Talk:Dan Tana

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I removed some content despite being sourced. It is simply too exagerated and typically tabloidal content.

Lets see, to start with, first, it is not trouth that people in Yugoslavia couldn´t travel (that only ones were "athletes or people working for the government"). Its a fact that back then it was not like in nowadays Europe, people were required visas for almost any destination, but that was the reality in West as well. People within the Soviet bloc indeed had hard restrictions regarding travelling (even within its own country) but here is the second issue I was to point out: Yugoslavia was not part of Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia was a capitalist monarchy until the WWII, and since Tito Partisans won the war, Yugoslavia abolished monarchy and became a communist country. However, unlike most of the other communist countries in Europe which were liberated by the Soviet army, Yugoslavia liberated itself by its own resistance forces with little help from Soviets. That gave Tito confidence to turn his back to Stalin (famous Stalin-Tito split) and make Yugoslavia follow its own path independently from Moscow. In order to get aceess to Western help, the West demanded Tito to exercise a more open kind of communism, which ended up being known as Titoism. Despite communist, Tito Yugoslavia propagated a policy of neutrality and respect of soveraignity ammong nations and was the leading force behind the foundation of the Non-Alligned Movement. This said, Yugoslavia enjoyed an enviable position, had access to both markets and its citizens could travel freely. But some excesses were commited in the beggining. In order to impose its rule, Tito targgeted hardly the high-class. Specially in Serbia where most of the burgoisie supported the Serbian royal dinasty that ruled Yugoslavia earlier. Factories, property and bussiness were confiscated and nationalised. Opponents of the regime were harshly punished. However these stories such as the one of the commisary ('How can you clap a capitalist dance?') are silly and unrealistic. Yugoslavia had been a European capitalist country just earlier, part of the entire "capitalist culture" including music, art, dances, etc. Having people in Yugoslavia in 1952 when just some years of communist regime had been passed, talking like KGB agents from the 1980s, is ridiculous. Dan Tana obviously was unhappy as his father was targeted by the new regime, and prefered to stay in Belgium, so to apply for asilum he had to demonstate his life was in danger. So a bit of exageration was certainly good for him.

I see an IP also removed some content earlier. That removal also seems to be somewhat correct. Although contrary to what the IP claims in his edit-summary, Croatia did confiscated land and property to Serbs. However, it was to those charged of having been part of the Serbian armed forces that proclaimed independence of Krajina from Croatia. Those are mostly local ethnic Serbs from Croatia. His family, just as many other middle and high-class families in Serbia, had a summer house on the Adriatic cost. Since locals knew which properties were Serbian-owned summerhouses, many were occupied and vandalised when war between Serbs and Croats started in 1991. My family for instance panicked because we heard the house was invaded by the family of some Croatian military and we sold the house by peanuts. Many Serbs did the same. However, the ones that didn´t can always claim its property. FkpCascais (talk) 19:00, 26 October 2018 (UTC)