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From: riddle@im4u.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Yugo automobile and human rights ("Eastern Bloc")
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:53:41 EDT
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Reply-To: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Huge-Old-Slob: "Bob"

>> As far as Eastern Bloc countries go, Yugoslavia is bad, but not by
>> any means the worst.  It allows more rights and liberties than, say,
>> Romania or Czechoslovakia, but is more repressive than East Germany
>> or Poland.  It is a one-party Marxist-Leninist regime, and consistently
>> violates the Helsinki Accords, the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human
>> Rights, and other agreements which it has signed.  It just doesn't
>> violate them as often or as severely as some others.

One minor correction: Yugoslavia is really not an Eastern Bloc country.
"One-party Marxist-Leninist," yes, but not Eastern Bloc -- Tito was a wily
and independent type who didn't want the Russians telling him how to be
dictator in his own country.

As for Yugoslavia's rights record, I'm sure you know more about it than I do
given the sources you cite, but I will say that Yugoslavia seems to be quite
a bit more open in its contact with Western Europe than the true Eastern
Bloc countries are.  Yugoslavian citizens do a lot of travelling back and
forth to the West, especially if you include the thousand of Yugoslavian
"guest workers" in West Germany and Austria.

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