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To: cosmicforce who wrote (85804)	8/19/2000 2:44:34 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

First, the volatility in the Balkans has mainly been a result of the termination of Yugoslavia. There is no similar chaos in Bulgaria, for example. Second, the sort of repression experienced in the Eastern bloc was worse than that experienced under segregation. Third, there was not even formal repression in the North, like Jim Crow laws, and blacks in those states often had more social problems than those in the South. Now, the general observation is right enough: sometimes, the suddenly elimination of repression can cause chaos. But it is doubtful that the situation in the Balkans is analogous to that in the ghettoes.........