And even in the throes of death, he was as enigmatic as in life as rumours abounded about his condition in a Paris clinic...

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By stirring a dormant but incendiary nationalism, he succeeded in rallying support for himself in the late 1980's, at a time when Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe was in its death throes.

NYTIMES: Slobodan Milosevic

In its death throes, Eutopia has decided to smash the lights of liberty.

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