What if Serbia didn�t participate in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia?

I often think if things would be different today if Serbia decided not to form a south � slav state during WWI. Namely, we had a chance to make a greater Serbia, yet our politicians decided to participate in south � slavic experiment (in spite of the war crimes Croats and Slovenians commited during WWI as a part of Austro � Hungarian troops). Even before WWI Croatia showed strong hatred toward Serbs � in 1902. there were anti � Serb demonstrations (funny � the leader was half � Serbian himself). I guess the Croats and Slovenians decided to participate our joint state in order to save their teritories. As a sign of good will we Serbs decided to forget all about their war crimes � all those war criminals pretty much got away with it.

Nikola Pasic, our primeminister opposed the idea of unification, but he was forced to accept it because of the preassure by our king and most politicians.

What is your oppinion about this subject? If Serbia refused to participate in south � slav state what would happen with today�s ex � Yugoslavian states? Would they be a part of Hungary, Italy, Austria and Serbia? 

Serbia was the core state as well as the brain of Yugoslavia.  That kingdom was inconceivable without Serbia, and that is a major reason the kingdom stayed together in the 1920s and 30s.

Had Serbia not been involved, the Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian lands would have come under outside influence (Hungary; Italy).  Montenegro probably would have joined with Serbia anyway, but Italy may have tried to block a Serb outlet to the Adriatic.

Ok, we can get along (better then killing each other).

"we speak the same language, were all the same people": You shouldn't say that to Croatians: officially they are 75% Iranians - rest of us are "lower race" .

"Our bigger enemies are western europe and america, we should focus on competeing together against them instead of each other.": I agree with that. In some way West (especially America) pushed us all in to a civil war. All they care is profit. They don't care about all those terminaly ill people in Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia... caused by their uranium bombs.

I have to correct you - without Serbia there wouldn't be Yugoslavia. That's because Serbia was one of the allies that won WWI, and on Serbia's initiative Yugoslavia was created*. Croatians and Slovenians were part of AH and they had no rights to ask for anything. Most probably they would became part of Austria, Hungary and Italy. In fact the reason why they entered Yugoslavia is to avoid their teritories being taken away. 

*American president Woodroe Wilson influenced greatly on creating Yugoslavia, due to his close friendship with Michael (Mihajlo) Pupin - a world known Serbian scientist living in America.

I think it's very doubtful whether they wanted to participate or not - very few of them wanted to fight for it when asked by our guerilla fighters (Chetniks). I said:

Even before WWI Croatia showed strong hatred toward Serbs � in 1902. there were anti � Serb demonstrations (funny � the leader was half � Serbian himself).

So you can see how they felt about us... even before there was any conflicts.

Originally posted by Mila Why would Croatians, if there was significant social prejudice against Serbs, listen to Serbian ideas in 1918 anyways? EDIT: And I have to say, I love how you quoted yourself to demonstrate your point. You'll make a fine Bosnian politician one day.

Because they had absolutely no other way out!It was either Serbs or bye, bye Croatia...There wasn't excatly a freedom of choice...

No thank you - don't want nothing to do with politics...

Originally posted by Mila But, maybe they would've become an Iranian satellite?

 I'm sure that the Croatians would be delighted.