Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević; Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbiafrom 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Among his supporters, Milošević was known by the nickname of "Sloba". He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. He rose to power as Serbian President after he and his supporters claimed the need to reform...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth20 August 1941
For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
I'm discriminated against all the time.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.