This isn’t pretty
My morning email brought me this:
I understand your obsession to see Serbia subdued will never wane, even if it means supporting Jihadists and organ extractors in the process……..but know that the Serbian diaspora (which represents about 45% of Serbs worldwide) will not let Kosovo i Metohija be occupied forever.
When conditions are favorable, Serbia will liberate its province. Your ‘expertise’ doesn’t get you far because you do not truly understand Serbian resolve. Luckily I am young so I will see the liberation happen, hopefully you will too before you die.
But before you do end up dying, you should really find Christ.
S’bogom,
Nikola
When I asked for permission to post, the response was this:
Post wherever you choose my friend. I would appreciate your permission to forward you to some mental health facilities to help cure your obsession you have over trying to subdue the Serbian people. I’m glad you’ve made a living off spreading Serbophobia. Hopefully your mental illness can be cured before it’s your time to go and you can find Christ before your number is called.
S’bogom,
Nikola
I had another bit of mail this morning (from an American born in Serbia) asking
Do you really think that Serbia as a whole wishes to return to the days of Milosevic…or are you strictly speaking on political agendas which now would be the work of current president Tomislav Nikolic?
I answered that I was talking only of the political agenda as reflected in the platform recently put forward by President Nikolic, who in my view won the presidential election fair and square and represents the views of the majority. But I know a lot of Serbs who would not agree with that platform, or with the sentiments Nikola expresses, even if they believe Kosovo belongs to Serbia and should not be taken away.
My Twitter feed has also not always been kind the last couple of days. Here’s a sample:
@ShannonPoe@DanielSerwer Hate mongers like Serwer don’t recognize Serbian victims, and prefer to support Hitler’s old allies in the Balkans
I’ll leave it to readers to decide who mongers hate.
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Oh, yes – the diaspora Serbs. They contribute on a regular basis to the comments sections of English-language edition of B92, and it’s remarkable how much more extreme their comments tend to be than those at the Serbian site, where at least there’s usually a range of opinions. (And better jokes, tending toward the ironic.) Occasionally some brave soul living in the West will attempt to go against the majority at the English-language site – stating that in their own experience, Americans, for example, are not consumed by hatred of Serbs and Serbdom – but they are usually outshouted and leave, never to reappear under the same nik. The shouters are the people who call for unceasing resistance, for the bearing of any burden, by their compatriots still trying to live normal lives in the country.
As for the numbers of Serbs living abroad, the official organizations count descendents who may have no interest in the politics of the Old Country. Of all the tens of thousands of Serbs living in Chicago and New York, only a handful bother to turn out to vote at the election sites set up at the Serb embassy and consulates. (The papers report the returns in percentages to get around admitting to the tiny actual numbers.) The world is moving on, even in Serbia, but some people remain frozen in the moment when they last lived in the country and passions were high.
Sorry – the Embassy is of course in Washington, there are consulates in Chicago and New York. Note: no consulate west of Chicago, meaning the large numbers of Serbs in California have to travel to Chicago to get a new passport, or vote.
Try to look at it this way: the more insults you recieve from those who deny – or, even worse, justify – the Srebrenica genocide, the siege of Sarajevo and dozens of other unprecedented crimes committed by Serb forces, from those who glorify the Nazi collaborationist movement of Chetniks in WW2,and so on, the more proud of yourself you should feel.
I would think it being even less prettier having characters like these agree with me.