This created tensions within the Communist leadership, particularly among Communist Serb officials who resented the 1974 constitution as weakening Serbia's influence and jeopardising the unity of the country by allowing the republics the right to separate. Minister of the interior First cracks in the tightly governed system surfaced when The Yugoslav federation was constructed against a double background: an inter-war Yugoslavia which had been dominated by the Serbian ruling class; and a war-time division of the country, as Tito, whose home republic was Croatia, was concerned over the stability of the country and responded in a manner to appease both Croats and Serbs: he ordered the arrest of the Croat protestors, while at the same time conceding to some of their demands.

Slovenia was able to avoid much of the bloodshed induced by Yugoslavia's collapse due to its ethnic uniformity. During the first nine months of 1990 directly following the adoption of the IMF programme, another 889 enterprises with a combined work-force of 525,000 workers suffered the same fate.

The banovinas were named after rivers. The places of highest religious concentration were that of 1918–1992 country in Southeastern and Central EuropeYugoslavia at the time of its dissolution, early 1992The state of affairs of the territory of the former Yugoslavia, 2008along with western Macedonia and south-eastern MontenegroKosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the 7David Martin, Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich, (New York: Prentice Hall, 1946), 34. Not a large nation, this once Yugoslavian republic had a population of approximately 2.08 million as of 2019. Slovenia and Croatia elected non-Communist governments in early 1990 and, threatening secession, demanded greater autonomy. Similarly, the attempt to replace Yugoslav frontier police by Slovene police forces provoked regional armed conflicts which finished with a minimal number of victims.A similar attempt in Bosnia and Herzegovina led to a war that lasted more than three years (see below).

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'South Slavic Land') was a country in Southeastern and Central Europe for most of the 20th century.

According to the estimates of officials of the General Consulate of the SFRY [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia], there were up to 100,000 people, including workers, university and school students, who participated in the demonstration. Other Yugoslav republics—especially Serbia—were more or less dissatisfied with the democratisation in two of the republics and proposed different sanctions (e.g.

The separation of Macedonia was peaceful, although the Yugoslav Army occupied the peak of the Straža mountain on the Macedonian soil.

in Yugoslavia was by now quite dramatic—comparable to that in major ˆ 4 Published in Nedjeljna Dalmacija, Split, 22 January 1989.

He led Yugoslavia until his death in 1980. It was not clear what the two-thirds majority requirement actually meant and whether it was satisfied. Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, each of the republics held multi-party elections in 1990.

According to the During these three months, the Yugoslav Army completed its pull-out from Slovenia, but in Croatia, a bloody In Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 1991, the Bosnian Serbs held a referendum which resulted in an overwhelming vote in favour of forming a Serbian republic within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina and staying in a common state with Serbia and Montenegro. The turnout was somewhere between 64–67% and 98% of the voters voted for independence.

Though the 1974 Constitution reduced the power of the federal government, Tito's authority substituted for this weakness until his death in 1980.

The unique socialist system in Yugoslavia, where factories were The period of European growth ended after the oil price shock in 1970s. This was a critical turning point in the events to follow. It was initially formed following the First World War and was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in October 1929. The monarchy was abolished in 1945 and the country was renamed the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946. The referendum and creation of SARs were proclaimed The referendum was largely boycotted by the Bosnian Serbs. 7 Milan Kucan answers Janez Janša in Delo, Ljubljana, 5 November 1988; for a The occupation and liberation struggle in World War II left Yugoslavia's infrastructure devastated. Slobodan Penezić Krcun, Tito's chief of secret police in Serbia, fell victim to a dubious traffic incident after he started to complain about Tito's politics. Serbs in Croatia would not accept a status of a national minority in a sovereign Croatia, since they would be demoted from the status of a constituent nation of the entirety of Yugoslavia. According to official statistics, from the 1950s to the early 1980s, Yugoslavia was among the fastest growing countries, approaching the ranges reported in South Korea and other miracle countries.

Following that, in Yugoslavia an economic crisis erupted, and that as a product of disastrous errors by Yugoslav governments, such as borrowing vast amounts of Western capital in order to fund growth through exports.In 1989, according to official sources, 248 firms were declared bankrupt or were liquidated and 89,400 workers were laid off. Although regarded as a communist, he guided Yugoslavia via the Non-Aligned Movement. On 9 January 1992, the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb assembly proclaimed a separate "Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina". Serbs saw the new constitution as conceding to Croat and ethnic Albanian nationalists.

The unresolved issues however remained.

In other words, in less than two years "the trigger mechanism" (under the Financial Operations Act) had led to the layoff of more than 600,000 workers out of a total industrial workforce of the order of 2.7 million.