Posted on 08/05/2014 11:16:28 PM PDT by Ravnagora
Ping.
It was an awful crime, and not the last of it’s kind unfortunately.
What is it with the Serbs and the Jews? Good people but the msm and the nwo have turned against them.
Bad PR and oil money combined with the corrupt Clinton WH were too much.
I won’t defend genocide, but the Croats had the foresight to understand they could be in Ukraine’s shoes today if they hadn’t clearly defined their territory. Just as in the division of India and Pakistan, I’m sure plenty of Croats were displaced from Serbia as well.
We never should have gotten anywhere near the Balkans but Clinton wanted to be a war time president and to distract from his crap at home
Having done two tours there, I can tell you that the serbs weren’t the ones who worried me. The croats and muslims were straight up savages.
I have no horse in this race anyway, but I’m sure Bosnians and croats will tell you the same thing about Serbs. I’d guess the truth is somerwhere in the middle...
Most people don’t even know why that war started. I can say it all in one word...moslems.
I thought the reason was much more secular: each group wanted clear claims to their territory. Croats are mostly Catholic, Serbs are mostly Orthodox, and Bosnians are mostly Muslim; the Serb/Croat conflict didn’t involve Islam at all.
Moslems wanted to carve out their own land, Serbs said no way it’s ours, and Croatia took advantage of the resulting confusion in a nutshell.
I’ve heard that before as well from victims of both Croats and Muslims.....and I believe my ears and eyes.
It was a continuation of what happened during WWII.
At one time all were Orthodox Christians. It has always been about religion...especially in the Balkans.
As I recall, the Croats reacted first (and prevented the protracted war with Serbia that resulted in Bosnia); I believe Germany aided them quickly.
“It was a continuation of what happened during WWII.”
While I see all kinds of references to the Grand Mufti and Croatian Muslim troops on this site, the fact is that the Ustasha (a Croatian nationalist movement) was hardly Muslim (most Croats aren’t). It was a continuation of WWI in the sense that peoples who were “given” to Serbia saw that as an affront to their national identity; they didn’t see being owned by Serbia as any better (and in some cases worse) than being owned by Austria-Hungary.
Keeps you on your toes I guess! ;-)
Both are descendants of the same south slavic tribes that fell into different spheres of religiousity.
But no, they were not "all Orthodox" -- unless by "Orthodox" you mean the united Church before 1054. If you mean that, then I agree with you. If you mean Eastern Orthodoxy specifically in terms of following the Greek rite, then historically you are wrong -- from a Christian point of view that doesn't matter, yes, but historically, to be very specific, the South slavs were converted by missionaries both from Byzantium and from Rome -- in the 870s both the "proto Croats" and "proto Serbs" were converted by west and by east respectively.
however, over the next few centuries, Croatia united with the Hungarians and then Austrians while Serbia fell under Byzantine and then Ottoman rule.
They are still similar, but the nation is split by 1000 years of history.
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