Reply to No Such Users Opinion  Not sure if youre able to comprehend but here are few facts to consider Serbia was a country during Selimovis life for  years before Yugoslavia was  Kingdom of Serbia  Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes  SCS was renamed Yugoslavia And it was also one of the Federal Republics of Yugoslavia This is why on the Yugoslav censuses Serb ethnicity was an option which Selimovic selected  The majority of the members of the Partizans and the Communists were Serbs being a Serb and being a partizancommunist was not mutually exclusive Your implication that he changed nationalities from Bosnian to Serbian to spite Sarajevan harrasment is ridiculous because he was not addressing his nationality in the letter but rather his ethnicity which is an unchangeable characteristic The Serbian languages standardization was devised by Karadzic in   years before the Croatian latin alphabet was standardized by Ljudevit Gaj and  years before SerboCroatian was devised at the Vienna agreement If you read Mesa Selimovics books you would know that the modern standardized Serbian language is older than both modern standardized Croatian and Serbocroatian as he wrote a book discussing Karadzics reforms Also there are Croatian and SerboCroatian dialects that are not mutually understandable with the modern standardized Serbian that Selimovic wrote in namely Cakavian and Kajkavian You say Biographies are reliable sources Then read this excerpt from Selimovics own autobiography Sjecanja that he wrote himself and you will find the following quotation Potiem iz muslimanske porodice iz Bosne a po nacionalnoj pripadnosti sam Srbin Pripadam srpskoj literaturi  TRANSLATION I COME FROM A MUSLIM FAMILY FROM BOSNIA BUT BY ETHNICITY I AM A SERB I BELONG TO SERBIAN LITERATURE You are clearly not a sane and neutral editor if you call me a bully and tell me to fuck off simply for adding relevant the authors works deal primarily with ethnic questions in the Balkans additional information and citations from the authors own autobiography to an article