Authored by Jusuf Buxhovi. Translation by Petrit Latifi.
Jusuf Buxhovi.
The book “Malte Olschevski “Der Serbische Mythos – Die verspätete Nation” (The Serbian Myth – The Late Nation), published by Malte Olschevski in Herberg in Munich, is full of Serbian propaganda, racism and rationalizations of Serbian atrocities against Albanians, Bosniaks and Croats. Jusuf Buxhovi criticizes the book and writes:
“Having sympathy for a people and loving them does not mean that you should protect them from what cannot be protected under any circumstances. The well-known Austrian publicist Malte Olschevski, however, showed the opposite and quite unscrupulously tries to justify the Serbs and their current political class for their hegemonic actions, which, with the exception of some fanatical nationalists in Belarus and Russia, are judged by the whole world, even by Serbia’s biggest allies and influential countries, which have established it as a state and have tried to keep it at the level of a regional factor.
Olszewski, who was a long-time editor of Austrian television, published the voluminous 478-page book “The Serbian Myth – a Lagging Nation” in Bavaria. The book, which is accompanied by 30 color paintings and drawings, was published by the Munich-based “Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung”.
As a representative publication, it attracted the attention of the German public without being well promoted because, according to the newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine”, it is the first time that a German publisher has taken the moral responsibility, after all that is happening and has happened in the former Yugoslavia, to publish a book that not only propagates Greater Serbian hegemony and its genocidal actions against Bosniaks, Croats and Albanians, but also contains racist assessments and insults towards the victims: Bosniaks, Croats and especially Albanians, who are compared to “barbarians and destroyers of Western civilization”!
The Brankovićs and the New Jews?…
Malte Olševski’s book “The Serbian Myth” does not actually deal with the myth, but with the lie used to justify Serbian crimes, committed not only now, but since the time of the Berlin Congress onwards, which he considers “just”, since according to the author they “were oriented towards the stabilization of the Serbian ethnicity and the creation of conditions for living in a national state”, which would extend “over the Serbian spiritual and ethnic space, which over the centuries has been equally endangered from the east (by the Turks and Albanians) and from the west (by the Croats and Bosniaks), and that the efforts to “recompose the Serbian space represent the correction of a historical injustice done to the Serbs from all sides…”
However, for Olševski, the Serbs “as defenders of European civilization and true Christianity”, have also had traitors himself, who have helped “this evil”. Among them he mentions Vuk Branković, who, as he says, if it were not for him, the Serbs would not have lost Kosovo so quickly, but he also mentions the communists – “servants of Tito”, who according to him “with the acceptance of the 1974 constitution, where Albanians were given the right to become subjects of the federation and to appear with the elements of statehood, the destruction of the Serbian being from within practically began”…
The communists who allowed “this betrayal”, Olševski calls “new Serbian Jews”, who committed two crimes at once: one against Serbism and the holy Serbian idea, and the other, against European civilization, because it was allowed that the Albanians, as vagrants and invaders of Serbian lands, appeared as representatives and the new nucleus of Islamic fundamentalism in Europe!… Olševski on this occasion severely insults the Albanians as a people.
He compares them to “wandering shepherds” who know nothing “but to lie”, and that these tendencies, according to him, are “proven” by the violence they inflicted from 1974 onwards on the Serbian being in Kosovo and their henchmen, about whom he says that “they turned into cowsheds and were raped in the most horrible way”!…
Although the insults and lies in abundance against Albanians are denied by the very presentation of photographs of churches in Kosovo, where Graçanica, the Church of Deçan, that of Peja and others are seen preserved and cultivated in the best form, this hardly impresses the Austrian author at all, who has made it his goal to speak in such a pamphlet, unprecedented in Germany, in a language that is no longer spoken even in Belgrade, outside of chauvinist and hegemonic cries.
“Kosovo – Serbian Jerusalem!”
In addition to the insults directed at Albanians, which can be compared to those of Vladan Đorđević published and displayed in Bavaria in 1913, which were intended to influence the London Conference of Ambassadors to justify the Serbian invasions of Kosovo and other Albanian territories, Olševski speaks with the same hatred of Croats as “bloodsuckers” and Bosniaks as “exponents of Islamic fundamentalism”, who are stimulated to “erode the Serbian being” and “prevent the Serbs, as the only people in Europe, from remaining united within the space of their national ethnicity, which is “occupied equally by Albanians, Bosniaks and Croats”…
The author of the book Dayton’s Bosnia sees it as an artificial creation , which was made at the behest of the “anti-Serbian forces”, in order to further handicap Serbism, even though, according to him, it will not withstand the challenges of the time, because this will be prevented by “Serbian wickedness and their right to have a national state like the others”…
In this case, Olševski calls the “Serbian movement” for a common state “as a national movement led by righteous nationalism, which must in any case be crowned with the creation of a Serbian national state in the Balkans”, a state that, according to him, “is unjustly contested only by Serbs”… Publicist Klaus Buchenau, in his review written in “Frankfurter allgemeine”, sees the greatest handicaps of this book, besides its pamphleteering concept, in the one-sided view of nationalism as a magic formula, which is viewed in isolation from other nationalisms.
Buhenau, on this occasion, states that there are many other open national issues in the Balkans, and that the orientation to generalize one of them, as is the case with the Serbs, and minimize or ignore the others, as is the case with the Albanians, necessarily leads to wrong conclusions, but also to a deepening of the crisis, which may have consequences.
Buhenau evaluates the book as an intellectual and political failure, which not only does not contribute to clarifying the truth “about the Balkan tragedy” and “its greatest victim – the Serbs”, as Olshevski believes, but this book, with the messages it brings and the intonations it implements, also calls into question the moral credibility of the publisher, because in this way and in this way, he turns into a drummer of Greater Serbian hegemonism, which is now, to a large extent, judged by the Serbian people themselves.
However, despite Buchenau’s surprise, the presentation of Olszewski’s book in Munich should not be dismissed as a coincidence, since there is a powerful Serbian lobby in this city, and the Serbian Orthodox Church for Central Europe is also installed there, which during the years of the war has continuously distributed pamphlets and other letters in which “Kosovo is presented as the cradle of Serbianism” and “holy land”.
Last year, the same church also published the “White Book on Kosovo”, with many “evidence” of the Serbian spiritual presence in Kosovo, where it is called “Serbian Jerusalem…” Therefore, Olszewski’s book, although with “publicistic” authorship and claims, cannot be seen separately from this permanently operating propaganda opus, with which the “defense of Serbian Jerusalem at all costs…” is justified!
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Balkan Academia 