Tito, I Don'T Think That We Are In Yugoslavia Anymore Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Tito, I Don'T Think That We Are In Yugoslavia Anymore

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From Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great was Macedonian,
Until Tito’s death, the rise and death of Milosovic,
Came the disintegration of greater Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia, as it existed before, was a constant place where tensions existed,
The Archduke Ferdinand assassination was the spark that started World War 1.
He was assassinated by a Serbian national in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
World War 1, the war to end all wars, had given rise to World War 2.
The Treaty at Versailles crumbled the Germany economy,
A prime breeding for nationalistic tendencies,
Which sparked the rise of Adolph Hitler and NAZI Party
(see Observation - Ford has a Better Idea)
The Nazis tried conquer the Soviet Army, via Yugoslavia, mainly the Serbians.
They were delayed in their conquest resulting fighting in the Russian Winter,
As well as engaging the Soviet Troops.
There were more Nazi troops killed by the weather than killed by Soviet weapons.
The Germans had to retreat.
Therefore, by the Slovak Brethren of the Russians, the Serbs, Moscow did not fall.
Yugoslavia was made up of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia,
Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Tito was fiercely independent of the Soviet pressure,
His country would not be governed by some puppet appointed by the Kremlin.
His autocratic government was socialistic but did not carry the Iron Curtain.
When Tito died, the Soviet Union fell;
There was pressure to keep the top of the pressure cooker on,
The Yugoslavian version of the Hatfields and McCoys came out viciously.
I was planning to visit Dubrovnik, Croatia,
But the Serbs were pounding the old walled city with their many a naval gun,
On October 1st,1991.
The Serbs had been oppressed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire for centuries,
They found in themselves to create an ethnic cleansing.
Long before in centuries past,
Some of their Serbian brotherhood took on the Islamic faith of the Turks.
Some even married a Turk in the process in the area of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Milosovic had a plan to make a greater Serbia,
He started to create genocide in Bosnia,
The world was appalled, UN was sent in
Tito had ruled them all with an iron fist,
The thought of religion splitting up his country did not exist.

The Serbs were ostensibly Russian Orthodox,
Catholics who followed the Prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church not the Pope;
But not heavens sake Islam!
Milsovic would engage a policy killing men and boys,
Raping women that would bear a child from the seed of a Serbian,
All this for ethnic cleansing.
Milsovic was defended by the Russian Duma, de-de-de, as Carlos Mencia would say.
But later he would be found guilty in The Hague,
in the Netherlands,
Guilty of crimes against humanity.
Now Kosovo has broken away from Serbia,
The USA and the United Kingdom, among others,
Had validated Kosovo’s claim of independence.
The Serbs are not happy thus the Russians aren’t happy.
The Russians filed a petition with the United Nations,
So the UN would not permit legal status to the fledgling country.
Chances are the Kosovo people will unite with Albania,
Either creating a Greater Kosovo, or a Greater Albania,
Or Kosobania, or Albasovo.
It’s too early to tell what’s become all of this; channels like CNN will keep me informed,
How amazing the world we live in, how amazing would Alexander the Great feel,
After conquering Egypt, Persia (Iran) , Mesopotamia (Iraq) and as far as Punjab, India,
And everything in between, including every branch of every limb.
When he saw his homeland disappear; separated into different countries; In front of him.
La Plus Ca Change, La Plus Ca sont La Meme.
(The more it changes, the more it remains the same)
(2-20-2008)

The Serbs have bombed our Embassy and worse of all they bombed a McDonald’s,
Not a Burger King, not a Wendy’s, or a Sonic,
The Serbs held Americans with low regard, blaming US for the separation,
The Serbian-American Relationship is not platonic.
NATO force is under attack, this could Milosovic’s rise from the dead.
Kosovo is a great cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the Serbs.
They have fought the Third Reich, NATO should be no problem, let it be said.
(Amended 2-24-2008)
The Serbian dissolved today under parliamentary dysfunction.
The Kosovo secession had given Serbia what it feared the most, disunification.
So the government collapsed under its own wait and see attitude.
To what future lies next after the Prelude.
(amended 3-9-2008)
Radovan Karadzic, was former Serbian president, who was on the lam for 13 years,
His personal genocide on Bosnian and Serbian Muslims caused many tears,
He hid in Serbian monasteries, that is what the good Christians, the monks, would do,
The monks supported his life although he had killed thousands under his direction.
He was in refurbished caves much like the Flintstones and Rubbles too!
He was handed over to The Hague and will be charged with crimes against humanity,
So it is over? Not yet. The Crusade, a thousand years later has remerged,
The Koran versus The Bible, What would Ibrahim aka Abraham say?
Ibrahim versus Abraham makes no sense, would you fight against you?
This is complete insanity.

(Amended 7-22-08)

(This is a condensed version, Reader’s Digest version, of an observation.
The observation was sparked by the secession of Kosovo to be an independent state from the country of Serbia. The Serbs have been embroiled in factional ethnic feuds for the last 19 years. This a brief history of Serbia and alliances to Russia.
This observation entails almost 2,400 years of feuds and wars.
I apologize that I can’t fit all the details of the area known as the formal Yugoslavia.)

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