Posted on 12/29/2007 2:17:31 PM PST by joan
Ditto mainland Chinese.
The Slovenes used threats againts the family members of the Yugoslav soldiers and also had many in the Yugoslav army leadership who defected with the army plans.
Basically there wasn't much fighting or interest in fighting to keep Slovenia.
Additionally Britain had sent the Slovenes with millions of military communication equipment shortly before the war broke out and there was smuggling of other weapons and help from other countries.
The Slovenes actually had it the best in Yugoslav because they had the leadership positions and even moved a lot of the choice industry from Serbia to Slovenia.
Now they are "independent" under EU dictates rather than ruling the roost in Yugoslavia and they are unhappy about that.
Slovenes want control over all of former Yugoslavia? Nice try.
Yugoslavia was a Serbian empire from start to finish.
It’s the Serbs who hang onto Montenegro with their teeth.
Slovenes will take EU membership over Balkan swampland any day.
Montenegro has separated from Serbia and the Serbs don't really mind - as long as the Serb population isn't being ethnically cleansed there, and it isn't so things are actually going fine between Montenegro and Serbia now.
But even that was done with western puppet government manipulation - not allowing Montenegrins working in Serbia to vote while flying in ethnic Albanians from Michigan and New York (who'd been born in Montenegro decades ago) to vote and even allowing some in Albanian (near the border of Montenegro) and Kosovo to vote, lowering the requirement for separation to barely over 50%, etc.
Horosho izlojil(uchites,Kisa) ;-)
Slovenes are free people. There’s nothing Srbs can do about it except annex with Belarus maybe.
Yeah, right! Does delusion run in you family?
a friend of mine here in socal emigrated from slovenia
to the states, and he says yugoslavia sucked.
these wimps are like the russians that look back to the good ol’
days of stalin.
“Does delusion run in you family?”
What you be tellin me bro?
Kak?
You lost me after Horosho. LOL!
:)
One of Slovenian pre-WWII politicians said “Serbia gave us a parade horse. We will return them worn jade”. By that he meant that Serbia gave Slovenia place in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and that they will destroy Yugoslavia to get out.
It was carried out exactly like that. Slovenian propagandists
(with the help of BND specialists) prepackaged Austro-Hungarian propaganda and depicted Serbs as evil people who torment poor innocent Slovenes, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, Albanians etc.
This propaganda effort presented the core of Anti-Serbian hysteria, from the time of Slovene violent illegal seccession onwards.
Beside this, Slovenes helped bloody breakup of Yugoslavia with smuggling of weapons for Croatians and Muslims.
Despicable behavior to boot.
Now, when they are in EU, they are not content again. Austro-Hungarian Empire was not good enough to them, Kingdom of Yugoslavia was not good enough to them, post-WWII Yugoslavia was not good enough for them, EU is not good enough to them.
They show penchant for destruction, not for creativity.
Try to read it again :-)
What? Are you smoking something?
Ping!
I’d probably rather be called a Jug than a Slov.
Interestingly enough, my Great-Grandfather's papers when he entered this country in 1906 say "Austria" even though he was ethnically Polish.
He’s telling you that have no idea what you’re talking about.
“We got more out of Yugoslavia than the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I am not convinced we will get as much out of the EU.”
Slovenia was a poor and neglected province of Austria before Yugoslavia existed.
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