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The vivisection of Yugoslavia


The point about the long and painful vivisection of Yugoslavia is that it was promoted and pursued from abroad.


All Serbs, any Serb hates Germany and hates the USA simply because the assumption was made that Yugoslavia was ripe for disintegration just like all the other satellite republics in the Soviet sphere.

Yalta and Potsdam drew the lines. Roosevelt (then Truman) Stalin and Churchill decided that Southern Europe would fall within the capitalist sphere and Eastern Europe within the socialist sphere when in fact it was the Communist machis that were the mainstay of the Resistance in France. It was the Communists who most effectively resisted the Nazis in Italy and Yugoslavia. Southern Europe was naturally in the Socialist / Communist camp.

As late as 1976 the CIA had Aldo Moro assassinated by proxy because he was getting the Communists and the Social Democrats into an Alliance. The Communists would have been in government.

The point is that Yugoslavia was NOT an eastern European state with Communism artificially imposed on it. It wasn't 'ripe' for dismemberment. It was different.

Yugoslavia had been formed through a war of resistance against the Nazis lead by Tito with the Nationalist Catholic Croatian Ustashi playing a role as the Nazi's enforcers killing millions of Serbs.

In this context the post unification drunk that lead the Germans to support a former fascist ally. To support AGAIN the Yugoslavian equivalent of their Latvian, Ukrainian and Polish nationalist fascist allies was shameful.

It lead to the break up of a country that had been unified in opposition to the Nazis.

Stop. Think on that.

Now that's a touchstone that journalist in the liberal press in the west ignore, they skitter across the surface as usual and ignore the minor detail of the whole of the fucking second world war.

It's quite easy to dismember a country. Find a nationalist little grupuscule and support it. Legitimise it and give it wings. Advocate it in the UN.

But in this light I suggest you read Samuel P Huntington and the Clash of Civilisations. As Edward Said said, Huntington plagiarised from Bernard Lewis - favourite of the New York Review of Books and he was the one who suggested that:

The enemies of the West should be attacked. Forces that oppose them should be supported and forces that support the West should be supported. Divide and rule.

So journalists supporting the imperial strategy of divide and rule for the new Rome suggest we support Kosovan independence. If you support Kosovan independence you are an agent of imperialism plain and simple.

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