The beauties of Beograd and Zagreb are admirable to look upon but how come have you not realized that the ideal Yugoslav city is Sarajevo and has been this whole time? Sarajevo pretty much filled the criteria of Brotherhood and Unity in theory and yet they never picked Sarajevo in 1945 as the capital city.
Sarajevo is a city with two churches (Orthodox and Catholic), several mosques, and one synagogue operating within the old town area. It has a predominantly Bosnian Muslim population but is religiously diverse and had a greater presence of Serbs and Croats during socialist Yugoslavia. Sarajevo was a missed opportunity to truly immerse the Brotherhood and Unity. Good old Tito himself was against Serbian hegemony and yet he chose Beograd anyways over the truly diverse Sarajevo.
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"In a socialist society such phenomena must and will disappear. In the old Yugoslavia national oppression by the great-Serb capitalist clique meant strengthening the economic exploitation of the oppressed peoples. This is the inevitable fate of all who suffer from national oppression."- Josip Broz Tito (
Ljubljana, 1948)
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