tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post3403530921135108387..comments2024-03-29T10:44:12.904+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: The Balkans Today, The West TommorowDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-48927312859865272182008-06-23T16:55:00.000+01:002008-06-23T16:55:00.000+01:00One point (the article is as balanced about Serbia...One point (the article is as balanced about Serbia as an article by Ian Hamilton on Scottish nationalism). The article started grumbling about borders and Serbs not being all within the boundary of the Repbulic of Serbia within Yugoslavia.<BR/><BR/>When Tito drew up the borders he left large amounts of Croats in Bosnia-Herzgovina (they still make up 18% of the place) - including a coastal strip historically part of Dalmatia during Austrian-rule. Then there are the Bosniaks in Serbia wedged in the pocket between Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia.<BR/><BR/>The borders were never exact and probably only benefited the Slovenes (who have their Italian and Hungarian population to deal with).<BR/><BR/>The article is typical butter-does-not-melt in our collective mouths dogeral. It refuses to address the problems of the 1920 constitution, the monarchic dictatorship or the dealing of the murder of Stejpan Radic.<BR/><BR/>And that is before discussing the ill-treatment of the Macedonians - fellow Orthodox-Slavs after the Balkan Wars. Banning their language, forcibally merging their church (which was tolerated by the Turks!) with the Serb Orthodox Church and disenfranchising the population and treating them as war booty.<BR/><BR/>No wonder it was a Macedonian who shot King Alexander. He did more inflamatory things than Franz Ferdinand ever did and look what the Serbs did to him!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-33263455419010602442008-06-23T09:52:00.000+01:002008-06-23T09:52:00.000+01:00It doesn't matter. You simply tell people how good...It doesn't matter. You simply tell people how good it is, give them a paragraph, and then post the link. People can read the article if they wish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-2712458859726290152008-06-23T09:47:00.000+01:002008-06-23T09:47:00.000+01:00Alice is right. And linking to something isn't cut...Alice is right. And linking to something isn't cutting it - you can't cut something on someone else's site. Posting entire articles is, in effect, stealing. Just link, and if we're interested we'll go and look.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-18240829693739316812008-06-22T23:55:00.000+01:002008-06-22T23:55:00.000+01:00Yes, but this article is too godd to cut.Yes, but this article is too godd to cut.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-88616418763812279742008-06-22T09:38:00.000+01:002008-06-22T09:38:00.000+01:00David please, PLEASE - don't post hug swathes of t...David please, PLEASE - don't post hug swathes of text. It turns people off. A link, and a comment, is stanard internet etiquette. Politness should be just as important on the internet as in real life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com