Archives for October 17th, 2006

Oh, Tito, why hast thou forsaken us?

Tina recently caught this gem on the finest radio station in America: “Yugonostalgia Takes Hold in Slovenia“. Reporter Amy Standen does an absolutely bang-up job, bravely fighting through some difficult pronunciations, and even does so from within Slovenia. (Considering how few foreign reporters there are here, I can’t emphasize how unusual that is.)

Yugonostalgia itself is a peculiar thing, in that people will speak bitterly of the political situation in one breath, but praise the slower more relaxed pace of life in another. I’ve also found that, amazingly, many of the people who benefited the most from the switch to a market economy (managers or the nouveau riche) will speak quite fondly of the “old days.”

The story is here (just click on the red “listen” icon)

(Thanks Tina!)