Yugoslavs want to be Yugoslavs

"Yugoslavs do not ask for anything more or less than what everyone else has - to be Yugoslavs, with all their faults and virtues. In order for our country, the Republic of Serbia, to truly be a country that takes care of its heritage, we, the Yugoslavs, must be recognized as a national minority," reads the announcement of the Yugoslav People's Movement, which today submitted the initiative to the competent institutions in Serbia to recognize the Yugoslavs. the status of the nation.

They added that, although Yugoslavia no longer exists, the members of the Yugoslav people are the bearers of the memory of the existence of both the state that "proudly bore the name of Yugoslavia, and the people that also proudly bore the name of Yugoslavs."

They said that they are not "just nostalgic" for the former state, but a people who sublimate in themselves all the characteristics, both ethnic and other phenotypic, characteristics of all peoples and nationalities that lived in Yugoslavia and created its traditions, culture and all peculiarities "on which they are so proud of."

"The heart of a Serb, a Croat, a Montenegrin, a Macedonian, a Slovene, a Bosnian beats in every Yugoslav, and we do not view anyone through the prism of nationalism, chauvinism or any other social divisions, but as integrative parts of one, Yugoslav, but also state entity," the announcement reads.

S.Ć./Danas

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