Načertanije
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Načertanije (Serbian: Начертаније) is a document drawn up by the Serbian politician Ilija Garašanin in 1844, aimed at uniting the Serbian people, that at the time was separated among foreign Austrian and Ottoman empires.
The work describes the lands on the Balkans, pretended from the serbian nationalists to be inhabited mostly or partially by Serbs but ruled by the empires, and included Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Vojvodina, as well as parts of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Garašanin's plan proposes methods of spreading Serbian influence in these countries, mainly by propaganda efforts and by network of pro-Serbian agitators- in order to achieve optimal situation for Serbian national interests when the Ottoman Empire finally collapses. Essentially, this plan (not made public until 1897) can be interpreted as a blueprint for Serbian national unification, with primary concern of strengthening Serbia's position by inculcating Serbian and pro-Serbian national ideology in all surrounding peoples that are considered to be devoid of national consciousness. Garašanin's work mentions violent or terrorist activities as the means of expanding the boundaries of Serbdom. Later it became the basis for the extreme serbian ideological nationalism and in its purposes and means is similar to the German National Socialism. It is one of the earliest and worst examples of modern national engineering and later its tools have been widely used by the Soviet Union.
