Being a specific country between East and West, Yugoslavia had a specific policy regarding the war in Vietnam. On the one hand, it sympathized with the Vietnamese people and their National Liberation Struggle, but on the other it wanted to maintain good relations with the United States. Antiwar sentiment was present in political speeches, in media, popular culture, even on the streets, but when things started getting out of hand, as it did during antiwar demonstrations in 1966, the state used violence to stop them, in order to manifest good relations with the United States and retain monopoly on political activism.

Yugoslavia, Vietnam War, antiwar activism, antiwar demonstrations