Jo bole so Nihal, Sat Sri Akal. Jai Hind. I have been seeing alot of posts and articles everywhere about Punjab and specifically Sikhs wanting Khalistan and what not. Out of my close-knit friend circle over 80% have been hindus( maybe I took Commerce, concentration of Hindus in businesses is really high in Punjab).On the Gurpurubs and Shaeedi Dihade we used to go to the Gurughar together and I used to tag along whenever they visited to the Mandir during my Undergrad. the Each one of us agrees that all the events taking place recently are mostly politically motivated but capable of creating a rift between Hindu-Sikh unity in the state. Anyone reading from Punjab and the whole world, Sikhi and Hinduism can never exist without each other, lets work for a better nation and better brotherhood! β€οΈ
JULY 1966
SOFIA, YUGOSLAVIA
Valko Chervenkov, the long time leader of the Socialist Republic of Bulgaria, has announced today his criticism of Yugoslav economic policy. Chervenkov stated in an address to the Bulgarian Communist Party (a member party of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia) that Yugoslavia is deviating away from a proper Marxist-Leninist and Socialist system of economics.
>"The Party leaders declare that this is necessary for socialism, but what caused this? It is clearly not a step like the New Economic Program in the Soviet Union, for there was no devastation or mistakes that preceded this shift. We are simply opening up Yugoslavia to foreign investment, and what will this foreign investment cause? It will cause bourgeois liberalization, it will open this country up to cosmopolitanism and bourgeois degeneracy. Do we want these things in our country of Yugoslavia, to infect our Bulgarian nation and all of our other brother nations? Of course not. I, alongside the other members of the Bulgarian Communist Party, believe that these reforms are and have been a mistake. It is opening up our country to bourgeois degradation and corruption for no reason. Why should we open up when we can simply make a more efficient socialist economy by destroying careerists and opportunists? And what of the people? Do they want their country turned into a Communist society, or a decadent capitalist one, left to rot and eaten by vultures?"
Chervenkov's rhetoric has been quite popular across Bulgaria, as well as those in other parts of Yugoslavia who still hold onto a more orthodox Marxist-Leninist line. Both Sreten Ε½ujoviΔ and Andrija Hebrang have voiced support for these concerns of the new economic policy in Yugoslavia, and criticisms seem to also have support in much of Serbia and Montenegro. Supporting the "Ε½ujoviΔ-Hebrang-Chervenkov Bloc" also is many members of the Yugoslav Army, particularly Chief of Agitprop Vlado DapΔeviΔ, Colonel General Arso JovanoviΔ, Major General Branko PetriΔeviΔ KaΔa, Colonel General Ivan Bachvarov, and Lieutenant General Ivan Vrachev.
Recently, hardliners, mainly in Bulgaria, have voiced their displeasure with their state of things, economically. Although Tito does not believe that a reversal, of course, would serve the country well, he is not deaf to them and will take several steps to both remedy concerns and keep the country stable and prosperous. Some of the steps will be covered in a following post that looks at the foreign policy state of things. This post will cover his internal solutions.
The first step is to promise to the hardliners that in 1971 a new 5 five-year plan will be created(that will also fulfill promises to the USSR), and that they will have a say in the creation of this. Until that plan is created, there will be no further economic reforms or liberalizations besides anything already committed to or that they consent to. That means no new SEZs or expansions of current ones or liberalizations of worker company laws. Yugoslavia will not go back on current plans, but it will go no further to show that Tito cares all about opinions in the country.
Tito will also offer the Bulgarian communists a concession: no foreign companies will be allowed into Yugoslavia aside from those taking part in SEZs or that are part of foreign-domestic joint-ventures(where the foreign can only own up to 49% as irl). Any already in the rest of the country and not under the above two conditions will be asked to leave once any contract they have expires. Although not everything that the hardliners want, this concession can give the hardliners something to placate their own supporters with. Tito will push for this to happen only if the hardliners, or at least a decent chunk of them, agree to tone down their criticism. This step, along with the above, can help peel off some of the more moderate hardliners.
Tito will also hold a party gathering for all of the various republic parties. Here, he will, aside from the promise and the offer(which will be done more discreetly), he will point out several things. First, that Hungary and Poland are also pursuing, successfully, similar policies in regards to economic reform. Tito and Yugoslavia are not alone in undertaking these helpful reforms to socialism. This can help prevent the isolation of Tito. Tito will also point out that Yugoslavia under Tito has paid a large part in spreading communism in North Greece and is making a great effort to spread it to Cyprus as well, with the cooperation of comrades in Greece, the Soviet Union, and other Sa
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The hardliners have asked for a reason why Yugoslavia has reformed. Tito can gladly provide several.
First is that, in order to finance the recent large, successful, and expensive agricultural investment, Yugoslavia needs lots of money. Before the agricultural investment, most farmers were very dependent on the weather and they, and therefore the whole country, were prone to sudden crop failure and disaster. Now, that is less of an issue and they produce more food than ever before. It borrowed much of that, and to pay off that debt and pay for future investments, it needs foreign capital. Yugoslavia must open up small parts of the country to help the greater country achieve socialism. Foreigners are essentially paying for the tractors and agriculture that is being delivered to farmers across the country, and for new dams and ditches. These farmers continue to use the same type of economic system as before, but now with modern equipment, made possible by the temporary use of new policies in a small part of the country. In the 1971 five year plan, Tito pledges that a new, large, housing investment will be made to help the workers and common man and woman of the country. This is important since the housing quality of much of the country is quite lacking. To prepare to finance this and keep current investment projects and other socialist projects, the small SEZs should continue. If Yugoslavia is able to finance these helpful programs, then the reforms will hopefully be temporary. They do not represent an abandonment of the worker, but merely using the capitalists' own money to advance socialism, and therefore against them. The other methods of raising money, such as taking on debt often asking others for money, or printing more money, will imperial socialism in the long run. Another example of this is that Yugoslavia recently addressed the issue of a lack of sanitary products, particularly womenβs, in the country. This was done by increasing the production domestically in social cooperatives and worker owned companies, but that was partly financed through foreign capital, again showing how this temporary fix has helped rectify an issue and improve the socialist system long term.
The second reason is that, as French comrades have shown, Dirigisme, or at least a Yugoslavian form of it, helps improve productivity and efficiency without hurting workers. Outside of the small SEZs, the only companies are government controlled social cooperatives and worker
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If it's true, then what's the reason behind it? Shouldnβt it have been the opposite?
Also, if it's true, then does it mean that most German Turks hate Ataturk?
