The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58800   Message #933985
Posted By: Metchosin
15-Apr-03 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why are you for the war?
Subject: RE: BS: Why are you for the war?
Little Hawk, Yugoslavia as a political entity was doomed to fall apart from the start. "During World War II an extremist Croatian movement, known as the Ustashe, began as an interwar terrorist organization. It then adopted fascist guidelines and aligned with German and Italian occupation forces. The Ustashe, which means "rebellion",
performed acts of genocide against Serbs, Muslims, Jews, and other minorities in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina."

The divisions and hurt in that cobbled together country, went back to the War, if not before. The only thing that could keep the mess together there and supressed was a dictator like Tito.

When the Berlin Wall was brought down, while I rejoiced, my first thought was "Oh oh, now the 'fun' begins".