Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 14, 2007 3:05:40 GMT -5
All one needs to do is see the videos of Zetra 1991: YU Bands - NO TO WAR! (dated: 28.07.1991) and notice that as the war just started a month before that in Slovenia and just spread recently to Croatia that Bosnia remained pro-Yugoslav for the moment. By seeing these Yugoslav kids (mostly Bosniak and Serb kids) obviously their hearts were still pure and not polluted yet by the nationalist lunacy that was to follow. Shortly later both Bosniaks and Serbs have nationalists running them.
The level at which the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks were interlined together within Bosnia can be seen that prior to the lunatic war of 1990s all three groups celebrated each others holidays. (view quote bellow)
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In Bosnia, the major holidays of all religious groups were celebrated by all other religious groups as well, at least until religion-specific holidays became a marker of ethnic or nationalist self-assertion after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Roman Catholic Christmas, Orthodox Christmas, and the two Muslim Bajrams were widely recognized by people of all ethnic groups, as was Djurdjevdan even though it was properly an Orthodox holiday and therefore associated with Serbs. The holiday's widespread appeal is in evidence in Mesa Selimovic's novel Death and the Dervish, where the pious Muslim protagonist views it as a dangerous pagan throwback, but where it is clearly celebrated by all ethnic groups in the unnamed city of its setting (widely considered to be Sarajevo). The holiday does appear to have pre-Christian roots.
Djurdjevdan
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It appears practically evident that the nationalist (including opportunist Milosevic in this clique) leaders were more then likely agents of the powers that wanted YU disintegrated. The only way pro-yugoslav people would ever elect nationalists to power was if they lost touch with reality thus through media. I specially refer to radicalization of Bosnia (the most pro-yugoslav of republics with Sarajevo being the heart of that Yugoslavia).
It does appear that the original nationalist cancer started with opportunist Milosevic (who used Kosovo as agenda for fermenting Serbian nationalism that was a catalyst for other nationalisms across other republics). Milosevic was never truly a nationalist as he left Croatian Serbs to their own devices and even imposed embargo on Bosnian Serbs out of the fear of the West. He was clearly a dictator therefore never elected (not that elections are necessarily always the best course of action especially for radicalized thus illogical population). Yugoslav military left Slovenia without firing a shoot and practically disintegrated without any attempt to fight back (I am pretty sure that by entering Ljubljana and or Zagreb immediately that the war would not last as much).
Everything was done to prevent Ante Markovic from implementing needed economic reforms. I am not surprised that Slovenia (never overly Yugoslav in self-identification) nor even Croatia (although much more pro-yugoslav in comparison but also with a strong natoonalist movement at the same time) left. But Bosnia and Macedonia (both with very strong pro-yugoslav presence among its populace)?
Dissolution of the SFRY
The level at which the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks were interlined together within Bosnia can be seen that prior to the lunatic war of 1990s all three groups celebrated each others holidays. (view quote bellow)
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In Bosnia, the major holidays of all religious groups were celebrated by all other religious groups as well, at least until religion-specific holidays became a marker of ethnic or nationalist self-assertion after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Roman Catholic Christmas, Orthodox Christmas, and the two Muslim Bajrams were widely recognized by people of all ethnic groups, as was Djurdjevdan even though it was properly an Orthodox holiday and therefore associated with Serbs. The holiday's widespread appeal is in evidence in Mesa Selimovic's novel Death and the Dervish, where the pious Muslim protagonist views it as a dangerous pagan throwback, but where it is clearly celebrated by all ethnic groups in the unnamed city of its setting (widely considered to be Sarajevo). The holiday does appear to have pre-Christian roots.
Djurdjevdan
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It appears practically evident that the nationalist (including opportunist Milosevic in this clique) leaders were more then likely agents of the powers that wanted YU disintegrated. The only way pro-yugoslav people would ever elect nationalists to power was if they lost touch with reality thus through media. I specially refer to radicalization of Bosnia (the most pro-yugoslav of republics with Sarajevo being the heart of that Yugoslavia).
It does appear that the original nationalist cancer started with opportunist Milosevic (who used Kosovo as agenda for fermenting Serbian nationalism that was a catalyst for other nationalisms across other republics). Milosevic was never truly a nationalist as he left Croatian Serbs to their own devices and even imposed embargo on Bosnian Serbs out of the fear of the West. He was clearly a dictator therefore never elected (not that elections are necessarily always the best course of action especially for radicalized thus illogical population). Yugoslav military left Slovenia without firing a shoot and practically disintegrated without any attempt to fight back (I am pretty sure that by entering Ljubljana and or Zagreb immediately that the war would not last as much).
Everything was done to prevent Ante Markovic from implementing needed economic reforms. I am not surprised that Slovenia (never overly Yugoslav in self-identification) nor even Croatia (although much more pro-yugoslav in comparison but also with a strong natoonalist movement at the same time) left. But Bosnia and Macedonia (both with very strong pro-yugoslav presence among its populace)?
Dissolution of the SFRY