Naravno, knjiga je napisana u Hrvatskoj, a novac za lažno autorstvo dobio je izvesni američki zubar kojem se imena sada ne mogu setiti, pa molim da ga navedu oni koji se sećaju.
Philip J. Cohen: Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History, Texas A&M University Press, Nov 1, 1996 - 264 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fz1PW_wnHYMC&dq=Serbia's+Secret+War&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0:
An entire piece of Serbian history is missing. And in the middle of the latest Yugoslav war - Europe's worst blood bath since World War II - Serbian politicians, propagandists, and revisionist historians have made a cynical attempt at replacing the missing piece by rewriting the Holocaust record. They claim that Serbs were not Nazi collaborators in genocide, but purely victims of the same atrocities that befell the Jews; and that Serbian aspirations for a Greater Serbia are not driven by a murderous, nationalistic hatred, but rather are propelled by a victim's desire to lay claim to a safe homeland, a Serbian Promised Land. Thus has the current spilling of blood been justified. Philip J. Cohen argues that the existence of such a propaganda campaign, emanating from Belgrade, began in the earliest days of the post-World War II era and, since then, has been reflected in the world media, as well as in popular commentary and scholarly analysis. More astonishing is that this campaign has been widely successful, particularly in Israel. Remarkable for its broad portrayal and penetrating examination of the Yugoslav social and political experience, Serbia's Secret War draws heavily on documents that have been previously unavailable to the West. Some of the written record has been translated and is published here for the first time. Destined to be regarded as an important contribution to the field, Cohen's careful study of the Serbian role in the Second World War will dramatically alter how scholars, policy makers, and the general public view the bloodshed in the former Yugoslavia - and how they will come to understand the reasons behind it.
Dakle, treba pamtiti ovakve pikantne knjige da bismo znali šta od tehnologija propagande postoji na meniju i šta može da nam bude servirano, iz te očajne kuhinje. Zato komentar:
Hezekiah Ishmael:
This is a piece of garbage..., April 25 2002
I could not believe that this trash was actually published. I wonder what Mr. Cohen's credential's (being a dentist) are to justify his writing a historical book that prosecutes such claims as he has made. In short, the book skims off that thick sludge of Croat, Muslim, and Albanian crimes in Yugoslavia, in the past and present, and attributes these same crimes to the Serbs, who never committed them. The book is full of inventions and it is an insult to the intelligence of an average human being. The Cetniks were not a ragtag band of fascists, but were rather monarchists. Their beards were long not to mimic Rasputin, but because it is in the tradition of the Orthodox not to shave while mourning (and they were mourning the king). Some of them collaborated with the Germans and massacred several thousand or perhaps even several tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats in WWII; that is true. However, others, notably those under the leadership of Draza Mihajlovic, did not collaborate with the Germans. After the war, they were demonized by the communists. Alternatively, it is worth pointing out that the Partisans were 95% Serbian until the very end of the war, when the numbers slipped to 85% due to Croats, Slovenes, and Muslims "seeing the light" (sic). Now, as to the Jews and Gypsies, they were not killed by Cetniks or Partisans or Serbian civilians, but rather by German occupational forces, and in fact many of the camps where Jews were killed were also places of killing for Serbian POWs (Banjica is a case in point). In fact, all of Yugoslavia was occupied by non-Serbian powers: Germany, Italy (Dalmatia and Montenegro), Independent State of Croatia (Croatia, Bosnia, Srem), Hungary (Backa), Romania (Banat), Albania (Kosovo and western Macedonia), and Bulgaria (eastern Macedonia and southern Serbia). It is thus absurd to accuse Serbs of crimes against Jews in these areas (i.e. all of what was then Yugoslavia) since the authorities were non-Serbian and those who perpetrated the crimes were the occupational forces. As the next point, there is no denying that of the 1,706,000 Yugoslavs killed, 1,300,000 were Serbs. These were numbers issued by the Communists (i.e. Tito) who was a Croat-Slovene himself and had absolutely no reason to expand the number of Serbs killed, as such action would undermine his multiethnic nonnationalistic state. It is believed that 1,000,000 of those were civilians slaughtered by the Croat and Muslim Ustasi and SS Kama, the Muslim SS Handzar, and the Albanian SS Skenderbey. The remaining 300,000 were civilians killed by the other occupying powers, by Cetniks or Partisans, or Cetnik and Partisan losses themselves. Similarly, there is no denying that Croatia, of her own volition, erected 27 death camps in her territories to exterminate Serbs, whereas those on Serbian territory were established exclusively by the Germans and the victims were primarly Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies. These Croat camps go by names like: Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska, Lepoglava, Krusica, Loborgrad, Jadovno, Bozici, etc. Muslims were active collaborators in these crimes, and were the exclusive masterminds of the genocide of Serbs in eastern Bosnia and Hercegovina and Sandzak, where there are no Croats. Cohen's book is a grotesque contortion of the facts and properly belongs in the annals of Holocaust denial literature. It is equivalent to lambasting Jews for killing some Germans in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, or Slavs for killing several tens of thousands of German civilians at the end of WWII after suffering casualties in the millions (in the case of Russia, tens of millions). And so, we have this trashy composition by Mr. Cohen, which is unresearched and based on seedy sources and outright denies evidence presented not by Serbian groups, but by many non-Serbian sources, including German, Italian, Russian, and Jewish archives, that clearly document the genocide the Serbs experienced in WWII at the hands of the Croats, Muslims, and Albanians. The rest of the book is a whitewash, and the cover stamp is a bit silly, in light of the fact that the author assumes his audience is as foolish as he is, so as to believe that a postage stamp could negate the documented extermination of 1,000,000 Serbian Orthodox human beings because of their ethnicity and faith. Needless to say, this fabrication has political underpinnings dating from a much more recent period, the 1990s, which, after the proper amount of time has passed and the lies have been brushed away, will reveal a propaganda war of immense proportions. The facts speak for themselves: there are currently 1.2 million Serbian refugees in Serbia, the largest refugee group in Europe. Who did they flee from? I suppose themselves. And the presence of Muslim- and Croat- run camps, raping brothels, massacres, tortures, and the infamous "ethnic cleansing", all against Serbs, will be revealed in good time as well. Just a few preliminary names: Celebici, Musala, Bradina tunnel, Zetra, Viktor Bubanj, Tusanj, Bihac Stadion (camps); Rostovo Ski center, Relja Lukic's house, Amadeus cafe (raping brothels); Mostar, Sarajevo, Bihac, Tuzla, Zenica, Gorazde Livno (ethnic cleansing); etc., etc...
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PS. Sad tek vidim da je Sabljar povukao istu paralelu.
