In five pages Balkan Ghosts by Kaplan is referenced in this consideration of the Yugoslavian state collapse and the role played by politics, religion, and ethnicity. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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why the current situation in that area is so complex. Hatred, bitterness and resentment run deeply in the Balkans and once these sentiments are intertwined with political disputes, the
result is war, violence and ravaging which have few clear solutions. Yugoslav History Yugoslavia has been important throughout history, based
upon its ideal location (History and Government of Yugoslavia). This area was once referred to as Macedonia and had been controlled by various others through the ages.
During World War II Yugoslavia was divided - between the fascist Ustashe and the Nazi State which consisted of Slovenia, Croatia,
and Bosnia-Herzegovina (A Brief History of Yugoslavia). It was during this time that there was mass killings of Serbian Orthodox believers as well as Jews and Gypsies (A Brief
History of Yugoslavia). After World War II Joseph Tito managed to unify the six republics into a communist dictatorship, which was independent of Russia (A Brief History of Yugoslavia).
Amazingly, he was able to suppress the religious conflict which had wrecked the country for many years (A Brief History of
Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolve their conflicts, so this was much of the
impetus for the conflicts which exploded in the 1990s (A Brief History of Yugoslavia). Tito died in 1980 and the
tensions started to mount again (A Brief History of Yugoslavia). This was the era of Slobodan Milosevic who promised the Serbs that no one would ever again beat them