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kleinbl00 · 3572 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obsessing About Gaza, Ignoring Syria (and Most Everything Else)
1935? I'd say any era. Couple sources I've read have pointed out that the only time the Balkans weren't filled with sects killing each other was when they were being crushed under the Iron Curtain.
Yes, certainly strife in the Balkans predates modern Europe by a long shot. I chose 1935, because some historians have said that Germany and the USSR at that time used local civil wars as a pretext for invasion, and that especially the Germans co-opted dissidents to fight on their behalf against hostile regimes. One can envision the same happening in the Mid East today (cough, arm and train the rebels, cough)