“Wild nationalism” replacing communism in Serbia

by jd on November 16, 2007

From B92 News:

“Director Želimir Žilnik says that Serbia is experiencing ‘wild nationalism,’ which is replacing communism.

Žilnik said at a book promotion that ‘on every corner today we see greater Catholics than the Pope and greater Orthodox believers than the Patriarch.’

Is this supposed to be new? Ethnic nationalism in the form of Milosevic’s “Greater Serbia” project was his ticket for surviving the fall of Communism. Nationalism is the last refuge of every sort of failed political enterprise.

What we are seeing today is a resurgent church fully allied with nationalists. A truly dangerous partnership.

(Via B92 News in English.)