"“In no country in Europe is cultural policy more important than in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Culture is both the cause and the solution to its problems. Cultural arguments were used to divide the country, yet culture might be able to bring the people back together again through initiating cultural programs that increase mutual understanding and respect”. This diagnosis of the symptoms of the disease, as well as its cure, can be applied to all parts of the former Yugoslavia. The disease is called: the manipulation of culture, art, religion and media by the nationalist elite. The cure is called: the decontamination of culture. The reigning national policies have their equivalents in culture. Those are occurrences of pseudo-national culture generated from the folkloric-religious matrix in a retrograde, obsolete form. (...) This has nothing to do with the creative use or reinterpretation of traditional patterns (...)."