On the basis of available archive and other documentary materials the author of the following article heds light on the systemic characteristics of budgetary financing and loans, ways of planned market management, and forms of illegal trading. He analyses the role of Slovenia in the centralist system of food and goods supply. Slovenia as the main consumer received the required raw materials and food from the other republics in order to maintain its production and ensure regular food and goods supply for its people, and as the main producer it had to transfer the surplus industrial and agricultural production to the other republics. Like the other republics Slovenia also defended its economic interests, closing the borders in order to deter buyers from the other republics.
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At the time when party 'Liberals' dominated the leaderships of the League of Communists in some republics, Slovenia and Croatia adopted similar points of view about the problems in the country and mostly supported each other in the federal bodies. The Croatian leadership started losing the support of their Slovene counterparts in 1971, when the majority of Slovenes believed that the Croatian leadership was giving in to nationalistic pressures and blamed all other parts of Yugoslavia for their problems except for their own republic. Slovenia took a very moderate position on the unrest in Croatia, and Slovene political leaders decided that their representatives in federal institutions would express their views only if called upon to do so or if required.
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