The Yugoslav Crisis and the Mediterranean
The Yugoslav Crisis and the Mediterranean

Author(s): Ivan Stefan (Vane) Ivanović
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: Due to the lack of political freedom and opportunity for self-expression, however, many individuals in Yugoslavia have come to voice a passionate and indiscriminate loyalty to the nation to which they happen to belong, largely as a substitute for their unsatisfied individual or group energies. These emotional factors have brought forth conflicts both great and small in many fields. These conflicts have reached their reductio ad absurdum in the current falling out between, on the one hand, those who claim that Serbian and Croatian have always been two separate languages, and that this should now be acknowledged, and, on the other hand their opponents who claim that Serbian and Croatian are merely two variants of the same tongue.

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