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USA over 170,000
Republic of Kosovo 140,000
Canada 100,000-125,000
Netherlands 100,000-180,500
Sweden 100,000
Australia 95,000
Great Britain 90,000
France 80,000
Italy 78,174
Slovenia 38,000
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Russia 4,156 - 15,000 (according to Serbian sources)

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Ethnogenesis

There are several theories about the origin of the Serbs.

According to the records of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the Serbs (now as a single Slavic people) migrated south in the 7th century during the reign of the Byzantine king Heraclius and settled within modern-day Southern Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. There they mixed with the descendants of local Balkan tribes - Illyrians, Dacians, etc.

A thousand years later, during the Ottoman conquests in Europe, many Serbs, under pressure from the Turkish aggressors who ravaged the country, began to leave to the north and east beyond the Sava and Danube rivers in the territory of present-day Vojvodina, Slavonia, Transylvania and Hungary. Later, in the 18th century, thousands of Serbs went to the Russian Empire, where they were allocated lands for settlement in Novorossiya - in areas called New Serbia and Slavyanoserbia.

Ethnographic groups of Serbs

Ethnographic groups of Serbs are divided mainly according to dialects of the Serbian language. Shtokavian Serbs are the largest group. There are also Gorani and other ethnographic groups.

Settlement

The main area of ​​residence of the Serbs is Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are also separate regions in other countries where Serbs have lived for a long time: in Macedonia (Kumanovo, Skopje), Slovenia (Bela Krajina), Romania (Banat), Hungary (Pecs, Szentendre, Szeged). Sustainable Serbian diasporas exist in many countries, the most prominent being in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States and Australia. Diasporas in New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile, although not as large, are not disappearing, but on the contrary, they continue to grow.

The exact number of Serbs living in diasporas outside the Balkans has not been established and, according to various sources, varies from approximately 1-2 million to 4 million people (data from the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia). In this regard, the total number of Serbs in the world is unknown; according to rough estimates, it ranges from 9.5 to 12 million people. The 6.5 million Serbs make up about two-thirds of Serbia's population. Before the military conflicts, 1.5 million lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 600 thousand in Croatia, and 200 thousand in Montenegro. According to the 1991 census, Serbs represented 36% of the total population of Yugoslavia, that is, about 8.5 million people in total.

The urban population is represented in Belgrade (1.5 million Serbs), Novi Sad (300 thousand), Niš (250 thousand), Banja Luka (220 thousand), Kragujevac (175 thousand), Sarajevo (130 thousand .). Outside of the former Yugoslavia, Vienna is the city with the largest number of Serbian inhabitants. A significant number of Serbs live in Chicago and the surrounding area and Toronto (with Southern Ontario). Los Angeles is known as a metropolis with a significant Serbian community, as are Istanbul and Paris.

Ethnic history

Map of the settlement of the Slavs and their neighbors at the end of the 8th century.

The history of Serbia dates back to the 6th century, from the moment the ancient Slavs settled the western part of the Balkan Peninsula. In the 8th-9th centuries, the first proto-state formations of the Serbs arose. In the 11th century, the territory of modern Serbia became part of the First Bulgarian Kingdom. After the establishment of the Nemanjic dynasty at the end of the 12th century, the Serbian state was freed from the rule of Byzantium and by the middle of the 14th century it developed into a major power covering almost the entire southwestern part of the Balkans. The heyday of medieval Serbia occurred during the reign of King Stefan Dusan (-). However, after his death the state collapsed. The fragmented principalities are unable to stop the Ottoman expansion; some of the princes in the south of the former kingdom of Dusan are forced to recognize themselves as vassals of the Ottoman Empire. In 1389, the combined forces of some Serbian princes (together with Bosniak units) are defeated by the Ottoman army in the Battle of Kosovo, leading to Serbia's recognition of the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. Serbia was finally conquered by the Turks in 1459, after the fall of Smederevo. Over the next 350 years, Serbian lands were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and the northern regions were part of the Austrian Empire from the end of the 17th century.

The Serbian principality was formed as a result of the First Serbian uprising in - gg. against Ottoman rule. The rebels elected Georgiy Petrovich, nicknamed Karageorgiy, who had previously served in the Austrian army as a non-commissioned officer, as their supreme leader. In 1811, at the assembly in Belgrade, Karageorgi was proclaimed the hereditary ruler of Serbia. But in 1813 the uprising was suppressed, Karageorgi fled to Austria. In 1815, the Second Serbian Uprising began, led by Milos Obrenovic, a participant in the First Uprising. It was successful, but only fifteen years later the Sultan officially recognized Milos Obrenovic as the ruler of Serbia. In 1817, Karageorge, who returned to Serbia, was killed on the orders of Milos Obrenovic. Under the terms of the Berlin Peace of 1878, Serbia gained independence, and in 1882 it was proclaimed a kingdom. By the beginning of the 20th century, a parliamentary monarchy had emerged in Serbia, and a rapid rise in the economy and culture began. Two dynasties of peasant origin - the Karadjordjevics and the Obrenoviches - succeeded each other on the throne in Serbia until 1903. In 1903, King Aleksandar Obrenovic and his wife Draga were killed in a palace coup. As a result of the Balkan Wars - gg. the territories of Kosovo, Macedonia and a significant part of the Sandjak were included in Serbia. In the First World War, Serbia took the side of the Entente countries. During the war, Serbia lost, according to some estimates, up to a third of its population. After the end of the war, Serbia became the core of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (since Yugoslavia). During the Second World War, the territory of Serbia was occupied by the troops of Nazi Germany from April 1941, part of the state's territory was transferred to Germany's satellites - Hungary and Bulgaria, as well as Albania. In - gg. Serbia was liberated by the Soviet Army, partisans and regular units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia.

