>Sad/Irony is, that stigma wich Milosevic&theGang brought uppon Serbian people, hurted/hurting part of the population that was almost 100% AGAINST all that regime.
>Even worse, one day when/if we decide to go back home, we will
>face some new radical cowboys looking suspiciosely at us, branding us as
>*foreigners*, less patriots, spies and what not.

I got a taste of that a couple of years ago, in a few emails from a cousin's friend, who never knew me. She openly accused me of leaving the country in self-interest and criticising it, instead of staying and helping and trying to change it for the better.

Which was what I actually did - I should have gone in 1988 when I had a much better opportunity, but I didn't. Whoever asked me why didn't I, my standard answer was "I'm giving this country another chance". The most glorious screwup of my life.

I was a cofounder of two companies there, which sustained about 30 families at their best, and ended up driving a bicycle (alternating with dad's 1984 Trabant), unable to afford any better salary for either my workers or myself. We even had a hefty contract, which could have sustained us for months, simply cancelled and turned over to someone else's company (which probably botched the remainder later) for unknown reasons. Probably they had connections in the right party.

When I retire, I won't really give a damn what another idiot who'd try to split us into patriots and traitors would have to say. I may feel a bit of a perfect pain in nether regions about that, 's all.