So, my mother is Slovenian, my father was Serbian and we lived in Yugoslavia which was a communist state, actually lead by Serbians, because Serbians were the most numerous nation. Apart from them, they were Croatians and Bosnians, which are actually compared to three groups since in Bosnia the people divide themselves on religion basis – we have Bosnian catholics, which are Croats, Bosnians orthodox – which are Serbs and Bosnian muslims. Then we had Montenegrians, which are actually Serbs, but they have their own political state. Then we had Serbia, which has in it Vojvodina and Kosovo regions and at last Macedonia.

The army, where my father worked, was very authoritarian and very … how to say… russian and turkish at the same time. I remember lots of words, which were actually french origin… like: garnizon, kampanjola… and there were lots of words which were turkish origin, since Turkey occupied Serbia for 500 years and that’s why they have lots of turkish words. These words were at my home “normal” and I discover later on – specially when I was in Turkey, that these are turkish words… like… komšija (komsi = neighbor), merdevine (ladder), hoklica (chair), rakija (raki – liquor), čuprija (cupri=bridge)...

So… the Army in Yugoslavia was a mighty force which in itself had all parts of nationalities and Serbian were kind of first, but on paper we were all equal. On paper…

In the late eighties when I was studying political sciences, there was lots of uprisings all over Yugoslavia and it was clear that communists could not handle the situation which appeared after the person who held everything together – Tito – died… They could handle it with force but at the end this is always a bad solution which always comes as a boomerang.

So… Milošević came out on a political stage around the year 1987. This was the beginning of an end of Yugoslavia. This guy was Serbian and he was clearly against Albanians on Kosovo. He was very nationalistical. He started to claim that Serbians don’t have enough rights, that they are underprivileged and so on.

I remember discussing Milošević with my father. All Serbians in the Army supported him. I actually understood why, but his policy was clearly imperial and pointed against one nation. Which is Serbian “pain” through the history anyway…