In 1945, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed (from 1963 to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), within which the People's Republic of Serbia was formed (from 1963 to the Socialist Republic of Serbia). In November 1945, the Assembly of Yugoslavia deprived the Karageorgievic dynasty of its rights to power. After the death of the permanent leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, the growth of interethnic confrontation and separatist protests supported from the outside led in the early 1990s to a series of civil wars and the collapse of Yugoslavia. The long period of socialists in power in Serbia, led by Slobodan Milosevic, ended in 2000 after the bombing of Serbian cities by NATO aircraft in March-June 1999 and the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces to Kosovo. In 2006, after a referendum held in Montenegro, the state union of Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist, the Republic of Serbia lost access to the sea.

Medieval Serbian state

Settlement of the Slavs

The process of state formation among the Serbs was slowed down by the isolation of various Serbian communities and the lack of economic ties between them. The early history of the Serbs is characterized by the formation of several centers of statehood, which in turn became centers of unification of Serbian lands. Proto-state formations were formed on the coast - the sclavinias of Pagania, Zahumje, Travuniya and Duklja, in the interior regions (the eastern part of modern Bosnia and Sandjak) - Raska. Nominally, all Serbian territories were part of Byzantium, but their dependence was weak. Already in the 7th century, the Christianization of the Serbian tribes began, which ended in the second half of the 9th century with the direct participation of the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius. The emergence of the first monuments of Serbian writing in the Old Church Slavonic language dates back to the same time (initially using the Glagolitic alphabet, from the 10th century the transition to the Cyrillic alphabet began).

State formation

In the middle of the 9th century, under the influence of the attack on the Serbian regions of the proto-Bulgarians, a princely power and state was formed in Raska, headed by Prince (Župan) Vlastimir, who managed to push back the Bulgarians and subjugate part of the coastal territories. The hereditary principle of transfer of power, however, did not work out, which led at the end of the 9th century to civil strife, the weakening of Raska and its transition under the rule of first the First Bulgarian Kingdom, and then, after its fall, Byzantium. Some strengthening of Raska in the middle of the 10th century during the reign of Prince Caslav, who significantly expanded the territory of the state, was replaced after his death in 950 by the collapse of the country. At the same time, the active penetration of Bogomilism from Bulgaria began, which also contributed to the weakening of the central government in Raska. In - gg. Belgrade and the Morava Valley became the center of a massive Slavic uprising led by Peter Delyan against Byzantium.

Rise of Serbia

Under the immediate successors of Stephen the First-Crown, the Serbian state experienced a short period of stagnation and increased influence of neighboring powers, primarily Hungary. At the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, Serbia found itself divided into two states: in the north, in Macva, Belgrade, the Branichev region, as well as in Usora and Soli, Stefan Dragutin, who relied on Hungary, ruled, the rest of the Serbian lands were under the rule of his younger brother Stefan Milutin , oriented mainly towards Byzantium.

Despite the temporary division of the state, the strengthening of Serbia continued: a centralized system of local government was formed, law was reformed, a system of internal communications was created, and the transition to a conditional holding and a pro-nation system in land relations began. At the same time, the influence of the higher clergy and the church increased. Monasticism actively developed, many Orthodox monasteries arose (including Studenica, Zica, Milesevo, Gracanica, as well as the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos), and their churches were built in accordance with the already established original Serbian architectural tradition (“Rash school”). Serbia's affiliation with the Byzantine-Orthodox world was finally consolidated, Catholic influence was practically eliminated, and the Bogomils were expelled from the country. At the same time, the process of Byzantization of the public administration system began, and a pompous royal court was created, modeled on that of Constantinople. There was a rise in mining (largely due to the influx of Saxon settlers), agriculture and trade, in which Dubrovnik merchants played a decisive role. The population of the country increased rapidly and cities grew.

The heyday of the medieval Serbian state occurred during the reign of Stefan Dusan (-). In a series of military campaigns, Stefan Dušan subjugated all of Macedonia, Albania, Epirus, Thessaly and the western part of Central Greece. As a result, Serbia became the largest state in South-Eastern Europe. In 1346, Stefan Dušan was crowned King of the Serbs and Greeks, and the Archbishop of Pecs was proclaimed Patriarch. Serbo-Greek Kingdom Stefan Dusan combined Serbian and Byzantine traditions, the Greeks retained the highest positions in the cities and their land holdings, and the culture was strongly influenced by Greece. The Vardar style developed in architecture, the striking examples of which were the temples in Gračanica, Pec and Lesnov. In 1349, the Law of Stefan Dušan was published, formalizing and codifying the norms of Serbian law. The central power sharply strengthened, an extensive administrative system was formed on the Byzantine model, while maintaining the essential role of the meetings (sabors) of the Serbian aristocracy. The tsar’s internal policy, which relied on the large landed nobility and led to the expansion of its prerogatives, however, did not contribute to the strengthening and unity of the state, especially considering the ethnic diversity of Dusan’s state.

