From: pavlovic-milan@CS.YALE.EDU (Milan Pavlovic)
Subject: What makes Croatian culture superior to that of Serbs and Jews?
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:24:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.021105.6689@src.umd.edu> josip@src.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric) writes:

>Here is a quote from the U.S. Government publication 
>"Yugoslavia: a country study" (call number DR1214.Y83, 1992 edition)
>
>  The deepest and oldest national rivalry in Yugoslavia was the
>  one between the Serbs and Croats, who despite their shared language
>  possessed different social and value systems and political
>  cultures.  Two sayings illustrated these animosities and the 
>  essential difference in the inherited political styles of both
>  peoples.  The first says: The very way of life of a Serb and Croat
>  is a deliberate provocation to each other.  The second, a
>  self-complimentary Serbian stereotype, says: In a conflict with
>  authority, the Serb reaches for the sword and the Croat for his
>  pen.  The Serbian stereotype refers to the tradition of the _hajduk_,
>  the idealized mountain renegade who responded violently to the
>  oppressive anarchy of the Ottoman Empire during its last two
>  centuries; the Croatian stereotype reflects the cultural influence
>  of responding through the legal system to the Hapsburgs' highly
>  bureaucratized infringements on national and individual freedoms
>  in Croatia.
>
>This paragraph, in broad strokes, explains why Croats try to negotiate
>and prove their rights; and why Serbs stonewall and fight for theirs.
>The outcome is, unfortunately, proving that a sword is mightier than
>the pen.  This lesson should not be lost on anyone: war is still the
>main principle by which this world is organized.
>
>Josip

As long as we are quoting, why don't we see what the Holocaust Historian
Simon Wiesenthal had to say in a 1990 interview with Yugoslav Magazine NIN:

"I must admit that I have been obsessed with the criminal character of the 
Independent State of Croatia.  Even the Germans were appalled by the crimes
committed in it."

And now to quote the French Historian Edmond Paris from "Genocide in Satellite
Croatia":

"The greatest genocide in World War II in proportion to a nation's population
took place, not in Nazi Germany, but in the Nazi-created Independent State of
Croatia.  There, in the years 1941-1945, some 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and
26,000 Gypsies - men, women, and children - perished in a gigantic holocaust."

Mr. Loncaric, why are the Croatian people so obsessed with their "thousand
summer culture" so that they butcher innocent civilians?  Perhaps a quote
from Croatia's modern day president , Franjo Tudjman, from his 1989 book
"Wastelands of Historical Reality" offers an explanation:

"Genocide is a natural phenomenon, in harmony with the societal and 
mythologically divine nature.  Genocide is not only permitted, it is also
recommended, even commanded by the word of the Almighty Yaweh, whenever it is 
useful for the survival or the restoration of the kingdom of the chosen nation,
or for the preservation and the spreading of its one and only correct faith".

In the name of Catholic supremacy Croatians massacred Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.
Did you really expect that the Serbs would sit back a second time around this
century and let themselves be butchered by the Croats?

Just because the Croats have skillfully been planning and executing a PR
plan for the past five years, and invested 17 million dollars toward this 
effect, does not make their culture any more superior than that of Serbs.
The worst characteristic of Croatian culture, though, is their refusal to 
admit to the genocide they committed against Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies during
WWII. The Germans apologized for their acts. The Russians apologized to the
Poles for theirs. Yet the Croats continue to deny any policy of genocide 
against Serbs and Jews in WWII? WHY? What makes you so superior that you can
attempt to wipe out whole nations and then try to deny it?

Milan 
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