"I would never allow a Serb, Jew or Gypsy to marry into my family," declared our dear ally, Franjo Tuđman, who duly removed the constitutional reference to the Serbs as one of Croatia's two constituent peoples.
We have just seen the State Funeral of a Croatian Serb who was the widow of a Croat. The final goodbye to, undeniable though its faults were, the recent historical reality of
workers' self-management and profit-sharing within a multinational state which
included both culturally Christian and culturally Muslim places and peoples,
and which enjoyed vast global influence while resolutely pursuing peace and
eschewing transnational military power blocs.
Opposition to the shameful
British role in destroying that (rather Anglophile) multinational state first
began to bring back together the traditional British Right and the traditional
British Left, each of which found itself excluded from consideration and
debate. The rest is history. But very much living history.
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