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What Brings Us Together?

Communism, difference, and an unexpected family history.

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Damir Marusic
Jul 16, 2021
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What Brings Us Together?

In all my travels across the countries that used to make up the former Yugoslavia, I have availed myself of a peculiar piety: I refuse to start conversations in Serbo-Croatian with anyone who does not consider it their native tongue. It always felt like a rude imposition to automatically fall back on it. Slovenian, Macedonian, and Albanian are distinct …

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