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Yugoslavia PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DECISION MAKING
YU040501.
First televised Orthodox Easter service, Cathedral of St.
Sava, Belgrade, 1990
Courtesy Charles Sudetic
Yugoslavia had a long tradition of open criticism of
oppression, corruption, and incompetence in government. Yugoslav
governments also had a tradition of selective repression of
opposition movements and leaders. As the initial split from
Soviet dogma widened through the postwar decades, intellectuals
such as Milovan Djilas and Dobrica Cosic, and groups such as
Praxis and the editors of youth newspapers, took advantage of
partial constitutional guarantees to criticize their government
and society. In the 1980s, selective prosecution for such actions
diminished, and by 1990 the Yugoslav public received a wide range
of information and opportunities for expressing opinions.
Data as of December 1990
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