It was a year of defeats and break downs, one in which we lost many illusions about ourselves, the world, civilization and the end of the 20th century. The decades-long nurtured illusion of Europe as the place where eternal bliss and harmony rule, has been destroyed by the terrible agony of Sarajevo which none wished, or knew how to prevent […]

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