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Union. At the same time, it was equally important to help all separatist-national
forces as a “natural enemy” of Communism. Contradictory
as the tactic of simultaneous assistance to centralist and
separatist tendencies was, it was deeply justified. Brzezinski said that
because the increase of Yugoslav indebtedness was favorable to u.s.
interests in the long run, Yugoslavia should not be prevented from
obtaining new credit, even at the cost of temporary negative effects
on the creditors. Brzezinski discussed the possible lines of action the
Soviet Union might take in its efforts to bring Yugoslavia back into
the “Communist camp,” predicting that the Soviet Union would support
chiefly the centralist forces that had manifested more pro-Soviet
tendencies and rely on the old and new Cominform supporters, military
and secret police personnel, and strata of society that had nothing
to gain from the economic accomplishments of self-management
in Yugoslavia. 109
Ćosić saw a different enemy behind Yugoslavia’s economic
difficulties: “Having defended its state independence against Stalin’s
imperialism and colonialism, [Yugoslavia] brought itself by its fateful
policy into a colonial or semicolonial financial and technological
dependence on international banking capital and multinational
companies. Although we had freed ourselves of the Kremlin dictates,
we subjected ourselves to the dictates of the International Monetary
Fund.” 110
While railing against the imf for its efforts to subjugate Serbia,
Ćosić lauded Milošević for his efforts to liberate the country.
Ćosić commended Milosević’s political instinct for recognizing the
“significance of the national question” and his
109 A Serbian translation was published in Mirko Đekić’s book Upotreba Srbije – optuzbe i priznanja
Draže Markovića, p . 77 . Draža Marković is cited as saying that a copy of the text was acquired
by the State Security Service of the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs . The author of this
text was unable to find a copy of the original version of the text during her stay at USIP .
110 Dobrica Ćosić, Srpsko pitanje I, (Beograd: Filip Višnjić, 2002)
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