What happened in Bosnia in the 90s was “a posthumous triumph” for the vicious fascism of the Croatian Ustaše, and Bosnians’ gleeful collaboration with them on both occasions.
Honestly…if anybody can explain to me because I find it baffling. What was in it for Bosnians to collaborate with Croats during both WWII and the wars of the 90s? What could possibly have been of more benefit for them to work together with the Ustaše instead of joining Serbian partisan resistance or just sitting out the conflict? Wasn’t the virulent Catholicism of the Ustaše enough to put them off? Did they just figure that Serbs were the previously and potentially again most hegemonic people in the state so they sought help from another little brother? Did they really think that after accomplishing their stated aims of cleansing the NDH of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, that Croat fascists wouldn’t come after Bosnian Muslims next? Like Martin Niemöller’s poem: “Then they came for me.” And Bosnian’s chumming up with them in the 90s: how’s that worked out for you, guys?
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