ABSTRACT
The impression we get from reading newspapers, magazine articles, watching television, and listening to popular pundits and commentators, high-ranking military and government officials, and even some “old Yugoslav hands” of the diplomatic corps is that the former Yugoslavia is an area where hundreds of years of deep hatred erupted again in bloodshed and murder with the demise of Tito whose communist regime had held the country together and forcibly suppressed ethnic loathing. I challenge this facile picture. A great deal of rewriting of history is being done these days in order to prove whatever favorite political point is advanced.
