It's different....with serbia they were not equal...pretty much never have been. They don't really have any benefits from being with Serbia as opposed to joining the EU. Serbia has abused the former yugoslav republics too much for any of them to wish and have to be under their dominion. I'm glad that montenegro will get independence and i hope kosovo shall get its soon as well. It would be a nice ending in the sad 90's chapter of Balkan history.
lol, what a bunch of propaganda non-sense coming from being brain-washed for years with mainstream west media, black and white picture, about evil Serbs and good everyone else...
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I lived in Serbia...
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in fact, in so called communism (or socialism as it was called there) Serbs were most oppressed as a nation simply because they were most populous, next most oppressed were Croatians... while e.g. Slovenians were, taking into account their low numbers, much more influential than they should have been, while Albanians benefited the most from economical help of others that was given to most poor parts...
Tito, life long ruler of comunist (or more precisely socialist) Yugoslavia was half-Croat, half-Slovenian...
only Serbs who could advance in comunist party were the ones who were not feeling as Serbs at all, who were international comunist oriented...
in fact, during communism most of top managers in Serbia were from Montenegro, as they did stick together and push each other...
even Milosevic and his closest colaborators origin from Montenegro...
and btw. that Milosevic was probably less guilty for crisis and wars in ex-Yu than leadership of some western countries, neo-nazi Croatian leadership, and NATO strategy planners who did see Milosevic as pro-Russian comunist and Serbs (being ortodox, Slavic and historically freedom striving nation) as little Russians....
I will skip explaining how surprisingly all the tragical incidents used to punish Serbs were mostly media staged... and will use just an episode to illustrate the role of USA in starting the war in Bosnia:
The Carrington-Cutileiro peace plan, named for its authors Lord Carrington and Portuguese ambassador Jorge Cutileiro, resulted from the EC Peace Conference held in February 1992 in an attempt to prevent Bosnia-Herzegovina sliding into war. It proposed ethnic power-sharing on all administrative levels and the devolution of central government to local ethnic communities. However, all Bosnia-Herzegovina's districts would be classified as Muslim, Serb or Croat under the plan, even where no ethnic majority was evident.
On 18 March 1992, all three sides signed the agreement; Alija Izetbegović for the Bosniaks, Radovan Karadžić for the Serbs and Mate Boban for the Croats.
On 28 March 1992, however, Izetbegović withdrew his signature and declared his opposition to any type of division of Bosnia, after meeting with then US ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann, in Sarajevo.
What was said and by whom remains unclear. Zimmerman denies that he told Izetbegovic that if he withdrew his signature, the United States would grant recognition to Bosnia as an independent state. What is indisputable is that Izetbegovic, that same day, withdrew his signature and renounced the agreement..[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_plans_offered_before_and_during_the_Bosnian_War
Serbia won't have the choice but let Kosovo gain its independence. The Eu will pressure them on that issue. What could be worse for Serbia but be isolated within Europe ?
worse would be to give away its birthplace part of the land in order to be new Bulgaria and Romania whom noone really wants in EU....
What do you need to know? I can tell you everything.
Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians, the most ancient group of Indo Europeans that controlled the entire balkans.
In the 7th century AD, Slavic barbarians invaded and killed off most of the Illyrians, or assimilated them, except for 1 tribe, the Albanians, who managed to survive to this day.
Kosovo in Albanian is Dardania, which is an ancient Albanian Illyrian word. This land was always Albanian territory, until 1912 when Serbs stole it with the support of Russia, France, Germany, and England.
Khm, I think story you tell is just fake story you've been thought to believe in, in order to be able to fanatically hate Serbs...
Actually, there is no proof that Albanians origin from Illyrians, though I agree that as assumption it makes some sense...
Illyrians retreated from most of ex-Yu much before arrival of Slavs... they were not even mentioned in history for like 6-7 centuries before supposed arrival of Serbs...
in fact, according to historian Strabo (63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) Illyrians were destroyed well before his time...
I shall first describe Illyria, which approaches close to the Danube, and to the Alps which lie between Italy and Germany, taking their commencement from the lake in the territory of the Vindelici, Rhæti, and Helvetii.7 [2]
The Daci depopulated a part of this country in their wars with the Boii and Taurisci, Keltic tribes whose chief was Critasirus. The Daci claimed the country, although it was separated from them by the river Parisus,8 which flows from the mountains to the Danube, near the Galatæ Scordisci, a people who lived intermixed with the Illyrian and the Thracian tribes. The Illyrians were destroyed by the Daci, while the Scordisci were frequently their allies.
The rest of the country as far as Segestica,9 and the Danube, towards the north and east, is occupied by Pannonii, but they extend farther in an opposite direction.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=7:chapter=5&highlight=
Strabo (63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) - Geographica
But how to explain that to several generations of Albanians who learned in their "schools" as basic fact how they are Illyrians and Dardanians and that evil Serbs did kill innocent Illyrians to steal their land which they have all right to claim back...
Albanians were not really threatened by Milosevic's regime... that was staged thing...at least in the begining... it was about their request to get republic (in order to get right to separate) and their choice to play victim by refusing to participate in political system and by refusing education in which they will not learn about evil Serbs bashing poor Illyrians in 7th century (which never happened as Illyrians were not there and as Serbs settled area peacefully in abandoned lands given to them by Byzantine emperor) ...
anyway, as a result of political decision of Albanians (which from this point of view turned out to be wise one, though the whole game they played was ultimately dishonest) two parallel worlds existed in Kosovo, two parallel school systems, political systems, medical systems, media systems,,... which is very ill situation, but Milosevic was happy as it did allow him to get 1/3 of votes in Serbian parliament just from votes from Kosovo (as Albanians ignored elections and Kosovo Serbs adored him because in previous comunism time they were heavily oppressed by Albanian community comunist leadership of autonomy area... in fact, they were so oppressed that Milosevic did manage to "buy" them by promising that no one will be allowed to physically molest them / beat them anymore... soon after he used legal means to take over political power in Kosovo and he kept power due to the decision of Albanians to boycott the system until they get republic / independence)