Serbian nationalism
Instead of making an objective look at the disintegration of Yugoslavia the director rather chose to make a Serbian propaganda movie using footage only from RTS or Serbian radiotelevision, using only serbs for interviews and distorting historical facts. Chetniks, which were as evil and malicious as Ustasa were in Croatia are portrayed here as a bunch of prancing do-good hippies who didn't hurt a fly because they were the victims. I guess it somehow got lost in the translation that their chief Draza Mihailovic's main propaganda consisted of four points 1) make serbian borders and leave only serbian people within it 2)solve the question of muslims (in other words wipe them out) 3) make a plan for radical and quick cleansing or moving of village population with the agenda of making a homogenous serbian state community. 4) Especially have in sight quick and radical cleansing of the cities and filling them with fresh serbian element. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEa_Mihailovi%C4%87 ) Ever head of "The Great Serbia". Probably never because it never happened which is really good because it's something Hitler tried and failed too. This is what the chetniks were attempting to achieve. Now let's really talk about why Yugoslavia fell apart. The most probable causes are the animosity of different nationalities present along with different religious problems. The loss of a leader who did not prepare the country for what was after such as appointing a follow-up leader or any other political idea which practically gave way to fight for power and to each his own. And last but not the least important. After the second world war seeing how Yugoslavia was a division point between the west and east Europe, basically between communism in SSSR and capitalism or democracy whichever way you want to call it in the west not only did Americans but also some other European nations give money to Yugoslavia but helped in many different ways for this barrier to be able to exist. After the berlin wall fell and soviet union collapsed this need for having an active borderline stopped being necessary the funding also stopped. Without money, basically stricken with hunger having to wait for bread in lines in front of bakeries things needed to change and it was then that Slovenia and Croatia proclaimed independence and thus the rest is history. Obviously, all is not this simple but it let's you put some things in perspective. This movie is not a straight out lie but it is not objective and when a documentary is not objective it stops being a documentary and becomes propaganda, a true shame at that.
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