There are a few big differences between the situation in Romania and Yugoslavia. Anger was out of the system and those very poor people were happy with anything better and different from that of the time before the revolution. Overwhelmed by new earlier unthinkable freedoms of speech, free information and even equally unthinkable freedom of thinking people had forgotten that no dictator could rule without helpers. Although the regime in Romania was in power for decades and in the one in Yugoslavia for 13 years, the later is more powerful and destructive. Middle class including free thinkers was partly annihilated or just removed from the public and those from that class who worked for the regime have reduced themselves to simple servants.
Social differences are bigger than ever.
It is estimated that about 90 percent of inhabitants of Yugoslavia live under the line of poverty. Three weeks after federal elections in Yugoslavia and two weeks after the people showed their will in the streets in Belgrade former ruling couple is only out of sight and all social structures they had built as support for their rule are untouched. The revolution has reached its cross-point. It really has a lot to loose at this moment. If the new president chooses the way of compromises, it may come back as a boomerang.