Talk:Jezdimir Dangić

Long-winded quotations

I've always been puzzled by the inclusion of a number of long-winded quotations in this article. What purpose do they serve exactly? 23 editor (talk) 17:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Which ones are you referring to? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

A few come to mind, PM67:

• Meanwhile, the Partisan General Staff of Bosnia and Herzegovina appealed to the Chetnik rank and file that Partisan-Chetnik cooperation was broken due to the Chetnik importation of Royal Yugoslav Army officers from Serbia to Bosnia and due to Dangić wanting "to turn our People's Liberation Struggle into a war of Serbs against Muslims" as opposed to the Partisan belief "that the peaceful toiling Muslim people is not to blame for the crimes that the Ustaše have committed, and that the People's Liberation Army must protect them from persecution and killing." The Staff charged that Dangić wished for "Serbs to gather for a war of revenge" instead of the Partisans' "summon to our flag all honorable people, Serbs, Muslims, and Croats."

Can't this be summarized as, "the Partisan General Staff of Bosnia and Herzegovina accused Dangić of stoking inter-ethnic tensions between Serbs and Bosnian Muslims", or some variation thereof?

• In the same month Dangić's staff declared that the Partisans "are led by the Kike Moša Pijade, the Turk Safet Mujić, the Magyar Franjo Vajnert, and that so-and-so Petar Ilić whose real name nobody knows [emphasis in the original]" and announced the shared goal of the Partisans and Ustaše was "to break up and destroy Serbdom. That, and that alone! [emphasis in the original]".

How about: "Dangić's staff issued a circular memorandum vehemently criticizing the multi-ethnic makeup of the Partisan movement, using racial epithets to denigrate some of its senior non-Serb members, and accusing the Ustaše and Partisans of working together to "destroy Serbdom"."

And finally...

• Bader reported following the talks that "Dangić on this occasion declared that he and his men would, even in the conditions of a general uprising in the Balkans and the arrival of the English, fight loyally and without wavering on the German side. He declared on this occasion his belief that only German victory could guarantee Serbia the position due to it in the Balkans, while the victory of Bolshevism would mean the destruction of every nation, thus also including the Serb nation."

How about, "Bader reported following the talks that Dangić had pledged to fight alongside the Germans, even in the event of an Allied landing in the Balkans, because he believed that a communist victory in the war would spell the demise of Serbdom." ...or some succinct variation thereof? 23 editor (talk) 15:30, 10 September 2018 (UTC)