Tankies get really mad when you affirm the reality of the Bosnian genocide because, to them, the Yugoslav wars are a classic example of Western imperialism to dismantle “socialism” in Europe.
To them, the war began with and is exclusive to the NATO war against Milosevic’s forces. The idea that the war began with Milosevic’s invasions of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia, or that it involved the people of Yugoslavia fighting for their own goals and purposes, is utterly alien. The people of the former Yugoslavia aren’t really real to them; they’re fetish objects, background character’s in the tankie’s story.
https://kolektiva.social/@interstellar_wind/110887500385825779
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2023-08-14 12:42:32
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