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by Lt.-Colonel » 23 Jun 2005, 17:50
Now, you got it very, very wrong.
Yugoslavia was never a nation. Yugoslavia was constituted out of Macedonians, Montenegrins, Croats, Serbs, Slovenians and lots of minorities. In 1973 Tito recognized Bosnian muslims as a nation too. From 1919 to 1929 that frankenstein state was called Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians), and there wasn't any talks of YUGOSLAV nation! Montenegrins and Macedonias weren't left out of theat kingdom's name because of mistake, but on purpose, because Greater Serbian polititians denied those nations and wanted to include them into Serbian national corpus.
After the death of Josip Broz «Tito» a great differences among Yugoslavian Republics became obvious. The situation was the most tensed in Serbia, which was displeased with 1974 Constitution Amendments. Those Amendements declared regions of Kosovo and Vojvodina (which were a part of Federal Republic Serbia) as Autonomous Regions. It means that in Central Commitee of KPJ /Communist Party of Yugoslavia/, those autonomous regions had votes equal in "weight" to votes of "full" Republics.
Old Greater Serbian myths were brought back to life along with the idea that «all Serbs must live in one state». In 1987 Slobodan Milošević (Miloshevich) became the leader of Serbian Communists, but he soon degenerated into Greater Serbian war-chief. Since the Summer of 1988 he was organising massive protests in Serbia, so called «anti-buerocratic revolution». On those meetings they demanded Yugoslavia to be rearranged in the way Serbia wanted - into strong centralized communist dictatorship.
With strong political pressure Serbia managed to abrogate the autonomies of Kosovo and Vojvodina, and to install pro-Serbian leadership in Montenegro. That way Serbia ensured the support of that Republic and of both Autonomous Regions in Federal institutions and tried to impose her stanpoints to the other Republics.
Slovenia and Croatia, who demanded that Yugoslavia must be re-arranged into confederacy, were first to be impengemented. Belgrade was particulary interested in creating anti-Croatian frame of mind among Serbian minority in Croatia. After the free democratic elections in Croatia in the Spring of 1990 the rebelion of Serbian minority commenced, strongly backed-up by JNA.
Situation was much better for Slovenia because she was placed in the west of YU and she was never included into plans for the Greater Serbia. JNA threw a "little war" against Slovenia when she declared suspension of relations with YU June of 1991 in accordance with vox populi, as stated on national referendum. It lasted a week and it was fought half-heartedly by the JNA - they let Slovenia go.
The aggression on Croatia commenced almost the same moment when the people of Croatia voted for the independance of Yugoslavia on national referendum -75% of voters used their right to vote, and 94% of them wanted to break connections with YU. The referendum was held on 19th May 1991. On June 25th Croatian Sabor (Parliament) declared independance, soverginity and suspension of all relationships with Yugoslavia and that was possible due to 1974 Amendements of YU Constitution.
So it wasn't a Civil War, but the agression of one sovereign state on the other sovereign state(s).
The fact that Croatian Serbs helped so called Yugoslavia in that foul adventure changes nothing. It only made them traitors of sovereign Republic of Croatia.
and less confusing!
Thanks for your information and correction.
