Deca Komunizma Milomir Maric.pdf New! Jun 2026

Petar was one of the "children of communism." He had grown up with the perks of a prince: Western records smuggled through diplomatic pouches, summer vacations on the Adriatic while the rest of the country queued for coffee, and the unspoken weight of a revolution he hadn't fought for, but was expected to inherit.

One of the most poignant sections of Marić’s work deals with the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991. For the children of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent civil wars were not just political events; they were patricides. Tito, the symbolic father, had died in 1980, but the ideological father—communism—died a decade later. Marić describes a generation left without a moral compass. Having been told that the state would provide everything (employment, housing, healthcare, meaning), these individuals suddenly faced the brutal logic of nationalism and market transition. Many retreated into two extremes: cynical apathy or fanatical chauvinism. Marić is particularly critical of the latter, showing how former communist youth leaders seamlessly became nationalist warlords, because their core identity was never based on democratic principles, but on loyalty to a strong authority figure. Deca Komunizma Milomir Maric.pdf

Marić argues that the rampant corruption, the lack of accountability, and the disregard for the rule of law that defined the post-Yugoslav states were learned behaviors. They were inherited directly from the generation that ruled unopposed for forty years. The "Children" didn't just inherit their parents' names; they inherited their hubris. Petar was one of the "children of communism