Part 2:

In the previous blog post I made the point that Socialism and Freedom are two incompatible concepts. It is the belief of economists Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom) and Friedrich August Hayek (Road to Serfdom) that the two ideologies are negatively correlated. The more socialist a government is, the less freedom the society has and vice-versa. Modern history illustrates this trend in countries like the USSR, Nazi (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) Germany, Cuba and North Korea. Socialism only delivers bondage and serfdom, the opposites of freedom.

During Tito’s rule, 1945-1980, many Serbs claim that they lived a better life and had more freedom than their socialist neighbors. This is true. Yugoslavs lived freer and had a higher standard of living than their neighbors, but at what cost did that come to the Serbian people? After 1945 Serbia was split into 3 parts by Tito, Vojvodina, Central Serbia, and Kosovo. In 1974, the Socialists forced the Serbs into granting these provinces significant autonomy to continually weaken Serbian influence. While the Serbian people were blinded by the “socialist paradise” they were slowly working at splitting our country apart.

No other Yugoslav Republics had autonomous provinces except Serbia. Socialism divided our country, made us weaker, and yet some Serbs still refer to that time as the “Golden Days of Yugoslavia”. They were, for the Serb people, Dark Days. The Serbian Orthodox Church was heavily persecuted and divided, unlike the Catholic Church in Croatia. Every aspect of Serbian culture was crushed unless it adhered to the greater “Yugoslav” ideals. Socialism took away the freedom of our people and we cannot look to that model of government, which destroyed our culture, to guide us into the future. Democracy, Free Markets, and limited government welfare could make Serbia a strong country.