[ek_hornbeck]

It is amazing to me that after 8 years of Obamunism Americans still don’t understand what happened in Europe (particularly eastern Europe) during the 1920s and 1930s. Almost every country was under threat of communist revolution, and the forces of reaction have been judged by the leftist victors as monsters (and in some cases, they were - as were many leftists). BOTH sides perpetrated atrocities in the struggle, and if one wants to keep score the communists killed far more than right-wing groups - it isn’t even close. Many Serbs aligned themselves with Bolshevism, and Croats resisted

Your argument falls apart because the Serb vs. Croatian conflict is primarily ethno-religious rather than ideological. The Ustasha didn't just target Communists or Communist sympathizers. They were just as happy killing nationalist Chetnik (anti-Communist) Serbs as they were killing Communists. The same was true in reverse for Chetnik Serbs.

[kearnyirish2]

As I understood it, the Croats didn’t want to be ruled by foreigners; Yugoslavia was as much an artificial construct as Austria-Hungary. The war to “make the world safe for democracy” left millions under the yoke of a NEW foreign monarch...