Below is an eMail received Nov. 7, 2000 from an SDL visitor - we witheld the name and address as well as country of origin for security.

I don't agree with your view that Serbian "subservience" is due to some unique combination of contradictory traits (testimon.htm).

You are, most probably, purely Serbian yourself, which subjectivity makes it very hard to see the truth. I am of mixed origin, Austrian/Serbian/North-European, which makes it much easier to recognize the "Slavian Soul" component.

The Slavs are simply not accustomed to the "democratic idea" and prefer sound leadership, to manage any business, including that of the state. It is the West that makes an exception for political business - actually in order to divide and rule. There is nothing wrong with the Slavs, rather the peoples of the Western "democracies" have consequently lost their national identities and are easier to manipulate now. Hence, in comparison, the Serbs appear as a proud, stubborn and ultra-nationalist people.

The real problem is: how to avoid a malicious person becoming the state manager? In this respect all peoples and all political systems are more or less vulnerable for an alien take over of power. The Slavs in particular have historically acquired a quite fatalistic attitude regarding "authority", whereas Western peoples have learned to ignore authorities all together, except for the most powerful and dangerous: the mass media that indoctrinate the so-called, politically correct, majority view.

After the hysterical reactions of the West during the initial phase of Mr. Putin's presidency, we now have had even more madness about the Yugoslav presidency. Apart from the fact that this function does not yield much political power at all, the organized "people's revolt" took unmistakingly the same shape as for instance the 1917 revolution in Russia. But this recipe is too well known to be successful anymore. Rather, it seems that the West has been tricked in a masterful way.

In a Slavian country there is no real opposition in Western sense - those who make a lot of noise, declaring themselves "democrates" or "liberals" are, as a rule, not Slavs but alien elements in society. The revolutions they start are always enabled by financial means and have nothing to do with "workers", "students", or such concepts as "freedom" or "democracy" - it is just profitable power that counts. Though, not only foreign powers can make use of the revolutionary method to subdue a country !

But in 1990 I was staying in Yugoslavia myself and could easily observe the preparations that were made by foreign agents to break up the country. Some of these agents were Dutch, I recognized them in spite of their business disguise, and I prematurely left Yugoslavia because in historical retrospect this meant war (1940-1941: either Germany or the Allied powers had to seize Yugoslavia; neither accepted, and still doesn't tolerate, a neutral - let alone a Russian dominated - country in the Balkans). This foreign involvement was so obvious that for instance Slovenian businessmen confirmed to me it was already under German supervision and flooded with German capital - by U.S. command - to replace the then worthless dinars - only in name it was still Yugoslavia. After the money would come the bloodshed as I correctly anticipated without knowledge that a certain banker - Mr. Milosevic - would eventually become the president, the West would hate most (because of his annoying financial insight ..... ?).

Best regards,