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Thank you. I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekingena show.

Thomas is back and we're going to start something new.

How you doing, Thomas?

I'm well, thank you. Thanks for hosting me.

Of course, we have gotten several requests for your take on the Balkans Wars, Bosnia, Yugoslavia,

maybe even talk about Tito a little bit.

Where do you want to start this one?

Today, I anticipate this series naturally,

kind of like organically, we'll go three episodes. episodes obviously it's your show figuratively and literally

We'll go as many as you wish on the topic

What I'd like to do today. I want to focus on what the Croatians called a homeland war.

That was the war that approximately was caused by, you know, Croatia's Declaration of Independence,

Croatia and Macedonia, essentially seceding from, you know, the

Yugoslavian political structure in 1991 and the Serbian response to that and the relationship of that to the situation

then underway in the Soviet Union and what Berlin, where Helmut Kohl was still Konsler at the time, what Berlin's response

was how the world in turn reacted to that,

and what the relationship of that constellation of factors

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