Word: yugoslavia
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...community of students and professors in Yugoslavia has only recently voiced its claims. They have been painfully aware of some inequalities and injustices for several years. Perhaps they did not speak out because they were relatively free and content. Travel and work abroad were without restriction. Most foreign goods and books were easily available...
...Alexander Rankovic, head of the secret police. Until then it was still hazardous to criticize vigorously internal policies or the Soviet Union. As late as November, 1966, Djilas, Mihajlov, and others were sentenced for their works. Under President Tito's direction, a trend of liberalizing decentralization followed in Yugoslavia...
This emerging consciousness and new freedom of expression developed into the Yugoslav student protest. But student radicalism is a matter of definition in Yugoslavia. They are clearly not very radical in the Western sense of the word. Most of the young people I met seemed to approve of their system of worker self-management...
THERE are several possible reasons for this general allegiance in spite of protest. First, the young people in Yugoslavia possess a real pride in their country. Yugoslavia for centuries has been under foreign domination by the Turks, Austrians, and other major powers. Now it is remarkably independent. In Yugoslav cities people still often mention how the Partisans drove the Nazis from their land at greast costs, but without Soviet assistance. The students are tired of old men's war stories, but they have a deep respect for past suffering...
Understandably, there is no anti-draft movement in Yugoslavia, as in the United States. The students do see their eleven-month military obligation as a nuisance or a waste, but they go without question. Many of them, I suppose, would be against killing. But the only war they know would be in defense against an outside aggressor...