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Originally Posted by Marulus
On the contrary, there is very much point in these things.
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I wrote that because I don't want to participate in the same boring and tiring "who started the war" argument, because:
1. I would be largely outnumbered and I can't argue with the 5 persons at the same time
2. we would achieve nothing
3. I have better things to do in my life
Anyhow, if you want to argue further - go on, but without me.
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Originally Posted by Marulus
Exterminationism? Genocide? Assimilation? Or otherwise an eternal conflict... This is thinking along the lines of Nikola Stojanović, a Serb journalist and lawyer, as expounded in his (in)famous article Do istrage vaše ili naše ("Until the extermination - whether it be ours or yours"), published in 1902 in the Serbian journal Srbobran, which was printed in Zagreb (by the Serb minority living there). The article wasn't in fact originally by Srbobran, but it was transcribed from the Srbski književni glasnik ("Serbian literary journal") in Belgrade.
Stojanović explained the conflict between Serbs and Croats in some pseudo-theological terms, as a sort of Manichean struggle, whereby Serbs represent progress and Croats regression. He said that there could be only eternal conflict between these two opposed elements, until one of them succumbs. He said it would be certainly Croats. |
Nikola Stojanović? Never heard, but I would like to see the original text not interpretations, I mean if you have any link or something?
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And more important: who is we? (the "we" I bolded in the quote from your post) I personally have no wish to hoist a Croatian flag in Čačak (for example) or Niš, nor most Croats do. But you obviously think in that way, that it is fate, that Serbs and Croats are predestined to eternal conflict. One could say that it is not your attitude that it should be that way, but merely a statement of facts. But, my impression is that you advocate that.
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Yes, but some Croats wish to hoist a Croatian flag in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Podgorica ( Montenegrin capital) or Novi Sad ( regional capital of Serbian province of Vojvodina).
As well as some Serbs wish to hoist Serbian flag back in Knin, Vukovar or Dubrovnik.
I doubt that there are any Serbs who claim Zagreb or Rijeka either...
So like I said, our national goals are totally opposite, conflict is therefore inevitable and would only end in the case of destruction of one of the sides.
That's just a logical conclusion, based on the facts, not advocating of anything.