Philip is right that Tom's characterization of the
Albanian-Serbian stuff is "not quite accurate." It's completely wrong, in
fact, although I don't attribute any ulterior motives to Tom.
What happened in Albania was not a stock-market crash, but the
collapse of a get-rich-quick "pyramid scheme" in which a huge percentage
of the Albanian population had invested their savings. That was two years
ago, and it led to a near-revolution.
The events in Kosovo, a once-autonomous region of Serbia, are
pretty much unrelated, and have roots going back a lot further. Milosevic
was instrumental in ending Kosovar autonomy in 1989, which itself was seen
as a Serbian play for domination in the old Yugoslav Federation, and
contributed mightily to its eventual breakup, leading to the disastrous
consequences with which we are all familiar.
There is no "Albanian invasion of Serbia," although the
counterinsurgency operations of the Milosevic regime in Kosovo have been
described by some as a Serb invasion of Kosovo, which has a 90% Albanian
population (although, as the site of a historic battle between the Serbs
and the Ottomans in 1389, it has special value for Serb nationalists).
All of this is of course leaving out the machinations of the West,
especially the United States, which has armed the KLA, but that doesn't
take away from the fact that the Serbian actions in the region are
reactionary and oppressive.
John Lacny
>
> > Pen-L,
> >
> > Does anyone recall in what month and year the Albanian stock
> > market(ponzi scheme) collapsed? I'm pretty sure it was two or three
> > years ago---anyone remember the exact month and year.
> >
> > Next question does anyone see a connection between the Albanian stock
> > market collapse and the Albanian invasion of Serbia?
> >
> > Your email pal,
> >
> > Tom L.
> >
>
