Throughout the 20th century, Serbia turned from a beacon of liberation

everyone in that neck of the woods wants things to be their way or the highway from what I've read

there's really not much else to it

>>3040758
>no access to the sea

thats a disaster waiting to happen

>a beacon of liberation

aggressive slavoturks were never a beacon of anything apart from savagery

>Maybe we should be a pan-Slavic state-t. Slavs
>Maybe that Pan-Slavic State should be...Serbia-t. Serbia

Serbia was thought to be a South Slavic Prussia (or Piedmont-Sardinia, if you will) from the start - the country that would unite the South Slavs under one ruler. The Panslavic goal was to bring the nations together, just like the various German groups merged into the German nation. But Slovenes wanted o be left alone to speak their own language and Croats had their own nationalist aspirations so the first Yugoslav experiment failed.
The horrors of WW2 made this impossible due to resentment between the Serbs and the Croats (+Slovenes who demanded more autonomy and democratisation and were in this regard an obstacle) but most importantly, Yugoslavia was a federation at this point. Seeing themselves as victims of a conspiracy, the Serbs turned to nationalism which in some cases went extreme.

>>3040758

they never turned anon, they were always the bully, just that they had a bigger meaner bully to worry about for some centuries

>>3040758
It is such poetic justice that Bulgarians and Serbians were raped by the Turks they used to be allied with to conquer the Byzantine empire.

>WE ARE SLAVS
>WE ARE CHRISTIAN
>WE WILL SELL OUR ASSES TO THE OTTOMANS AND FIGHT OUR CHRISTIAN BULGARIAN BROTHERS FOR OUR MUSLIM OVERLORDS

How did that work out for you serbros?

>>3042269
And neither Byzantium nor the Ottomans are on the map today, so get fucked memeboy