“I have always been against the war; I placed my family's existence in danger because I was speaking out against primitivism and nationalism and stupidity. I didn't do that so I could perform in Croatia again one day, but so I could talk with my children as a man, when the time comes.”

—  Đorđe Balašević

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(from an interview for Croatian television, aired on December 29 2000).

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