Search for: Tito Villee and Yugoslavia Home Foreign Policy Economics Manpower Blog about History Tito Villee and Yugoslavia Mobile Menu Yugoslavia Yugoslavia is liked to be compared to the Soviet Union, and its collapse to the collapse of the USSR. I will take this comparison as a basis and briefly describe the main peoples of the former Yugoslavia by analogy with the peoples of the former Union.
SOUTHERN SLAVIA, a state that existed in 1918-1992 in southeastern Europe, in the northwestern and central part of the Balkan Peninsula.
Yugoslavia was, by socialist standards, a very developed country. It had the highest standard of living among the socialist countries, not counting the GDR. In Russia, the older generation may still remember that a trip to Yugoslavia was almost equal to a trip to a capitalist country.