Ever since Serbias military oligarchs, clergy and patrimonialist rulers gained support from the Russian Tsars to expand violently on the Balkans, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and expelled. The Serbian imperial and endless wars from the early 1800s up to 1999 led to Albanians, Hungarians, Romanians, Macedonians, Croats, Bosniaks and even Montenegrins being expelled, killed or violently assimilated.
The idea of Serbia being some kind of protector of Christians or Orthodoxism is nothing more than a lie. When Serbia invaded the Balkans in 1912, not only did the Serbian troops massacre Albanians, Catholic Christians and Muslims, but they also massacred Orthodox Macedonians and Bulgarians. Anyone who did not want to bow down to the Serbian hegemony was violently converted or killed.
In 1914, A Serbian terrorist murdered the Archduke of Austro-Hungary, starting World War I, killing 20 million people, and wounding 21 million. All of this because of one Serbian fascists, using the same ideology as his predecessors had used in 1912, when Serbian troops killed 150,000 Albanians. Serbia army also killed 200,000 Albanians between 1912 to 1918. Serbian terrorist troops continued to kill tens of thousands of Albanians betwen 1918 to 1939, and expelling hundreds of thousands.
The evil of Serbias violent imperialists knew no limit.
Through out the 1920s and 1930s, Serbia killed thousands of Croats, Bosniaks and even Hungarians, and forcing them into a Greater Serbian empire, which was constantly volatile until it collapsed in 1939. During World War 2, Serbian Chetnik fascists massacred 50,000 Bosniaks and thousands of Croats, as well as Albanians in Kosovo and Hungarians in Vojvodina.
There is one question we must ask; What explains this insanity, blood lust and death among Serbias oligarchs, having destroyed Europe for centuries, leading to WW1, which consequently also led to WW2?
Ever since the Byzantines invited the Carpathian Slavic migrants who ironically destroyed the Byzantine empire, the Slavic tribes were violent and patrimonialist. The tribes wiped out the indigenous populations of the Balkans, and expanded small Slavic principalities. Eventually, some of these became the Serbs – the very name deriving from Byzantine “servants”.
This tradition of violently expanding onto other’s land is best described by the Slavic patrimonialist culture, mainly Russia.
Patrimonalism in Russia came from the Mongol invasion in 1237. The ensuing 243 years under the Mongol Yoke until the battle of River Ugra 1480 Mongolicized and Patrimonialized Russia for good.
The Russian state apparatus is the heir of the Mongol khanate. All power has been concentrated on one single ruler, and all power emanates from him. He is surrounded with cronies (kurultai) who bear personal loyalty to him, and the whole domain is treated as the ruler’s personal property.
Patrimonialism is a form of governance in which all power flows directly from the ruler. There is no distinction between the public and private domains. These regimes are autocratic or oligarchic and exclude the lower, middle and upper classes from power. The leaders of these countries typically enjoy absolute personal power.
The key focus in Patrimonialism is the extent to which legitimate authority is based primarily on personal power exercised by the ruler, either directly or indirectly. The ruler may act alone or as a member of a powerful elite group or oligarchy. The ruler is not viewed as a tyrant, but he is assumed to have a divine mandate. Direct rule involves the ruler and a few key members of the ruler’s household or staff maintaining personal control over every aspect of governance. The ruler is considered to be an absolute powerholder, and not bound by any laws.
Conversely in Feudalism, the state is considered to be res publica, a common thing, and not the personal property of the ruler. The King merely the primus inter pares, the first among the peers, and the power flows from bottom to top. Usually the power of the ruler has been restricted by constitution, chart or parliament. The local lords, cities and leagues wield a considerable power yet they are bound to legitimacy.
In Patrimonialism, there is an intellectual or moral elite of priests or office holders as well as a military. The priestly group may invoke deity for the leader, and any religious institution or church is merely an office of the state apparatus. The ruler is able to make independent decisions on an ad hoc basis, with little if any checks and balances, and his ukaz is the law. No individual or group is powerful enough to oppose the ruler consistently without, in turn, becoming the new patrimonial ruler. The legal authority of the ruler is largely unchallenged; there is no recognized body of case law or formal law, but there may be notions of etiquette and honor.
Russian patrimonialism is simply a system where the ruler legally owns the country and treats it like a giant private estate. Sovereignty and property are blended. Political leaders do not just govern; they control the economy. Loyalty matters more than the rule of law.
Russia has evolved the Authoritarian Patrimonialism into its perfection, and attained the climax.
Cultural evolution is not about following some ready-made guideline and attaining certain strata one after another. Cultural evolution is similar as biological evolution – once a certain trait or system has taken one path, it will not switch to other path any more. Just as an octopus will not evolve into a dolphin, Russia will never evolve similar as the Northern Europe.
The path of Russian cultural evolution was set and predestined by the Mongol conquest 1237. This event separated Russia irreversibly and irrevocably from the cultural evolutionary path of the Catholic Northern Europe, whose society was based on Feudalism instead of Patrimonialism.
