Topic: Serbia

The discussion examines how historical narratives, such as the American slave trade, are used to foster deep-seated racial and ancestral grudges. Max Egan suggests that many black people in America may actually be indigenous Native Americans rather than descendants of those brought on slave ships. He compares these tensions to the conflicts between Serbs and Bosnians, where children inherit hatreds based on government-controlled historical accounts.

Rick Simpson describes recent seminars in Serbia where he sat on panels with high-ranking military doctors. While some doctors agreed with his findings but called for government regulation, Simpson argued for total freedom based on thousands of years of unregulated use. He reports that the audiences overwhelmingly supported his stance against government control of the plant.

The firebombing of Dresden was a mass sacrifice that targeted civilian populations and Allied prisoners of war used as human shields. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. survived the event in a slaughterhouse, later documenting the "evil" of the American and British strategic bombing commands. Similar atrocities occurred in Belgrade, where the U.S. bombed Serbian allies on Orthodox Easter to maximize civilian casualties.