# Homogeneous Serbia
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{{Short description|Discourse by Stevan Moljević advocating for Greater Serbia}}
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| title_orig = Хомогена Србија
| date_created = 30 June 1941
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'''''Homogeneous Serbia''''' is a written [discourse](/source/discourse) by [Stevan Moljević](/source/Stevan_Moljevi%C4%87). The work emphasized that the Serbian state drew its strength from the degree to which its population identifies itself within the state, contrary to the presumptions of [Ilija Garašanin](/source/Ilija_Gara%C5%A1anin), who believed that the strength of the state is derived from its size and organizational principles.[{{harv|Szajkowski|1993|p=135}}: "Moljevic argued, contrary to GaraSanin's presumptions, that the strength of a state came not from its principles of organization and size, but from the degree to which the population identifies with the state and is committed to it. "] Moljević believed that the victorious [Kingdom of Serbia](/source/Kingdom_of_Serbia) in 1918 made a grave mistake when it decided to establish [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia) instead of clearly defining the borders of [Serbia](/source/Serbia).[{{harv|Sfikas|Williams|1999|p=302}}: "According to the Chetnik ideologue Stefan Moljevic, the fundamental mistake was made in 1918 when the borders of Serbia had not been clearly defined."]
Right after the collapse of Yugoslavia during the short [Axis invasion](/source/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia), in which Moljević created the concept of "homogeneous" Serbia and [trialist](/source/Trialism_in_Austria-Hungary) Yugoslavia.[{{harv|Krestić|2004|p=103}}: "Dr. Stevan Moljevic, immediately after the April collapse of Yugoslavia in 1941, created the projects of a "homogeneous" Serbia and trialist Yugoslavia.] The map presented in this work awards territory of northern Dalmatia with substantial Serb population to [Croatia](/source/Croatia).[{{harv|Марковић|2010|p=162}}]
Moljević wrote another [treatise](/source/treatise) titled ''An Opinion About Our State and Its Borders'' ({{langx|sr|Мишљење о нашој држави, њеним границама}}), which he presented to [Dragiša Vasić](/source/Dragi%C5%A1a_Vasi%C4%87) along with ''Homogeneous Serbia''.[{{harv|Krestić|2004|p=53}}]
[John R. Lampe](/source/John_R._Lampe) pointed to significant details that undercut the perception of Moljević's ''Homogeneous Serbia'' being the centerpiece of a coherent set of [Chetnik](/source/Chetniks) war objectives, such as that the [Central National Committee](/source/Central_National_Committee_(Chetniks)) had secondary status while Moljević did not rise to prominence in this committee until 1943.[{{harv|Lampe|2000|p=206}}
] There is no proof that massacres of [Muslims](/source/Muslims) committed by Chetniks were a direct consequence of Moljević's tract, bearing in mind that Chetnik leader [Mihailović](/source/Dra%C5%BEa_Mihailovi%C4%87)'s fragmented and very weak command structure militated against any systematic annihilation programme.[{{harv|Levene|2013|p=288}}]
== References ==
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== Sources ==
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* {{cite book|last=Szajkowski|first=Bogdan|title=Encyclopaedia of Conflicts, Disputes, and Flashpoints in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Successor States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lIjAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Longman Current Affairs|isbn=978-0-582-21002-8}}
* {{cite book|last1=Sfikas|first1=Thanasis D.|last2=Williams|first2=Christopher|title=Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Central Europe and the Balkans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-doAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-1-85521-913-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|title=Great Serbia: truth, misconceptions, abuses : papers presented at the International Scientific Meeting held in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Belgrade, October 24-26, 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k28tAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=SANU|isbn=978-86-7025-377-3}}
* {{cite book|last=Lampe|first=John R.|title=Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ1x7gvwx_8C&pg=PA206|date=28 March 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77401-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Марковић|first=Михаило|title=SRBIJA U KRIZI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRZGAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Пешић и Синови|isbn=978-86-7540-120-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Levene|first=Mark|title=Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBgbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA285|date=December 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-968304-8}}
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