... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...ere not without their attractions to Serbs and Croats alike. This is the great theatre of the absurd called the Balkans. Pavelic and the Ustash... ...s" - politicians who regard politics as their venue and their conduit, an extended theatre with their constituency as an audience. At the other ext... ...attitudes are permissive rather than puritanical, even though his emancipation from ancient taboos brings him no sexual peace. Fiercely competitive ... ... manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism. In short: Nazism was about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...s continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derision was partially eroded during the Dar...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...