Avala said:
Those horrible Serbs! I’ve always wondered why they killed JFK! I mean its obvious why they wasted Dr Martin Luther King, Chang Kai Check and Gandhi. Cause they’re racists! (those bloody inbreeders, pig farmers, alcoholics, five days unshaved beards southerners . . . ) ;)
I don't see anybody said that any nation is racist as such, it goes along the same path like claiming that Croats, who were not partisans, are nazis. Nobody benefits from claims/statements like that, except psychos at power who are intra-national and trans-national, and present themselves to the masses as their national "saviours" and protectors.
At the end of the documentary (around 1:56:00), this guy Bosnitch said very nice that we need to defend our history. I would say to reclaim it and find out what really happened, not just now 20 years ago, but 100 years ago also, since our nations have been lead to wars against each other not only once, and we need to "see" how we have been primed to accepting it and even "happily" joining that madness.
For example, for illustration purposes, according to some sources (
Croatian politics in XX century - in Croatian) at the end of WWII the Croatian partisan army and NDH army were equal in size suggesting that so called "Bleiburg" and other after WWII crimes were not done by Serbs only to "poor" Croats or whoever, but also Croats themselves.
Why I don't just accept the now popular notion "they/we are all guilty, it was a bloodbath, lets just carry on" or similarly "it was a pure outside job, we are all innocent, lets blame it all on some external enemy and just carry on"? Because, IMO, if we finally don't learn something, if we don't see the pattern (if there is one) how we fall under this "pure evil spell", we are doomed to repeat the whole mess again and again and again (almost like we did in last 100 years).
The thing is that, to me, it looks like things are again repeating themselves right now.
Letting economy aside, which of course is a huge force behind the curtain, lets just look at the "propaganda" patterns here.
In 2011, allegedly, SANU created Memorandum II. Allegedly, because, unlike Memorandum I which was published in most renowned papers
Večernje novosti, I couldn't find either one Serbian link to this information, but just Croatian and Bosnian. Here's the video (in Bosnian):
Croatian general Gotovina (kind of national symbol/hero) was first found guilty by ICJ, in April 2011, and sentenced to 24 years. Later after the appeal, he was released as not guilty in November 2012. All this again ignited strongly the fires of nationalism where Gotovina's statement "The war is part of the past, lets turn to the future" came as a huge surprise for some circles in Croatia.
In January 2012, referendum for joining EU was held in Croatia and pro-EU side won with 66% out of 1.96 mil people that cast their ballots. The overall number of voters on the list was 4.5 mil, meaning that only cca 44% of them turned out to vote. The list this year, for presidential elections, comprised cca 3.83 mil people (the malversation with the number of people on the list is an issue for some time in Croatia) suggesting that cca 50% of people turned out in 2012, leading to conclusion that only cca 30% of election body decided that Croatia should join the EU. Problem was/is that people are lethargic thinking that they can't change anything.
At the same time Serbian radicals won the presidential and parliament elections in Serbia in 2012 and found the coalition for government. In 2014, radical became the Prime-minister also. Now, both, the actual president and prime-minister were close allies of extreme ultra-radical Šešelj from whom they parted in 2008.
In September 2013 "troubles" with bilingual panels in Vukovar started (keep in mind that this geographic part was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia 3 years after the war ended, in 1998). Apparently, Croats there couldn't stand that panels with cyrillic letters would be hanging on authority buildings so they broke them, several times after being replaced, even when police was trying to guard them. This play, of breaking the panels and placing new ones, continues all the way till today.
In November 2014, Šešelj was released from Hague due to his medical condition, less than a week prior to anniversary of Vukovar tragedy and 1.5 months prior to first round of Croatian presidential elections. He started giving his usual speeches and rallying people with nationalist sentiments, and politics & media, at least in Croatia, were in that time preoccupied with him. What particularly caught my attention was how in one clip of Šešelj's rally, shown in primetime news
Dnevnik on Croatian national TV, the camera "stood a bit longer" on a poster showing Putin with chetnik features. So, not only the priming against Serbs (helped with Šešelj) was being done, but at the same time against Putin also, by shaping public mind by association.
The presidential elections showed deep split among people in Croatia. What's troubling is that similar rhetoric was repeated, dividing people into commies and yugo-nostalgic (which are basically represented by liberal capitalist Social-Democratic Party - what an irony) against patriots (represented by Croatian Democratic Community with hidden and not-so-hidden neonazi sentiments), like in 1990s. Even more worrisome is that new president plays very similar music like Tudjman did about national unity, prosperity and "beautiful" Croatian future. And just "incidentally" she slipped in the line "All Croatians citizens are Croats", almost exact quote from Tudjman, who she considers as her mentor (political father; in similar fashion like he is "The Father of Homeland/Croatia").
So, what we have now is very, very similar to early 1990s (or late 1910s, or early 1940s, just pick your choice) considering this part of Balkans (and larger). In addition, in the documentary, there was not even one mention about London's and Paris' role in all this mess, the focus on external enemy was almost exclusively put on Germany and USA (London and Paris are traditionally considered as close allies of Belgrade).
And we know that where USA goes its London bobby follows. Interestingly, he just arrived to advice Serbian prime-minister:
http://www.sott.net/article/292875-Despite-having-led-NATO-bombing-of-Serbia-Tony-Blair-will-advise-its-prime-minister-paid-for-by-United-Arab-Emirates
