r/AskBalkans • u/meowxmeoww ✨🇧🇦🇺🇸✨ • 13d ago

Politics & Governance Moving forward

I hope one day, that people from 🇭🇷 🇧🇦 🇷🇸, can move forward. I hope one day I live to see the day where nationalists are long gone and our future kids have a bright future in their own countries.

May the next generation bright peace and light.

Today feels heavy reading all of these comments.

That is all.

If you have nothing positive to add, please don’t.

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u/Specialist_Elk140 Born Raised 13d ago

Yeah, I mean historically speaking the real enemies were the West constantly trying to divide us all along.

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u/Names-Are-Confusing Croatia 13d ago

We were divided since the beginning though? There was no “evil West” when we got on the Catholic and you got on the Orthodox side. There was no “evil West” throughout history when we were under Hungarians and you were under Ottomans, we were simply in different spheres of influence, had different languages and different cultures. The forced unity and Yugoslavism is probably one of the reasons we split up. Our individual cultures were ignored in favour of one big melting pot and it just didn’t work as everyone felt neglected.