Austrians and Hungarians had three key objectives:
- First, to prevent the unification of the Croatian people.
- Second, to prevent the unification of the Serbian people.
- Finally, to thwart the Czech idea of connecting Slavic communities south of the Alps into a partnership through federal states, banovinas, or any other means.
To achieve the division of the Croatian and Serbian people and weaken them, they exploited the minority Orthodox population in Dalmatia, turning them against Catholics. In the east, they utilized the minority Catholic and Muslim populations and turned them against the Orthodox.
During the occupation of Hum and Bosnia, which followed the struggles of weary rebels, including Serbs and Croats, who had finally liberated themselves from Ottoman oppression with the assistance of Pan-Slavic unity, the Austrians, with support from the UK, began to promote the concept of the Bosniak nation. They convinced Serbian Muslims, Croatian Muslims, and Turkish Muslims that they constituted a distinct nation.
Initially, Muslim communities vehemently opposed the idea of a Bosniak nation. The only ones who accepted it were Ivan Franjo Jukić and seven other friars. These followers aligned with every occupying force.
This is why the Austrians allowed the spread of Ilija Garašanin’s ideas in Dalmatia, promoted Ante Starčević’s ideas in Serbia and Eastern Bosnia, and strengthened the myth of Husein Kapetan Gradaščević among the Bosniaks.
Subsequently, they steered them towards a Croatian identity, all with the aim of ensuring that the blood flowing through the Drina, Sava, and Una rivers would be more abundant.
While our ancestors, captivated by a series of captivating uprisings and victories, naively fell into their traps, their wealth multiplied tenfold. They freely extracted all possible noble metals while preparing graves for us. Initially, they pushed Croats and “Prečani” Serbs into the Battle of Mačva, a fratricidal war against the Serbs of Inner Serbia. Later, during the Second World War, they ordered Pavelić, a puppet of the Nazis and a betrayer of the Croatian people, to forever extinguish any hope of realizing Garibaldi’s and Jenny Merkus’s dream for the Balkans. A Slavic – Croatian and Serbian version of Italy, a state that would be an unavoidable global player and would control the most critical area in the world, one that had to remain fragmented and divided, always ready for new graves and concentration camps, whenever the Viennese trumpet or the call to prayer from Istanbul sounded.
Divide and rule.
According to Petar Digović, “if Croatia lacks better railway communication with its hinterland, it doesn’t come from natural obstacles […] but from Austria’s policy […] Just as they were against the unification of Dalmatian Croatia with Pannonian Croatia, they opposed the normal railway connection between Dalmatian Croatia and the interior.”
Subsequently, their objective was to protect the ports of Trieste for the Austrians and Rijeka for the Hungarians by obstructing the construction of railways that would connect Dalmatian ports (e.g., Split) to the Empire’s interior.
Under Austrian rule, Dalmatian Croatia, particularly Split, was sacrificed for the benefit of Rijeka and Trieste. Austrians and Hungarians reached an agreement to prevent the railway line, starting from Sarajevo and ending in Split, from making this port a rival to Rijeka and a competitor to Trieste.
The greatest fear of Italy, Turkey, the UK, and Austria today is the historical agreement among Serbs, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Croats, and Bosniaks.
Nothing terrifies them more than when a Croat praises a Bosniak or Serb, a Serb praises a Croat or Bosniak, a Bulgarian praises a Macedonian, or a Montenegrin praises a Bulgarian or Slovenian.
Let’s not forget:
Njegoš wrote that there are no greater heroes than Croats and offered an alliance to Ban Jelačić, expressing his willingness to have his Montenegrin army stand under Jelačić’s banner.
Orthodox Serbs participated in all Slavonian uprisings of Croats against the Ottomans, fighting under Fra Luka Imbrišimović’s banner.
The Ottomans were defeated when the rifles from Gabela and Nevesinje united.
Dusan the Mighty, the greatest Serbian ruler, left his empress behind during his campaigns in the south, in Dubrovnik. He had a fondness for Croats.
Tomislav, the king, attacked the Bulgarian army at the invitation of the Serbs.
Ban Jelačić also waged war at the invitation of the Serbs.
Stepinac fought in Karađorđe’s army under his command.
As he was dying, Stjepan Radić’s message was: Don’t turn against the Serbs. Only together, only together can we achieve something.
The greatest fear of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is the uprising of the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the existing Croat elite, controlled by Zagreb and Vienna, which serves as a shield for the OHR and behaves as their subordinate.
Even though they robbed our bank, expelled our leaders, and even persecuted today’s leaders.
The greatest fear of the OHR is that Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina will declare, “We don’t care about the EU if Al Qaeda / SDA criminals remain your ministers, and if there is no investigation into the killers of our children.”
Austria, Italy, and Turkey have never abandoned their aspirations to seize our territory.
The UK observes it all from the background, playing a central role in persuading Tito to relinquish the annexation of Carinthia in exchange for a gift: the mass surrender and mass execution of Croats at Bleiburg, who were then led to mass death, thereby eliminating tomorrow’s natural opposition and potential assassins.
Let’s rally around Dodik, just as the Serbs united around Fra Luka Imbrišimović, a rebel who expelled the Ottomans from Slavonia.
Let’s unite in the name of Gavrilo, a Serb who avenged the deaths of Zrinski and Frankopan, whom the Viennese lords slaughtered like chickens, a practice even the Turks had abandoned.
Let’s unite in the name of Nikola Šubić and Jeanny Merkus, Ivan Musić and Mihajlo Ljubibratić!
Let’s be worthy of our noble past, from the noblest times in our history when our forefathers, our founding fathers, broke the chains of slavery. And let us renounce that shameful Austrian and Nazi German past imposed upon us.
That is their past.
God willing, the Bosniaks will realize what is being done to them, how they are showered with deception, and they will stand in that fight with us.
Their nationalism has passed the puberty phase. It’s time for them to realize where the spark of all our curses and defeats lies.
In Vienna.