THE OTHER SIDE OF EUROPE

Abstract

The basic thesis of the article is that the state of Yugoslavia was produced by an ideologic syncrisis which was elaborated through the ideologic evolution of the European 19th century, and that the »romantic« visions of the past and the historical mission of peoples were dominating in this syncrisis, the visions which are known first in the pan-Germanic circle and later in the pan-Slavic circle, which is first of all a reflected reaction, though in a way deformed, to the German. These are the ideologies of the Blut und Boden group, were the basic characteristics are ethnical exclusivism based on belonging to a tribe and xenophobia. Therefore the Yugoslavian-ship has got much in common with the proletarian internatiolism, but it is closely connected with the trial of accumulating the ethnonationalisms of small groups in the name of the »idea of Slavism« and uniting them into the ideology of a national state, which was supposed to cause the formation of the Yugoslavian »nation«. The examples they were referring to -Prussia and Piemont - were both incorrectly used indeed, but they were efficient for some time nevertheless, and the efficiency is due mainly to the winners of both world wars.