Abstract
I will stick to the term socialist, although in the later interpretations it became customary to designate this type of rule as communism, mainly under influence of western classifications. The system itself was called self-governing socialism, although it was governed by the Communist party.
I will argue that there was no lack of multicultural policies and practices but a rather complicated system of control of power of all, not only national, sentiments with political potential. Secondly, I will argue that it was not oppression of nationalist feeling what contributed essentially to the later violent armed conflicts and wars but it was rather a matter of a total absence of experience with democratic mechanisms of conflict mediation, which opened the path to a quick deterioration of nations and communities relationships.
I intend first to make a short factual introduction of the overall situation in the former Yugoslavia and its somewhat specific political, social and national system and structure, th