How was life in Yugoslavia under Tito...

How was life in Yugoslavia under Tito? Was it as good as they said or are people just blind from reality because of the nostalgia of the good old days?

it was good because the central banks gave out a lot of loans with no or little interest. people built huge houses working basic no frills jobs like newspaper stand attendant and such. it's a comparative paradise to today in some ways.

Honestly not an expert on it but i've read there was a chronic unemployment problem that made some workers migrate (pic rel). But other than it seems like the state of things was pretty positive, like the flexibility of the work command structure and the general freedom compared to the other socialist states

Tito's regime is mostly praised because of the comparison with what came afterwards.

It wasn't a perfect country by any means, but Tito was able to hold things together and prevent ethnic violence.

The central banks or the IMF?

More like the west and islamic countries spread nationalist propaganda in croatia and bosnia to sow the ethnic tension.

You forgot the part where the reptilian catholic pope swoops in on a broom in the middle of the night to kidnap serbian children and throw them to the lions in the zoo thus inevitably forcing serbia to lose 4 wars in 10 years

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Jesus christ lol

I honestly don't really buy it. Croatia and Slovenia are doing better right now than when they were part of Yugoslavia.

The only people who praise Yugoslavia are deadbeat Serbs and Bosniaks who were leeching off of Slovenian and Croatian wealth, and Croatian communist nomenklatura aristocracy that also managed to brainwash their children.

Well, it was varied, depending on the decade.

In the 50s, you couldn't travel across the border without special permissions and a number of people who tried to flee to Austria or Italy were shot.
A sort of clientilist system of security and privileges sprang up, which was dependent on membership in the communist party or knowing someone who was a member.

Keeping in mind that the majority of Yugoslavia was pretty backwards before the war, massive efforts were undergone to improve economic growth, but there was still a lot of poverty. The government created exchange programmes with Germany, where people would go off to work for a few years and bring back money, the poor and unemployed were "volunteered" into mass public projects, like infrastructure or housing construction.
At least with housing, these comparatively cheap methods enabled most people in more urban areas, even the poorest, to be guaranteed a government mandated appartment.

But even as late as the 80s, the economic divide with the west was apparent, you had to wait month in order to be "approved" for a car purchase, people constantly travelled across the border to purchase goods which were simply unavailable in Yugoslavia (and having to bribe the border customs of course) and unemployment was a constant issue as per As far as political opression goes, it was pretty stiff in the 50s and especially right after the war when a lot of dissenters and Italians were outright shot and notable figures got sent to prison camps.
But, by the late 70s the government had eased off, notable dissenters were merely defamed in the media and student dissenters were sent to jail for a week or something.

>you had to wait months for a car*

yeah, central planning is a disaster

If it wasn't for communism, we could be living in Wakandaslavia right now, brother.

True for Slovenia at least

They could at least be Greek-tier.

Im not trying to sound like some /pol/tard how is Fascism, which usually seems to be a form of central planning, a ton of Bureaucracy and state run markets seem to do much better than Communist states? in that graph, Spain and Portugal who were Fascsists into the 1970s had a mid range GDP per capita in comparison to those other nations, obviously the Free market nations do the best but the 2 fascists do better than the communists below, was it due to rebuilding after the war?

>reptilian catholic pope=usa
I see what you did there. It's literally true.

My family lost land to the Commies but still they talk about it being a very good time, now we're nothing but a worhless vassal state worthy of nothing but contempt, being slowly depopulated.

That's Billy Graham

From what I understand it was okay

I mean it wasn't France or West Germany, but you got to buy blue jeans and rock albums and for the most part people got along.