Collapse and Turkish conquest

Soon after the death of Stefan Dušan, his state collapsed. Part of the Greek lands again came under the rule of Byzantium, and semi-independent principalities were formed on the rest. In Serbia proper, large landowners (rulers) left the subordination of the central government, began to pursue their own policies, mint coins and collect taxes: in Zeta, the rule of Balšić was established, in Macedonia - Mrnjavčević, in Old Serbia and Kosovo - Prince Lazar, Nikola Altomanović and Vuk Branković . The unity of the Serbian lands after the death of the last representative of the Nemanjić dynasty, Stefan Uros V in 1371, was supported almost exclusively by the unity of the Orthodox Church in the person of the Peć Patriarchate, which in 1375 achieved canonical recognition by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1377, the Serbian crown was accepted by the ban of Bosnia, Stefan Tvrtko I, however, although his royal title was recognized by Prince Lazar and Vuk Branković, the power of Tvrtko I was purely nominal. Internecine wars between the princes greatly weakened the defense capability of the Serbian lands in the face of the growing Turkish threat. Already in 1371, in the Battle of Maritsa, the Turks defeated the troops of the southern Serbian rulers led by King Vukashin, after which Macedonia came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

An attempt to unite the Serbian lands to organize resistance to the Turks, undertaken by Prince Lazar with the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church, was unsuccessful: June 15, 1389 (on the day of St. Vitus - Vidovdan) in Battle of Kosovo Despite the heroic efforts of the Serbs, they were defeated. Prince Lazar died. Although his son Stefan Lazarevich retained his power, he was forced to recognize the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and participate in the Turkish campaigns. The Battle of Kosovo and the feat of Miloš Obilic, who killed the Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the beginning of the battle, later became one of the most important stories in Serbian national folklore, a symbol of self-sacrifice and unity of the Serbian people in the struggle for independence.

In the first half of the 15th century, when the onslaught of the Turks temporarily weakened due to the threat from Tamerlane, Stefan Lazarević attempted to restore the Serbian state. He accepted the Byzantine title of despot and, relying on an alliance with Hungary, which handed over Belgrade and Macva to him, he again subjugated Zeta (except Primorye), Srebrenica and a number of southern Serbian regions. The central administration was revived, the power of the prince was strengthened, mining and urban crafts were actively encouraged, and the ideas of humanism and the Renaissance began to penetrate Serbia. Architecture (“Moravian school”, represented, in particular, by the monasteries of Resava and Ravanica) and literature (works of Patriarch Danilo III and Stefan Lazarevich himself) experienced a new rise. Capital Serbian despotism became Belgrade, in which a well-fortified fortress was built, partially preserved to this day. Although Nis and Kruševac were lost as a result of a new Turkish invasion in 1425, and then Belgrade came under Hungarian rule, the new capital of Serbia - Smederevo, founded by the despot George Branković, experienced its heyday and won the glory of the second Constantinople. But already in 1438 another Ottoman offensive began. In 1439 Smederevo fell. The long campaign of the Hungarian troops of Janos Hunyadi in -1444 made it possible to expel the Turks from the territory of Serbia and briefly restore its independence. However, the defeat of the Crusaders at Varna in 1444, the defeat of the Hungarian army in the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448 and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 determined the fate of the country. In 1454, Novo Brdo and Pristina were captured, and in 1456 Belgrade was besieged. Finally, in 1459, Smederevo fell. By 1463, Bosnia had been conquered, Herzegovina and, finally, in 1499, Zeta Mountain. The Serbian state ceased to exist.

Socio-economic development

The basis of the economy of the medieval Serbian state was agriculture, primarily farming, as well as cattle breeding, especially in mountainous areas. Significantly longer than in Bulgaria and Croatia, large patriarchal families - zadrugi - and the communal system remained important in Serbia. Collective ownership of land continued to dominate the peasant economy. Gradually, however, the processes of feudalization of land relations and enslavement of peasants intensified. Already in “The Lawyer of Stefan Dusan” the dependent position of the peasantry was legally established and the right of transition was abolished.

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  • Two peoples who speak practically the same language and previously lived side by side in the same country actually hate each other.

    Serbian and Croatian are essentially dialects of the same language - Serbo-Croatian, as it was called in the now defunct Yugoslavia. The language differs in writing in that Croats use exclusively Latin letters, while Serbs also use Cyrillic. In pronunciation, the Serbian “ekavica” differs from the Croatian “jekavica”, that is, in the same words, the Serbs pronounce short “e”, and the Croats draw out “ie”. There are also differences in terms of word formation: Serbs prefer borrowed words from foreign languages: “football”, while Croats try to invent their own with Slavic roots: “nogomet”.

    However, Serbs, Croats, as well as Bosnians and Montenegrins understand each other perfectly, even speaking in different dialects. For comparison, a Serb or Croat will understand a Slovenian or Bulgarian, if they use their native language, only 60-70%. The differences between Serbian and Croatian are much smaller than between Russian and Ukrainian or Belarusian.

