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| | Swans Commentary: Yugoslavia R.I.P., by Alma Hromic - aah021 |
 | | Decades after the dream was born, barely ten days before the third anniversary of a bloody assault by 19 foreign nations, which was weathered with a spirit that is still talked about, the land once known as Yugoslavia has ceased to exist. |
 | | We may have worshipped in different temples but to look at us you'd know we came of the same stock, the same tribe, the same people -- we were the Southern Slavs, the clans who migrated into the area way back in the mists of time, settled there, made lives there, made history there. |
 | | We lived on a crossroads, and endured much. |
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