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The Communist governments of Eastern Europe collapsed and the fall of the U.S.S.R. weakened the glue that had held together the diverse, mutually antagonistic ethnic groups of the former Soviet bloc. The Serbian desire for a reunified homeland manifested itself in a resurgent nationalistic movement. Slobodan Milosevic rode that nationalism to power. Milosevic used the Serbs’ discontent with the status quo in Kosovo to catapult him to power - first in Serbia, the largest and most powerful republic in Yugoslavia and later to the presidency of Yugoslavia. When Slobodan Milosevic took power, Kosovo’s population was ¾ Albanian (referred to as ‘ethnic Albanian’ to differentiate from the residents of the neighboring country of Albania). Slobodan Milosevic was widely supported by the minority Serbs; this is because his main focus