Please. We have been over the personal virtues of Mr. M. a number of
times.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:33:40PM -0500, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
> Louis,
> You are right that the article does not provide
> much evidence of thievery by Milosevic personally.
> But it certainly provides quite a bit of it regarding
> his cronies. To say that most of those millions
> abroad were strictly for getting around the embargo
> is naivete at the worst.
> The issue of corrupt privatizations by his cronies
> was discussed at length. One of the more bizarre
> remarks you made in connection with all this was your
> complaint about "illegal" seizures by workers of enterprises
> in Serbia. Once again, most of those were to undo the
> corrupt privatizations carried out by Milosevic's cronies.
> The reporting of this has been extensive.
> Barkley Rosser
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:40 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:9726] Re: Once again history is stranger than fiction
>
>
> > >http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/serbia/article/0,2479,464930,00.html
> > >Ian Traynor in Belgrade
> > >Thursday March 29, 2001
> > >The Guardian
> > >
> > >Search for the missing millions
> >
> > If you read this article carefully, you will find that there is not a
> shred
> > of hard evidence that Milosevic was a thief. In order to work around a
> > strangling embargo, the Yugoslav government concealed money in foreign
> > banks to buy manufactured goods. Big deal. I am sure that Cuba does the
> > same thing.
> >
> > Louis Proyect
> > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
> >
> >
>
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