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The hatred between the Serbians and Croatians is racial. The hatred between Muslims and both groups is religious bigotry.

My brother in law escaped from Communist Yugoslavia, and hates Serbs with a purple passion. The Croatians supported the Muslims destroying Serbia, because they hated the Serbians more.

In WW2, the Serbs supported the Allies. The Croatians supported Nazis. Early in the war they invited the forces of Serbians to a meeting to discuss how to best enter the war, it was a trap and they slaughtered many Serbians.

Long story short, that area is full of hate, centuries old and it has nothing to do with the color of the skin. It is Catholic versus Orthodox versus Muslim. Communist versus Liberty versus Islamic law.

Welcome to the Balkans America, it sounds just like here in 2020.

You will find this interesting and troubling:

Serb

WWII: The Savage Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHuqWxFaQ50&list=PLzxzphEuxjOtf4fNvHbcAHODNQ9oiOSXM&index=2

These were/are real people. They survived, many did not.

Hour long vid.

When Hitler conquered Yugoslavia in 1941, he gave parts of the country to Italy and to Bulgaria and annexed part to Germany, and set up puppet regimes in Zagreb and Belgrade. The puppet state in Zagreb was put in charge of Bosnia and most of Croatia (most of Dalmatia went to Italy). The leader of the Croatian puppet state, Ante Pavelic, was a terrorist who had been living in exile--his Ustashi massacred a huge number of people, mostly Serbs, but had little public support. The leading Croatian politician of the period, Vlatko Macek, refused to collaborate with the Nazis.

There were two resistance movements--the Chetniks were mostly Serbs and Montenegrins. The Partisans, led by Tito, drew from all the ethnic groups. At first they seem to have been mostly Serbs (Tito himself was a Croat) but a lot of Croats also joined the Partisans. To make a blanket statement that the Croatians supported the Nazis is misleading when many Croats died fighting the Axis (Germans and Italians).

Nikola Tesla was an ethnic Serb from Croatia who lived most of his life in the US and wanted nothing to do with the Serb/Croat animosity. He had nothing to do with Bosnia.