Sunday, July 20, 2014

PCG Using the Yugoslav Wars to Demonize Germany and the Pope

Gerald Flurry and his collaborators within the ministry of the Philadelphia Church of God have long asserted that Germany and the Pope started the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) by recognizing Slovenia and Croatia as independent states in December 1991. In 1999 Gerald Flurry even wrote a booklet on this topic entitled The Rising Beast, now renamed Germany's Conquest of the Balkans. This booklet was discussed in previous posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).

This assertion is complete nonsense. The war had already ended in Slovenia (June-July 1991) and the fighting had been raging for months in Croatia by December 1991. The Belgrade government had already seized Vukovar from Croatia after a three month siege which killed about 3000 people (August 25-November 18, 1991). All this occurred before December 1991.

This assertion also completely ignores the ethnic tension that grew within Yugoslavia following the Anti-bureaucratic revolution in 1986-9, which did so much to ruin any sense of a distinct Yugoslav sense of nationhood.

It also ignores the fact before the wars both Slovenia and Croatia held referendums in which the vast majority of voters in both Slovenia and Croatia voted for independence. Slovenia held a referendum on December 23, 1990 in which 88.5% of voters chose to vote for Slovenia's independence. Croatia held a referendum on May 19, 1991 in which 93.24% of voters chose to vote for Croatia's independence and 92.18% of voters chose to vote against remaining in Yugoslavia. They declared independence after these referendums. All this occurred before December 1991. 

For anyone interested in PCG's promotion of this highly misleading and distorted view about the Yugoslav Wars here is a list of some of the articles in past issues of The Philadelphia Trumpet that discuss this issue or alludes to it. You can access these articles at the magazine archive at their website.

Philadelphia Trumpet, June 2002


1998

July

Flare Up in Kosovo
In the meantime, President Kohl of Germany has offered to mediate.
(The author means Chancellor Kohl.)

September

Crisis Point of Western Leadership by Ron Fraser. (Fraser also condemns the Dayton Peace Accords as a false peace. It is now eighteen years since the war in Bosnia ended. What sort of false peace is that?)

1999

January

Croatia Reveals the Rising Beast by Gerald Flurry (This article is the basis for Chapter 1 of Gerald Flurry's booklet, Germany's Conquest of the Balkans.)

May

What's Behind the Crisis in Foreign Relations by Ron Fraser

The Unseen Danger in Kosovo by Gerald Flurry (This article is the basis for Chapter 2 of Gerald Flurry's booklet, Germany's Conquest of the Balkans.)

A Matter of Honor by Ron Fraser

NATO: Europe's New Policeman by Stephen Flurry and Gareth Fraser

NATO: Why Bomb Serbia? by Stephen Flurry
As pointed out in “The Unseen Danger in Kosovo” (page 6), Germany stood against the whole world in 1991 by recognizing Croatia. That, not Slobodan Milosevic, is the reason civil war has erupted in Yugoslavia. That point cannot be overemphasized. 
(As stated above this is nonsense.)

Russia: Return of the Evil Empire? by Andrew Locher

June

Who will Fill the Power Void? by Joel Hilliker

A Nice Gift from NATO (This anonymously written insert article incorrectly says that Tirana is a port. It is actually an inland city.)

August

The Boiling Pot in Europe by Gerald Flurry

Germany is Conquering the Balkans! by Gerald Flurry
Germany, aided and abetted by the Vatican, initiated the destabilization of the Balkan peninsula by the unilateral recognition of Croatia and Slovenia as sovereign nations in 1991, against the will of most of the world.
(As stated above this is nonsense.)

