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Origin of Croatian fantasy about Vlach origin of Krajina Serbs is in Ante Starčević https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Starčević
Ante Starčević "father" of Croatian nation is born in Lika of Bunjevac father and Serbian Orthodox mother. First he was pro-Serbian oriented. But when he didn't get a job as a math teacher in one school in Belgrade because he was not qualified as a math teacher, he started to hate Serbs and turned to Croatian chauvinist. Ante Starčević at an earlier stage claimed Serbs west of Drina river are mix of Croatians and Balkan Romance people (not Vlachs), also he claimed Serbian history like Kosovo was Croatian, Serbian dynasty Nemanjić was Croatian, Serbian national hero Miloš Obilić was Croatian etc. He claimed western Serbs are mix of Croatians and Romance people because he had a goal of catholization and croatization of western Serbs. He wanted to convince Serbs from present day Croatia and BiH that they are not real Serbs whose ancestors converted to Orthodoxy from Catholicism. Starčević claim of Romance origin of large part of western Serbs is for the goal of their catholization, he considered it's natural that Romance people are Catholics and it will be easier for western Serbs to become Catholics if they believe in Romance and Croatian) origin.
Later Ante Starčević started to claim Vlach (not Romance, but Vlach) origin of western Serbs, and consider them subhumans "ripe for the ax" (for genocide).
Starčević was for sure mentally ill maniac, but for Croatians he is "father" or nation and one of the most important figures in Croatian history.
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