What were the positive effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
A positive effect was definitely the collapse of the regime. The fall of the wall was also the end of isolation even though I am still skeptical because cultural isolation has, nevertheless, remained. But it cannot be compared to the political isolation from that period of time. Many possibilities for exchange of ideas, for contacts between people have been created. What did you think back then of the disintegration of Yugoslavia? I have reflected on the disintegration of Yugoslavia over the years. In the beginning, many of us saw the dissolution of Yugoslavia as a consequence of the collapse of communism – as something which was connected to the fall of the Soviet Union. Given that it was a state build on dictatorship, its disintegration and the creation of new states has been seen as liberation from dictatorship in the spirit of anti-colonialism. I was never a nationalist, but I saw it as a normal phenomenon of liberation. On the other hand, after all this time, I now think that even
