Volume 40, Number 3 · January 28, 1993
Bosnia: The Last Chance?
By Misha Glenny
A gray-haired middle-aged man on a Bosnian hillside peers into the sights of an automatic rifle. He looks down at the people in Sarajevo, going through their infernal daily routine of survival. He pulls the trigger with a studied concentration and the barrel spits out its rounds. Eduard Limonov, a self-styled dissident Russian writer who first came to prominence during the Brezhnev era when he emigrated to the United States, adds his small contribution to the sacred war of the Serbs, his Slav brothers. Just as mujaheddin from the Middle East and from Afghanistan have responded to the call from their brethren in Bosnia-Hercegovina, so have Russian fighters, politicians, and propagandists rallied to the cause of the Orthodox Serbs, who have been pilloried by so much of the Western world. 'If the West is arrogant enough to attack us, who are the saviors of Christendom,' I was told by Dusan, a Montenegrin fighting with the Serb militia in Bosnia-Hercegovina, 'we shall not be alone. Our brother Cossacks will be here to defend us.'
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