You say, "Yugoslavia was created....... by the people of Yugoslavia." Well I don’t think there was any referendum, or vote on it by the people at large. It was a deal done by the powers that be. The name says it all, Yugoslavia....all Slavs. What about the Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims, and Albanian Kosovars, did they vote for it? I don’t think so.
You say, quite rightly, that Yugoslavia was a leader of the "non-aligned movement", as if that indicated some measure of neutrality.
But surely a group which includes Communist Vietnam, Egypt under Nasser, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, every tinpot African dictatorship etc, could not, in the real world, be considered neutral in the struggle between western democracy, and communist dictatorship.
By the way Mr Gael, is that Gael as in Gaelistan the well know neutral Irish Republic from the second world war?
You are so ignorant, and really, you don't know even basic facts about people who lived in Yugoslavia.
Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims (also reffered in the mainstream press as Muslim Slavs), Macedonians are all Slavs.
True Albaninas and Hungarians are not Slavs, but Albania is called Albania even though there is considerable population of Greeks, Macedonians, Montenegrins; Hungary is called Hungary even though there are Serbs, Croats, Romaninas living there.. What's your point?
The important thing is that the Yugoslav Constitution granted equal rights regardless of ethnicities.
Your ignorance just tells us that you are here to provoke and not honestly discuss things, otherwise you would be more informed on the subject.
Imagine that, looking to Serbian sources for Serbian history. Your “commies under every rock” mindset is quite amusing – you wouldn’t be the reincarnation of Roy Cohn by any chance? BTW, Prof. Batakovic is hardly a commie. More a Serb nationalist – you know, the sort that Britannia spurned in favor of Tito. I note the utter absence of a substantive response from you on that latter point. Thanks for the concession.
Perhaps you missed Batakovic’ point that the new Yugoslavia had popular approval in 1918, and the opposition to it was stirred up by outsiders (Italy in that case) – some things never change, do they? And it was achieved with no Black and Tans murdering the population, no spurious "Free State", and no truncated six-county enclave. No wonder the Brits, or at least ABrit, find it so troubling.