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[Honorary Serb]

I’m off for the Apostles’ Fast. And the real expert on these matters is Ravnagora. See, for example:

http://www.heroesofserbia.com/2014/06/gavrilo-princip-hero-or-villain-as.html

The teenaged Gavrilo Princip and his Young Bosnia colleagues were Yugoslav nationalists, not Serbian nationalists. The Yugoslav nationalists got their way after WWI, which was very bad for the Serbian people, as well all know.

This morning, at Divine Liturgy, we celebrated All Saints of America. In his sermon, our priest spoke about the founders of our holy Temple (OCA), some of whom were Orthodox from Austria-Hungary (mainly Carpatho-Russyns, Poles, and other Northern Slavs). The Austro-Hungarian Empire ethnically cleansed those Orthodox Christians from their territory, and some of them ended up in the U.S. (As not mentioned by our priest, some were imprisoned in the first concentration camps in Europe.)

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire treated their Northern Slavic Orthodox so abominably, how much more so did they mistreat the Serbs, since they had been trying to destroy Serbia by various means for years before the war!