UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA GRADUATE SCHOOL ...

while the country‘s ‗birthday‘ was 29 November, celebrating the day Yugoslavia became reality in
the plans set out at the meeting in Jajce, Bosnia in 1943. However, the user Nova Jugoslavija
stated as her birthday 25 May 1957, so it is safe to assume the best wishes are intended for the
user. Although from the posts below it is also clear that the friends congratulating Nova
Jugoslavija are clearly referring to the ‗old‘ Yugoslavia ... hence creating an emotional historical
confusion (which apparently troubles no one).
Goran Popov Happy birthday our dear homeland.
26 May at 01:58 · ·
Milanka Zdravkovic Long live our YUGOSLAVIA we shall never forget you.Happy
Birthday!!!!!!
25 May at 19:23
Recep Gürdal Long live all who love you Happy Birth Day
25 May at 19:15
Jasna Stanisic Happy birthday Our Homeland ,for being and remaining in our hearts !!!!
25 May at 17:03 398
Now, the story presented through the profile is a Facebook outlet of the website
www.novajugoslavija.eu, a German-based home to an association which is undertaking activities
related to forming a new Yugoslavia. Ambitious in scope, the association lays out the programme
quite succinctly, 399 basing it on the premise of senselessness of the Yugoslav wars and on the
values of democracy, freedom and equality. Tracing all of these in the former Yugoslavia, the
programme states that they aim to create a platform for common post-Yugoslav action:
Our basic wish is to create a common platform within a framework of an organisation for
like-minded people, in whose work – not excluding political – the former republic of the
former Yugoslavia could one day become involved. This new platform offers the
possibility to define concrete steps in the outlined direction. 400
Despite the rather ambitious scope, and unlike many endeavours found on Facebook and
elsewhere in DME, the Nova Jugoslavija‘s aspirations surprisingly profess a high degree of
caution and awareness that there is more to action than just posting words, images and sounds. In
fact, they invite participation of individuals who would be willing to take part in their projects;
admittedly with little apparent response. The fact that there are not any projects listed in the
―Project‖ section of the website or on the profile might suggest an assumption that the idea may be
difficult/impossible to put to any reasonable practical use. Thus the goal is carefully curtailed by
the statement that they are: ―Aware of the fact, that any realisation of whatever idea is always
398 Nova Jugoslavija, http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1807652139, accessed 24 August 2011.
399 Nova Jugoslavija eV Kultur und Förderverein, ―O nama,‖ http://www.novajugoslavija.eu/hr/novajugoslavija-informacije/10.html,
accessed 24 August 2011.
400 Ibid.
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