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Originally Posted by Marulus
Yes, sure. And Ustaše and their movement never existed, the very word was invented by the Serbian war propaganda.
On a serious note: I know very well about the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda, about Friedjung's processes, about Serbien muss sterb(i)en and such. But the concept existed even bofore that, it is much older than the beginning of the 20eth century, Austria-Hungary just took it and (ab)used it for the aims of its propaganda.
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Originally Posted by Marulus
Serbs in their idea of the "Greater Serbia" were not unique, other nations had such great plans as well: Hungarians, Romanian, Poles etc. But to claim that it never existed, is just untrue. You are contradicting yourself because you say that there were plans for the "unification of Serbian lands". Isn't that the same as Greater Serbia? Just the question of terminology?
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Perhaps you didn't understood me. I didn't said that there weren't any plans for unification of all Serb lands. Of course not, that would be foolish. I was talking about the very term "greater Serbia", which is of Austrian origin.
It is a question of terms, because term "greater Serbia" has a connotation of overextended Serbia, a country that is so big that it contains even lands that rightfully belong to other countries (namely Austria), and that Serbs themselves do not deserve such a big land (but Austrians do, obviously).
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Why do many Serbian nationalists proudly use it? They have so little self-respect, as to use the word coined by the enemy propaganda?
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Because it accustomed itself during the early '90ies by nationalist authors such as Šešelj and others, so today almost every Serb nationalist uses it, although it wasn't originally Serb term.
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NDH did not control the most of its territory, most of it was in hands of četniks, partisans, Germans, Italians. It was a "reality" only on paper.
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It didn't had to. It controlled all major cities, concentration camps and a huge army, supported by Germans. Just because a lot of it's inhabitants didn't recognized it, that doesn't mean that it didn't existed de facto and de jure.