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In authoritarian and clientelist states, membership in the ruling party has often been the most reliable path to social and personal advancement. That was the case in the past — and, to a significant extent, it remains so today. In Yugoslavia, for decades, only the structures of the Communist Party were permitted, while political pluralism was systematically suppressed.
By the late 1980s, nationalist and religious narratives were added to this rigid party framework, creating the conditions for the mass political mobilizations that followed. Photographs from this period document the arrival of Serbs from Kosovo, as well as from other cities and republics, at organized rallies in Titov Vrbas.
The scenario was almost always the same. Groups arrived in the city at a prearranged time, gathered in central squares, and began speeches and chants — often with pronounced nationalist slogans such as “Come to us, brothers,” “We are all from Kosovo,” or “Oh Serbia of three parts, you will be whole again.”
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