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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3117290" data-attributes="member: 24302">Albania isn&#039;t nearly as bad as you say.&nbsp; Not full of terrorists.&nbsp; And the Albanian mob?&nbsp; They&#039;re in other countries where people actually have money.&nbsp; Albania itself has very little violent crime.&nbsp; Two UNESCO world heritage cities.&nbsp; An incredibly beautiful coastline.&nbsp; Great food.&nbsp; Has a lot of poor people and trash is everywhere.&nbsp; Not perfect, but getting better. Macedonia isn&#039;t Greek, and that&#039;s a huge problem for Greece.&nbsp; They&#039;ve blocked any chance of Macedonia getting into the EU.&nbsp; There&#039;s a region in northern Greece called Macedonia and they feel the Slavs in Macedonia the country have stolen their heritage.&nbsp; Macedonians are Slavic, with a language very similar to Bulgarian.&nbsp; Bosnia is majority Muslim, but barely.&nbsp; Bosnia and Herzegovina is pretty much split three ways between Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats.One thing comes through often in research.&nbsp; The Serbs were to Yugoslavia what the Russians were to the Soviet Union.&nbsp; The dominant ethnic group that usually got things their way.&nbsp; It was a major factor in the country&#039;s collapse. People get tired of getting dominated.&nbsp; I&#039;ve talked to Serbs on a forum where they blame everyone else but themselves for how everything turned out.&nbsp; They&#039;ll tell you Albanians aren&#039;t a real ethnic group and that present day Albania should be their&#039;s.&nbsp; Get infuriated when I point out they didn&#039;t arrive to the area until the 6th Century and Albanians are descended from the original Illyrians.&nbsp; Their greatest kingdom was centered in Kosovo but the Ottomans changed the area&#039;s composition.&nbsp; They don&#039;t want to let it go but they took a massive infrastructure hit from NATO for trying ethnic cleansing there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3117290, member: 24302"] Albania isn't nearly as bad as you say. Not full of terrorists. And the Albanian mob? They're in other countries where people actually have money. Albania itself has very little violent crime. Two UNESCO world heritage cities. An incredibly beautiful coastline. Great food. Has a lot of poor people and trash is everywhere. Not perfect, but getting better. Macedonia isn't Greek, and that's a huge problem for Greece. They've blocked any chance of Macedonia getting into the EU. There's a region in northern Greece called Macedonia and they feel the Slavs in Macedonia the country have stolen their heritage. Macedonians are Slavic, with a language very similar to Bulgarian. Bosnia is majority Muslim, but barely. Bosnia and Herzegovina is pretty much split three ways between Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. One thing comes through often in research. The Serbs were to Yugoslavia what the Russians were to the Soviet Union. The dominant ethnic group that usually got things their way. It was a major factor in the country's collapse. People get tired of getting dominated. I've talked to Serbs on a forum where they blame everyone else but themselves for how everything turned out. They'll tell you Albanians aren't a real ethnic group and that present day Albania should be their's. Get infuriated when I point out they didn't arrive to the area until the 6th Century and Albanians are descended from the original Illyrians. Their greatest kingdom was centered in Kosovo but the Ottomans changed the area's composition. They don't want to let it go but they took a massive infrastructure hit from NATO for trying ethnic cleansing there. [/QUOTE]

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