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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17207)	10/23/2000 11:12:17 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Excerpted from your article: "Ever since Tito came we have had no prosperity and no rights. All Milosevic has brought us is Chinese immigrants." Some supporters held royalist memorabilia, others flowers. Chants of "We want the king" and "Stay with us, stay with us" went up. A 71-year-old man wearing traditional Serbian folk dress with embroidered royal emblems proudly showed off photographs of the former king's royal coach, which he said he was rebuilding in his back yard. It really looks like a pattern, does it not? Just like in Russia, where Yeltsin's first move was to attend an Orthodox mass.... then there was the fuss about the remains of czar Nicolas II and the Romanov family.... Such royalist escapism doesn't bode well for the future --post-fascism is next! Did you notice that these Serb folks got caught up in the same foolish expectations as the people in Central Europe in 1989? They all expect Soros, Jeffrey Sachs, and western banks to pull them out of their sh**.... But hey, just have a squint at East Germany --they're still struggling to catch up with Bavaria. And the EU has still to decide how it will cope with new members such as Hungary, Estonia, Poland, etc. What will the backlash look like in Belgrade in, say, 5 years from now when Serbia will be worse off than it's today?