For example, right-wing traditionalists have begun to dominate the political scene in the Croatian Republic. In the recent elections in Croatia, one of the strongest parties promised that, if elected, they would make abortion illegal. Members of some anarchist groups have joined the national campaign for abortion rights. People in Croatia blame the Serbs for everything. In Serbia, the Croatians and the Albanians are the scapegoats.
Racial attacks are on the increase, and a wave of collective paranoia is sweeping the country.
When people speak of the East as a 'laboratory of freedom' they should bear in mind that the old notions of nationalism have re-emerged as the dominant ideology. The abuse of various ideas by the Communist Party has been a problem for the anarchist movement. For example, they have totally devalued the term 'self-management'. For thirty years the system of government was known as 'Communist Party governed self- management'. Anarchists now face the difficult task of explaining what self-management really means.