The latter. I'm sorry for being sensitive about it -- maybe it's an overreaction -- but over the years, it really wears down the patience to see the name of the place I grew in dragged through the mud repeatedly.

You might say it's our own damn fault, you might say my parents' generation and mine are to blame, I won't argue about that.

You may criticize the communism, the backwater mentality, the ingrained sense of entitlement and lots of other things about (ex-)Yugoslavia. A lot of that stuff is the reason why I left.

But please, keep it civil, for the sake of us poor schmucks that loved growing up in that place and then left it, disappointed.