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So what would have been a good solution?
For starters, don't reward war crimes. Organize swift trials. They've only recently finished trials of high ranking generals and officials, there are thousands lower ranked ones which will never feel the hand of justice.
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This victim mentality is toxic. How is this justified in any way? "We got mistreated during WW2, so we feel justified to do war crimes to completely other groups 50 years later...."
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More concerning is the proud position Jasenovac holds in the modern day right-wing Croatian narrative - an increasingly socialised, romanticised version of neofascism. The Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation writeup from a few weeks ago [0] was some rabbithole - for those who understand the language. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563118
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More concerning is the proud position Jasenovac holds in the modern day right-wing Croatian narrative - an increasingly socialised, romanticised version of neofascism. The Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation writeup from a few weeks ago [0] was some rabbithole - for those who understand the language. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563118
Muslim Bosnians and Albanians are not Croats and have nothing to do with whatever you are describing. Serbs find any way to justify their horrendous act, except come out clean and move on to have better relations with their neighbors.
I’m assuming you wouldn’t pass a captcha test, but if I’m wrong and you want to elaborate on your comment I’d love to better understand the point you were trying to make.
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The bombing of Kosovo was to protect Albanians from ethnic cleansing. Also, Bosnians are not croats and had nothing to do with it and what happened during WW2. And the serbs did genocide to them anyway. This victim mentality is toxic. How is this justified in any way? "We got mistreated during WW2, so we feel justified to do war crimes to completely other groups 50 years later...."
Outsiders meddling and their uninformed[1] rhetoric complicate things further.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_...
I remember when Spiegel did this same sort of travel story through the US and it turned out the author just made most of it up to fit whatever stereotypes he wanted to confirm about americans. Hard to take them seriously after that.
I remember when Spiegel did this same sort of travel story through the US and it turned out the author just made most of it up to fit whatever stereotypes he wanted to confirm about americans. Hard to take them seriously after that.
Amazed that the article paints Croatia as a country with "rising anti-democratic forces" while for some reason not mentioning that a month ago the mayoral election in the capital city (quarter of the population) was won by a left-green coalition modelled on Podemos. They won 40% of the vote.
I love that country so, very nice people and a beautiful landscape!
It should be noted that while the article writes "communist" and "regime", the economy and political structure of Yugoslavia differed drastically from what was going on in the likes of the USSR, DRR, etc. as did their foreign policy [1][2][3] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Feder... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titoism 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism