Quote Originally Posted by fuddha
Well, I suppose I should be lucky that you even now what Croatia is...
It's amazing how other nations think low of us. Your kind of image is quite common infact...

I'll tell you some things if you'd like to know them...
Slavic people have invaded the region as early as sixth century. The kingdom of Croatia has been established in seventh century. Croatia has lost it's independance when it came under Hungarian rule. Then came the Turkish (Ottoman) conquest of Balkans and Bosnia was taken from Croatia. And one victory by Croats beside city of Sisak has stopped them some 200-300 km from Vienna, and ultimately stopped them from raging trough Europe and changing the history as we know it. By centuries of preaching islam, Bosnian people have become very different from Croats. We share the same language, but religion and customs are completely different. Then came the Habsburg rule which ended in world war one(which BTW started when a terrorist assasinated the Habsburg king). Then came various attempts from Serbs to conquer whole Balkan. They foricibly settled Bosnia and parts of Croatia. That ended in world war two. During which Croatia was conquered by Germany. It was a sad period for us, because we more or less alied with the Nazis in hope of gaining protection from Serbs. We all know how nazis ended, so we were again conquered by Serbs in the form of Yugoslavia which was supposed to be a state of equality. Communistic Yugoslavia was lead by a dictator named Tito who was ironicaly a Croat. After his death a war for independance was fought between us, Serbs and Bosnians. Slovenia hasn't bordered Serbia so they didn't fight. It ended in our victory after eight years of a bloody war. Macedionia has fought a brief war with them also. Serbian army was a remnant of the Yugoslavian which was the third most powerful army at the time (USA, USSR then Yugoslavia). Now the Kosovo and Montenegro are about to gain independance from Serbia and thus ending the "Great Serbia" as they called it.
And now we're independent, poor (no famines and mud shacks though) while war profiteers economically speaking rule the country. Our politicians and courts are corrupted and powerless to stop the pillaging of every resource and factory in Croatia. Maybe when all the bad spirits die in 20-30 years will we be truly ours. Maybe...

Also, in 14th-15th century our king has put a curse on Croatian people to suffer under alien rule for five hundred years. The reason is that the people has refused to go on a crudsade to Palestine. Well, whadda ya know?? 500 years later we reach independance...
Bad times, no wonder eastern europe has the most depressed population on earth.....meh, the bassist for Nirvana is from Croatia so I'm grateful