From Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, Michael Ignatieff:
“The misery of the Balkans stems in part from a pathetic longing to be good Europeans — that is, to import the West’s murderous ideological fashions. These fashions proved fatal in the Balkans because national unification could be realized only by ripping apart the plural fabric of Balkan village life in the name of the violent dream of ethnic purity.”
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Tags: Balkans, Michael Ignatieff, Nation-State, Nationalism
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