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Virtual Macedonia Bookstore - Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History (Eastern European Studies , No 2)
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54864971
EAN: 9780890967607
ISBN: 0890967601
Label: Texas A&M University Press
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 235
Publication Date: 1997-02
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Studio: Texas A&M University Press
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Summary: Another Bit of the Balkan's Bloody Past & Present
Comment: What is valuable about this work is the access to sources too long suppressed by authorities or ignored by scholars. But it should not be read as exculpating any guilt for crimes committed by others, nor does it justify blaming the Serbs for other than their own crimes. There's been too much misery meted out by all parties in the Balkans over the centuries for any exoneration to be due any one ethnicity or religion, with the exception of the Jews, or for blanket condemnation, either -- depending on the time and place, there simply appears to be a period, or several, where a people -- Serb, Croat, Italian, Bulgar, Magyar, Turk, German -- or the adherents of a religion -- Muslim, Orthodox, Calvinist or Catholic -- proved enlightened, ecumenical, heroic, benign, barbaric, rapacious, predatory, cruel, genocidal ... sometimes managing to manifest several opposing traits simultaneously.
What detracts from the work is positioning it as an "answer" to inflated claims about Ustasha actions in WWII -- and subsequent manipulation of those figures, and suppression of Chetnik and Partizan actions, by the ruling cadre of Tito's Yugoslavia, which was dominated politically by conservative, fascist elements of the Serbian army.
For a realistic, brief, non-political appraisal of the role of both WW2 Croatia and Serbia per the Jewish holocaust, see:
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Finally, it must be recalled that until almost the end of the war the majority of the Partizans appear to have been Croats and Slovenes, with Serbs a distinct minority. This reflects the socialist organizing in the relatively industrialized north (Slovenia and Croatia) prior to WW2 versus the almost purely agrarian culture of the south (Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro). Of the three "indigenous" armed groups -- Ustasha/Croat, Chetnik/Serb, and Yugoslav/Partizan -- only the latter was largely not involved with collaborating with the Nazi/German and/or Fascist/Italian armies. And of course late in the war, especially after the liberation of Belgrade by the Red Army, the Partizans, too, found an allied army (the Soviet Union) to collaborate with ...
What the this means is simply that without going back to the Roman era, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, or even the 19th Century, we can find from WWI through the break-up of Yugoslavia and the 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia many bad and horrible crimes committed in the Balkans. The book in question helps supply a bit the facts needed to see the whole of that mosaic of horror. It does not excuse any expressions of malevolence, including the many outside the scope of its immediate subject.
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Summary: Work of a propagandist
Comment: Looks like a commissioned propaganda written by a person without any academic ethics and knowledge of the history of 19th and 20eth century Serbia. My the only satisfaction is that I did not buy this book - borrowed it from a library, regretting the time I spent on reading of this book.
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Summary: True facts about great-serbian propaganda !
Comment: This book discovers the true facts great-serbian propaganda always tried to sweep under the carpet.
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Summary: Laughably Bad
Comment: Only a Croatia untranationalist could like this steaming pile of manure. For a scholarly, factual view of Yugoslavia during the war, skip this, and skip equally unbalanced Serbian untranationalist tripe and go straight to Tomasevich's War and Revolution in Yugoslavia.
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Summary: Oh my god!
Comment: It is quite astonishing that nobody of Jewish or Serbian surrvivors of the Holocaust has not yet sued the "author" of this book (real author is Croatian Ustashi Emigration which sponsors the publishing house of this deeply offending book) for his itentional missrepresentation of the history and pain and distress that his lies are causing to us who survived the genocide.
To fully understand what has author done in this book just imagine a book which claims that real NAzis (in WWII) were Jews
and victims were, actually Germans!!! Imagine a book that claims that Holocaust was done by Jews to poor Germans and you ll maybe understand how offensive is this malicius work of Cohen, a great "friend" of Croatian Ultra Nationalists. I wonder how people like him sleep at night.....
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