September-October

No to NATO by Ron Fraser

KLA Entrenched

November

Fallout from Kosovo by Stephen Flurry

Where are Kosovo's Killing Fields? (Stratfor)

Yugoslavia and its Enemies 1903-1999

The Good News Behind a German-Dominated Europe by Gerald Flurry

2000

January

Edging Towards the EU

Wooing Yugoslavia

May

Another Kosovo Fake

November

New Faces, Old Ideas

December

Yugoslavia Comes in from the Cold by Ron Fraser

2001

May

Germany's Balkan Coup by Gareth Fraser

A Gift from NATO (This side article still incorrectly calls Tirana a port. It is actually an inland city. This time it accompanies Gareth Fraser's article.)

August

The Final Pieces Fall into Place by Ron Fraser

November

Balkan Role?

2002

January 

Germany Rules the Balkans by Gerald Flurry

The Rise, and RISE, of Europe by Ron Fraser

February

The Kosovo Disaster by Gerald Flurry

Crisis in Rising Europe by Rodney Atkinson (non-PCG)

June

First Military Victim of World War III by Gerald Flurry

July

How German Fascism Conquered Kosovo (and Yugoslavia) by Gerald Flurry

A Nice Gift from NATO (Finally Tirana is corrected to Durrës. Only now it is credited to Gerald Flurry. This side article is also found in Gerald Flurry's booklet, Germany Conquers the Balkans.)

2003

March-April

German-Led EU Conquers Yugoslavia by Gerald Flurry (This article is the basis for Chapter 3 of Gerald Flurry's booklet, Germany's Conquest of the Balkans.)

2004

March-April

EU Divided Over Croatia's Membership Bid

"The Basest of Men" by Ron Fraser

May 

Still War-Torn

September-October

The Scary Truth Behind the Milosevic Trial by Gerald Flurry

December

EU Troops Take Over Balkans

2005

December

Ghosts of the Ratlines by Ron Fraser

2006 

January

To the Victor Go the Spoils by Ron Fraser
The game began in 1991 with Germany—quickly followed by the Vatican—formally recognizing the Catholic states of Slovenia and Croatia as sovereign nations outside the Yugoslavian federation of Balkan states. ... The first foreign-policy initiative of the newly united Germany—this act of contempt for global public opinion and the will of many Balkan peoples—was a deliberate attempt to initiate a crisis upon which Germany and the papal state could impose their own well-planned solution.
(As stated above it is nonsensical to blame Germany and the Pope's recognition of Slovenia and Croatia as independent states in December 1991 as the cause of the Yugoslav Wars.)

2007

March

The Startling Reason Europe is Expanding Fast by Ryan Malone
Less than two years after communism’s fall, the pope (supported by Germany) bucked world opinion and recognized the predominantly Catholic breakaway states of Croatia and Slovenia, which led to about a decade of grisly conflict and the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
(As stated above this is nonsense.)

Swallowing the Balkans by Ryan Malone

May

EU Set to Lead Kosovo

2008

(Starting in 2008 Worldwatch's individual articles stopped being listed separately.

March

Misreporting Kosovo by Brad MacDonald

The Holy Roman Empire is Back! by Gerald Flurry

April

The Kosovo Battleground by Andrew Miller

May 

Worldwatch

June-July

Worldwatch

September 

Worldwatch

October

The Demonizing of a Nation by Ron Fraser
That the United States was an all-too-willing pawn in the breakup of Yugoslavia—instigated by the German leadership under Chancellor Helmut Köhl and the Vatican under the papacy of John Paul II—is a matter of documented history.
(As stated above this is nonsense.)

2009

February

Worldwatch

July

Worldwatch

2011

March

Worldwatch

August

What Really Happened in Bosnia by Richard Palmer

(Here Richard Palmer belittled the Srebrenica massacre as just "a crime of passion".)

September

Another Step to the EU

2012

April

(Croatia) We Want EU

July 

Worldwatch

2013

July

(Serbia) We Surrender

September

Balkan Conquest Continues

2014

May-June

Putin Remembers Yugoslavia by Gerald Flurry

1 comment:

  1. This would be so much more fun if these religious prostitutes would rename their magazine:

    The Philadelphian Strumpet

    Daft. Totally freaking daft.

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