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Pangea Wide Angle: INSIDE THE NEWS

on BYOBLU Digital terrestrial channel 262

Yugoslavia - Krajina

The Donbass of thirty years ago

After signing the INF Treaty in 1987 with Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan promised Russia that NATO would never reach its borders, a commitment reiterated by President George Bush Sr. in the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The Cold War was temporarily hibernated, while the United States, now the only world power, had already planned the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the isolation of the Serbs too close to Russia. In addition, it was urgent to find a new placing for NATO.

Through the World Bank, the US enforced the repayment of loans, financed the Croatian far-right parties, and supported the demands of the Muslims of Bosnia, in order to be able to act with the consent of public opinion, they started a media campaign against the Serbs. To complete the work, CIA agents with a lot of cash persuaded politicians and media representatives to support the established narrative. Then they imposed heavy sanctions. The Serbs were portrayed in the international media as warmongers, accused of wanting a Greater Serbia.

There are many similarities with what happened in Donbas: it can be said that in Yugoslavia a dress rehearsal was staged to test a protocol also applied in Ukraine.

Krajina like Ukraine means border. The Serbian Krajines, inserted in Croatia, would not have formed the Serbian Republic of Krajina if they could remain in a Croatia federated with the other Yugoslav republics. But with independence, the Croatian government promulgated a constitution that excluded the rights of any ethnic group other than the Croatian one.

In 1993 the ethnic cleansing of the Krajines began with the Medak Pocket culminating in the Flash and Storm operations (1995) supported by US mercenaries: half a million Serbs without protection had to leave their territory.

This doc-film presented by Pangea Grandangolo - Dentro la Notizia was shot in September 1993 by a cameraman of Knin TV which no longer exists, like the Krajines.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXoG0c6Xqq0