COLD WAR BELGRADE: PARALLEL REALITIES AND ILLUSION OF POLARIZATION
COLD WAR BELGRADE: PARALLEL REALITIES AND ILLUSION OF POLARIZATION

Summary/Abstract: : Disappearance of great European continental empires during the WW I lefi Eastern Europe in a state that soon proved to be only contemporary. National and social revolutions disturbed seemingly tranquil order and opened new questions that gradually turned discontents and impatience into totalitarian ideologies and movements. Eastern Europe inherited weak institutions, remnants of feudalism and rural poverty, nationalisms, clerical influences and deficiency in modern urban development (Aldcrofi 2006, 3−16). Afier the WW I Eastern Europe became probably the biggest victim of rising totalitarism, for it used empty political, social and ideological space that appeared on the ruins of outdated legitimist order. Зe rise of totalitarism was so powerful that its power was divided to both belligerent sides during WW II. Allies victory over the Axis therefore wasn’t historical defeat of totalitarism, neither general success of democracy.

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