Well, I was among Croats and I see it a little bit different.
The Croats hate the Serbs first of all because they selves were once also Serbian.
They shame them selves because of the fact that their forefathers were fallen Serbs who accepted the Roman-Catholic religion.
Their connection to the Serbian nation was ended and they stopped being a part of the most heroic nation from the Balkans which has also an old civilization and a great tradition and religion.
You are absolutely right, but I was searching for those who still can have contacts with Serbs, and I observed that it could only be when those Serbs are "Serbs" or "yugoslavian uber alles", or dumms who tomorrow will becam albanians, croats, bosnians, macedonians or whatever except Serbs.
It depends from which side you are looking on it.
Unfortunately no.
The communist ideology behind the Yugoslavian federation which existed from 1945 till 1989 was the grave of the Serbian people. Because the heads of that state were persons who probably had followed a some kind of great anti-Serbian plan.
Exactly.
But the idea of a Yugoslav state was not bad for the Serbs.
Sorry about that, but I think you're misinformed. The "jugoslavian project" dated 200 years ago, when Austrohungarian, willing to invade all the Balkans, aimed the unification of all the territories living on it. They first started to destroy Serbian language, to close to Orthodoxy, so to Russia for their taste. They picked up someone who would work in destroying it and found Vuk Karadzic. Because of his language "reform" (for which no Serbian intellectual at that time accepted the role of "reformator"), forced into Serbian schools some 150 years ago, Catholic Serbs, were "croaticized". If we look with more attention on where are leaders and mass executers of oustachi from WW2 from, we'll notice that they are in big majority from those regions in Hercegovina, Bosnia and Slavonia were there used to be Catholic Serbs before beeing treted by austrohungarian imperia as "croats"! That was because the "reform" of the Serbian language gave also birth to an official croatian language and, for "brtoherhood-unity" both people Serbs and Croats should have had cyrillc AND latin as alphabets. Vuk Karadzic forced bialphabetisation among Serbs while his croat counterpart did not.
We should remember that Vuk Karadzic had only been in school in two or three elementary classes, which, for reforming a language is the equivalent of inventing sthg new in nuclear physics while having stopped going to schooll after the elemenary classes.
It is a fact that the Serbs were the only defenders of Yugoslavia during it's collapse which started in 1990.
Unfortunately right, but understoodable. When comunnist took power in Serbia in 1945, thanks to 1 MILLION soviet army soldiers who entered in Serbia until the Drina river in october 1944 disarmed Draza Mihailovic chetniks with who they freed serbian towns from germans occupation. So from 1945 to 1948, tens of thousands of people, even members of the Serbian society elite were killed. Serbian society was dismembered and replaced with an illiterate elite, whose only quality was to be strong obeissance to the regime. So arriving in 1990, there is barly no one to be a honnest Serbian who would take distances with communist occupation and "culture"
On the other hand, from 1945 until 1990, if we trust the memorries of a retired BND spy (german intelligence agency), west of the Drina river, the yugoslavian secret service were forming a parallel secret service working for the BND, which was formed to prepare secession of croatia, slovenia and bosnia from yugoslavia. The leaders of those people was Stevo Krajacic, who in the 1970is was pretty old and ill so he trained several successors among hich we find... Franjo Tudjman and Stipe Mesic, now former and actual president of croatia.
Yugoslavia gave the Serbs the opportunity to live together under one state and under equal rights.
This was austrohungarian, and after, communist propaganda serving their own interests.
The fact is that when Serbs were living together, they haven't called their country that name, but Kingdom of Serbia, or Serbian duke, kingdom of Bosnia, etc...
Do you really think that Serbs united with ex ennemies in WW1 and then WW2 were that united and benefited from any rights? While Serbia alone lost roughly half of its population in WW1 (and how about Balkanic wars of 1912-13), forming a kingdom with ennemis prevented Serbia to benefit from due reparation to restaure its society. While the Serbian land was massacred, croatia and slovenia haven't felt the pain during WW1 but were austrohungrian allies.
Is there any other exemple in Europe where ennemies after a war were united into the same country? No, and the reason understands why.
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