ABrit' - anyone can get a British passport nowadays (apparently Italian is pretty easy as well). Being British and having a British passport are two very different things. And why would you come on to this forum advertising your Britishness? Most of us keep our heads low so that people don't start making vicious comments about dentistry or think that we're similar to those currently in the political limelight (perish the thought).
Wrong, I am British, English to be specific, and I’m not afraid of saying so.
Why come straight to the Balkans threads and launch into history lessons? You must have been lurking for some time to know the tone, subjects and levels of specific discussion areas. You immediately launched into trying to disprove some of the posters who have been on here for years. Whether you agree with them or not, there are some very knowledgable people here.
Wrong, if you think the only way to know anything about anything is from this website, and by the way I didn’t come straight to this thread.
Serbian troops during the war and praised them (well before March 1999) for their bravery.
The way I heard it the United States and the United Kingdom had backed Tito during the closing years of World War Two in spite of his Communist affiliation and his never-disguised intention of turning Yugoslavia into a Communist country. Tito's Yugoslav opposition, Draza Mihailovic, a Serbian general in the pre-war royalist regime, had decided that it was more important to oppose Tito's Communist Partisans than to engage fully against the Germans. For the Allies, therefore, support for Tito was a pragmatic response to the need to tie down some 20 German divisions in the Balkans while the invasion of France was being prepared.
Yugoslavia was not part of the Communist bloc.
Wrong, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform by Stalin in 1948. Became "non aligned", in the same way that Cuba and Vietnam were "non aligned".
The picture you draw of British attitudes to the Balkans could only possibly be held by someone on the loony left, or the very loony right.
Alice Mahon MP, like I said, a crypto communist on the far left of the labour party. "Like Tony Benn she is respected throughout parliament on Right and Left"..... I fell on the floor laughing when I read that.
Finally, I would be most interested to know, if you are prepared to share your personal insights:
- what you think of Blair; ......Too right wing for the Labour Party.
- what you think of the KLA;......They did what they had to do.
- whether you agree that a Greater Albania should be formed with Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and more of Serbia;....No, but if Albanians want a country for Albanians, then fine.
- why you would support Islamic fundamentalism and the Albanian mafia in the heart of your own continent;.....Did I ever say that? I don’t think so.
Kate, you are so rabid it's unbelievable.
Do you belong to the Campaign for Genocide in the Balkans, I bet you'd like to.
By the way your notion about law taking precedence over morality is laughable. Where would we have been without the sufferagettes, and their illegal protests? Well you would have been without a vote.
You Kate, are completely wrong in your assertions. In short, you are a twerp.
Is that English enough for you?
It's called Albania, dufuss.