Tokio blues

After World War 2, the new constitution of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia established six republics, an autonomous province, and an autonomous districtthat were part of SR Serbia. The federal capital was Belgrade.
During the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a communist state but not a Soviet country. Tito’s communistregime brought unity and stability to the country. Because of this he could enter the European community. Yugoslavia remained an anti-Soviet communist countryduring the Cold War.
After the death of Tito a decade of Western economic ministrations and five years of disintegration, war, boycott, and embargo, the economy ofYugoslavia collapsed.
The communist wish to support national self determination and the increasing national tensions resulted in the creation Kosovo. This hit theheart of the serbians. Also Croatia and Slovenia, thmost developed provinces, were angry because they didn’t want to help poor provinces by givng them money.Slobodan Milošević started to give speeches to serbians telling them that they had to be again the country they were once and that they wish of independence of someprovinces was unnaceptable. The leaders of the provinces could not agree. In 1991, after the war called “Ten-day war” Slovenia got his indepence . The break ofYugoslavia had begun.


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Before the war Yugoslavia was divided in many provinces ruled by a king but after this changed. It became a unified countrydivided in six republics Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They put a president and Belgrade remained as the capital.