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You need bricks to make a house. Where are you going to get the bricks from? You need lumber to build a stick frame house. How are you going to saw the lumber? Where are you getting the steel for the saws? Where are you getting the nails from?

Those all come from economic powerhouses.

The steps from mud huts to modern buildings came from economic powerhouses.




All of those were made in highly industrialized Yugoslavia. Maybe they are an economic powerhouse by your definition then?


Only some parts were industrialized. Most of the the best companies were existing before Yugoslavia. They were nationalized after the revolution, the owners killed or they escaped to the west. Very little new industry was developed by the regime itself.



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