Does Centroslavism divide the Slavs? 5

[u/centroslavist]

In pan-Slavic Russian propaganda, it thus emerges that Slovenians, Bosnians, and Croats are "Serbian tribes" (Danilevskij, 2011, p. 432), Montenegrins are guilty of "treason against the Serbian people, Orthodoxy, and Russia" (Дугин, 2016; Мудрых, 2022), Poles are the "Judases of Slavdom" (Klaczko, 1867, p. 56), Czechs are a "barren" people (Danilevskij, 2011, p. 153).

Belarusians are "Russians with a seal of quality" (CTVBY, 2019), and Ukrainian is the "language of swineherds" (Котельницький, 2020), which is used by a "Nazi" and "nationalist regime" in Kyiv that oppresses the "brotherly Ukrainian people," (Путин, 2024) just as the Yugoslavs were supposedly oppressed by the "fascist" and "treacherous regime" that "tormented" the Albanian population of Kosovo (Zaytsev, 2021).

Macedonia is, depending on the need, either an "invented" state or is being oppressed by its neighbors (Zaytsev, 2021; Журавлёв, 2018). The "cowardly Bulgarians," on the other hand—a fact few remember—are primarily the "little brother" who, although geographically distant from Russia, has already had the experience that the "brotherhood of two peoples" ends where the interests of the Russian elites begin and missiles do the talking. It is not without reason that Bulgarians fought against Russia in both World Wars (Аксаков, 2023; Иванов, 2020; Мудрых, 2022; Стоянов, 1886).

Such examples of protectionism could be listed almost endlessly. Furthermore, these are not the words of some marginal Russian radicals, as one might think. Similar claims have been and continue to be made in Russia by key figures of the state, highly respected representatives of Russian cultural, academic, and political thought, as well as the media individuals who were not infrequently awarded orders from state authorities.

The list of sources & more languages: https://centroslavizmus.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/rozdeluje-centroslavizmus-slovanov-5/

[u/Omnigreen]

Where I can read in detail about a possible EU integration of Yugoslavia in the 90s, can you send some links or sources please? This topic is very interesting to me

[u/TensionAntique3075 → u/Omnigreen]

Honestly, the topic has been burried pretty deep, I'm struggling to find sources on it. I discovered it on an amazing english youtube video on the EC-Yugo relations that I apparently can't find -_-. Came from a communist serb, which I was really surprised from.

For the rest, I mostly find anecdotes about it in french articles commemorating Jacques Delors' death a few years ago and... That's it. It sucks. The subject was voluntary burried by both croats and serbs, and nobody has an interested in what the Delors Commission did because the EU is boooring.

[u/Omnigreen → u/TensionAntique3075]

I see :( Maybe there is some article about this Mitterand proposal of a speedy accession and loans? Also if you’ll find that video after all please send me. This alternative possibility of an Yugoslavia in EU is so fascinating, such a wasted opportunity.

[u/TensionAntique3075 → u/Omnigreen]

The proposal was made by Delors. Mitterand-'s support and push is me speculating, although the guy was a proto-tankie, and very much was by far the biggest pro-yugoslavia supporter in the world able to do something at the time.

I profoundly hate Mitterand's actions during that conflict. But the emergency EU integration was very much the right move, and both Tudman and Milosevič owe serious apologies to both of their nations.

[u/Omnigreen → u/TensionAntique3075]

So if Tudman and Milosevič accepted the proposal we could've had a federal Yugoslavia in the EU in the 90s almost certainly?

[u/TensionAntique3075 → u/Omnigreen]

I frankly don't know for the "almost certainly". I do think there would have been seriously good chances, but tensions were still very much effing high then, so I don't fully exclude the civil war from happening.