Narodna Odbrana Quotes
In using the word 'people' the Narodna Odbrana means our whole people, not only those in Serbia. It is hoped that the work done by it in Serbia will spur the brothers outside Serbia to take a more energetic share in the work of private initiative, so that the new present-day movement for the creation of a powerful Serbian Narodna Odbrana will go forward in unison in all Serbian territories.
Even before the Serbian atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 20th century, ultra nationalists had a dream of controlling any land in which there were ethnic Serbs or Serbia had ever controlled.
Narodna Odbrana, Serbian Right Wing Society, Proclamation, 1911
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Ultranationalist Secret Organization. Unlike the Italian Black hand for whom it was named, the Serbs were not interested in money. The were a right wing death squad that assassinated all who opposed a single, unitary, Serbian nation. Dimitrijevic was executed in 1917.
The major purpose of the Black Hand was to create a single empire of ‘Greater Serbia’---a nation uniting all people of Serb extraction throughout Europe and the Balkans. They wanted to combine the lands where ethnic Serbs lived regardless of what other nation the land was a part of.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
Whenever different ethnicities perceive that they are in a “zero sum game” situation where one group cannot benefit without detriment to others, the situation is always unstable and usually explodes as when Yugoslavia broke apart at the end of the 20th century after being held together by a strong leader, Tito. Note that there was a different spelling of Yugoslavia in the 1920s. The pronunciation was the same.
Narodna Odbrana (Serbian Cyrillic: Народна одбрана, literally, "The People's Defence" or "National Defence") was a Serbian nationalist organization established on October 8, 1908 as a reaction to the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time, it was concerned with the protection of ethnic Serbs in Austria-Hungary. To achieve their goals, the Narodna Odbrana spread propaganda and organized paramilitary forces.