Ever since 1237, Russia has pushed on its very own evolutionary path, and it will never become a similar civil citizen society as the Northern European states. Russia has been predestined to be an Authoritarian Patrimonialism – it will not change into anything else.
This is where Serbia’s imperialist lords got their inspiration
In the early medieval era, the Serbian tsars used Slavic Orthodoxism to convert local Catholic Albanians and Vlachs, seeking to create a Slavic Byzantine Empire with its own church. Early did the Serbian rulers realize that only power matters, and the way to power was through the church.
Had it not been for the Ottoman invasion, all of the Balkans would have eventually become serbicized (slavicized) as there was no end to Russian-inspired Serbian expanding imperialism. Through out the Ottoman Empire, Serbs maintained their identity and culture through the Orthodox church, which the Ottomans respected and even collaborated with against the interests of Catholic and Orthodox Albanians.
Russia, having made Serbia its own puppet state in the 19th century, with a vision of a Russian port in the Adriatic, pressured the Ottomans to recognize a Serbian principality. Russia then armed Serbia in order to invade all of the Balkans once the Turks had been defeated. Through out this entire time, Serbs were taught by their local clergy and militarist leaders that Serbs ruled all of the Balkans for centuries.
This is not true.
Tsar Dusan of Serbia ruled a shallow small little empire, having gained power after he strangled his own father. No matter which Serbian tsar ruled, they often failed to suppress or assimilate Catholic Albanian lords or Vlachs who often resisted Serbian hegemony. As soon as Serbian tsars died, Albanian principalities emerged, which is evidence that Albanians and other groups had a kind of proto-ethnic consciousness.
Whenever Serbian local lords invaded what is modern day Kosovo and Macedonia, they built Serbian churches over already existing Catholic, Byzantine and Dardanian churches. It is a known fact that Serbs had no traditions of building churches, and many Romanesque churches (Greek and Albanian) were just reconstructed, and appropriated. This does not mean that those churches – or regions which the Serbs invaded – were Serbian by origin. The population of all of these regions were anything but Serbs. They were Byzantine Albanians and Catholic Albanians.
The Ottoman rule also enabled the creation of a third group; Muslim Albanians, which began to spread in the 1520s, particularly in Kosovo and the Krajë region near Shkodër. Put simply, most of the Balkans – prior to the Serbian medieval assimilation policies – were inhabited by a pre-Slavic and indigenous population, with Roman, Byzantine and Latin culture. There were many small kingdoms, principalities and local rulers who lived in modern day Montenegro, Hercegovina, Bosnia, Albania, and Kosovo, and even Greece, which were of native origin – mostly Illyrian and Dardanian groups.
But Serbian historiography ignores these facts, and simply focuses on the Serbian medieval conquests, and actively refusing to mention that there were tribes and peoples living in these invaded territories for centuries – literally thousands of years before any Serb ever migrated to the Balkans. A few centuries of Serbian hegemonial and imperialist rule does not make the Balkans Slavic or Serbian. It doesnt make Shkodër, Durrës, Nish, Toplica, Kurshumlia and Prokuple “Slavic”. These regions were never Serbian or Slavic, nor was Montenegro, Kosovo (Dardania), Hercegovina, and parts of Bosnia.
It is now easy to see where Serbia’s imperial greed comes from. It derives from the Russian patrimonialist absolutist power, in which no one or nothing can disturb the Tsar’s power. In Serbia’s case, the power of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian rulers.
This means that no other people, country or nation may exists in the Balkans. The ultimate irredentist goals of the Serbian delusional leaders were the invasion of Constantinople (Istanbul), and thus the creation of a large Slavic and Russian-Serbian “Rome” or a “Slavic Byzantine Empire”. This also suited the Russian tsarist plans, that to control all of Europe, one had to control the center of Christianity – Constantinople.
This meant that all those who oppossed Serbo-Russian demagogy had to be killed; regardless if they were Muslim, Catholic, or even Orthodox. Anyone who did not want to become a Serb and convert to the Orthodox faith had to be cleansed and expelled and killed. Are we beginning to see a pattern?
In order to create a strong rationale for these centuries old genocidal plans, it was important to implement Serbian Church propaganda.
Early in childhood, Serbian children were brought to churches where they were subliminally taught to hate non-Serbs. The priests would exaggerate the suffering of Serbs (but never mention the suffering Serbia wars caused others), which led to collective narcissism in Serbian societies. This created the perfect soldiers, ready to serve and to “take vengance” for the “500 years of Ottoman suffering”. Despite the fact that this is mostly a myth; Serbian Orthodox interests were protected by the Ottomans due to European and Russian pressure.
Nevertheless, Serbian peasants were taught that Kosovo had been taken from them by the Ottomans and Albanians, which had to be avenged. Hence the Serbian proverb: “He who doesnt know how to take vengance will never be admitted into heaven”. Although this did create a strong Serbian solidarity, it also created a deep fundamental and delusional and fanatical narcissism in the Serbian psyche.
