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To: Dr. Frank fan
Actually "divide and conquer" of Slavic population.

From a Serb nation one now has Croatian Serbs, Bosnian Serbs, Kosovo Serbs and of course Serbian Serbs.

At the same time Albanians are Albanians whether they are in Kosovo, Albania or Macedonia.

There are presidential elections in Macedonia right now and the Albanian candidates fly Albanian flags and play the Albanian national anthem and if the Macedonian authorities say anything about it then the Macedonians are extrimists.

26 posted on 04/06/2004 5:44:37 PM PDT by Makedonski
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To: Makedonski
Actually "divide and conquer" of Slavic population. From a Serb nation one now has Croatian Serbs, Bosnian Serbs, Kosovo Serbs and of course Serbian Serbs. At the same time Albanians are Albanians whether they are in Kosovo, Albania or Macedonia.

I have to admit that the anti-Slavic bent you cite certainly does appear to have been the effect of the West's policy. I still have a hard time believing that it was the conscious intent (because, what in the world could someone like Bill Clinton have against Slavs in general or Serbs in particular? *bizarre*)

But I must say that I was quite shocked, during the Serbia bombing, to hear the way people suddenly started talking about Serbs. I heard in the course of normal conversation, from otherwise "liberal" people, many, many comments that would have been interpreted as pure bigotry had they been about Jews, blacks, etc.

I had people tell me that Serbs were "inherently violent", for example. And this couldn't *just* have been anti-Slavism; it was a Russian professor who told me this!

28 posted on 04/06/2004 5:52:36 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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