A PhD dissertation should be devoted to the neo-Communist current in the former Yugoslavia, that appropriated the Partisan legacy yet refused to support armed resistance to the fascist aggression in the 1990s, instead supporting & #39;peace& #39;. Partisans supported resistance, not peace.
2) Campaigning for & #39;peace& #39; in Croatia and BiH in 1991-1992 meant undermining legitimate armed resistance to aggression. Retreat into peace activism, Yugonostalgia and Titonostalgia was, at best, a form of escapism and at worst active collusion in the aggression.
3) Yugonostalgic neo-Communists felt more affinity with the JNA and Socialist Milosevic than with the & #39;right-wing& #39; nationalists Tudjman and Milosevic. Their & #39;all sides are guilty& #39; line was a fig-leaf for that bias.
4) Today, they continue to & #39;all sides& #39; the conflict, while seeking to appropriate the anti-genocide banner from those who, unlike them, actually fought it in the 1990s.
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