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Originally Posted by svin
Zrinski, Does any nationalistic movement in Croatia totally reject Slavic heritage of Croats? I know of some Belarusian paganists (Gega Ruch) who, for example, say that Belarusians are Balts, not Slavs. The main goal of such change of identification is to strengthen ties with Europe and to break tie with Russian imperialists who view Belarusians as Russians (although I don't approve point of view of Gega Ruch, I can understand it).
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I think Plethon put it quite nicely. Though I would say it is possible some nationalists reject to identify with Slavic people's despite the obvious fact we speak a Slavic language and our history telling us the proto-Croats were definately Slavic. I would say such people are very rare individuals.
Some also tend to get confused with the theories on origin of Croatian name, it is accepted fact now in Croatian historiography that the Croatian name is of non-Slavic, possibly Iranic origin. The genetic data also sometiems brings confusion as it confirmed the largest part of contemporary Croatian population is of autochtonous origin. These are accepted facts but are not enough to claim Croats are not Slavs because what determines this is the language and it is obviously beyond all doubts a Slavic language.