A book “The strategy symbolic of nation-building in South Eastern Europe”, created as a result of the project of public opinion research conducted by IPSOS, shows that a high 68 percent of the population in BiH regrets the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Namely, the citizens of Serbia and BiH feel nostalgic about Yugoslavia the most, while the least Yugonostalgic are Croats and Kosovars.
The study included 10,500 people from the region and gave a series of indicators on the attitudes of people in Eastern Europe and their commitment to emerging countries, compared to religion, national symbols, history, relations with other nations and the question of guilt for past wars.
The results show that nowhere in the former Yugoslavia, nation is not as strong established as in Croatia, or in other words, from the entire area of former Yugoslavia (excluding Slovenia), Croatia has achieved the highest score of loyalty among the new countries of the region, just behind Kosovo.
By contrast, most nostalgic ones live in Serbia, where 71 percent of the population regrets the breakup of Yugoslavia, then in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the figures show 68 percent. Macedonians who regret for Yugoslavia amounts to 45 percent. In Croatia, the number is 18 percent and even less in Kosovo.
The research regarding the attitudes on the 1199’s wars and national boundaries showed a deep division between the Serbians, Croatians and Bosnians.
(Source: klix)
