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Re: smrt: msg#00025

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Subject: Re: smrt

i totally agree with john. this slogan was abused by all the criminals
during the yougslavian war in the beginning of the 90s.

boian

p.s. there is a spelling mistake there - it should be 'svoboda'



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lacny" <jplst15+@xxxxxxxx>
To: <marxist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:31 PM
Subject: [marxist] smrt



| > "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.



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