    However, relations between the two states are more than complicated. Croatia still cannot forget the Yugoslav attack in 1991 and the siege of Dubrovnik. A lawsuit against Serbia on this matter was filed by Croatia in the international court back in 1999. Now Serbia is accusing the Croats of genocide against the Serbs. It should be noted that a large Croat minority still lives in Serbia, but in Croatia the ranks of Serbs have become significantly thinner after several Croatian operations to expel the Serbs from the territory of Croatia, and, subsequently, the open hostility of the Croats, who treated the Serbs as people of the “second varieties."

    Serbs openly do not like Croats, firstly, because of the Serbian principle of not loving anyone who fought against Serbia, secondly, they still remember Croatia's collaboration with Nazi Germany, and thirdly, because of different beliefs. In Yugoslavia, which consisted of six republics, religious differences were practically forgotten due to the socialist mood, but it was precisely the contradictions in religion that served to disintegrate the once prosperous country. Bosnian Islam, Croatian Catholicism and Serbian Orthodoxy could not be combined on the territory of one country, but, on the contrary, gave rise to various conflicts and wars. http://nvl22.ru/publ/pochemu_serby_i_khorvaty_nenavidjat_drug_druga/38-1-0-77

    On the Dyukov stormfront I communicate with both of them, in correspondence I find out that they don’t like each other. But everything suddenly became clear when Ukraine broke out, the Croats began to lean towards the “right sector” and only the Serbs do not believe that this sector is “right” and with such an event they collided. They fully supported me, there in the Russian section there is a modern Russophobe ala Ludota Kogan. Everyone left there, only he and the “frost” of ours, Russophobes.

    The Croats are lighter because the Austrians defended them, they were in the same empire and mixed with them. The Serbs, on the contrary, are many dark, they were under the Turks for 300 years. If it weren’t for the Russian Empire, they wouldn’t exist today. But they are ours and I am theirs I respect you.

    Serbs openly do not like Croats, firstly, because of the Serbian principle of not loving anyone who fought against Serbia, secondly, they still remember Croatia's collaboration with Nazi Germany, and thirdly, because of different beliefs. In Yugoslavia, which consisted of six republics, religious differences were practically forgotten due to the socialist mood, but it was precisely the contradictions in religion that served to disintegrate the once prosperous country. [B]Bosnian Islam, Croatian Catholicism and Serbian Orthodoxy could not be combined on the territory of one country, but, on the contrary, gave rise to various conflicts and wars.

    Actually, as I also discovered for myself not so long ago, this is an axiom and obvious for those who study political science at a slightly higher amateur level.
    There the following understanding of the construction of ANY civilization is clearly indicated:
    - basis - ALWAYS cult(faith-concept - call it like hosh);
    - is built on it philosophy. We have been fooled into thinking that this is an abstract concept, that philosophy can exist separately. But in life this is not the case. Philosophy is ALWAYS derived from a cult basis.
    — 3rd floor — vacant science and art- which must also rest on the lower floors (if they are not even visible);
    - 4th floor - on the basis of the 3rd floor, economic culture is built in society, culture production
    - stems from the culture of production - and not from the lantern policy(system of interaction in society)
    - and as a derivative of political culture, that is, the order of interaction in society), culture is formed household…

    This is an immutable law of development of any society. Why go far to the Balkans - let’s take a closer look at the same Ukraine. After all, Bendery and Eastern Ukrainians are the same song as the Serb-Croats... And the difference is still the same - some are Catholics, and others are Orthodox...
    As a result - if you call a spade a spade - these are two different, and hostile (as well as Serb-Croatian) peoples.

    And finally this:

    The Croats are lighter, because the Austrians defended them, were in the same empire and mixed with them. The Serbs, on the contrary, are many dark, they were under the Turks for 300 years. If it weren’t for the Russian Empire, they wouldn’t exist today. But they are their own and I respect them.

    Here again is the reaction, and a subconscious one, of a Russian person to the Serbs - “OUR OWN”. So, in all honesty, having found the courage not to hypocritically admit things by their proper names - why are the Serbs “ours”, and the Croats, the same Slavs, “not ours”??

    I repeat - this is not my opinion - I myself learned from many different sources (both Russian, and European and Jewish, and modern and centuries ago) that the basis of worldview and identification and belonging to oneself and others (like friend or foe) is a cult.

    Why am I saying this, that this is all an irresponsible utopia of not resolving issues of unity or at least mutual respect of cults, and saying: then the thunder will strike anyway, “we’ll end up in the same trenches.” After all, this is the story of the Croat-Serbs. and Bendery-Ukrainians shows that it is more likely to end up in different trenches...

    Therefore, this is not a joke. And you need to train in mutual respect just like that on a subconscious level EXACTLY “before the thunder struck.
    The sad example and experience of the history of Croats-Serbs-Bendery-Ukrainians should hang like a pre-Mocles sword over every serious, sane nationalist, especially at the moment when you want to open your mouth for another spit in the direction of a Russian adherent of a different cult.

