Introduction.“The taking of the hostages was an immoral act. We had to do everything possible to eliminate that dirty history from the history of the Serbs." (Slobodan Milosevic in an interview for Time magazine, 1995). In the 1990s Yugoslavia was the battlefield of Europe's bloodiest war since 1945. This infamous climax was the product of an interconnected chain of events that began in the mid-1980s with the deepening of the conflict and extremely tension between the two main ethnic groups of Kosovo: Albanians and Serbs. Kosovo was the most problematic region of the entire federation due to the large number of Albanian population in the province and the heterogeneous ethnic framework of the area. At the same time, after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, voices began to spread in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in favor of greater freedoms in the individual republics. Stronger calls for greater independence in decision-making have “crept” into the political elites of Slovenia and Croatia. The same line of conduct was also adopted by other members of the federation, who do not agree with Serbia's leadership position. At the end of 1990 and beginning of 1991 the tension in relations between Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia took over and on 25 June 1991 Slovenia and Croatia declared independence. The Yugoslav crisis developed at an incredible speed, turning into a large-scale war. In Slovenia the conflict lasted only a few weeks before Slovenia became independent, while in Croatia the conflict worsened and caused many victims. A similar situation has developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conflict had both an ethnic and religious basis. Public mobilization and rise of ethnic nationalism with...... middle of paper ......ersity of Oslo (2010). November 25, State Day, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. Retrieved October 15, 2013, from http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/red-letter/rld-month/2009/november.html. Vijesti.ba (2011). Your idea is to se iskupe for your grehove prethodne. Retrieved October 15, 2013, from http://www.vijesti.ba/vijesti/bih/60680-Bosnjaci-zele-iskupe-svoje-prethodne-grehove.html. Zakošek, N. (2007). The Heavy Burden of History: Political Uses of the Past in Yugoslav Successor States. Politička misao, vol. XLIV, n. 5, pp. 29–43. Александров, Е. (2001). Read more about the story. Sofia: Тракия-М.Михаилович, К. (1988). Moscow.Оганесян, Н. O. (1986). Activation of Islam. (pages 42, 43). Sofia.Палешутски К. (1978). National Importance in Socialist Socialism. Sofia.