"The purpose of the geography curriculum was to come to know the narrower and
broader Fatherland and to awaken one’s love of it. . . . From [merely learning the names
of] the many rivers and mountains one will not see all the Serbian lands, not even the
heroic and unfortunate field of Kosovo [on which the Ottomans defeated the Serbs in
1389]; from the many rivers and mountains children do not see that there are more Serbs
living outside Serbia than in Serbia; they do not see that Serbia is surrounded on all sides
by Serbian lands; from the many mountains and rivers we do not see that, were it not for
the surrounding Serbs, Serbia would be a small island that foreign waves would quickly
inundate and destroy; and, if there were no Serbia, the remainder of Serbdom would feel
as though it did not have a heart." - Report to the Serbian Teachers’ Association, 1911–1912.
Sentiments similar to those expressed in the report most directly contributed to which
of the following developments in the late twentieth century?
(A) The development of the European Union during the Cold War
(B) The development of COMECON in Eastern Europe
(C) Ethnic conflict after the collapse of communism
(D) The move by European nations to relinquish their colonies