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> "SMRT FASIZMU, SLOBODA NARODU". He stared me down
> and pointed a finger at me and said, "You understand?
> It means 'smash fascism, freedom to the people.' ..."

Actually, it means "Death to fascism, freedom to the people." It was a
slogan of the Yugoslav Anti-Fascist Youth and of Tito's Partisans. Both
sides in the Bosnian war -- Muslim and Serb -- used it in an attempt to
invoke the prestige of the Partisans. Neither deserved that prestige.

John Lacny

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