... in response to Yugoslavia, posted by Brian on Oct 14, 2001Don't even think about it!
Serbians have none of the sweetness of the Russian soul but ten times the stubbornness and rudeness, the delicacy of a rock, indeed, probably the worst of all the Slavic people.
Good fighters though, if that’s what you are looking for!
Same with the Croatians and Bosnians, just an added mixture of muslim idiocy. Think as of Slavic Portoricans. Very clannish and obtuse. Very revengeful, intertwined and antagonized with each other at the same time by meaningless wars since centuries ago.
Also Serbians were some of the most traveled and westernized people long before the perestroika, they were almost as capitalistic as W. Europe (remember Marshall Tito?), very shrewd and experienced, if anything it's the opposite of what one would be looking for here.
The others are also rather westernized at this point, the innocence is gone, so it's going to be only half as bad as the AW, EW, J the occasional gem would be rare, much more work needed to search.
Even Russia and Ukraine are very westernized up to a certain geographic level, especially in the large cities.
Right now the best source is farther away, and the farther the better, where the Westernization did not reach yet.
Exactly where most AM will not go, unfortunately.