Yugonostalgia is still strong among the countries of the post-Yugoslav space, where most citizens see more harm than good from the breakup of Yugoslavia, according to a survey conducted by “Gallup”, reported the website of Radio and Television Montenegro (RTCG), reported BTA.
According to the analysis of the sociological agency, Serbs feel the strongest nostalgia, as 81 percent of people in Serbia believe that the breakup of Yugoslavia was a mistake.
77 percent of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 65 percent of citizens of Montenegro, and 61 percent of citizens of North Macedonia share this opinion. Slovenians feel less sorry for Yugoslavia – 45 percent of them, as well as 23 percent of Croats, while only 10 percent of Kosovo residents regret the breakup of Yugoslavia, RTCG reports, citing the survey.
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) existed from the end of World War II in 1945 until its dissolution in 1992. The federation consisted of the present-day independent republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Kosovo, as the last country is still not recognized by Serbia and other countries of the world.
The SFRY was a country of self-governing socialism, with a one-party representative system, a planned economy and a specific system of workers' self-government.