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I can't be sure because I was born 6 years after we were our own country so I never experienced the Communism over here. I think we would have been better if we stayed out of Yugoslavia.
The reason why our opinions differ is where we were at before going into Yugoslavia. We were the most developed country in YU, second was Croatia. Belgrade was center of everything so the money that was earned over here was sent to Belgrade. With that money the pushed forward the development of areas close to Belgrade and others that were underdeveloped, Bosia was one of then, no offence. So instead of spending money over here it was spent over Yugoslavia. So that's why it wasn't good for us. That's my view on it at least, some people here won't agree with me, grandfather is one of them but I don't care.
No offence taken, that's pure reality. Everyone has their own reason for both agreeing and disagreeing. I assume your grandfather was raised in YU, and that's the reason he feels the way he does. You guys have always had, not perfect, but always better both financial and ethnical situation there, and it's normal that you wanted independecy.
On the other side, here, in Bosnia, things weren't so great, but they sure were better than now. At least we had all of our factories working and making profits, we even made god damn fighter jets in Mostar. Now all that has been 'privatised', fully legaly, and succesfully, yup - my a**. Your country can't have a great life standard when your politicans have an average wage of 2600 € while the average worker has around 400€ (and trust me, it's even lower than that), their pensions are 1100€, while others have around 150€. You get the point.
Oh, also my grandfather was part of the Communist party, and was kinda high ranked in our area, and had s*** load of money, lol. He still has Tito's portrait on the wall, over the place he sits. And he had a huge influence in my childhood, and still has, that's where my affection to communism comes from i guess, lol.