Centuries old tribal conflicts between Serbs and Arnaut (Muslim Albanians) were exaggerated and explained as a racial and religious persecution of Serbs
There are indeed 19th century reports showing that Arnauts attacked and killed Serbs, but this was not out of racial or religious hatred, but rather due to poverty and tribal conflicts. Something all of the Balkans had been suffering from for centuries. But this propaganda method suited the Serbian clergy, as it created martyrdoom, something the Serbs could sell to Europe and Russia.
Now we understand why Serbian culture is as it is. Does this explain why Serbs behaved so barbarously in the Yugoslav Wars? Yes it does.
I believe that there are several factors that contributed to their barbarism during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Serbian politicians have manipulated Serbs for many years, exploiting ethnic and religious differences in the former Yugoslavia through propaganda to garner support for their actions. This manipulation has fueled hatred of other nations, leading to the dehumanization of the ‘enemy’ and encouraging brutal behaviour.
In addition, Serbian ultranationalist ideology has played a role in rationalizing violence and atrocities as a means of achieving political and territorial objectives.
It is also essential to consider the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has played an important role in fueling inter-ethnic and inter-religious animosity within the former Yugoslavia. Combined with genetic factors, these influences have contributed to the extent of their cruelty and brutality.
I believe that you can find some explanations in Sabrina’s P. Ramet book “UNDER THE HOLY LIME TREE: The Inculcation of Neurotic & Psychotic Syndromes as a Serbian Wartime Strategy, 1986-1995 “.
Six pivotal themes in Serbian propaganda are examined:
Superhuman powers and divine sanction. The Serbs were told that they were, in some sense, “super”. They were the best fighters on the planet, they could stand up to the entire world, they were sanctioned by God himself, because of Tsar Lazar and the fact that Lazar had chosen the heavenly kingdom. Moreover, since Lazar had chosen the heavenly kingdom, the Serbs, encouraged to view themselves as Lazar´s heirs, were entitled to the earthly kingdom which Lazar had repudiated, as their patrimony.
Victimization, in which Serbs were constructed as collective victims first of the NDH, then of Tito´s Yugoslavia, and more specifically of Croats, Albanians, Bosniaks, and other non-Serbs.
Dehumanization of designated ´others´, in which Croats were depicted as ‘genocidal’ and as ´Ustaše´, Bosniaks were portrayed as ´fanatical fundamentalists´, and Albanians were represented as not fully human. These processes of dehumanization effectively removed these designated ´others´ from the moral field, sanctifying their murder or expulsion.
Belittlement, in which Serbia´s enemies were represented as beneath contempt.
Conspiracy, in which Croats, Slovenes, Albanians, the Vatican, Germany, Austria, and sometimes also the Bosniaks as well as the U.S. and other foreign states, were seen as united in a conspiracy to break up the SFRY and hurt Serbia. In this way, the Belgrade regime´s obstinate disregard for the fundamental standards of international law was dressed up as heroic defiance of an anti-Serb conspiracy.
Entitlement, in which the Serbs were constructed as ´entitled´ to create a Greater Serbian state to which parts of Croatia and Bosnia would be attached, under the motto, ´All Serbs should live in one state. ´
Conclusion
In the final analysis, Serbia’s tragic trajectory reveals a profound and enduring pathology rooted in Russian-style patrimonial absolutism, transplanted through Orthodox clerical networks and medieval imperial ambition. From the moment the Carpathian Slavs descended upon the Balkans, through Tsar Dušan’s fleeting empire built on familial betrayal and conquest, to the 19th-century Russian-backed expansionism, Serbia has functioned not as a normal European nation but as an instrument of patrimonial greed.
Power has always flowed from a single ruler or oligarchic clique, sanctified by the Church, treating land, people, and history as personal property to be seized and cleansed. The myth of Serbs as eternal Christian defenders collapses under the weight of evidence: massacres of fellow Orthodox Macedonians and Bulgarians in 1912, the slaughter of Catholic and Muslim Albanians, the triggering of World War I through terrorist ideology, and the Chetnik atrocities of World War II.
This pattern repeated horrifically in the 1990s, where propaganda—carefully inculcated from childhood with myths of victimhood, divine entitlement, and dehumanization of “the other”—produced the neurotic and psychotic syndromes that justified ethnic cleansing. The question is no longer “why” this bloodlust exists, but whether the international community will continue ignoring its deep cultural and structural origins.
Serbian imperialism, nourished by patrimonialist DNA inherited via the Mongol Yoke through Russia, cannot be appeased or reformed. It is predestined by its evolutionary path: a system where loyalty to the ruler and the tribe supersedes law, humanity, or coexistence. As long as the Serbian Orthodox Church maintains its grip on the national psyche and Greater Serbia remains the unspoken dream, the Balkans will never know lasting peace.
The evil of Serbia’s violent imperialists indeed knows no limit—unless the world finally recognizes the pattern, rejects the propaganda, and ensures that such patrimonial aggression can never again destabilize Europe or threaten its neighbors. History demands nothing less.
