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		pvg 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) No - it was an authoritarian regime but there was also a genuine belief in the Yugoslav project. It wouldn't have lasted as long as it did without that, it wasn't just sloganeering and coercion.

lmm 10 months ago [–]

Didn't it all fall apart immediately when Tito died? That doesn't suggest a successful nation-building project that people believed in.

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