Was the world a better place during the Cold War?

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Yes, there were but they bodies number dozens and not hundreds like in Bosnia. Several were found. Another favorite Serb trick was to surround Albanian towns and give the people one hour to leave or they said they'd kill them. As the people left they were robbed, their identy papers were taken away, and there were several cases of rape. After the towns were looted the homes were blown up just to make sure the Albanians didn't come back. Another favorite trick was to mine the border areas and then tell the refugees they could either run across the mine field or be shot. Most choice to take their chances with the mine field.

And is it somehow different from what Albanians did and still doing thanks to your intervention?

[Dinner]

Shootings were down to about one per month by the time I left three years ago. Shootings have dropped off so much that the one that happened last month when the boys where shot was the first in six months.

You'll always have some wackos but NATO has pretty much put an end to the organized ethnic violence.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Serb
Don't make me laugh. Sure, USA always take care about its slaves and as long as Iraqis oil industry will be privatized by US compaines and yanks will start to f*ck-up Iraqis land pumping out everything that has value, Iraqis will live much better, right?

Actually the US has a material interest in seeing Iraq become a functioning nation again. The US wants Iraq to be a showcase of an alternative way of doing things in the ME. They just badly screwed it up.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Kosovo was absolutely 100% justified...

By whom? UN SC perhaps? By international law?
IT WAS PURE AGRESSION AGAINST SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. At least it was so in accordance with UN charter.

...in order to prevent Serbs cleansing yet another ethnic minority.

and in order to start Albanian cleansing rightfull owners of this land. Thanks to your help to Albanians, they successfully cleanised a land which always belonged to Serbia, a land where Serbian state started its existance, from Serbs.
Great work- to intervent to stop one cleansing, but to start another (but this time ten times worse cleansing).
Just f*cking great.

[St Leo]

Yes, Serb, life was certainly much better under USSR with its orders of ethnic relocation from the Son of Heaven Joseph Stalin himself.

The Internet is just one of the ways in which the post-Cold War era is superior to the pre-Cold War era. It's much easier to stir up global concern to worthy causes now. The US will have to clean up its act.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Serb

Unfortunatelly most of my knowledge about SU based on my own experience, not on such great source as Hollywood movies.

Being a member of the "ruling nation" I bet your experience is way better that that of the "ruled".

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Shootings were down to about one per month by the time I left three years ago. Shootings have dropped off so much that the one that happened last month when the boys where shot was the first in six months.

Of course. Do you know how many Serbs lived there before your intervention and how many Serbs living there now? Every Serb who was able to live already left Kosovo. Remaining live in constant fear for their lives.

You'll always have some wackos but NATO has pretty much put an end to the organized ethnic violence.

NATO, my ass. Albanians already killed or drove away native population of this land- Serbs. And you call this- "NATO has pretty much put an end to the organized ethnic violence."?

[Serb]

Originally posted by Saras
Being a member of the "ruling nation" I bet your experience is way better that that of the "ruled".

Sure, but I guess its still different from experience of American who never was to USSR. With you I'm ready to argue, with yanks who took their knowledge about SU from Hollywood movies I don't.

[The Mad Monk]

YES!!! Serb's back!

*sits back with a BIG bowl of popcorn*

[Dinner]

Pre-war the Serbs were only 25% of the population with Roma, croats, and Vlacks (a people who speak a latin based language; essentially what's left of the Romans in the Balkans) making up leass then 1%. Today Serbs make up around 10% largely due to many Serbs fleeing with the Yugoslav Army after the end of the Air War and then never coming back. Part of the reason the people didn't come back is some where afraid but part of it was also economic. You see Kosovo is the Mississippi of Yugoslavia and many of the Serbs who left found they could make more money by staying in Serbia proper so they didn't go back.

Either way the Serbs haven't been the majority in Kosovo since the 1940's. The Albanians just have bigger families so the demographics shifted in their favor.

[Serb]

Originally posted by St Leo
Yes, Serb, life was certainly much better under USSR with its orders of ethnic relocation from the Son of Heaven Joseph Stalin himself.

"Son of Heaven "? You must be drunk or something?

The Internet is just one of the ways in which the post-Cold War era is superior to the pre-Cold War era.

Great argument!
Like it's the end of Cold war gave us internet, not evolution of technology.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Serb

Sure, but I guess its still different from experience of American who never was to USSR. With you I'm ready to argue, with yanks who took their knowledge about SU from Hollywood movies I don't.

I don't think there's anything to argue about, unless you have been smoking the same **** LaRusso has

[Serb]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
YES!!! Serb's back!

*sits back with a BIG bowl of popcorn*

I've spent two weeks in Mingapulco and currently planning my sixth trip there. More probably I will never come back after this one. It took another two weeks for rehabilitation after last one.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Pre-war the Serbs were only 25% of the population with Roma, croats, and Vlacks (a people who speak a latin based language; essentially what's left of the Romans in the Balkans) making up leass then 1%. Today Serbs make up around 10% largely due to many Serbs fleeing with the Yugoslav Army after the end of the Air War and then never coming back. Part of the reason the people didn't come back is some where afraid but part of it was also economic. You see Kosovo is the Mississippi of Yugoslavia and many of the Serbs who left found they could make more money by staying in Serbia proper so they didn't go back.

Either way the Serbs haven't been the majority in Kosovo since the 1940's. The Albanians just have bigger families so the demographics shifted in their favor.

Albanians has no right to live there and to drow Serbs away. This land never belonged to Albanians, they always were strangers on this land. Kosovo it's native Serbian land a place where first Serbian king was crowned. What you've done it's ten times worse crime than Miloshevich's cleansings.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Saras


I don't think there's anything to argue about, unless you have been smoking the same **** LaRusso has

Are you sure?
I'm Russian imerialist after all.