    In Yugoslavia, which consisted of six republics, religious differences were practically forgotten due to the socialist mood, but it was precisely the contradictions in religion that contributed to the collapse of the once prosperous country

They DO NOT HAVE any ethnic affiliation with the SLAVS....
These are the SAME individuals running around here in Kaukaza...
And the phenotype is the same and the mentality is SIMILAR.....
I don’t UNDERSTAND how a NORMAL RUSSIAN can consider such peoples as Bulgarians and Serbs to be related to themselves??!!!
Well, okay, Croats and Slovenes - they really are practically no different from the SLAVS - put Czech and Croat next to each other - you can’t immediately tell who is who - Czechs are often even darker in hair color....
But THESE are...
Put a TURK, a Bulgarian and a Serb next to each other - you won’t be able to tell the difference.....
I KNOW where such passionate “Love” for the Serbian MUDBLOODS comes from - it’s because they BELIEVE in the same version of the crucified Jew as the assholes in FUCKING RASHKA.
This is precisely why the POPs tied this ALIEN CRAP to the Russians in Russia...
This is precisely why RUSSIANS ran HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS to die for these goats, if not MILLIONS...
This is precisely why the hysterically screaming Russian Empire was the FIRST to attack BROTHERLY Germany in WWII......
True, Germany survived, but the Russian Empire DEAD, but let him thank the Serbian *** “brothers” for this...
By the way, for some reason called “brothers”, the fucking BULGARIANS calmly SHOOT at Russians in BOTH world wars......
And they didn’t fight on the side of the Russians...
"Brothers" ***e....

Of course, you CAN find something decent among the Serbs... Not all of them are Turks... but MOST of them are simply striking. I have traveled almost ALL the Balkans - not only in the Republic of Macedonia, but also in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Slovenia, Greek Macedonia, European Turkey (I was also in Asian Turkey) - and I KNOW what I am writing about.... In Croatia, I traveled ALL the Dalmatian coast and the CLOSER to the north - the more pleasant the faces.... And the closer to Montenegro, the worse it gets... We don’t think Dubrovnik has a larger Italian population there actually.... In I didn’t stop by Albania, but I saw a lot of Albanians...WORSE than the Chechens, draw your own conclusions......
And according to MORAL..... The most FUCKED are the SERBIANS... Even the Bosnian guys - even though they are Muslims - are even MORE NORMAL.,.. The Serobs are just FROSTBACK...... After the Serbs in terms of frostbittenness come the Montenegrins . They really don’t rush themselves, unlike the Serbs, but if God forbid they get caught... I say again - Bosniaks are WAY more peaceful..... The nicest Croats and Slovenians. No aggression, very nice, honest, neat, polite. There was no case of being shortchanged, rude, or mischievous.... In Serbia - on every corner..... In Montenegro - much less... But their mentality... so they don’t bully visitors THEMSELVES... As a rule, they don’t cheat.....

But by the way, the “LOVE” of the fucking “brothers” for Russia.... is real, and not the one they declare in front of media cameras......
If anyone has been to Serbia (and I have been), then you have OFTEN encountered this...
I haven’t seen anything like this among the Croats, Montenegrins and even Bosniaks - although those are Muslims....

WHAT THE FUCK do we need you SERBIAN freaks??!!!
All their LIFE the Russians supported Fucking Serbia, NOTHING, receiving NOTHING at all from the SCASTERS in return...
All their lives, the Russians LIBERATED Serbia with their own lives, either from the Turks or from the Germans, but AT LEAST ONE SERB defended Russia?!!
So let the “bros” go - FUCK.....
Of all the Slavs of the former Yugoslavia, I have the WORST attitude towards the SERBs - lazy, cowardly, vile, thoroughly ORTHODOX whores, completely DIRTY in racial terms, unlike the same Croats and Slovenians...
Put a Serb and a Turk side by side - the only difference is circumcision.....
Having looked at both of them, I’ll say that the TURKS are nicer - they have fewer CHARGES.... Oh, Kosovo was taken away from these Serbs...
Well, this is the PROBLEM of the Serbs, NOT the RUSSIANS...
You should have FUCKED LESS...
By the way, INSTEAD of solving the problem of Kosovo, the Serbs were solving the problem of Bosnia, Croatia, Dubrovnik... They didn’t care about the Albanians in Kosovo... While they sat quietly and did not separate... Well, like Chechnya... Oh, they quietly slaughtered the Serbs.... But the SERBians didn’t give a F*CK about it... The Serbs started yelling when Kosovo wanted to SEPARATE.....
Well, now NORMAL RUSSIANS - Fuck the Serbs.....
We have a lot of OWN problems....

Do you think these are Croatian Ustashi?
NO WAY IT'S SO!
THE SOVIET CREATURES LOVE to attribute SUCH photos to them, but the Ustasha NEVER did THIS...
These are SERBIAN Chetniks...
They cut, rape and take pictures...
By the way, judging by the faces, they are killing CROATS or SLOVENS, the faces are SLAVIC.....
Here they are - SERBI geeks in all their glory....

By the way, the CROATIAN RETRIBUTION - Ustasha took off the head of the SERBIAN Chetnik, the commander of the degenerates who destroyed Croatian villages....
But this is just a severed head... in the photo there is a SLAV, and the head is of a typical Turk...... Oh, excuse me... A SERBIAN, that is, an UNCIRCUMCISED TURK....

Serbs Chetniks killed a Croatian - CUT OFF his head....
In each Chetnik detachment there were so-called “kolyachis” (from the Serbian verb “kolyati” - to cut), that is, executioners....
Execution was carried out EXCLUSIVELY with cold steel. Later, in 1944, the Chetniks also dealt with captured Soviet soldiers and officers.
And then the SERBS complain - they say they DO NOT LIKE them....
But Chechen...
FIND 10 differences between a degenerate Serb and a Chechen....
Well, RUSSIAN *** - do you still consider the Serbs to be “brothers”?....

