Slobodan Milosevic is a Yugoslav and Serbian politician, president of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a republic in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1989 to 1997 and president in the Union Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He has also led the Socialist Party of Serbia since its founding in 1990.
Slobodan Milosevic was born in August 1941. In his youth, he was educated at the University of Belgrade with a degree in law. There he was destined to meet his love and future wife Mira Markovich, who is credited with a key role in shaping Milosevic’s views on politics. In his student years, Milosevic enters and actively participates in the life of the UCL (Union of Communists of Yugoslavia)
His whole career was work in various responsible posts, which in the end helped him to take the post of first secretary of the Belgrade city committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He controlled it until 1982. Then, since 1987, Milosevic headed the Union of Communists of Serbia, which brought him into Yugoslav politics during the ethnic conflict on the basis of many years of ethnic differences between Albanians and Serbs. In 1989, he was elected president of the Serbian Republic, which is part of Yugoslavia. However, in fact, Slobodan Milosevic became the only politician to whom the peoples of all union republics in Yugoslavia listened.
The collapse of Yugoslavia
In the beginning of the 90s, two states withdrew from Yugoslavia - Croatia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Milosevic had to decide on the introduction of federal forces into the territory of the former Soviet republics in order to protect ethnic Serbs who did not want to leave Yugoslavia. Because of this reluctance, Serbs were harassed by the local authorities, who wanted independence to come unilaterally. Serbian settlements were called the "Serbian republics." This was the beginning of a civil war in which several hundred thousand people died, and a large number of Bosnian Muslims and Croats left the territories of the Serbian republics.
A peacekeeping mission from the UN was introduced into the territory of the former Soviet republics. Then Slovenia peacefully left Yugoslavia. By the mid-90s, the Serbian confrontation was crushed by NATO forces. Milosevic agreed to exit republics. Thousands of refugees reached Serbia.
Two years later, Milosevic was re-elected as president. But a year later, a new conflict broke out in Kosovo, in which the Serbs became victims again. There began the mass pogroms of Serbian autonomy by the Kosovans. NATO has become a new entry of troops if the president of Yugoslavia does not withdraw the Serbian military forces from Kosovo. Milosevic refused. In 1999, Yugoslavia was subjected to massive UN bombing. The president of Yugoslavia was forced to yield.
