I have published this book on Amazon.com.
This book describes how political games and multimedia propaganda can melt innocent people’s brains. It reveals secrets of survival I have gathered through a stormy period of recent European history and the political and social changes and their effects on the generally peaceful people of former Yugoslavia.
Its focus, though, is on the political games that reshaped the borders and lives of people who suffered because they were of mixed nationality and religion. Our only fault was that we were born and raised in a cosmopolitan spirit in a time and place of brutal and primitive nationalism and “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans, eastern, and southeastern Europe.
This is a story about the volcano of nationalism, an awakening that generated the chaos of ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is genocide committed against ethnic groups in order to make a territory “ethnically clean” for one ethnic group only. In the Balkans, all other ethnicities were hunted down and exterminated to accomplish that ideal. The shadow of that volcano is still present in Bosnia, and the guns are not silent yet. Nobody knows when it will end.
This brutal process is not exclusive to the Balkans. It is all too common in many other parts of modern and civilized societies. People should know that even in Europe, the continent of old civilization and culture, there are millions of people still suffering and struggling through the nightmares of almost forgotten demons of hatred in many forms and dimensions. Fascism, nationalism, and newborn terrorist movements have become the weapons of choice for corrupt and evil ideologies and politicians.
As an American citizen and a survivor of ethnic cleansing still dreaming an American dream and struggling for a better tomorrow, I wish to open your eyes to some of these dangers. We all need to appreciate the cultural diversity that has enriched and empowered this country.