Croatian Ustasha - WHITE, EUROPEAN SLAVIC-Nordic persons....

, Roman Catholic Church, Slovak-Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, Reformed Christian Church, Evangelical Christian Church, Jewish and Islamic religious communities) and "confessional associations" (listed in a special register). The difference is that traditional churches and religious associations, unlike denominational associations, have the right to organize religious education in schools. In addition, the 2006 law prohibited the registration of a religious organization if its name is identical to the name of a religious organization already registered in the register or the name of an organization that is undergoing registration.

Believers in Serbia
Orthodox 85.0 %
Catholics 5.5 %
Muslims 3.2 %
Protestants 1.1 %
Jews 0.09 %
Other 0.07 %

According to the city census, without Kosovo:

  • Orthodox - 6,371,584 people. (85.0% of the population),
  • Catholics - 410,976 people. (5.5% of the population),
  • Muslims - 239,658 people. (3.2% of the population),
  • Protestants - 80,837 people. (1.1% of the population),
  • Jews - 785 people. (0.09% of the population),
  • other faiths - 530 people. (0.07% of the population).

Register of churches and religious communities

Organizations included in the register:

  • Slovak Evangelical Church a.v.
  • Reformed Christian Church
  • Evangelical Christian Church a.v.
  • Jewish community
  • Islamic community
  • Dioceses of the Romanian Orthodox Church
  • Christian Adventist Church
  • Evangelical Methodist Church
  • Evangelical Church in Serbia
  • Church of Christ's Love
  • Christ's Spiritual Church
  • Union of Christian Baptist Churches in Serbia
  • Christian Nazarene religious community
  • Church of God in Serbia
  • Protestant Christian community in Serbia
  • Christ Church of the Brothers in the Republic of Serbia
  • Free Church of Belgrade
  • Christian religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Zion Covenant Church
  • Union of Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movements
  • Protestant Evangelical Church "Spiritual Center"

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- How did they take you, falcon, from your house?
- No, I went to the fire, and then they grabbed me and tried me for an arsonist.
“Where there is court, there is no truth,” the little man interjected.
- How long have you been here? – asked Pierre, chewing the last potato.
- Is that me? That Sunday they took me from the hospital in Moscow.
-Who are you, soldier?
- Soldiers of the Absheron Regiment. He was dying of fever. They didn't tell us anything. About twenty of us were lying there. And they didn’t think, they didn’t guess.
- Well, are you bored here? asked Pierre.
- It’s not boring, falcon. Call me Plato; “Karataev’s nickname,” he added, apparently in order to make it easier for Pierre to address him. - They called him Falcon in the service. How not to get bored, falcon! Moscow, she is the mother of cities. How not to get bored looking at this. Yes, the worm gnaws at the cabbage, but before that you disappear: that’s what the old men used to say,” he added quickly.
- How, how did you say that? asked Pierre.
- Is that me? – asked Karataev. “I say: not by our mind, but by God’s judgment,” he said, thinking that he was repeating what had been said. And he immediately continued: “How come you, master, have estates?” And there is a house? Therefore, the cup is full! And is there a hostess? Are your old parents still alive? - he asked, and although Pierre could not see in the darkness, he felt that the soldier’s lips were wrinkled with a restrained smile of affection while he was asking this. He was apparently upset that Pierre did not have parents, especially a mother.
“A wife is for advice, a mother-in-law is for greetings, and nothing is dearer than your own mother!” - he said. - Well, are there any children? – he continued to ask. Pierre's negative answer again apparently upset him, and he hastened to add: “Well, there will be young people, God willing.” If only I could live in the council...
“It doesn’t matter now,” Pierre said involuntarily.
“Eh, you’re a dear man,” Plato objected. - Never give up money or prison. “He sat down better and cleared his throat, apparently preparing for a long story. “So, my dear friend, I was still living at home,” he began. “Our patrimony is rich, there is a lot of land, the men live well, and our home, thank God.” The priest himself went out to mow. We lived well. They were real Christians. It happened... - And Platon Karataev told a long story about how he went to someone else’s grove behind the forest and was caught by a guard, how he was whipped, tried and handed over to the soldiers. “Well, the falcon,” he said, his voice changing with a smile, “they thought grief, but joy!” My brother should go, if it were not for my sin. And the younger brother has five boys himself - and look, I have only one soldier left. There was a girl, and God took care of her even before she became a soldier. I came on leave, I’ll tell you. I see they live better than before. The yard is full of bellies, women are at home, two brothers are at work. Only Mikhailo, the youngest, is at home. Father says: “All children are equal to me: no matter what finger you bite, everything hurts. If only Plato hadn’t been shaved then, Mikhail would have gone.” He called us all - believe me - he put us in front of the image. Mikhailo, he says, come here, bow at his feet, and you, woman, bow, and your grandchildren bow. Got it? speaks. So, my dear friend. Rock is looking for his head. And we judge everything: sometimes it’s not good, sometimes it’s not okay. Our happiness, my friend, is like water in delirium: if you pull it, it swells, but if you pull it out, there’s nothing. So that. - And Plato sat down on his straw.
After being silent for some time, Plato stood up.
- Well, I have tea, do you want to sleep? - he said and quickly began to cross himself, saying:
- Lord Jesus Christ, Nikola the saint, Frola and Lavra, Lord Jesus Christ, Nikola the saint! Frol and Lavra, Lord Jesus Christ - have mercy and save us! - he concluded, bowed to the ground, stood up and, sighing, sat down on his straw. - That's it. “Put it down, God, like a pebble, lift it up like a ball,” he said and lay down, pulling on his greatcoat.
-What prayer were you reading? asked Pierre.
- Ass? - said Plato (he was already falling asleep). - Read what? I prayed to God. Don’t you ever pray?
“No, and I pray,” said Pierre. - But what did you say: Frol and Lavra?
“But what about,” Plato quickly answered, “a horse festival.” And we must feel sorry for the livestock,” Karataev said. - Look, the rogue has curled up. She got warm, the son of a bitch,” he said, feeling the dog at his feet, and, turning around again, immediately fell asleep. By accepting the Croatian Charge of Genocide against Serbia, the International Court of Truth in The Hague gave official Croatia another opportunity to show racist hatred against the Serbs. Ante Starčević (1823-1896), considered the “father of the nation” in Croatia, infected many Croats with it back in the century before last, laying it in the foundations of the Croatian Party of Law, which he founded together with E. Kvaternik.

