JUGOSLOVENSKI JUG NAKON TITOVE SMRTI

Abstract

The death of Marshal Tito was a turning point for the political and social development of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz left a country that was in a difficult economic situation, which gave a rise of serious tensions on a national foundation. The Yugoslav South had a special place in this crisis phenomena. As the poorest region in the Federal State the South was the scene of the clash between Albanians and Serbs, which escalated radically after Tito’s death. The Albanian riot (1981) demonstrated that coexistence between the two nations in one state/republic was impossible. The Nationalism of the both sides provided the necessary conditions for the appearance of Slobodan Milosevic in the Yugoslav political life. Exactly in the social and political problems of the Yugoslav South Milosevic found the arguments for his own presence on the grand Yugoslav stage as a hope of the Serbs for the restoration of justice in SFRY as they understood it.