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Only at the finish of the exercise did Adis, who stood barely aside from the others, say that one of the towns is now populated primarily by Serbs while before the war the Muslim population had been within the majority. I was amazed that this was the one politically crucial contribution throughout the complete exercise, since most of the places written on the board have seen extreme violence and severe population shifts. I, personally, had associated most of the places with the war in the Nineteen Nineties, for example, with detention camps, which I had discovered about via news protection during the time of the warfare or from studying about them later.
The aged folks had been all women, aside from Adis, a self-declared Yugoslav and atheist. All had been very engaged within the activity and first named many cities and cities spread all over Yugoslavia. These locations had been then related to lots of various things, for instance, nature , the local trade or native specialities. When I finally asked them how these locations had modified since after they had been young, their solutions have been strikingly apolitical. For instance, they mentioned that one place had turn into more polluted or one other place had more automotive site visitors now than once they have been younger.
, the Last Yugoslavs feel far more at the mercy of history and as if they have been caught off-guard by history extra so than the generation mentioned right here. Moreover, it appeared to me that Danica additionally realised that, due to the lengthy life she already has behind her, national classes are much less primordial than they are stated to be, however are as a substitute synthetic creations. It is the second time that she has skilled a war in her residence nation, together with struggle among the many Yugoslav individuals. While the scenario seemed grim after WWII, individuals one way or the other discovered a method to stay collectively. Perhaps this experience gives her hope that what has been possible as soon as might be potential once more.
In a second spherical I asked them to inform me their memories of those locations from the time after they were younger and their associations with the cities and cities I had drawn on the board. In a 3rd round I requested how these places had modified in the meanwhile and how they give the impression of being now.
‘We have always been under occupation’, he said, ‘first beneath the Ottomans, then underneath the Habsburgs, then beneath the fascists and now underneath the Europeans! ’ Of the first two occupiers—the Ottomans and Habsburgs—he painted a completely positive image. He emphasised their achievements, particularly the harmonious coexistence of BiH’s different non secular groups during the Ottoman occupation and the great architectural realisations of that time. When he spoke of Kaiser Franz Josef and his inheritor to the throne Franz Ferdinand, he almost sounded sentimental.
He still remembered the positive emotions old individuals held for the Kaiser. He additionally informed me that Mostarians warned Franz Ferdinand not to journey to Sarajevo but that he, unfortunately, did not heed their advice. Armen is bound that a large number of Mostarians were deeply upset after they realized concerning the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife by ‘Serb terrorists’. That the recollections of the Last Yugoslavs have been much less marked by the struggle in the Nineteen Nineties grew to become additionally seen when initiating an exercise at Otvoreno srce, asking the individuals to name an important locations in BiH and later in the complete former Yugoslavia.