| | | In 1974, my wife and I traveling around Europe in a VW van rolled into Pristina from the coast immediately above Albania having gone from Italy down the Dubrovnik coastline. We went to an open air market where they sold all sorts of food things. I had about near-zero knowledge of or understanding of Yugoslavia, and much else such as Greece, Turkey, Portugal, which were pretty much at war when we traveled there a week or so later [Greece/Turkey] and Portugal had a revolution while we were there a month previously.
It was weird in the Pristina market. I had never seen such sullen people. I wondered what the heck they were like that for. It wasn't hostile or threatening. People were unsmiling, not chatting, dressed darkly, drably, just going about their business.
It wasn't just communism. We also went to Bulgaria and Romania, which were even more communist, but it was actively fun chatting [as best we could] with people in the motor camps where we stayed. They had senses of humour and were alive. The Pristina puzzle lasted a couple of decades.
With the bust up of Yugoslavia and war and seriously so in the Kosovo area, I realized why. Also a neighbour in Auckland decades later was from there. He did some explaining. It's what Germany, Sweden, Londonistan and elsewhere have coming to them as the Moslems get serious and more violent.
The Gates of Vienna are just up the road and the Russians were heading south at the time of the Crimean war, where my English great grandfather met his death trying to conquer Russia. Moslems and the others have been warring in the region for many centuries. Forever really.
Here we are nearly 200 years later still trying to conquer Russia. I guess some of my French ancestors were in the Napoleonic mob who had a go in 1812. I can understand that Russians have had enough of it so they are not going to accept the Yanks and German Nazis having another go, this time with UK and USA leading the charge.
It's funny but Ursula surely doesn't think of herself as a conquering Nazi running Barbarossa II, but put a swastika on her shoulder and she'd be right in character. It's fascinating how people think they are the Good Guys while they plunge into murder - "For their own good" of course. "We had to destroy the village to save it". Lt William Calley and platoon "saved" a few hundred women ,children, old men from communism in My Lai. USA invaded Syria several years ago "For their own good" of course.
Serbia was the location of the start of WWI. Here we are again, just after the commemorations 100 years later, with WWIII gearing up even as Virtue Signallers chanted "Lest We Forget" "Never Again" blah blah blah in 2015 and up to the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 2018 100 years later.
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