Due to Greek objections, North Macedonia was often referred to as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" for many years.
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Yugoslav
//ˈjuːɡəˌslɑːv//
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A small band of men, all very Yugoslav-looking, were sitting in the bar, talking politics.
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Titoism was a local variety of Stalinism, very Yugoslav in its nature but also very totalitarian.
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But most alarming at the assembly in Vladikavkaz was the evident hatred of the Chechens, the lurid talk of Chechen atrocities, and of most of Chechnya being ‘ancient Terek Cossack land’, for which ‘we must fight to the last Cossack, after the glorious example of our ancestors’ – all very Yugoslav.
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