Великохрватске претензије на Војводину, Босну и Херцеговину
Greater Croatian pretensions to Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Апстракт
For over a century, rumours have been spread from Croatia about Serbia’s intention to create a Greater Serbia and its aspirations to greater Serbian
hegemony. This has been a constant refrain in all anti-Serbian speeches delivered both before the Yugoslav and international public. On the one hand,
the Serbs and Serbia were presented as aggressors with great territorial appetites, whereas on the other, the aim was to conceal one’s own aggression
and territorial pretensions to the ethnic, state and historical territories that
belonged to others.
Though such tactics is a well-known and long-lasting feature of Croatian politics, it has not been given an appropriate place and explanation in
Serbian and foreign historiography. Croatia inherited such political approach
from Austria-Hungary which demonised and satanised the Serbian intentions
aimed at liberation and unification all the more so as its appetites towards
the territories in the Balkans increased and as it more strongly ex...pounded
the German Drang nach Osten policy. According to such tactical approach,
everything that was Serbian was proclaimed greater Serbian in order to nip
in the bud and thwart Serbian interests which conflicted with the AustroHungarian ones.
Following in the wake of Austro-Hungarian policy, in which they participated and often played the leading role, in all historical periods – from the 1848 revolution to this day the Croats have been denouncing Serbian often labelling it as greater Serbian. By reviling Serbhood and greater
Serbhood, in which they saw the main rival to Croatdom and greater Croatdom, Croatian politicians did not only dream about a Greater Croatia, but
also worked on building it, with determination and consistency, faithful to the principle that such end justifies all means, including even the genocidal
annihilation of the Serbs.
The Croatian aspirations to territorial enlargement have a rather long
history. Although small in numbers and in a small territory, the Croats have
fostered great imperial ambitions. This may be well illustrated with the various names such as: “Alpine or mountainous Croats” (Slovenes), “Orthodox
Croats” (Serbs), “indisputable Croats” or the “flower of the Croatian nation”
(Muslims), “Turkish Croatia”, “Red Croatia”, “White Croatia” or “Carpathian Croatia”, which were the territories of Bosnia, Montenegro, Dalmatia
and Slovenia. These names have been carefully cherished and for centuries
instilled in the consciousness of a Croat with the aim to develop the awareness of Croatia’s greatness and the numerical strength of the Croats.
With the present two studies, I wish to demonstrate and prove when,
how, on what foundations and with what objectives the Croats have endeavoured, from the 1848/49 revolution until the present time, to get hold of some
parts or the entire territories of Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina. As
precious data on this topic are scattered in different places, it is hard to gain
insight into the entirety of this national, state-legal and geopolitical issue.
With this in mind, I have elaborated in these papers, in a chronological sequence, on all important Croatian territorial claims on Vojvodina and Bosnia
and Herzegovina. I have thus practically uncovered the decades-long greater
Croatian politics and have provided concrete answers to the Croatian attacks
at Serbia and the Serbs in regard to the so-called greater Serbian politics.
I would also like to inform readers that this book is the second, supplemented and expanded edition of the book first published in 2012 in small
print run (500 copies) and sold out a long time ago.
Belgrade, 20 July 2016
Vasilije Đ. Krestić
Кључне речи:
Croatian politics / Serbian politics / Southeastern European countries / history of the Balkans / international relationИзвор:
2017Издавач:
- Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности
Напомена:
- Посебна издања / Српска академија наука и уметности ; књ. 685. Председништво ; књ. 6
Колекције
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Крестић, В. Ђ.. (2017). Великохрватске претензије на Војводину, Босну и Херцеговину. Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_9048
Крестић ВЂ. Великохрватске претензије на Војводину, Босну и Херцеговину. 2017;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_9048 .
Крестић, Василије Ђ., "Великохрватске претензије на Војводину, Босну и Херцеговину" (2017), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_9048 .