Sam Vaknin argues the case for the proposal in this article. Du an Djordjevich argues the case against in an accompanying article . There are undercurrents and overriding themes in Serb history that recur and appear immutable. In Yugoslavia, the hedonistic and narcissistic Tito is one example. The turncoat Communist Milo evi in Serbia is another.
Idealization is followed by devaluation and dispossession.
In quasi-tribal societies rocked by historical tidal waves and subject to traumatic ruptures, the superstitious belief in leaders is common. Politicians, criminals and businessmen are indistinguishable and interchangeable. The disintegration of the former Yugoslavia a Serb empire founded on the self-interested collusion of such networks only exposed them to the scrutinizing glare of the media and competing emerging elites. They revolve around a common enemy and the struggle against it. Ko tunica is to the right of Milo evi , whose nationalistic epiphany had more to do with political expedience than with patriotic zeal.