Part of why the Serbs feel so victimized in the Balkans, but also why the Albanians feel the same way.
Italian Occupation of Albania. By Kingdom of Italy - Axis History Forum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7371499 This is not a story we hear too often in the discussion about Serbia and Kosovo. It reminds me of the reasons for the current "denazification" excuse for the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and the inherent cultural violence in the application of military force. This is despite Ukraine having a Jewish president of Ukraine whose grandfather lost all of his brothers in the Holocaust. The Serbs and the Russians had some deeply interesting and painful encounters with Nazi regime forces and with their collaborators. This does not mean that these past aggressions are modern justifications for ethnic cleansing, genocide, and arson today by the victim nations of WWII against the aggressor nations of WWII. Being a victim in one period does not justify being an oppressor in another timeframe. Eliminating a past threat for current geopoli
