Sometimes secession can be good. After all, my own country seceded from England in 1776. In Kosovo's case, I think at the very least, the timing was quite bad.
DoDo, where in what-would-become-Croatia were you and when? I didn't realize you had actually lived there.
We also had one post-war greeting card exchange with a Bosnian-Muslim family from the Croatian-Bosnian border, who once pre-war gave us shelter on a travel; how they made it, I'd be curious. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.