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20. Bilo je časno zˇivjeti s Titom, p. 239.
21. Chronicle of the Olympics (New York: DK, 1996), pp. 159–161.
22. Ibid., p. 10.
23. Hvala Sarajevo: poruke zahvalnosti gradu i zemlji domaćinu XIV zimskih olimpijskih
igara (Thanks Sarajevo: Messages of gratitude to the host city and host
country of the XIV Winter Olympic Games) (Sarajevo: Organizacioni komiter
XIV zimskih Olimpijskih Igara, July 1984), pp. 149–166.
24. Ibid., p. 151.
25. Ibid., p. 159.
26. After this statement, a Western newspaper wrote that the chairman Mikulić
was “a hard-line communist whose primary concern was to preserve the
communist ideological and political monopoly.” Religion, Politics, Society, 12 February
1984.
27. For example, among 206 Yugoslav athletes who won gold, silver, or
bronze medals in international contests in 1980, 81 were from Serbia (2 from
Kosovo and 24 from Vojvodina), 58 from Croatia, 27 from Slovenia, 23 from
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 9 from Macedonia, and 8 from Montenegro. In 1984, 220
athletes won prestigious international trophies; 77 of these athletes came from
Serbia (3 from Kosovo and 22 from Vojvodina), 69 from Croatia, 39 from Slovenia,
18 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 from Montenegro, and 6 from Macedonia.
Almanah jugoslavenskog sporta (Belgrade: Savez za fizičku kulturu Jugoslavije,
1984), p. 10.
28. Tonči Petrić “Provijest sporta u Splitu” (History of sports in the city of
Split), Slobodna Dalmacija, 15 May 200.
29. See more on Yugoslav sports as a nation-unifying force in Vjekoslav Perica,
“United They Stood, Divided They Fell: Nationalism and the Yugoslav School
of Yugoslav Basketball, 1968–2000,” Nationalities Papers 29, (June 2001),
pp. 267–291.
30. Almanah jugoslavenskog sporta (Belgrade: Savez za fizičku kulturu Jugoslavije,
1982), p. 5.
31. Ibid., pp. 2–4.
32. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 1 (Louisville, KY:
John Knox Press, 1996), p. 210.
33. See Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial,
2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992); see also Bellah and Hammond,
Varieties of Civil Religion.
34. See Bellah and Hammond, Varieties of Civil Religion; Eric Hobsbawm and
Terence Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1983); and Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme,
Myth, Reality. On the role of sport and patriotic rituals see also the Wilbur
Zelinsky, preface to Nation into State. The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American
Nationalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1988).
35. C. L. Sulzberger, World War II (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969), p. 225.
36. Milovan Djilas, Wartime, trans. Michael B. Petrovich (New York: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1977).
37. See Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991
(New York: Vintage Books, 1994), pp. 166–167, 206. See also John Keegan, The
Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).
38. See “The 1998 US Army Handbook: Yugoslavia, History Briefings,” in
NATO Yugoslavian Internet War: Resources, available at http//www.users.bigpond
.com (24 May 1999). See also Dennis Sherman and Joyce Salisbury, The West in
272 notes to pages 92–96