A terrible paradox: the mother of the “father of the nation” was an Orthodox Serb, his father was a Serb converted to Catholicism, and their son Ante became the ideological inspirer of the Serb genocide in Croatia. He also felt great hatred for Jews, although his closest ally was Joseph Frank, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and became a Croatian nationalist. Under their leadership, a crowd of Croats during the first three days of September 1902 in Zagreb, Karlovac and Slavonski Brod smashed Serbian workshops and shops, broke into their houses, beat them, threw property out of the premises... Was this some kind of prologue to Kristallnacht in Germany on November 9, 1939?!

The “Father of the Croatian Nation” wrote about the Serbs: “The Serbs are trash, degenerates, feeding on feces and devouring the remains of victims. Serbs by their nature are devoid of reason and respect, they are disgusted with freedom, and they are disgusted with any goodness.”

These are the national shrines and foundations of Ustasha Croatia, Tudjman Croatia. How much has changed in present-day Croatia? Have these ideas become shared by the entire Great West? The attitude demonstrated by the International Court of Truth in The Hague, accepting the Croatian claim against Serbia on charges of genocide, makes us inclined to answer this question in the affirmative.

ETHNIC CLEANSING IN CROATIA: EXPILED PEOPLE AND BURNED BOOKS

Who is really to blame for the genocide? Croats or Serbs? To answer this question, let's look at history. Let us remember how the Croatian Sabor (Parliament) in 1990 deprived the Serbs of the status of a state-forming people in Croatia. A year later, a population census was conducted. According to its data, 581,663 Serbs (or 12.2% of the total population) remain living in Croatia. After all the horrors of the war, ten years later there were already 201,631 Serbs left in Croatia (only 4.5% of the Croatian population). The number of Serbs was thus reduced by more than two-thirds.

“For many years, Croatia insisted on the incident in the town of Ovčara near the city of Vukovar as the largest war crime of the Serbs against the Croats. At the same time, the terrible crime in Croatia committed at the beginning of the war remained, as it were, forgotten - the crime in the village of Januze, where 500 Serbs were killed, who were then taken away in refrigeration units. There is a protected witness for this. However, not a single trial for this crime took place,” writes Professor Svetozar Livada, philosopher, historian, demographer.

The professor claims that “the purest ethnic cleansing that has ever been carried out anywhere has been carried out in Croatia.” Settlements were renamed - 52 in total. Along with toponyms, the identity of everything living and inanimate that existed there was destroyed, then the cadastral books were revised and, finally, “bookicide” was carried out. My Croatian friend wrote a book about the destruction of the book fund. The person who wrote the instructions on how to destroy the book collection received an award from the Croatian state last year for Library Worker's Day.

During this action, 100 thousand books were destroyed - all books printed in Cyrillic or even Latin, but in Serbia. All literature on Marxism, anti-fascist literature, many books whose authors were Jews, Muslims, and Russians were destroyed.

COUNTER CHARGES MADE TOO LATE

These are just a few strokes to the portrait of a country that considers itself a “victim of genocide.” It is also memorable for us Serbs that Croatia first brought a claim against Serbia in July 1999, when we were in fear and pain after the frantic NATO bombing that lasted 78 days. The children were still screaming at the car horns, fearing that the siren was warning of an air raid. Mothers were still wandering around Kosovo and Metohija in search of missing and dead sons who ended up in the ranks of the regular Army of the SR Yugoslavia. The ruins of destroyed bridges still swayed over the rivers of Serbia. The torn up graves, from bombs aimed at cemeteries, seemed to indicate that NATO forces would bomb us and the dead. And the wounded children still asked in fear: what did we do to them?..

Having separated from the SFRY, Croatia accused official Belgrade of being responsible for “the ethnic cleansing of Croatian citizens as a form of genocide, since it directly controlled the actions of its armed forces, intelligence services and various paramilitary units that committed crimes on Croatian territory, in the Knin region , eastern and western Slavonia and Dalmatia."

Croatia demanded that the International Court of Truth declare Serbia guilty of violating the Genocide Convention, force it to “punish all criminals” and return cultural objects to Croatia, paying reparations in the amount determined by the court.

