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by Austria-Hungary.
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The Russian government stirs up
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pan-Slavic fervor in the balkans.
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They work consistently to do that.
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There are religious ties, the Orthodox religion.
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There are ties of alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet used in serbia.
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Serbo-Croatian is the same spoken language,
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although Serb friends and Croatian friends
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would deny that in some ways,
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but basically it's the same spoken language.
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But the Serbs use Cyrillic alphabet,
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which is what the Russians use, and the Croats,