Al
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Don't worry, Alex, I haven't forgotten about the Greater Croatia that existed in WW2. (Albeit a "Greater Croatia" that had to do without certain chunks of "Croatian" territory that the Italians and Hungarians had annexed.)
What's more, I deliberately did NOT refer to the 2nd Yugoslavia as "Greater Serbia", seeing as socialist Yugoslavia was a federal state for a while, unlike the centralised state of the Karadjordjevici. I believe that the 2nd Yugoslavia deserves to be mourned, but that it wasn't killed by separatist nationalists alone but also by centralist nationalists!
Referring to the 2nd Yugoslavia as "Greater Croatia" just because Tito wasn't an ethnic Serb and some of the countries and regions that Serbia had acquired since the Balkan Wars were removed from direct Serbian control is ridiculous, however.
The only other entity that might be reasonably considered as constituting a "Greater Croatia" is the Banovina Hrvatska created in accordance with the Sporazum of 1939. If Tito's Yugoslavia was a state under Croatian hegemony, how explain all the Croatian grievances that led to mass protests in the 1960s and 70s? Let's face it, the man had little time for Serb nationalists but he certainly wasn't a Croatian one either...
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