So was Milosevic good or bad for Serbia?
First of all Milosevic was not Orthodox. He was a fanatic communist.
Slobodan Milosevic was a man who only fought for his own interests.
His goal was power. To gain power he was prepared to sell Serbian ethnic territories. That kind of man was Milosevic.
Milosevic did not care about the Serbs outside the borders of Republic of Serbia.
In the beginning he was "helping" us. With political support from Serbia we Serbs in Croatia had established our own state (Republic of Serbian Krajina).
But very soon we saw that Milosevic had bad intentions towards the Serbs from Bosnia & Hercegovina and Krajina.
When Croatia attacked Republic of Serbian Krajina, in 1995, Milosevic did not do anything to prevent that tragedy. He supported the ethnic cleansing of the Krajina Serbs. He wanted to populated the Krajina Serbs on Kosovo. That’s why he allowed Croatia to banish the Serbian population from Krajina.
In the beginning of the war Milosevic had the total control over the most powerful military force of whole Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav people’s army. He could easily crush all the separatist movements of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav representatives were warning Belgrade that Croatia was preparing genocide against the Serbs. Belgrade had all right to invade Zagreb (Croatia’s capital) and to solve the problem with the ustashi regime.
No the beginning of the war. Milosevic allowed Croatia to carry out ethnic cleansing against +/- 200.000 Serbs on the areas which were controlled by the new Croatian government. This happened in 1990-1992 when Croatia was not recognized by the international community.