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No, you are wrong and brainwashed, and it's no wonder Serbs in the Balkans resent and even hate many diaspora Serb meddlers. You end up doing harm while convinced you are doing right.

Before Milosevic, the dismantling of Yugoslavia was being planned and started. It was after the retreat of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany when the west went gung-ho destroying Yugoslavia at the Serbs' expense most of all. Milosevic only happened to be the leader around that time. Whatever leader was there would be blamed - whether Serbs resisted or didn't they'd be ethnically cleansed and reduced in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo - in fact it was going on in gradually Kosovo in the decades before Milosevic.

Bob Dole and Yugoslavia; "Concurrent Resolution 150" and Other Puzzle Pieces
In June 1986, more than four years before the suspension of Kosovo's Albanian-Muslim dominated autonomous government, Senator Robert ("Bob") Dole of Kansas…submitted the inflammatory Concurrent Resolution #150…Bob Dole did not become a supporter of Albanian Rights and independence overnight, but it is uncertain to me just when he began to support the dismantling of Yugoslavia. His motives are suspect because at the time of his resolution, the Kosovo autonomous government still operated --it was "closed down" three years later, in 1989-- and it was Serbs and other non-Albanian Muslims being forced out of their homes…By 1986, Mr. Dole was already, I am told by sources on Capitol Hill, under "the spell" of his assistant, Ms. Mira Baratta, reputedly granddaughter of a Croat Ustashe (fascist) officer in World War II. Ms. Baratta, whom at least one Hill staffer refers to as "the Croatian Mata Hari,"… The Dole-DioGuardi resolutions prove the Serb reaction was not mere paranoia. This Dole-sponsored resolution also predates the rise of Slobodan Milosevic by more than a year, and pre-dates the termination of autonomous government in Kosovo by about three years.

"No, you are wrong and brainwashed, and it's no wonder Serbs in the Balkans resent and even hate many diaspora Serb meddlers. You end up doing harm while convinced you are doing right."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A few points:

1. I am NOT a diaspora Serb (WTH that means). I am an AMERICAN. PERIOD.

My opinions are not only based on first-hand research (gee I guess the busloads of purple-people-eaters special police in their ridiculous purple BDUs that I saw assembling on the back streets of Belgrade to protect Slobos inauguration in 97 from the people of Belgrade were just a figment of my imagination, eh), but also on the experiences of immediate family members who lived, and STILL LIVE in Belgrade, most of whom recognized Slobo for what he was FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. One immediate family member, one of the orginal liberators of Belgrade in 1945 resigned his party membership after some 40+ years when Slobo was elected head of the Socialist Party (the renamed commies). That relative spent HIS ENTIRE LIFE building a peaceful Yugoslavia, and though we had our disagreements philosphically over the years I respected him for that. He knew that Slobo had opened the Pandoras box in 1989, and would have part to do with it.

If you are Serb (ie citizen of Serbia) AND still a Slobo apologist you can only fit into one fo three categories (take your pick):

1. Complete and utter MORON and historical ignoramus;

2. A past member of Slobos criminal elite which profited from the war while the people starved and were bombed;

3. A supreme traitor to the Serbian nation

Since I do not know you well enough, I wont hazard a guess, so you will just have to tell us which is the category you most identify with......