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  • What did they call it before they called it “Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian-Montenegrin”?

    11/21/2009 6:37:02 PM PST · by Ravnagora · 5 replies · 636+ views
    2006/2009 | Professor J. P. Maher
    In 1958 the U.S. Army called it “Serbo-Croatian”. That was during the Cold War. I was a soldier in Military Intelligence, just beginning to learn the major language of Yugoslavia at the US Army Language School, on the old Spanish Presidio of Monterey in California. Thirty-some years later the Berlin Wall came down. In Slovenia in the year 1990 I learned from an American working there (it was still Yugoslavia then) that the Army had closed down the Monterey course. The Pentagon apparently had not yet received their orders to attack Yugoslavia. They thought the Cold War was over. Someone...