The specter of communism still looms over the Balkans

The specter of communism still looms over the Balkans

Our Serbian guide Zoran is a jovial fellow and as we rumble through the streets of Belgrade in our minibus he regales us with a joke about the difference between the various nationalities of the former Yugoslavia, all now with countries of their own. “We Serbs are rude,” he says, “but the Croatians are self-centered, the Bosnians are thick, the Montenegrins are lazy and the Macedonians are just Serbs with a speech defect. As for the Slovenians, …