Déjà Vu and the Problem of Evil: A Case Study of Political Narcissism and Sadism

Abstract

During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, there were five countervailing military forces jockeying for power in the country. First, the dominant prevailing German Nazis; second, the British forces supplying direction and armaments under the direction of Prime Minister Winston Churchill; third, the Allied guerrilla Serbian Royalist Chetniks under the command of Draza Mihailovic; fourth, the guerilla Serbian Communist Partisan forces under Tito committed to Russia; and fifth, the collaborative Croatian Nazi forces committed to severing their political relationship to Yugoslavia. Religiously, the Serbs were Eastern Orthodox and the Croatians were Catholic, both however were “ethnically” Slavic, both, for example, spoke the same language, Serbo-Croatian. But the Croatians were secessionists, and they operated the “cruelest Nazi concentration death camp ever in the entire system, Jasenovac,” which practiced the most extreme forms of torture and genocide. The authors’ father was from Montenegro and fought on the side of the Allies, while his mother was from Croatia. Jasenovac only targeted Serbs, Montenegrins, Jews, and gypsies. But this is one reason the author wrote this book, to warn that the US is now treading toward this same historic path of the old Yugoslavia, which no longer exists.