Strategija zaborava − drugo lice genocida
THE STRATEGY OF FORGETFULNESS − ANOTHER FACE OF GENOCIDE

Summary/Abstract: Wrong interpretation, revising and adapting of the past to modern ideologies has a long tradition, especially in Europe - the cradle of nationalism. The basis of nationalism is redrawing the truth and production the collective consciousness, on the basis of false, reconstructed or fictitious history, which should create an alibi for new forms of authoritarian rule and unity as well as new collective identity. Organized, state policy of the new memory, actual in the period of fascism, then during Stalinist communism, has resulted in the largest horrors remembered in the history of the world. In the years after the collapse of fascism and withering away of Stalinism, mass production of false history, the nationalist consciousness based on it, covered the eastern part of Europe, where a new nationalist regimes sought support for its rule. After an historical fate, at the Balkan, after the dissolution of a stable and (compared to other socialist countries) democratic and free state, the darkness became the thickest. Slobodan Milosevic's regime was an attempt to unite "the Serbian ethnic areas", no matter what they were, and create a state for all Serbs, it decided to make radical change of history, in which everything is turned upside down. The whole common history of the Yugoslav peoples was presented as a succession series of hatred and conflict, in which the Serbs have always been the victims of others. In that way it was built falsified history, based on the myth, legends, lies and new truths, as the basis and justification for new wars. A kind of strategy of forgetfulness and the production of compatible historie, it is constructed a new model of memory, based on which the fascists and fascist supporters were rehabilitated, from the quite obvious reasons. Great Serbia could be made only by ethnic cleansing and genocide, i.e. by eliminating undesirable, especially Bosniaks, who were the main obstacle to Great Serbian plans. Therefore, the new Great Serbian ideologists have taken the whole plans and practice of the Chetnik movement from the Second World War. Rehabilitation of the former fascist was confirmed as a justify of current and industry oblivion and mass production of a new history - as a continuation of another face of genocide.

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