Part I, Part II The 1918 Belgrade Proclamation of a single Yugoslav state Officially, the South Slavs (i.e., the Yugoslavs) were united into their own national single state on December 1st, 1918, when the Regent Aleksandar I Karađorđević of Serbia read the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and […]
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The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (II)
Part I The 1937 Memorandum – measures to protect Yugoslavia The Memorandum’s author as a professional historian quite clearly understood that the only way and the only means to cope with them in order to protect Yugoslavia from Albanian separatism, terrorism, and Albanization was to use the legitimate force by […]
The 1918 Geneva Conference And The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of Serbs, Croats, And Slovenes (II)
Part I The political consequences of the 1918 Geneva Conference The London Yugoslav Committee became pushed aside with Geneva negotiations in November 1918 and, in fact, became replaced by the National Council in Zagreb as a representative political organization of the South Slavic population in Austria–Hungary.[i] A political role of […]
The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (I)
In 1937 a Memorandum to the Royal Yugoslav Government was presented by Vaso Chubrilovic on solving the “Albanian Question” in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Bosnian Serb Vaso Chubrilovic (1897−1990) was a historian, teacher, university professor, minister, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and politician. In […]
The Serbian Orthodox Church Is Once Again In The Crosshairs In Montenegro
Whatever devious designs Djukanovic and his potential foreign patrons might have, it’s clear that this atheist politician is hypocritically exploiting religion as part of a newly commenced Hybrid War destabilization campaign in Montenegro. The riotous unrest in Montenegro over the weekend that accompanied the enthronement of Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro […]
Ideology And Nationalism: The Case Of The Yugoslavs (III)
Part I, Part II A policy of the West European Great Powers in regard to the “Eastern Question” inclined in favor of protection of the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, that means in favor of protection of the status quo at the Balkans.[1] On the other hand, the Balkan […]
Rio Tinto In Serbia: The Jadar Lithium Project
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture it eviscerated in a matter of hours in May last year, Rio Tinto could think grandly about another future. The Anglo-Australian mining giant could add […]
Kosovo: Land, Demography, Economy, And Religion (II)
Part I Economy: Gastarbeiters and criminal business In Kosovo-Metochia (KosMet) traditionally part of the gastarbeiters’ (guest workers) money is proliferated by financing criminal business but first of all a drug smuggling, which from the Middle East goes via KosMet to West Europe. It is one of the principal occupations of […]
The 1918 Geneva Conference And The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of Serbs, Croats, And Slovenes (I)
With the establishment of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs in Zagreb, as well as with the proclamation of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs at the end of October 1918,[i] a new political situation emerged with regards to the creation of almost a single South Slavic […]
Ideology And Nationalism: The Case Of The Yugoslavs (II)
Part I The process of the creation of Albanian nationality was not finished yet at the end of the 19th century. The Albanian nation was not considered as a political reality in Europe by many politicians. The Albanian people were among the last ones in Europe to build up their […]
Kosovo: Land, Demography, Economy, And Religion (I)
Territory, people, and physical power (security forces like police and army) are the inevitable prerequisites for creating a state. The ethnic Albanians were at the beginning intruders into the autonomous province of South-West Serbia – Kosovo-Metohia (KosMet), who constituted a small minority there (in 1455 only 2%). The focal question […]
Forgeries And The Truth About Srebrenica (II)
Part I What really happened and why in and around Srebrenica? In this small eastern Bosnian town before the armed conflicts started in the spring of 1992, lived no more than 10.000 inhabitants. The city received international attention when up to 70.000 Muslim refugees (according to the United Nations) from […]
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