1968 reached even Yugoslavia, despite of the Soviet Union domination

The dictator Josip Tito had to negotiate with students

The former Yugoslavia was under the the Soviet Union severe laws in 1968. This meant that there could be no manifestations at all against the government (in fact there could be no protest at all). But since we were in 1968 and Prague had already had its protests (despite of the fact that Checoslovakia was also under the Soviet Union restrictions), there was a "May 1968" in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia -- in fact it was a "June 1968", with a lot of protests.

The wave of protests started in the night of June 2 with a clash between the students and the police. The protests began with students trying to watch a concert for which there was not enough tickets. They started to protest and the police interviened with violence, causing injuries. As a result, thousands of students marched to downtown and during the march there were more conflicts with the students. Hundreds of people were arrested and more than 100 students were injured.

Next day, the streets of Belgrade seemed calm and cool. But things were not as calm as the government woulk like to. On June 4 the Student Assembly renamed the Belgrade University as "The Red University of Karl Marx" and there were slogan-bearing banners in its buildings with phrases like "Down with the corruption". The protests also prompted similar actions in other cities of the country like Zagreb and Sarajevo.

It was the biggest protest movement in the country since the end of the World War II. Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavia for decades, made arrangements and the protests were over. But it took him a week to make this and he had to made concessions to the students.

And in Paris, "May 1968" was still burning, specially in protests in the Quartier Latin...