"I know you want to gaslight her message. But she's not talking about the Yugoslav history since 1918. She's talking about the communist era wherein the communist took control by employing racial, ethnic, religious, regional, economic, historical variables to pit factions against each other, weakening the region and allowing the communist autocrats to seize control and clamp a tyranny on the region. Its how they roll."
Better check history again. Yugoslavia was invaded by Hitler, well before the speaker was born. After the war it was Tito who managed to take control, he was a big fan of Stalin; but Russia was more concerned with the rest of Europe. This is when "communism" took hold in Yugoslavia. Between the formation of Yugoslavia in 1918 (formally 1929) and the Nazi invasion in 1941 there was great infighting between the various factions; Serbs, Croats, Albanians etc. The factions were not "pitted" against each other they resented each other for various reasons; did like that the Serbs took control, weren't Serbian etc. Tito took control and installed communism as a RESULT of WWII (with the help of Russia and the US allies). I am not arguing about what happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union, just that, that did not precipitate the rise of Communism in Yugoslavia.
For Bob Riebe, my comment about Saddam was in reference to a strong leader PREVENTING infighting among historical enemies. Once that is gone the old hates are allowed to comeout.