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Many Serbs blame the countries'
economic woes on Milosevic....for now |
A man stands in a supermarket aisle, dazed at the rows of
bare shelves around him. Outside his view dangles a 500 million
dinar note, the symbol of his country's devastating hyperinflation,
alongside a mugshot of Slobodan Milosevic, the imprisoned ex-leader
of Yugoslavia and its heartland republic of Serbia. The billboard
image, while technically inaccurate - there are plenty of goods in
the stores, just no money to buy them - is driven home by a simple
slogan: "Who is to blame?"
The ad, one in a series sponsored by reform group Otpor, is not
just a challenge to Milosevic, currently in custody in a Belgrade
jail. It is also a warning of sorts to the new democratic
governments of Serbia and the Yugoslav Federation, charged with
cleaning up the economic wreckage left by decades of institutional
dysfunction, mismanagement, corruption and enforced isolation.
Without speedy and...
