중동부유럽

The present paper aims to look into the role of Milosevic in the process of destruction of Yugoslavia. Milosevic has been much blamed and criticized for the destruction of Yugoslavia and the subsequent war of Yugoslav destruction from 1991-1995. And es - pecially the West has put much effort on demonization of Milosevic as the main culprit of the destruction of Yugoslavia. But the present paper argues that the criticism on Milosevic should be restricted to the war of destruction, not the destruction of Yugoslavia. It should be noted that Yugoslavia would have proceeded to destruction, or so called natural death, even if Milosevic was not on the power stage. First, with Tito, there was no one to place the conflicts and confrontations between different national groups and ethnic groups under control. Secondly the 1974 Constitution saw to it that six republics should develop into quasi state, without the right to independent diplomacy and military control. Given such conditions, Yugoslavia would have been dismantled at certain point, following the death of Tito in 1980. Therefore, the paper argues that it was the West who mixed the two developments together and putting too much blame on Milosevic, for its political convenience.