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of a somewhat different kind, but that courage without which nothing serious and
great can be achieved remains unchanged and remains urgently necessary. 34
Serbs from Kosovo felt saved, and they followed Milosevic everywhere. One
million people came to Belgrade‘s protest which was organized by Serbs from Kosovo.
The main speaker was Milosevic. He took the Communist Party of Serbia in his hands,
which was followed by the introduction of democracy, and his SPS (Socialistic Party of
Serbia) won first elections in Serbia. Milosevic changed the constitution, and Kosovo was
again under direct control of Serbia. Serbian refuges from Kosovo ceased to escape in to
the central Serbia, and citizens thought that problem of Albanian separatism and
terrorism in Kosovo is solved.
Milosevic with his supporters 35
Unfortunately, in the mid 1990‘s, after the civil war in former Yugoslavia (which
seemed to be expected due to the end of the Cold War), Albanian separatists decided to
try again, this time more violently. Separatists started attacks on Serbs, other non-
Albanians, Police, Army, and institutions, including Albanians that were loyal to Serbia.
34 Slobodan Milosevic Online, ―Political Speeches: Slobodan Milosevic‘s 1989 St. Vitus Day Speech,‖
June 28, 1989, http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/spch-kosovo1989.htm
35 Ibid, ―Bibliography,‖http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/biography.htm