Recognition
On today's date 15 years ago, January 15th 1992, Croatia was recognized as an independent country by the EU, which was the turning point of our struggle for independence. It was a middle of Winter, the war was everywhere, but people were happy that our struggle was finally receiving some much needed international recognition. We felt that the moral victory was won at that point, and it was only a matter of time before we were completely and unequivocally free. This was a huge boost to the morale for the Croatians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose bloody ordeal still lay in the future at that point. We were apprehensive, but proud. Proud of our homeland, and proud of it had achieved at that point. We knew that Croatians will never have to be second rate citizens in their own homeland ever again.