Marić argues that the rampant corruption, the lack of accountability, and the disregard for the rule of law that defined the post-Yugoslav states were learned behaviors. They were inherited directly from the generation that ruled unopposed for forty years. The "Children" didn't just inherit their parents' names; they inherited their hubris.
Marić is not a detached academic historian; he is an insider . This lends both authenticity and bias to his writing. In Deca Komunizma , he draws on personal experiences, classified documents (to which he allegedly had access), and oral histories, painting a portrait of communist elites and their offspring—the "children of communism"—who inherited privileges and ideological burdens. Deca Komunizma Milomir Maric.pdf