Renationalizing memory in the post-Yugoslav region
Pavasović Trošt, Tamara ; David, Lea
In this piece, we demonstrate that strengthening the myth of nationhood was the primary function of the massive U-turn shaping historical revisionism in the post-Yugoslav countries, purposely ...obliterating the shared common past and disconnecting it from the Yugoslav legacy.2 The process of affirming statehood, nation-building, and “rediscover- ing” a new national history necessarily meant revising all facets of history to support and confirm this new narrative. While this process unravelled in different ways in each of the post-Yugoslav countries, several trends are observable across the region: the “redis- covery” of state roots in the middle ages that allowed the nations to assert their antiquity, descent, and territory, typically accompanied by a “golden age” signalling its past glory and presenting a continuous, uninterrupted historical existence; the reinterpretation of the Holocaust through a lens of victimization and responsibility avoidance, relativization of fascism, anti-communism and the erasure of the common memory of Yugoslavia; and selective interpretation of the 1990s wars, which established the nation as victims and martyrs, never perpetrators, and normatively placed the nation on the “right” side of history.
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