for them the great european war ended only in 1989
That's why I added the conference of Helsinki of November 1990. That is namely where the peace treaty between Germany and the Allies finally was signed. There wasn't one signed in 1945.
"Allies" (the West)
Until 1945, the Soviet Union was considered an Ally too. After all, she fought Germany, didn't she? And after May 1945, she fought also Japan.
In Yugoslavia there was still fight in the 90's.
In a way you're right - Yugo was born out of the first phase of the GWOTTC and it was also one of the reasons 19th Century policies collapsed and descended into the enivitable war that had to follow. But others say there were too many other factors in play in the Yugo wars that they only loosely can be connected to the GWOTTC.
Other Historians (among them Fischer) contribute the GWOTTC to the coming into existence of Germany as a unified state and her two attempts to achieve hegemony, but I don't fully agree to that: the first phase could hardly be described as a German attempt to achieve hegemony; too much traditionalism, militarism and old style politics in a new environment involved to be just that - the third phase definitively can be described as that.
If Tito hadn't died there would be probably still a Yugoslavia!
Actually we owe it to Markovic that the war didn't burst out already in the mid of the 80's. He wasn't a good president, but he managed very well in balancing on the edge of the ethnic powder keg that Yugo was. This also proves basically that the Yugo wars had de facto nothing to do with the breakdown of the East Bloc - if it weren't for Markovic' skills in keeping the country together, it would have perhaps burst open as soon as 1982, about one year after Tito's death. All that taken into account, I know the Serbs look upon Markovic as a loser, but he prevented what later on Milosevic couldn't prevent. Be it willfully or not willfully.