“#Serbian was the principal language of the administration, and the University of Pristina [#Prishtina] was only a branch of the University of #Belgrade. Serbs staffed the majority of senior positions in the provincial #administration, local state #security forces and #police, and the local branch of the #Communist Party was a subsidiary of the League of Communists of #Serbia […]. (…)
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#Kosovo state authorities focused on repressing ethnic Albanian #separatism (‘#irredentism’), especially after the 1948 #Tito–#Stalin split and #Albania’s continued allegiance to the #SovietUnion. This period also witnessed significant ethnic Albanian #emigration to #Turkey.”
—Petrović and Stefanović 2010, p. 1081.
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