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* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: How they were portrayed in the most hysterical way. Though it really doesn't help when their forces were responsible for most of the atrocities like systematic mass killings, death camps and other things that Europe hasn't seen since [[World War II]].
* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: How they were portrayed in the most hysterical way. Though it really doesn't help when their forces were responsible for most of the atrocities like systematic mass killings, death camps and other things that Europe hasn't seen since [[World War II]].
* [[Slave to PR]]: Something they should have kept in mind if they wished to avoid the demonisation by Western media.
* [[Slave to PR]]: Something they should have kept in mind if they wished to avoid the demonisation by Western media.
* [[The Sociopath]]: An awful lot of their paramilitary formations like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serb_Volunteer_Guard Arkan's Volunteer Guard], the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_<!-- 28Serbia29 Scorpions]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Eagles_%28paramilitary%29 White Eagles]] who were mostly in for profit, plunder or simple ForTheEvulz. See ArmyOfThievesAndWhores above. -->
* [[The Sociopath]]: An awful lot of their paramilitary formations like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serb_Volunteer_Guard Arkan's Volunteer Guard], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_%28Serbia%29 Scorpions] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Eagles_%28paramilitary%29 White Eagles] who were mostly in for profit, plunder or simple [[For the Evulz]]. See [[Army of Thieves and Whores]] above.
* [[Strange Salute]]: The three-Finger salute.
* [[Strange Salute]]: The three-Finger salute.
* [[Won the War Lost The Peace]]: As much as Serb forces [[Curb Stomp Battle|whipped the KLA]] and suffered embarrassingly minimal military casualties by NATO, they had to abandon Kosovo to the Western alliance when signing the Kumanovo Treaty after suffering high civilian losses and horrendous damage to the civilian infrastructure.
* [[Won the War Lost The Peace]]: As much as Serb forces [[Curb Stomp Battle|whipped the KLA]] and suffered embarrassingly minimal military casualties by NATO, they had to abandon Kosovo to the Western alliance when signing the Kumanovo Treaty after suffering high civilian losses and horrendous damage to the civilian infrastructure.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: Especially during his service in Croatia.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Especially during his service in Croatia.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre Srebrenica Massacre]. While it is commonly agreed that thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb forces, there is an ongoing [[Flame War|debate]] and invesitgation on the circumstances. While Mladić is accused of genocide by the ICTY, the recorded phone calls he had with Milošević, Perišić and others suggest that while he ordered the capture of Srebrenica the crimes were commited by the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_<!-- 28Serbia29 Scorpions]]''. Needless to say the opinions people have of him range from being a hero to being a mass murderer and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment as for now it remains to be seen wether he was an]] AxeCrazy GeneralRipper or not. -->
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre Srebrenica Massacre]. While it is commonly agreed that thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb forces, there is an ongoing [[Flame War|debate]] and invesitgation on the circumstances. While Mladić is accused of genocide by the ICTY, the recorded phone calls he had with Milošević, Perišić and others suggest that while he ordered the capture of Srebrenica the crimes were commited by the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_%28Serbia%29 Scorpions]''. Needless to say the opinions people have of him range from being a hero to being a mass murderer and [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|as for now it remains to be seen wether he was an]] [[Axe Crazy]] [[General Ripper]] or not.
* [[The Captain]]
* [[The Captain]]
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The death of his daughter [[Sanity Slippage|turned him more and more into a shadow of his former self]].
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The death of his daughter [[Sanity Slippage|turned him more and more into a shadow of his former self]].
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** The idea that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of revenge for Naser Oric's raids (the scale of which are usually exaggerated, and the circumstances of which are rarely taken into account by Serb nationalists) has been pretty thoroughly discredited.
** The idea that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of revenge for Naser Oric's raids (the scale of which are usually exaggerated, and the circumstances of which are rarely taken into account by Serb nationalists) has been pretty thoroughly discredited.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]
* [[Sergeant Rock]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: What might have happened to him if you see it from a certain point of view. The capture of Mladić was one of the main conditions for Serbia to join the EU. No matter how you see it, it is still interesting that a few days after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos<!-- C3A9_Manuel_Barroso Barroso]] promised Serbia that the recognition of Kosovo's independence would not be a condition to join the EU, Mladić was captured and sent to the Hague. -->
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: What might have happened to him if you see it from a certain point of view. The capture of Mladić was one of the main conditions for Serbia to join the EU. No matter how you see it, it is still interesting that a few days after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso Barroso] promised Serbia that the recognition of Kosovo's independence would not be a condition to join the EU, Mladić was captured and sent to the Hague.
* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]] / [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: As he was the commander of the VRS and many Bosnian Serbs think that without him there wouldn't have been a Republika Srpska, it is only natural that many would regard him as a hero. To those who concider him a hero he is basically the Serb counterpart to the Croatian Gotovina and the Bosniak Dudaković.
* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]] / [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: As he was the commander of the VRS and many Bosnian Serbs think that without him there wouldn't have been a Republika Srpska, it is only natural that many would regard him as a hero. To those who concider him a hero he is basically the Serb counterpart to the Croatian Gotovina and the Bosniak Dudaković.


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* [[Not So Different]]: He isn't much different from Milošević. Read the rest of his entries.
* [[Not So Different]]: He isn't much different from Milošević. Read the rest of his entries.
* [[Organ Theft]]: What he and his goons are accused of.
* [[Organ Theft]]: What he and his goons are accused of.
* [[Professional Butt Kisser]]: How many of his fellow Albanians from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vet<!-- C3ABvendosje! Vetëvendosje!]] movement regard him. -->
* [[Professional Butt Kisser]]: How many of his fellow Albanians from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vet%C3%ABvendosje! Vetëvendosje!] movement regard him.
* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: This man was once the leader of a terrorist organization that played in the same league as the the IRA or the ETA , has ties with the mafia and is alleged of being the head of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo organ trafficing ring] and yet he is presented as a legitimate and democratic politician by the media.
* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: This man was once the leader of a terrorist organization that played in the same league as the the IRA or the ETA , has ties with the mafia and is alleged of being the head of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo organ trafficing ring] and yet he is presented as a legitimate and democratic politician by the media.


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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
* [[Writtenbythe Winners]]
* [[Writtenbythe Winners]]
* [[Won the War Lost The Peace]]: After the deployment of the KFOR, Kosovo became an even more unstable region and a haven for narco terrorists. On top of that having set a precedence for Albanian seperatists the war swapped over to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_the_Pre<!-- C5A1evo_Valley Presevo Valley]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_the_Republic_of_Macedonia Macedonia]]. Even up to this day Kosovo has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Kosovo%E2%80%93Serbia_border_clashes yet to be a safe and stable place]]. -->
* [[Won the War Lost The Peace]]: After the deployment of the KFOR, Kosovo became an even more unstable region and a haven for narco terrorists. On top of that having set a precedence for Albanian seperatists the war swapped over to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_the_Pre%C5%A1evo_Valley Presevo Valley] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_the_Republic_of_Macedonia Macedonia]. Even up to this day Kosovo has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Kosovo%E2%80%93Serbia_border_clashes yet to be a safe and stable place].


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