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As our Yugo crosses the border between Croatia and Serbia, Miljenko and Marko are discussing Operation Storm (Oluja) which was the Croatian military offensive which crushed the rebel Serbian would be breakaway state in Croatia in August 1995. Fourteen years later, they discuss how mainstream media and public opinion in Serbia and Croatia still disagree sharply on how to interpret these events. The Yugo now approaches the city of Belgrade, Miljenko and Marko continue their conversation about the uses and misuses of history. Why does history need to be handled with care? |
The two writers at the House of Flowers, the mausoleum of Marshall Tito. |
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The new interpretation of the Second World War is obvious in the way in which today’s textbooks put the defeated Serbian Chetnik and victorious communist Partisan movements on an equal footing as two Serbian anti-fascist movements in which the Chetniks even seem to take the lead. |
The writers visit Dubravka Stojanovic, who is a history professor at Belgrade university. |
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Belgrade |
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The Yugo leaves Belgrade towards Presevo, an Albanian dominated region of south Serbia, on the border with Kosovo. Marko and Miljenko begin discussing the Serbian-Albanian dispute over the territory. |
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The Yugo and passengers cross the border towards Macedonia. |
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