Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States

establishment of diplomatic relations between Zagreb and Jerusalem, that the
two top leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans, Tito and Ivan Ribar, were ethnic
Croats.
87. Tudjman privatized the Brioni archipelago in the northern Adriatic and
Milosˇević, according to a Belgrade monthly, and confiscated Tito’s valuable foreign
decorations, medals, and pieces of art from the 25 May Museum. Duga, no.
1729, 1 January 2000.
88. Bozˇe S ˇ imlesˇa, Sportske bitke za Hrvatsku (Sports battles for Croatia) (Zagreb:
Meditor, 1995).
89. According to the Croatian state Television news of 27 January 1998,
Defense Minister S ˇ usˇak thanked the athletes for advancing Croatia’s reputation
worldwide and awarded handguns to the boxer Damir S ˇ karo, the karate fighter
Branko Cikatić, the tennis superstar Goran Ivanisˇević, soccer players Stjepan
Deverić and Ivan Mustapić, the water poloists Dubravko S ˇ imenc and Perica
Bukić, and basketball figures Andro Knego, Veljko Mrsˇić, and Bosˇko Bozˇć.
90. “Sport kao refleksija drusˇtvenih odnosa” (Sports as a mirror of social
relations), Republika, no. 233, March 2000.
91. In 1999, more than 120 basketball players from Croatia alone had played
in foreign countries. This number exceeded the number of active players in the
domestic A1 league. During the 1998–99 season, the largest number of Croatians
played in Slovenia (24), followed by Switzerland (16), the United States
(11), Hungary (9), Turkey (9), Germany (9), Poland (7), Austria (6), and so forth.
Source: Website of the International Basketball Federation http://www.
eurobasket.comshcro.
92. Slaven Letica, “Tito i Tudjman,” Globus, no. 386, June 1998.
93. The Croatian sociologist Z ˇ upanov described Yugonostalgia as a “social
sentiment” rather than a movement. Nacional, 8 February 1996, p. 51.
94. Directed by Vinko Bresˇan, screenplay by Vinko Bresˇan and Ivo Bresˇan
(Croatia, 1999).
95. Feral Tribune, 8 September 1997, p. 34.
96. “Cyber Yugoslavia” (CY) was officially established and posted on the
World Wide Web on 9 September 1999. At that moment the new nation had
five thousand “citizens” and a constitution. The CY “government” was issuing
mock passports and appointing cabinet members. The CY founding manifesto
reads as follows: “This is Cyber Yugoslavia. Home of Cyber Yugoslavs. We lost
our country in 1991 and became citizens of Atlantis. Starting September, 1999
this will be our home. We don’t have a physical land, but we do have nationality,
and we are giving CY citizenship and CY passports. Because this is Atlantis, we
are allowing double and triple citizenship. If you feel Yugoslav, you are welcome
to apply for CY citizenship, regardless of your current nationality and citizenship,
and you will be accepted. Please read our Constitution for the details. If you are
just curious, you are welcome to visit us as tourists. This land will grow as our
citizens wish. Neither faster, nor slower. Neither more, nor less. So, this site will
always be under construction. For a solid country to grow, even a virtual one,
it takes some time. When we have five million citizens, we plan to apply to the
UN for member status. When this happens, we will ask 20 square meters of land
anywhere on Earth to be our country. On this land, we’ll keep our server.” See
http://www.juga.com.
97. In January 1999, the International Organization for Migrations revealed
the results of its survey of migrations from former communist countries of eastern
Europe. According to the survey, people from ex-communist countries, in
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