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“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”

Quote by Slobodan Milosević

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Slobodan Milosević

Slobodan Milosevic, a former president of Serbia, was born on August 20, 1941, and died on March 11, 2006. He played a significant role in Serbian politics, serving as the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia. Milosevic rose to prominence in the early 1990s as the president of Serbia, and his policies led to the conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo during the late 1990s. more

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