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With my wife Dace we went through this side of the map again to share it with you. We hope you will join us in finding without searching, which is our way of approaching these geographies.
We are in Sarajevo. At Café Tito, in the Bosnian capital, we allow ourselves a look around that includes backwards, and a book within reach transports us.
The Bosnians, an essay novel written by Velibor Čolić and originally published in 1994, is a strange work, it is a kind of chronicle, diary, notes against oblivion.
Yugoslavia was a State in which Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Herzegovins, Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics, Montenegrins lived side by side, it was a world in which a series of cultures, traditions and languages converged, affirmed by that State made in the image and likeness of Josef Broz Tito.
When Tito died and as a result of the economic crises and political tensions, the struggles broke out to break the framework of the old Yugoslavia, in which the Bosnian war was one of these links.
25 years after the start of the conflict, Čolić intends to dismantle the myth according to which this was an ethnic war. And also, in fact, the very existence of three towns with great differences among themselves, the supposed cause to justify the "inevitable conflict"
"If three apparently different groups, the author asks, speak exactly the same language (in any case with differences such as those between Catalan and Valencian), they have very similar customs and have cohabited for centuries. Until what point can it be affirmed that they are three different ethnic groups?
Instead, the author defends that the ethnic element was, precisely, the pretext of the elites from the Yugoslav system to perpetuate themselves in power, even if it was at the price of generating a civil war.
The volume intends, in short, to demonstrate how ethnic-cultural differences were amplified and stimulated to justify the conflict.
The result is around us today, Bosnia is a divided country within an old divided Yugoslavia. The borders, once again, divided on a whim.
Geopolitical and economic interests were added to the desires of local powers.
Who knows what would have happened to these geographies without the war of division, without interventions from outside. It is history that took it upon itself to kill that opportunity.
Nostalgia lingers in the corners. We hope you liked this short video about the old Yugoslavia.
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🔎 I am Gustavo Llusá, Argentine, after traveling for several years in more than 60 countries, I settled in Latvia where I got married and learned to know another way of life, on the other side of the map.
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