Re: Again on working class and the war in Yugoslavia

[Chegitz Guevara <mluziett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Jim Jaszewski wrote:
>
>       First I hear that the Bosnian muslims were slavic slaves
> (redundancy here? :) -- now I hear that they were the _landlords_...
>
>       Which is it??

Would you believe both? From what I understand, who was incharge depended
on which army was coming to town. Catholic, Muslim, and Orthodox Serbs all
lived together in the same villages. When an army arrived in town and they
asked who was in charge, the people would point at a different group,
depending on which army it was. The people who were in charge, for some
strange reason, would be the same ethnicity as the army's: Orthodox for
the Serbs, Muslim for the Turks, and Catholic when the Austrians came.
Thus, the village would be spared from pillage.

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
personal homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett
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"Gas! GAS! Quick boys!--an ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone was still yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and the thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning."

>From "Dulce Et Decorum Est," written sometime between Oct. 1917 & March
1918, by Wilfred Owen, killed in the last week of WWI.




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