From: benedejc@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrej Benedejcic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Re: Croatian postage stamps
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:56:18 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Apr14.194026.7882@eng.cam.ac.uk> 89ms1@eng.cam.ac.uk (M. Sablic) writes:
>benedejc@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrej Benedejcic) writes:
>
>>Nope.  As you yourself pointed out, "you were referring mostly to the history
>>of Rijeka."  I was talking about ISTRA.  And, quite frankly, I really don't
>>care one way or another about Reka.
>
>So you say I have brought up Rijeka! I seem to remember you talking about
>TIGR or have you forgotten?

Well, well, well!  Learning fast, eh?  Soon enough you'll become a small   
expert in Slovene history!  Good, good!  So, you see, Mladene, you would 
have hardly any problems living in the Istrian Autonomous Region of the 
Republic of Slovenia.  ;-)

>Anyway, although Rijeka is not itself in Istria I am pretty much familiar
>with the neighbouring Istrian towns, and believe me, it is an insult
>to these people when you tell them they are not Croats.

So how come most of them have been shirking their responsibility when it comes
to defending the rest of Croatia?  From what I hear, most of the "proud
Croats" in Istra are busy spraying all kinds of "militant" grafitti, like
"KEEP ISTRA OUT OF THE WAR!"

>>So, how come that you remained?   
>
>Sorry, I was not clear. I was talking about 'occupiers'.

Come on, now, Mladene.  Don't tell me that Croats have been in Istra since
the times immemorial.  You can bull-shit about your "vjekovna ognjista" in
Slavonija, but not in Istra.

>>Yeah, right!  Ha, ha, ha!  You would be defending Reka in the same manner
>>that you are defending Croatia right now . . . . 
>
>Believe it or not but I'll probably get a call from Cro-army after I take my
>finals this summer ... I never said I would volunteer.

I thought that Croats had disbanded a large portion of their army!  

>>And what makes you qualified to say that?  After all, you only know your
>>town's history, whereas the history of the Istrian peninsula is pretty
>>much "terra incognita" to you.  
>
>Hm. so how come all these Slovenes do not show up in the census?

Hm.  So how come there are so many of them in Pula and in other towns in
Istra.  One of the Slovenes who posted an article on SCY a month ago (his
name is Srecko) also comes from Istra.

>>Who talks of Reka becoming a part of Slovenia?  We want land, not some
>>shity city.  
>
>As I said, you talked about Rijeka as a packet in TIGR.

O.K.--no problem!  We'll take Reka, too!  But don't fret!  It's not because
you reminded us to do that, but because it makes military sense to launch
an attack from the south-eastern Slovenia straight towards Reka, thus
cutting all of Istra from Croatia.

>SO, it is LAND you want. That is fine with me as long as you ask people who
>live there weather they want to live in CRO or SL and respect their wishes.

Of course we'll ask the people about their wishes.  And of course they'll 
accept our offer.  We'll give them pretty much unlimited autonomy.  Then, if
they want to establish a state of their own, we'll just move our official
border from Dragonja to Mirna, so that no one will be able to tell us 
again where is it that we can or cannot fish. 

>>You know, the history of ex-Yugoslavia shows that dreams have an interesting
>>tendency of becoming reality.  ;-)
>
>You have to be careful, so do nightmares.
                                                
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Regards,

Andrej

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