On the Ruins of Yugoslavia/Dismantling of State by Germany

Neues Deutschland | June 6 2004 | CATHRIN SCHÜTZ

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But the only way outsiders could have been so instrumental in destroying Yugoslavia is that no-one was willing to defend the Yugoslav ideal.

If there had been a critical mass of people who stood up for the Yugoslav ideal, all the money in the world pumped into the HDZ & SDA would have been for nought. Even those who stood the most to loose from the destruction of Yugoslavia (namely Serbs and people from "mixed" families) allowed themselves to be branded by narrow ethnic labels.

Just try calling a Londoner "English", he'll politely remind you "British".........why does he do this ? because a Englishman is shrwed enough to know that he loses nothing by calling himself "British", but knows he gains Scotland & Wales allegience by this little subtretuge.

A Englishman who calls himself British in public is privately a Englishman through and through.