Talk:Croatia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia/Archive 1

Archive 1

NPOV Addition

In my opinion, this article is extremely biased and, most likely, was written either by a Croat or someone very sympathetic to their side of this history. I say this because the english used is the stilted, "wooden" variety that I often hear spoken in the fomer Yugoslavia. This article should be completely rewritten. Almost every sentence here needs sourcing, if sourcing for this type of prejudice even exists.

""the forced unification of Croatians and Slovenes under the Serbian crown."" - where is the basis for this?

""Italian, French and French African forces invaded from the west and Serbian troops invaded from the east."" - what is the basis for the word "invaded"? I have seen this in no history book I have read on the subject.

""Despite the neutral sounding name, the country was called Yugoslavia by the diplomatic community almost from the beginning."" - This simply makes no sense at all.

""The idea of Yugoslavia was in fact the best opportunity for Serbian nationalists to create the Greater Serbia, which was completed in 1918 according to the 1844 secret programme."" - Secret programme? Where is the source for this?

""Montenegro joined Serbia in 1918. The independence of Montenegro was regained in 1945 within the Tito's Yugoslavia."" - Independence? This is demonstrably false.

""Immediately after 1918 all the leading positions in the army were seized by Serbian officers, who treated Croatia as a hostile territory in the common state (it was publicly declared in 1919). On the other hand, it was presented to Europe as if the Croats had entered willingly the union with Serbia."" - "Seized"? "hostile territory"? Totally POV!

""unbearable terror and persecutions of Croatian peasants and intellectuals."" - Proof, sources??

""economic terror of the Belgrade government"" - POV

""The assassination was organized at the Royal court in Belgrade."" - No sources; absolutely incredible.

""The culmination of the Serbian police terror "" - POV

""Croatian archbishop Alojzije Stepinac reported about this event to the French diplomat Ernest Pezet in 1935"" - Where is the information about Stepinac subsequent assistance to the Nazis and Ustache?

This is only a sampling. This article reeks of Croatian chauvinism and seeks to justify the existence of the Ustache. It must be rewritten.

140.239.100.162 19:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

NPOV

This article is in great danger of breaking Wikipedia's "Neutral Point Of View" policy. For example: " Montenegro lost its independence in 1918 after being brutally annexed to Serbia. The independence of Montenegro was regained in 1945 within the Tito's Yugoslavia." or "It resulted in unbearable terror and persecutions of Croatian peasants and intellectuals." both clearly show that this article is not being kept up to standards.

I think its a great article with a lot of relevant info, but it has a lot of bias in its roots. Again, a paragraph starts off with "Croatian scientists were also victims of the Serbian terror." I can't really see this not being called biased.

Liet 20:19, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

The problematic sentences and paragraphs was inserted by User:Vincit omnia veritas in January 2006 (diff). Thuresson 20:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

New tags added.

I added some new tags to the article. First the article lacks sources for its statements, including very specific "facts" that must be cited. Second the article clearly relies a great on the opinion and personal research of an editor, which is reflected it the uncompromising and very POV tone of most sections. Also the last section on the Ustasha clearly uses a weasel word formation to make the rise of this fascist organization was simply the result of, according the the author the flawed politics, of the Yugoslav Kingdom. This article now is in no way a reliable source of information and should be presented as such until it is improved, mainly by removing POV language and uncited facts or providing reliable (preferably English-language) sources to support these facts. --84.153.14.4 16:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

"Serbian delegation"

Removed the following unsourced challenged statement:

Ironically, at the Paris Peace Conference the Yugoslav delegation openly insisted that it be known as the "Serbian Delegation."

This source (in Croatian) does not confirm it outright. It was indeed nominally the "Serbian Delegation", but, according to the source, for a rather mundane reason: the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was still not internationally recognized at the time. GregorB (talk) 10:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)