First of all my compliments to Sonja’s intelligent answers!
We need more young Serbs who are informed about Serbian history.
Unfortunately our youth is being westernized today. With westernized I mean brainwashed.
Why did the West insist then that the common state be created? It seems opposite to what they did in 1990-ies when they supported Yugoslavia's disintegration and creation of national states.
This is a good question and unfortunately many Serbs can not answer it!
WW1 escaladed because of certain purposes. They main reason behind WW1 was not directly connected to Serbia. But WW1 was also used as an opportunity to eliminate the works of the Serbian rebellions from the 19th century who managed to reestablish the Serbian kingdom. During WW1 Serbs were exterminated by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who build concentration camps against Serbs. During WW1 Serbia lost 40% of its population.
Nobody expected the scenario [Kolubarska bitka] when the Serbs managed to overpower the Austro-Hungarian army. The Serbs provided incredible results during WW1 and that’s why we have a Serbian state today, thanks to our heroes from WW1. Otherwise we would be exterminated by Hungarians, Austrians, Germans and their allies during WW1.
If they can not exterminate you (physically) during the war, than they will find an other manner to solve the problem with you! That’s why they suggested and forced the naïve Serbian delegation to create a common state with Croats and Slovenians, who carried out atrocities against Serbs from 1914 to 1918. The excuse of the naïve Serbian delegation was that every kingdom wants to enlarge its territory. Royal Yugoslavia was a disaster!
Within royal Yugoslavia Croatia and Bosnia were created! During this period the extreme naïve Serbian intellectuals allowed Croatians to declared Serbian language as Serbo-Croatian language! Because of this naïve policy Croatia is today using Serbian language as the official language of Republic of Croatia. Also Serbian territory was annexed to Croatia during that period. The Serbian delegation allowed this because they naively believed that Royal Yugoslavia was unbreakable!
During R. Yugoslavia, the Yugoslavian authorities agreed a concordat with the Vatican, who tried to exterminate Serbs during WW1. This leaded into the increase of Vatican’s influence in the Yugoslavian/ Serbian society. The Catholic Church gained almost the same status as the Serbian Orthodox Church.