Serbia is an example what way Ukraine should have gone. Serbians do not
hate themselves, do not feel inferior to others, do not play victims. I
like your pride. I like that you have an opinion, not just a voice in a
crowd (in other words, independence)

Well, I can't really say that's exactly the way, since we still feel the impact of the 90s to this day (i was born in '92) - lack of infrastructure maintenance, corruption, heavy centralization, territorial issues..

I would agree with you on the most part. There are many Serbs who victimize themselves, because government media is telling them to. But there is more reasons for this than purely the intents of the government, and one of them are unresolved grievances from World War 2 even.. Those grievances were probably a big part in why Serbs waged such self-destructive wars in the 90's. Just to clear things out, i think we should take full responsibility of the war crimes committed, and why they were committed. But the war itself is in big part an end result of how politics were directed for decades prior to it. In Tito's Yugoslavia, Serbs had a lot of power, simply due to our population and long presence in other republics' history, and contemporary way of life. But our rivals weren't keen on us having the tools to simply overpower them, so Tito had to something. But it wasn't easy; Tito's Partisans rose and won on the backs of Serbs. We made up majority of Partisan forces in every republic, even in the famous uprising in Croatia (which their government media is propping as achievement of 'Croatian' antifascism, even though 71% of Partisans in Croatia were Serbs who fought genocidal Ustasha regime. Later on in the war, Tito offered amnesty to everyone who switched sides, so at that point Serbs were about 50% while they were about 27%). He even married a Serbian partisan, a village girl. But he had to limit power of Serbs and Serbian republic, so he created two autonomous regions within Serbia - there was some argumentation for that concerning Kosovo, but it's odd that he didn't split Slavonia or Dalmatia off Croatia if he went for Vojvodina from Serbia. He also limited the growth of cooperatives from Serbia (for instance, maximum tonnage for all load trucks was significantly smaller than in other republics, limiting capacities and growth speed). Last but not least, it's literally him who brought Milosevic up ranks in Serbian CP.. He limited a very capable man Rankovic, who became too public in his fight for Serbian interests and rights. It all started to go downhill in 80s, though some things in 70's were a big trigger.