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Why did only the break-up of Yugoslavia end in a war?

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Why did only the break-up of Yugoslavia end in a war?

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Because the concept of independence of states that until that moment made up Yugoslavia was such that national integration could not be carried out without annexation of somebody else’s territory. If Yugoslav republics were ethnically homogeneous – starting with Serbia without ethnic Albanians and its diaspora in Bosnia and Croatia – perhaps war would not have happened. This way… Dobrica Cosic in his writings speaks of “diaspora nations”, meaning in particular the Croats and the Serbs. Yes, Serbs and Croats are “diaspora nations” and there is no doubt that this aspect supplied the main motive for the war and its bloody nature. One must not forget, however, that World War II began with the quest for an all-German national unification, i.e. with the slogan of “all Germans in the same state”. This idea of a total and violent integration of “diaspora nations” is characteristic of Fascism and Nazism. What happened here was thus nothing new in Europe. On the contrary they were actually bel

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