... civilization-consciousness, but will probably only succesfull when it is founded in common civilization (Huntington,1993, pp. 25-27). For Croatia, cultural differences became clear after the death of communist president Tito and the period of desintegration that followed with the collopase of communism. The strong nation state in which religion had been suppressed had disapeared and there ... with Stalins' continious attemps to gain more control over Yugoslavia. This descission to take its own course has been of crucial importance for the development of Yugoslavia after Tito's death. Th...

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Wall Street Journal reporter Thomas M. Burton in his article "Baxter Filter Comes Under Scrutiny In Dialysis Probe" reports on the investigation by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the death of 33 kidney-dialysis patients in Spain, Croatia, and Texas. Of the 33 deaths 20 took place in Croatia. The Baxter Company manufactured filters, known as A, AF, and AX models ... the matter and refuse to comment at the time of this article. Baxter officials refused to believe that their filters are the cause of those deaths. However, of 21 dialysis death in Croatia, 20 filters were made by...

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... . in the areas of political psychology, it is the fact that the Croats are extremely sensitized, or even traumatized, by their own vicissitudes and historical failures." (Lavergne 15) After Tito's death in 1980, the federal presidency alternated between different representatives of each of the 6 nations. the 80's were characterized by three main problems. the economy, nationalism and the lack of authority ... . after Tito's death the economic situation deteriorated drastically in every Yugoslav nation except Croatia and Slovenia. the main reason was because the Croats were more organized ...

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Balkanization seems to be a well-deserved synonym for strife. A long history of belligerent actions, territorial disputes and treaty breechings helped apply the balkanization label. Yugoslavia after Tito's death acted in the tradition of the aforementioned word. Well before the communism lost its grip on the SE European states ethnic dispute already rose in Yugoslavia. All the ethnic groups ... ...

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... ' for the smoothness that it occurred, in January 1993 Czechoslovakia was replaced by two independent states: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In the Yugoslav case, an unfortunate pairing of the death of their dictator Tito and a world economic recession became breeding ground for the rise of extremism. Serbia was the problematic region as almost all the other regions (besides for Croatia ... ...

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... Great War. The spark of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. He was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914. Ferdinand's death was at the hands of the Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist society, and these series of events are what sparked the world's first global war. Arguing that the Serbian government was ... ...

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... Bosnia kept the pot boiling in the region. All this took an ugly turn in 1911 with the founding in Serbia of the pan-Serbian highly-secret organization "Union or Death" or so-called Black Hand, which attracted many Bosnian Serbs and was responsible thereafter for a number of assassinations of Austrian officials and police. It promoted the notion of a Greater Serbia ... ...

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... would support because I don't personally believe that happens. Rather I think the interpretation of God's teachings are manipulated to convince people that going to war is service to God. After the death of Admira and Bosko, both families wanted their children returned to Sarajevo, but the Serbs said no, and so they were buried in a bleak military cemetery as part of a service ... ...

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... was about to beHistorians have always debated on the causes of the Great War (WW1). However, Nationalism was the key cause of world war one. Serbian Nationalism was behind the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The "Black Hand" was a terrorist group that supported Serbian Nationalism. It wanted to gain back Bosnia from Austro-Hungarian rule. Austria-Hungary opposed this union, so ... ...

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... of Serbia as a nation. Hoping to further the cause of Serbian nationalism, Gavrilo Princip a member of the secret society the Black Hand, fired two pistol shots that resulted in the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. To fully understand the reasons for the First World War we need to review the political climate of Europe in the early 20th ... ...

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... hand, did not follow suit with the rest of Europe - they wanted the provinces for their own Serbian empire. Shortly thereafter, a secret society named Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (meaning "Union" or "Death") was founded and based out of Belgrade. This group, which would come to be known as the "Black Hand," immediately assumed the role of anti-Austrian propaganda within Serbia. This ... ...

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... among the Yugoslav ethnic groups, without using restraining plans and centralized control. It was a serious crime to openly express ethnic desires of any kind, under the communist rule. After Tito's death in 1980, the nation collapsed into economic and political decline as a joint leadership began to fight over power. Finally later on in the 1980's, communism had collapsed. The impatient population ... ...

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