Eight Session of the
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia: Twenty Years Later
AN IDEOLOGICAL AND
POLITICAL WATERSHED OR ETHNO-NATIONALISM BECOMES STATE POLICY
By Sonja Biserko
Not even twenty years after the Eight Session of the Central Committee
of the League of Communists of Serbia, this crucial event that preluding ex-Yugoslavia's
bloody disintegration has not been reviewed with relevant criticism. The Serbian media but
also key players - with few exceptions - have referred to the Eight Session as "a
showdown in the family" (between Milosevic and Stambolic), assessing that the ensuing
developments would have been the same, more or less. Such assessment is only logical when
one takes into account the official interpretation of ex-Yugoslavia's disintegration,
based on the West's and secessionist republics' complot... More >>> |
