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The genocidal Yugoslav Wars & the country's violent breakup are often described as an inevitability held in check by the authoritarian President for Life Tito. But a decade passed between his death & the first Yugoslav War. Was secession inevitable? Why did the first war happen in 1991 & not 1980?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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