MovieChat Forums > Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) Discussion > For better understanding to non ex-Yugos...

For better understanding to non ex-Yugoslav commentators


During siege, some Serbs claimed (even here on forum) that Sarajevo was actually "self-bombed by Muslims and Catholics"???.
If the war in Bosnia had not been real, it could be the funniest statement ever. This war has witnesses, had been abundantly documented and movie is based on real story of British war correspondent Michael Nicholson. It is unbelievable how many Serbs have twisted perception of own history and collective self. Even later bombing of Serbia/Yugoslavia and Hague War Crimes Court defendants' structure can't help them getting out of collective mental quagmire.

For better understanding to non ex-Yugoslav readers/commentators, I will make a simplified try of concise picture of who/what Serbs actually where/are. Contemporary Serbs are probably the weirdest European nation, a conglomerate of once autochthonic Serbs, polluted with consequences of 500 years of brutal ruling under Ottoman Empire. Serbs are beyond any doubts victims of long lasting Islamic Turkish invasion that irrevocably changed original ethnic essence. It was not their fault that they were defeated by Turks in the year of 1389 famous Battle of Kosovo. Defense from Ottoman invasion should have been responsibility of whole Europe and not only Serbs with some minor help from Bosnian (probably Croatian) king Tvrtko I and Croatian knight John of Palisna, which wasn't sufficient.

Ottoman expansion until its very end has been retained at Croatian borders within Croat-Hungarian kingdom and later Austro-Hungarian Empire. With Balkan Wars, Serbs finally get rid of Turks. Centuries of Turkish dominance undoubtedly left deep frustrations in the Serbs' collective mind. Probably these frustrations were primordial source of brutal "revenge-stile" atrocities against Bosnian Muslims in the last ex-Yugoslavia ethnic conflict.

As they appeared victorious after Balkan and WWI wars, they obviously remained intoxicated with new glory as they instantly converted in newborn conqueror. Stupidity and naivety of Slovenian and Croatian idealistic leaders after disintegration of Austro-Hungarian Empire led to formation of first Yugoslavia. Intrusive and hegemonic Serbian Leadership attitude in new state was precursor for later ethnic animosities.

WWII led to first disintegration of first Yugoslavia, which incinerated two simultaneous wars - one civic and the other against Germans. All tree constitutional nations - Slovenians, Croats and Serbs were parts of two sides, one on German side the other on Tito's partisans. After terrible atrocities committed by all involved, against each other, new second Yugoslavia with its prosperity maintained an illusion that suppressed deep-routed animosities were overcome.

Everything more or less looked fine until a Serbian copycat of Hitler aroused - Slobodan Milosevic. One man was responsible for WWII - Hitler. His big mouthing fooled Germans, which blindly followed. Similar happened in ex Yugoslavia where Serbs indiscriminately followed their pathetic copy of Hitler. Which side did what during the war is clearly visible in Hague War Crimes Court, mainly populated by Serb defendants.

Now, does it mean all Serbs are war criminals - off course not. When they are not dragged in by their collective cyclic madness of Grater-Serbian-ism ideology, instigated by spiritual SANU (Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti) or (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts) leaders, many of them are descent nice and friendly people.

In times of "Collective Spiritual Awakening", even those normal Serbs become gloryingly drawn in unified body of Grater-Serbian-ism. Under drumbeats of irrational Holly-Serbian-ism, baseless ethnic superiority would surface repeatedly. Their collective MO becomes - Serbia is everywhere where Serbs live, die, fart or defecate. Discreetly in their common mind, Serbia is everywhere, in Europe, US and even Australia, without actual knowledge of constituent nations.

When their ideological puff faces resentment and defeat in near neighborhood, they blame whole world with accompanying universe for conspiracy against the greatest nation that had ever inhabited our Mother Earth. Even their popular saying contributes to these comic illusions - "Speak Serbian That Whole World Can Understand You".

When drumbeats of insatiable Serbian-ism are finally silenced and stocks of Slivovica booze drained out, painful national hangover is always waiting there - "unfairly" and maliciously.

reply

To quote Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, "Everything you heard that guy say was *beep*

reply