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Slovenia was newer truly a part of the Balkans
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Not if you live near Jesenice
jokes aside, politically and mentally Slovenia was more a part of central Europe than the balkans. We were a part of Yugoslavia because the slovenian nation was under the italians and austrians and we were always pretty much the undedog for them, peons if I may say so. But the world was still ruled then by imperialist nations and complete independence was imposible. The country of SHS, predecesor of Yugoslavia was a joint venture with the croats and serbians. But culturaly there were great differences, and still are.
And yes, our war was NOT a civil war. It was an independence war. One faction fought the rulling faction for independence. The bosnian war was a civil war, two factions were fighting eachother in one country for control, influenced by outside powers.
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I'm a Slovenian, so is Betonov. While I cannot claim to know what his ethnicity is....
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Slovenian for 4 generations back, don't know about the older ones