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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khan" data-source="post: 984290" data-attributes="member: 10289">Our common history stretches back only until 1918 - before that, Croats were part of the Habsburg Empire, and Serbs were part of the Ottoman Empire until 1878, and later independent. Throughout its history, Croatia was always part of the Western/Roman Catholic sphere, and Serbia was part of the Eastern/Orthodox sphere. Bosnian Muslims were a separate entity of their own. Thus, we were more isolated one another than one might infer from our geographic proximity.After two historical experiments that both collapsed miserably and ended in bloodshed, I'll always be of the opinion that forging a common Yugoslav state was a huge mistake. As I said in my previous post, if Czechs and Slovaks didn't work it out, there's no way Serbs/Croats/Muslims and others could have ever made it.</blockquote>