In 1990 Croat author Miroslav Krleža published his collection of essays titled “Ten Bloody Years” in Zagreb, and on the pages 418-419 he writes about the racist and colonial Serbian propaganda against Albanians during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia:

“(…) And the Belgrade press, as a counterpart of the Viennese schmocks, radical public opinion, Belgrade’s pre-war cabinets and foreign ministers considered Arnaut (also) a nameless paradise, living in a nameless land, without history, without literature and literary language, without tradition, without songs, without all those adjectives that make a man and a tribe a human tribe. Even a few years ago, travelers in Albania saw tailed people, ‘with a horse’s or goat’s tail’, and those wild creatures of the ancient Tribals and Skordisks, those Gege and those Tosca, those hybrids of various anthropological types, that gang torn into fifty completely incomprehensible dialects , they are torn out and slaughtered in hellish anarchy.

In those wild, black, inaccessible cliffs, seventy percent of husbands die of blood revenge, and it is a shame to die of sickness in bed. Those bloodthirsty savages,. They live in caves like Neanderthals, they live in stone towers without doors, without windows and without chimneys; they sleep in the light dressed as bowmen, with a gun in hand, and in front of each hut a horse’s skull is impaled as a warrior’s trophy. They believe that God gave them guns to kill each other, and they have northern lands, where they still sacrifice to the old gods living people. Arnauts drink the warm blood of their slaughtered victims, cut vines, knock down towers, destroy each other passionately, killing women out of lust, and the concept of love does not exist among them and the word love does not exist in their language.

Brides are bought and sold for a dowry of a few spoons, there are no toilets in the country, everything is lousy and dirty, and those horse thieves, thieves, burglars, lying and treacherous types, who look down on the ground like a dog before a man, live in clouds of smoke, typhus, malaria, smallpox, dysentery and venereal diseases, these are the centuries-old executioners and killers of the Serbian element in the southern regions. That burning, furious, anarchic, animal-like mass pours like lava into the tame valleys of the southern regions and there burns and slaughters and destroys our peaceful and civilized settlements for hundreds and hundreds of years. That horde of Arnautic descendants, who live in the provinces that in the Middle Ages belonged to the Serbian Empire (historical law analogous to Hungarian historical law on Dalmatia, Bosnia and Croatia), it flows like a ‘desolate’ river into tame and civilized regions, and that ‘desolate’ river should be returned to its natural bed back in the black and inaccessible mountains.”

Reference

Zlatko Pinter, 2019. “Dacic is not guilty, he is a victim of prejudice and racist hatred towards Albanians”. https://kamenjar.com/nije-dacic-kriv-on-je-zrtva-predrasuda-i-rasisticke-mrznje-prema-albancima/