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Nationalism



             History-Where did the Nationalistic Attitudes come from?.
             Originally, Czechoslovakia had a ethnic composition problem of its own with a quarter of its population being German. This minority group caused no end of problems for the Czechoslovakians as after WWI their representatives demanded a full separation from Czechoslovakia, however the Czechoslovakians were not prepared to make such huge concession after just been created (in an attempt to counterweigh the Germans). However after their occupation by eth Germans in the Second World War, Czechoslovakia not had an excuse to purge itself of the Germans and drove the Germans out. (pg 283) This expulsion of Germans is very reminiscent of the ethnic cleansing' that occurred in Yugoslavia near the end of the 20th century, a point I will discuss further later in my essay. .
             Conversely, the ethnic composition of Yugoslavia is thought to be the primary reason for such nationalist beliefs and it is easy to see why this is the case. Unlike Czechoslovakia, which after World War was predominantly composed of Czechs and Slovaks, with a majority of each in their own region, most nationalities in Yugoslavia were not confined within the country's republics, provinces or districts. In 1918 Yugoslavia came into existence under the name of "the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes-. Therefore not really an "artificial creation- but was made up out of the ruins of the Habsburg Empire. The Empire's core was the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro, alongside Bosnia-Herzegovina (where the Serbian population lived alongside the Croats and Muslim Slavs). Also, Croatia, which when part of the Empire, was divided into Croatia proper, Slavonia and Dalmatia. Later however, in 1944 Tito changed the territorial boundaries and established six republics: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. New internal borders were based on ethnic/historic divisions but often communities such as the Serbs found themselves on the wrong side of the divisions.


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