Manjinska politika u komunizmu i današnjoj Srbiji
Minority Policy in Communism and Nowadays Serbia

Summary/Abstract: Communism has greatly influenced the development of Serbia and is directly responsible for the devastating conditions in the country today. A lot of state and social problems of today originate from the politics of communism but its negative impact on today's state isn't visible for their elite yet. The ideas of communism, its understandings, principals and misconceptions are present in legal system of Serbia. Moreover, many linguistical and constitutional constructions taken over from the communist Constitution are present in the valid 2006 Serbian Constitution. When a formal-language distance does not exist then it's clear that legal interpretation of normatives is the same as in the communist period. This legal situation forms also our reality which shows that Serbia is constituted equally in both state and legal way as in the communist period; that the number of languages has risen since the communist period and is still rising; that a mindless minority politics is still in progress; that the state has accepted the politics from that period and is forming its minority politics upon it etc. The communist period politics was, above all, targeted against Serbian people, and has left a difficult heritage which should not be kept alive by the Serbian state. Although the whole communist state and legal system has done great harm to Serbia, it seems that Serbian lawyers don't have enough strength to perceive it critically and distance legal science from it, as well as point the state in the right direction. Only a strong state can provide its citizens with the decent living. Serbian state is weak. Serbian territory has been shrinking since the second World War, the number of citizens is decreasing, the outer borders are not known. Serbia must establish a discontinuous process with the period of communism in every aspect of its social life, must turn itself to the tradition before 1940, start understanding its values and organize and lead the state according to its interests.

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