>>The people DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT EACH OTHER. Not until they were pushed into it. Then they had to, and when the blood fell, it was all replayed again. I've heard stories of how the push was done, but don't want to spread such ideas anywhere.
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>I am going to accept that you know a lot more about what was going on there than I do. I guess I just assumed they hated each other since they were so busily trying to kill each other off. But they were pushed into it....

The worst I saw was maybe a wry look when I was visiting Zagreb in 1974, we were all drunk more or less, and I'd say something aloud in obviously non-Croatian manner of speaking, and one of my hosts would just say "he's with us" and any sign of trouble went away. And that was just a couple of years after of an attempt by nationalists to take over. More than 90% of the people didn't give a damn - heck, I didn't even know who was who nationwise.

Then after 1986 it slowly began, and even so it took some four years and reopening wounds and applying salt to them, like the limestone pits in Krajina where the Serbs who were slaughtered in WWII by the Ustashe were thrown - these were covered and mostly forgotten except by near relatives. And even these were living in peace with the descendants of those who slaughtered their grandparents... until this. After three or four years of propaganda everyone belonged to a nation who was severely wronged by another. And four decades of building brotherhood and unity were sent down the drain.