"I am puzzled by this nostalgia. People say it was not so bad, that socialism was more human. But everyone was egalitarian in the former Yugoslavia because everyone was poor. Yugoslavia was a dictatorship."
— Dimitrij Rupel

January 1, 1970

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YugoslaviaEconomic systemsMarket socialismEconomy of Europe
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Dimitrij Rupel, as quoted in "In ex-Yugoslavia, Tito-era nostalgia" (27 January 2008), by Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times

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Dimitrij Rupel, as quoted in "In ex-Yugoslavia, Tito-era nostalgia" (27 January 2008), by Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times