pagskier wrote (View Post): |
This hate is 300 years old, when turks invaded and they converted to islam to save some tax I've heard... They are traitors to them since then... |
dj wrote (View Post): |
The only way to explain it...is that the hatred goes back so many generations, the young are bred to hate. How can normal people commit genocide and treat women and children like that? They have to be indoctrinated to hate to do such heinous war crimes and genocide. |
pagskier wrote (View Post): |
Hopefully it will be the last genocide in europe |
pvt_Grunt wrote (View Post): |
And everywhere |
pagskier wrote (View Post): | ||
I would also place that "hatred breeding" much closer to us - in the wwii, but it would take too long and would be too time consuming and complicate to go into "balkans' tribalism" (as I call it) right now. About indoctrination. Yes, the Serbs were indoctrinated with the idea of the Greater Serbia since early 20th century, and in this last wave of that stupidity the Serbian Academy of Art and Science played a significant role in brainwashing of masses that would soon be fed to cannons. Read about their infamous Memorandum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_the_Serbian_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Arts ) or read the translation of the original document ( http://www.trepca.net/english/2006/serbian_memorandum_1986/serbia_memorandum_1986.html ). When a supposed elite of a country is composed of low-life, no-good, dumb-ass, brainsick motherfuckers what can you expect? Ratko Mladic is only a product of the Greater Serbian idea, additionaly brainwashed by a communist party (and army) who turned to the nationalism when his beloved Yugoslavia collapsed. If it wasn't him, there would be someone else to do it, and it (Sarajevo, Srebrenica and also Vukovar, Dubrovnik, Zadar etc.) would have happened with this or that crew in command, as long as Milosevic held power. |
dj wrote (View Post): |
If I am not mistaken much of the hatred was due to WW2 war crimes and atrocities. There seemed to be a desire to extract revenge once Yugoslavia disintegrated. Serbs obviously were very close to their Russian comrades - in terms of common religion, ethnicity and culture. But the Croats, Bosnian Muslim and others collaborated with the Nazi's and went so far to volunteer in the SS. Atrocities were committed by both sides in WW2 but the particularly cruel and violent actions led to a tradition of hate passed down by the generations. The Serbs also got screwed over really bad by Austria-Hungary during WWI. I had a co-worker that confessed to me his family was guilty of terrible war crimes by his Austrian family. Psychologically Serbia was still barely starting to recover from WWI atrocities...then they suffered similar war crimes by the Nazi's and their Yugoslav rivals. This gave them a sense of entitlement to get revenge. |
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