[LINK] "Slobodan Milosevic: the spirit of the age"

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Marko Attila Hoare's article at Open Democracy on the late Milosevic is worth reading.

As an anti-imperialist, Milosevic was no more successful, and was considerably less sincere, than he was as a velikosrpski ("Great-Serbia") nationalist. But it is the myth of Milosevic rather than the real historical figure that has made him a hero to so many of those opposed to the "new world order". He was the conservative's communist; the communist's champion of free-market reform; the peacenik's warmonger; the UN-worshipper's defier of international law. In sum, a paradoxical poster-boy for an anti-modern coalition comprised of opposites.