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Part 2-3
Albanians from Kosovo, also known as Kosovars, have several ways to escape: to their
native Albania, to neighbouring Macedonia, to Montenegro and from there to sunny Italy or
wealthy Germany. From this selection the least attractive is Albania - a poor,
disorganized country where people dislike Kosovars. Because in Tito's Yugoslavia they
enjoyed more freedoms than in Hoxha's Albania. They were rich, proud, could travel, could
maintain their old habits and religion, while Albanians became an object of the brutal
communist indoctrination. In further perspective it means that the Albanian minority in
Macedonia, Italy, Germany and Greece will grow. Circa about one million people - peanuts
when compared to Palestinians. When refugee camps grow we will bomb them again. This time
with a total, peaceful, humanitarian aid. Oh, boy, how do we love those Albanians; that
exotic, proud nation of the Eagles! We are willing to give them all we have: chocolate,
Michelina's pasta, Campbell's soup, second-hand clothes, cosmetic kits, soap, jam, straw
hats, baseball
bats... They will drawn in this galore of goodwill gifts, they will vomit with canned pork
from the Vietnam War surplus. Isn't it cool?
Some years from now Italian, German and Greek townfolks will discover to their
astonishment that Albanian immigrants mostly form grey zone, even social margin. That they
are stuck to their strange, ridiculous habits. "They mistreat their wives",
feminazis will scream. "They conceive too many children", demographers will
warn. Others will raise concerns that they become Italian, German or Greek citizens too
easily. And they collect welfare too easily. Macedonians are already afraid that the
intake of refugees can transform their Albanian minority into majority. Just like in
neighbouring Serbian Kosovo. United Europe will turn its back to those annoying Albanian
immigrants. Eventually they will come to the conclusion that Serbs were actually right
when they expelled people, who are not willing to Germanize, Romanize or Hellenize but are
stuck to Medieval social structures and Asiatic beliefs. And they steal cars. And fight
with
Yugos. And shit in staircases. Yuck!
The oldie NATO has choosen a present for its 50th birthday itself - the war on
independent, sovereign state. Right before the attack they said that the goal was to
overthrow the anti-democratic regime of half-intelligent Miloshevich, and to force bad
Serbs to cease ethnic cleansing of good Albanians. When the smoke dismissed we saw that
Miloshevich is still doing well, thousands of Serbs are killed, and survivers enjoy an
ease and moral right to slaughter Albanians - a "fifth column" in the invaded
country.
Regardless of results of the Kosovo campaign, there hardly will be room for both Serbs and
Albanians in one country. Montenegro's separatism will also grow, other separatisms will
catch the wind too. There is something cannibalistic in the way Americans and their Blair
kill their own kid. For Yugoslavia was not created by communists; not even by czarist
Russia. The irony of history may have it that Yugoslavia was conceived by Croat
pan-Slavists, who sought emancipation from the k.u.k. Habsburg Monarchy. She was born in
1918 from decisions of the Versailles Treaty, and the president of the United States,
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was her midwife. Victorious powers created then the Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia), shaped its territory and political
system. Henry Kissinger examines it in his "Diplomacy". The concept of
Yugoslavia fit aspirations of South Slavic intellectuals but creation of a modern state
required crossing an invisible line, which divided it more or less in between Serbia and
Croatia. A line between the West and the East, between the Catholicism and the Orthodoxy,
between the Latin and the Slavonic alphabets. On top of that so different and so similar
people were ruled by dictators: the King and his army before 1941, and Tito and his
communist partisans after 1945. It exploded once in 1941 but nobody learnt the lesson. So
the history repeated once again. Not as a farce but as a bloody drama of the 1991 civil
war. The West started dismantling its own construction and released a gene from the
bottle. Will we put it back in the bottle with bombs and missiles? If not, how will we
explain it to Quebecers, Basques, Kurds or Northern Irish that they have no rights to
secede? And how many people will yet die courtesy to Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson,
George Bush and Dietrich Genscher?
In cultural Europe ethnic cleansings are considered a shameful way to solve problems of
national minorities. In East Europe it is a standard. Serbs were once driven from Kosovo.
In 1389, after the Serbo-Bulgaro-Albanian coalition suffered a defeat in the battle with
Turks, who poured into Europe. The West had then its share in the deal: Hungarian king
Sigismund the Luxembourg invaded Serbia from the north and plundered what Turks spared.
The same Sigismund was defeated by Turks seven years later in the battle of Nicopolis.
Desolated Kosovo was seized by Albanians - valiant highlanders. Not so long time ago
Serbs, Croats and Moslems were ethnically cleansing their backyards in Bosnia. Somewhat
earlier Romanians drove Hungarians from Transilvania and Bulgarians
expelled their Moslems to Turkey. A NATO country, with a long tradition of slaughtering
Slavs, Greeks, Arabs, Armenians, and most recently - Kurds. Some 50 years ago Poles were
killing and chasing Germans from the lands granted to them by Yalta agreements and
authority of the invincible Red Army. Later they made short with Ukrainians, Byelorussians
and Lithuanians. And Jews. Survivers were driven from Polish ethnically clean eastern
frontiers to ethnically clean western ones.
Part 3-3
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