The Other Balkan Wars
(A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in retrospect with a new introduction and reflection on the present conflict by George F. KENNAN)
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The Role of the Mass Media in the Run-Up for the 1989-1992 Military Conflict in Transdniestria, Information Blockade and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
The political, social and ethnic dissatisfaction, which had been spoken out only in the kitchen ar the household level, is splashed out in the mass media. The Gorbachev’s glasnost abo-lishes all the earlier forbidden topics and for this reason the news-papers, the radio and the TV acquire an extremely weighty status. At the end of the 80’s the society begins to be divided on the basis of the ethno-political principle owing to the media to great extent.
Tolerance
People no longer wish to live in conditions of hate, murder and revenge, to be the objects of the escalation of evil, they don’t want to bear hatred and to behave with hostility towards others. In repressive systems there is no respect for people. Wars, violence and terrorism are not constructive elements of humanity.
From Gramos Mountain towards Lower Schleszia: Refugees from the Greek Civil War in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
This civil war, based largely on differences in ideology between the conservatives and partisans, also had a strong ethno-political dimension: half of the post-communist partisans and a large part of their supporters and helpers in the northwestern part of the country were not Greeks in the ethnic sense of the word, but southern Slavs who mainly presented themselves as Bulgarians until 1944, and then as Macedonians.