Posted on 12/04/2007 3:14:54 PM PST by kronos77
"We will defend what is ours We shall never surrender" -Kosovo Is Serbia-
Oficial Serbian Gov. bilboard
Ping!
I hope they’re serious.
While (with exceptions) the Balkan Muslims/Bosnians and Croats were with Hitler.
LOL.
Tito was one of the better one could get out of the Commie crop. He wasn’t a puppet of Stalin, kept Yugoslavia calm and was a major pain-in-the-rear for the Nazis, forcing them to have lots of troops in Yugoslavia.
Yes I am aware of his war crimes and later commie crimes, but Yugoslavia and the Allies (who had no problem with cozying up to Stalin either) could have fared worse.
Concidering fact that Red Arby liberated Yugoslavia (Serbia), Tito vas lesser evil. Far lesser.
What is the translation?
Nevermind! I was looking for the translation after the photo.
Didn’t the british constructed Entente use serb assasins to bring about WWI?
No. When the Muslim Ottoman Turks left after 400 years of tortuous occupation, they handed Bosnia over to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Naturally, the inhabitants of Bosnia resented exchanging one form of enslavement by a foreign ruler for another.
There were actually several attempts on the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's life that day, but the one that happened to succeed was by a Bosnian Serb anarchist, who had nothing to do with Serbia.
Still, the Hapsburg's knew that sooner or later , Serbia would try to free Bosnia from them, and the Austrians thought that this was an opportune time to take Serbia on because Serbia hadn't yet recovered from the Balkan Wars. Austro-Hungary used the assassination of Ferdinand to start a war with Serbia. Germany joined them, and the whole thing spun out of control as other countries took sides.
Even before the assassination, Europe was already a political tinderbox. Austro-Hungary's war on Serbia was just the spark that lit the flames of WWI.
It was kind of ironic, because none of the Hapsburgs liked Franz Ferdinand as his wife wasn't up to their breeding standards. That's why Ferdinand had to take Sophie to some outpost Hapsburg colony like Bosnia to get any attention and recognition as a royal. And then what happens? They die. But the attention and importance that Franz Ferdinand and Sophie never got in life, they got by their deaths.
“We shall defend what’s ours. We will never surrender.” (That’s from the Serbian text, I don’t know if this was Churchill’s exact quote).
Incorrect.
Yes, and the more so why the billboard stands as a slap in the face to the British who’s criminality of the past mirrors her criminality now.
I’m sure you picked up on that bit of irony.
So, you mean we can expect more violence in that region soon?
What stopped the violence, what will start it again?
Not really.
If the average Serb is as smart as you, Serbia is screwed.
Serbia's political makeup has been shaped according to western, primarily American taste. The leadership is forced to only say "duialogue, dialogue, dialogue." Force is not an option. The time when NATO could have been drawn in and subjected to Iraqi-style guerrilla resistance is over.The military now has politically correct pro-western leadership too.
The billboard is for domestic consumption. It's a "feel-good" (spite), which is the only thing that's left in Serbia's arsenal. Simply put: Serbia sold out along with all the other Eastern European countries to the west.
Albanian thusg in Kosovo will have their state by the will of Washington. Like all states, Kosovo will live for a while until the geopolitical situation changes and brings changes to Kosovo along with them. Thirty years ago the Soviet Union was a reality. Things change drastically in a decade even. Independent Kosovo will be extinguished when Serbia re-absorbs what is rightfully hers. But it will have to be done in another time and another reality.
Serbia's political makeup has been shaped according to western, primarily American taste. The leadership is forced to only say "duialogue, dialogue, dialogue." Force is not an option. The time when NATO could have been drawn in and subjected to Iraqi-style guerrilla resistance is over.The military now has politically correct pro-western leadership too.
The billboard is for domestic consumption. It's a "feel-good" (spite), which is the only thing that's left in Serbia's arsenal. Simply put: Serbia sold out along with all the other Eastern European countries to the west.
Albanian thusg in Kosovo will have their state by the will of Washington. Like all states, Kosovo will live for a while until the geopolitical situation changes and brings changes to Kosovo along with them. Thirty years ago the Soviet Union was a reality. Things change drastically in a decade even. Independent Kosovo will be extinguished when Serbia re-absorbs what is rightfully hers. But it will have to be done in another time and another reality.
apologies for double post
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