yugoslavias implosion

Macedonia, Serb Montenegro, Serb Bosnia, Serb Herzegovina, Serb
Dubrovnik, Serb Dalmatia, Serb Lika, Serb Kordun, Serb Banija,
Serb Slavonia, and Serb Baranja.” 245
“We’re fighting, above all,” said Šešelj, “to make possible the
secession of Slovenia, after which a wise and sensible government in
Belgrade will carry out the amputation of Croatia. Of course, [the
amputation] of that which we regard as Croatia. The territories in
question lie to the west of the Karlobag-Ogulin-Karlovac-Virovitica
line. Whether they are actually Croat territories, that’s really no
concern of ours, they’re probably Italian. Next thing, we’re going to
make terms with the Italians so that they can take over what’s theirs
… or they [the territories in question] are Austrian or Hungarian.” 246
Šešelj also said: “We hope for the disappearance of Yugoslavia from
the political stage. The most probable projection is that Yugoslavia
will break up into three states: a Greater Serbia, a small Slovenia, and
an even smaller Croatia.” 247
In order to achieve these objectives, it was necessary to mobilize
the Serbian nation, as well as the Croats and Bosnians, for what was
to come. Hatred of all non-Serbs began to be manufactured in an
organized manner.
Šešelj publicly advocated an exchange of population between
Serbia and Croatia:
The Croats are a nation of cowards. They are not a nation in the real
sense of the term. No wonder that Marx and Engels said that the Croats
were the scum of European nations. These texts still exist and they
can be consulted. And how will that war end? In my opinion, it will
end very quickly with a Serb victory and the establishment of Serbia’s
western borders. And the Croats will have to pay war damages. As for
245 Programme Declaration of the Serbian Radical Party, Velika Srbija, br .9 . May 1991, p . 6–7 .
246 From Šešelj’s interview to Glas Podrinja, March 21, 1991, published
in Šešelj „Razaranje srpskog nacionalnog bića, p . 179 .
247 From Šešelj interview to Pogledi, March 31, 1991, p .36 .
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