Yugoslavia existed for over 70 years but never managed to truly unite its three main nationalities. According to proponents of Yugoslavism, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes were all one people (the Yugoslavs) split apart only by the empires of foreigners. Their attempt to forge a Yugoslav identity would be stymied by the messy reality of ethnicity and nationality in the Western Balkans.

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