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To: Tamodaleko; Vojvodina
Hey, if you are a Djindjich cheerleader, that's your right and your decision, unfortunate in my opinion, but nonetheless.

As for DSS using a foreign name for Rashka, I noticed that DSS sometimes tries to be too politically correct. Even DSS itself is a mini-DOS within -- fractured into various factions and special interest groups. Disunity has been Serb enemy number one from day one. They can never agree on a common goal and exaggerate their differences to extremes.

Vojvodina is correct. Srem, Banat and Batchka should be considered instead of the so-called Vojvodina. BTW, Baranya was given to Croatia by a "Serb from Montenegro" as he used to refer to himself at the end of his miserable life -- that bastard Milovan Djilas, not that "bastard [Josip Broz] Tito" as Vojvodina claims. That "gift" on Serbia's behalf was in return for Croatia's "generous" agreement to grant Bosnia a tiny sliver of land as access to the Adriatic sea by Vladimir Bakaric, Croatia's communist party boss and Tito's confidant.

BTW, Voyvodina means "Dutchy" (from voyvoda, or voyevoda, which is duke in Serbian). Since Serbs do not have dukes, obviously the name refers to the Austro-Hungarian dutchy, not a Serbian possession. Srem, Banat and Batchka (SBB) is therefore a more appropriate name for the region, which no longer belongs to foreign dukes. However, historically, Vojvodina was settled by Serbs pretty much in the same fashion as Kosovo was settled by Shiptars. The fact that Vojvodina voted for union with Serbia in 1918 is about as legitimate as Kosovo voting for union with Albania. For all practical purposes, the Serbs stole that region by overpopulating it.

10 posted on 01/26/2002 7:54:24 PM PST by kosta50
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To: kosta50
The Serbs in Vojvodina had a vojvoda - Josip Rayachich. The Serbs have been a majority (either relative or absolute) in Vojvodina since the mid-1500s. They were settled there by the Austrians (just like they were in the Militargranze/Krajina). Some of these Serbs fled from the Turkish occupation and ethnic cleansing of Kosovo (see Arsenije III Charnoyevitch).
11 posted on 01/26/2002 9:10:11 PM PST by Vojvodina
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To: kosta50;
interesting points. I'd like to hear from you more on FR's subjects related to Serbia.
12 posted on 01/27/2002 7:42:29 AM PST by Tamodaleko
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