SERBIAN DELUSION OR FATE: The Corfu Declaration was an introduction to the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes!

On July 20, 1917, the Corfu Declaration was adopted, which was the genesis of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was officially established on December 1, 1918.

A concrete agreement on the unification of the South Slavs was reached in Corfu, where the Corfu Declaration was adopted in 1917.

At the very beginning of the First World War, the Kingdom of Serbia officially announced that its war aims were the unification of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which was confirmed by the Niš Declaration of the Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbia on December 7, 1914.

“Convinced of the determination of the entire Serbian nation to persevere in the holy struggle for the defense of its home and its freedom, the government of the Kingdom considers it its primary and, in these fateful moments, only task to ensure the successful conclusion of this great war which, at the moment it began, also became a struggle for the liberation and unification of all our unfree brothers Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.”

The formation of the Yugoslav Committee soon followed in 1915, composed of prominent Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes from the territory of the then Austro-Hungary, committed to creating a new community of South Slavs.

Concrete negotiations on unification into a future state were achieved on the Greek island of Corfu, where the Corfu Declaration was adopted on July 20, 1917, and in Geneva on November 9, 1918, the so-called Geneva Agreement. The meeting in Geneva was attended by representatives of the Kingdom of Serbia, the National Council from Zagreb, and the Yugoslav Committee with its headquarters in London.

Amidst the collapse of Austria-Hungary, under the leadership of the leaders and supporters of the Yugoslav Committee in Zagreb, the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs was proclaimed, as the country of the South Slavs of the former Austria-Hungary.

Since the Great National Assembly in Novi Sad had previously made a decision on November 25, 1918, to join the Kingdom of Serbia, and the day before, on November 24, the Assembly of Syrmia in Ruma, Vojvodina joined the new common state formed on December 1, 1918, as an integral part of Serbia.

Also, at the end of November, the Podgorica Assembly made a decision on the unification of Montenegro and Serbia.

Thus, on December 1, 1918, Regent (from 1921, King) Aleksandar Karađorđević proclaimed the creation of a new state – the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes – in the Krsmanović Palace, on Terazije in Belgrade.

In 1929, King Aleksandar renamed the country the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was merely a consistent continuation of the original concept with which the common state was formed in 1918, and which was also incorporated into the 1921 Constitution, known as the “Vidovdan Constitution” – the concept of integral Yugoslavism – i.e., the conviction that it was one three-named nation.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia existed until the Second World War.