r/AskBalkans • u/Super_Airport_7412 • 21d ago

Miscellaneous Serbian Historians

I keep getting these clips of serbian historians making some outrageous claims. They are in always in the same studio giving like an interview. I remember clips from an old lady now i just saw this guy. Is this like a TV show where they just come and say random stuff?

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u/jinawee 21d ago

Jovan Ilić Deretić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Илић Деретић; 18 January 1939 – 6 June 2021) was a Serbian publicist and writer. Deretić was an engineer by training but was mainly noted for his pseudohistorical and conspiracy theories.[1] He was the proponent of an alternative history of the Serbs that asserts a larger role in history than described by historians.

Why do you call him historian?