Meanwhile, the International Court of Truth refused to accept Serbia's claim in 2004 against NATO member countries for the 1999 bombings. The court stated that this issue was beyond its jurisdiction. Why? Is it because in this case the claim was filed by the Serbs? I would like to emphasize that Serbia is the first and only country in the history of this court that they are trying to accuse of genocide.

In Serbia's highly controversial political scene, dominated by the sadomasochism of the ruling elite, this lawsuit has sparked new controversy and manipulation. Until now, all the authorities have been capable of is endless apologies to the Croats and Bosnians. President Boris Tadic set a real record by “repenting” for “war crimes” three times: immediately at the beginning of his presidency during a visit to Sarajevo, then in Srebrenica and Zagreb.

Then in Srebrenica he said nothing. But we know that Boris Tadic never bowed his head to the shadows of three thousand Serbs from Srebrenica, whom Naser Oric's thugs killed in the most brutal way.

Only in response to Zagreb’s demarche did the Serbian government decide to bring a counter-charge against the crimes of the Croats against the Serbs, and not only during the operations of the 90s “Blesak” and “Oluja”, but also for the crimes committed in the Independent State of Croatia during the Second World War .

MESIC'S CYNISM KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES

Serbian lawyers will try to prove the connection between the events of World War II and the events of the 90s, in the sense of a repetition of the Ustasha crimes.

However, immediately after the decision of the Serbian government to make a counter-accusation, Croatian President Stipe Mesic, as always contemptuous and cynical, stated that “the operations of the Croatian troops were legitimate, that many Serbs left Croatia along with JNA units, and the Croatian army did not cross any borders, did not devastate the villages of Serbia, did not send its volunteers to its territory, that Serbian citizens were not kept in Croatian concentration camps.”

It is amazing that this is said by Mesic, who was the last president of the SFRY and the supreme commander of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). It was on his orders that the JNA was sent to Slovenia when separatist tendencies manifested themselves there with particular force, which had disastrous consequences both for the union state and for the innocent soldiers of the JNA.

The first defensive battles of the JNA began there. Paramilitary units began to attack military barracks. Almost all the barracks were surrounded and isolated - without gas, water, electricity, food. Soldiers were killed inside the barracks.

Tudjman, back in 1989, while in Germany, said that the land in Krajina would turn red with blood when he was president of Croatia. And so it happened! Then, already as President of Croatia, in April 1994, he proudly declared in Zagreb: “There would be no war if Croatia didn’t want it!”

A FEW PERSONAL MEMORIES

For me personally, the acceptance of Croatia's claim against Serbia brought back painful memories. In early November 1991, we, three women from Belgrade, took about 1,300 parents from Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, risking their lives to visit their sons, brothers, fathers and husbands who, as JNA soldiers, had already been serving for several months locked in JNA barracks in the military district of Zagreb.

When we were barely allowed to enter the city of Bjelovar, we had to walk from the bus to the school-prison through a raging crowd that threw stones at us, cursed dirtyly, and threatened to hang us in the central square of Belgrade when the Croats entered it.

A month earlier, militants of the Croatian Zbor of the People's Guard (the notorious Zeng - from the abbreviation ZNG), after a multi-day blockade of the barracks, which housed the 265th motorized brigade of the JNA and recruits who had just arrived for duty, attacked the barracks. Three soldiers were killed and many were wounded.

Instead of helping, the Zagreb Military District Command sent them the EU Observer Mission - “for a mediation mission in ending the armed clashes.” This Mission never arrived in Bjelovar.

Having no chance of successfully completing the defense, the Brigade commander ordered it to stop, lay down arms and surrender. The military lined up on the parade ground. Zenga's fighters entered the barracks, and the Croatian chairman of the so-called Crisis Headquarters, Bjelovar, ordered the prisoners of war to strip to the waist: 60 senior and junior commanders and about 150 soldiers. Then the Croats disabled the brigade commander and his assistant and shot them in front of the line.

Six captured soldiers, among whom were two Croats, were taken out of the barracks on October 3 by men in uniform and masks. In the nearby forest, all six were shot.

The next day, the residents of Bjelovar came to the occupied barracks. They spat and urinated on the bodies of executed prisoners of war, soldiers and officers of the JNA.

Then we came to Bjelovar, 250 people, mostly mothers, sisters, grandfathers and grandmothers. We came to visit the surviving prisoners, 18-year-old boys. More spitting and swearing...

Not far from the barracks on Mount Bedenik, the JNA had an arsenal. Major Milan Tepich, the head of the warehouse, and seven of his soldiers, so that the weapons would not fall to the Ustasha, blew up the warehouse at the cost of their lives. Among the dead was Stojadin Mirkovic, a soldier originally from the outskirts of Valjevo.

Mother Stoyadin was among us. I came to see my beloved son. When the warden read his name, he simply said, “Dead!” I will never forget his harsh voice and her dull, disbelieving answer: “I want my son. Let him be dead! I only managed to press the handkerchief to her lips to muffle my mother’s scream.

Three years later, she managed to transfer the posthumous remains of her son. We became sisters.

Remembering this episode, I want to ask: will Stojadin also be accused in The Hague of committing genocide against the Croatian people?

Translation from Serbian by Mikhail Yambaev