Re: Milosevic out?

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a [PEN-L:2699] Milosevic out?,
el 6 Oct 00, a las 8:55, Jim Devine dijo:

> The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes,
> unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based in
> the urban middle classes -- were fighting the Yugoslav government, led
> by a man who had committed the ultimate sin among nationalists, i.e.,
> losing a war.

A gross mistake and a gross underrating of the ability of the masses
to understand when they lose a war because they cannot do otherwise.
After 1967, the Egyptian masses also filled the streets, but not
against Nasser. On the contrary, they went to the streets in support
of him against the anti-Nasserist (that is, pro-NATO in today's
terms) wing of the Army.

In Belgrade we have had a rehearsal of the "out wih Ferdinand Marcos"
play, where a good fraction of the petty bourgeoisie, with the
company of diverse fractions of lower classes, seems to have tilted
the balance in the Yugo armed forces against Milosevic. This is not a
new story for us in South America. The same was made (with less
firework) in Argentina, 1955, and in Brazil, 1954. And these are only
two examples.

Now, the same Army that seems to have tilted against Milosevic will
slowly be destroyed together with its own country. Will they fight
back? Maybe, but conditions will be awful. Argentina again is an
example: the revolutionary coup of the patriotic officers in 1956 was
brought to a massacre by the government that began in 1955. We can
expect many murders and shootings in Yugoslavia from now on.



Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx