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To: Vince Shank
The Croatian-led Yugoslav Committee, the whole Yugoslav idea indeed, was spearheaded by the 19th century Croatian intllectuals. The idea that Croatians should use Serbian as their literary language was borne by the Croatian signatories of the Vienna Agreement in 1850. The backbone of the Partisan movement was made up of Serbs, not Croatians. The Croatian partisans, with Andrija Hebrang at their helm, were all too ready to cooperate with the Ustasha state. You have your historical data corrupted, and you are disseminating misinformation.

There are no "Croatian" genotypes. "Croatian" and "Serbian" is a cultural, not racial issue. In places like Herzegovina, due to forceful conversion to catholicism of Serbs in the 18th century under Maria Thersea, Herzegovina's Croats have last names like Milosevic, Colic, etc. So much for looks, and different last names. As for sounds, Croatians sound just like their Krajina and Herzegovina Serb counterparts.

So, "many" Croatians (how many?) hid Jews but did they hide Serbs as well? What a joke! Before you come back spouting off more historical inaccuracies and biological untruths, please review the name of Ustasha's fasicst Hitler-allied state: Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska (NDH). Do you realize that nezavisna is a Serb word and that the "correct" Croatian word is neovisna? Did it ever occur to you (probably not) that the very makers of the Croatian Ustasha state did not know "Croatian" language well enough because it's not their language? Because they didn't mint "their" word for it until much later? Don't you think it is almost an irony, a laughable one at that, that the most anti-Serb Croatian creation had a name that started with a Serbian word?

19 posted on 09/06/2003 10:46:33 PM PDT by kosta50
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