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People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also part of the region, they to be an exception to this stereotype, thanks to their ancient history and laying the foundations of Western civilization.
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* ''Anime/BlackLagoon'': "Hansel and Gretel", the "Vampire Twins", are a pair of ambiguously-aged ([[EnfanteTerrible early-teen, at their oldest]]) mercenaries that are horrifying psychopaths who torture and kill for fun, even killing their employer when he doesn't lets them "play". Their backstory involves them being orphans of the Ceaucesçu regime who were driven crazy by being forced to work in [[SnuffFilm snuff films]].
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People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southern and Eastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians.
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* ''Literature/BaiGanyo'': The titular character, Ganyo ''Balkanski'', is specifically a satire of the Balkan stereotype of being uncouth, scummy and an all-around jerk, especially compared to Westerners. While travelling around Western Europe (and Tsarist Russia), Bai Ganyo is a mostly harmless, if sleazy, Funny Foreigner. Back in Bulgaria, he quickly rises in society and becomes a power-hungry CorruptPolitician.
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*''[[Series/Undercover2011 Pod Prikritie]]'' is centered around Bulgarian crime groups, which are this by default, but later an Albanian gang is introduced as even more violent. Even Ivo Andonov, one of the most ruthless mob bosses, has had it with Balkan petty brutality and wants to work with more "civilised" gangsters, like Italians.
--> '''Ivo''': I've had it with those Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish dumbasses!
--> '''Ivo''': I've had it with those Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish dumbasses!
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* Dragan from ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' is a corrupt Croatian Interpol agent who works with the Payday Gang.
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* Irina Jelavic of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is a [[ProfessionalKiller professional assassin]] from Serbia, whose career began when she was orphaned and traumatized during the Yugoslav Wars.
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* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' has it's BigBad Zoran Lazarević, an infamous Serbian war criminal, and his mercenary company.
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* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, part of the plot revolves around Max and Agent 99 following Kristic, a Bosnian national, and one [=CHAOS'=] top operatives, to Russia where he is running a secret nuclear weapons factory.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan and Booth discover that a murdered girl had come from South Central Europe, and when they went to the place she had been staying, they discover a den filled with sex slaves who originated from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and their pimp was a human trafficker from Albania.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan and Booth discover that a murdered girl had come from South Central Europe, and when they went to track down the place where she had been staying, they discover a den filled with [[SexSlave sex slaves slaves]] who originated were smuggled in from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and their pimp was a Balkan region. They soon arrest her pimp, an Albanian human trafficker from Albania.trafficker.
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* Creator/BramStoker’s ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' can be considered an UrExample of sorts of this trope. Dracula is from broadly the right part of the world, and is a deadly killer who travels west to carry out his evil schemes. And if he is correctly identified with the historical UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, his ruthless Personality was shaped by the brutal wars of that region...
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* Creator/BramStoker’s ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' can be considered an UrExample of sorts of this trope. Dracula is from broadly the right part of the world, and is a deadly killer who travels west to carry out his evil schemes. And if he is correctly identified with the historical UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, his ruthless Personality was shaped by the brutal wars of that region...
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* Creator/BramStoker’s ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' can be considered an UrExample of sorts of this trope. Dracula is from broadly the right part of the world, and is a deadly killer who travels west to carry out his evil schemes. And if he is correctly identified with the historical UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, his ruthless Personality was shaped by the brutal wars of that region...
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Today, this stereotype stems from UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, and the atrocities and war crimes committed by the factions involved in those conflicts. Before that, though, Yugoslavia was known as the place where UsefulNotes/WorldWarI started, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serb revolutionary in Sarajevo, and in previous centuries, "Balkan banditry" was something of a trope; notably, in the days of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Balkan ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajduk hajduci]]'' were peasant outlaws who were [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters either bandits or freedom fighters, depending who you asked]]. Even today, the Balkans remains a powder keg of ethnic tensions, with the issue of UsefulNotes/{{Kosovo}} still being an ongoing sore spot of the region. That part of the world doesn't have the luckiest history.
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Today, this stereotype stems from UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, and the atrocities and war crimes committed by the factions involved in those conflicts. Before that, though, Yugoslavia was known as the place where UsefulNotes/WorldWarI started, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serb revolutionary in Sarajevo, and in previous centuries, "Balkan banditry" was something of a trope; notably, in the days of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Balkan ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajduk hajduci]]'' were peasant outlaws who were [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters either bandits or freedom fighters, depending who you asked]]. The mountains of the region ''were'' plenty rugged enough to shelter a BanditClan or two. Even today, the Balkans remains a powder keg of ethnic tensions, with the issue of UsefulNotes/{{Kosovo}} still being an ongoing sore spot of the region. That part of the world doesn't have the luckiest history.
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* ''{{Manga/Jormungand}}'' has it's "Dragon Shooter" arc set in a thinly disguised Serbia know as Republic T, with the Koko's attempting to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal that is an {{Expy}} of Željko Ražnatović.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has protagonist Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman, who are Serbian immigrants and the former a [[spoiler:war criminal of the Yugoslav Wars]], and features Albanians as a major gang.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has protagonist Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman, who are Serbian immigrants and the former a [[spoiler:war criminal of the Yugoslav Wars]], and features Albanians as a major gang.
* ''VideoGame/SniperGhostWarrior2'' has Merinov, a powerful Serbian weapons dealer, conspirator and one of the most personal enemies of the protagonist Cole Anderson, and a genocidal leader of the Serbian military, Marko Vladic.
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People from Albania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians.
This stereotype stems from UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, and the atrocities and war crimes committed by the factions involved in these wars. Before this, Yugoslavia was also known as the place where UsefulNotes/WorldWarI started, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serb revolutionary in Sarajevo. Even today, the Balkans remains a powder keg of ethnic tensions, with the issue of UsefulNotes/{{Kosovo}} still being an ongoing sore spot of the region.
Compare to RambunctiousItalian and SpicyLatina, which are other hot-blooded Southern European stereotypes, and RenegadeRussian, for a similar Slavic villain archetype from a former communist country. Often a part of a GenericEthnicCrimeGang or TheMafia.
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* Played with in ''ComicBook/The99'', where Serbian ex-soldier Zoran is initially mistaken for TheDragon because his metal prosthetic arm and leg make him look monstrous, but he turns out to be working for the good guys.
* In "The Slavers" arc of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', Frank Castle faces off against a Balkan sex trafficking ring composed of hardened soldiers/war criminals from the Yugoslav Wars. Their horrible treatment of their victims instills a white-hot hatred within Castle that leads to one of Frank's deadliest moments of [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil unto evil]].
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* ''Fanfic/DespairIsland'' has Zolkoff, a Serbian mafia thug and Chris's main helper who enjoys brutally killing and taunting his victims.
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* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', which features extreme TorturePorn, has been described by its director Srdan Spasojevic, as an allegorical of the experience of the Balkans War.
* ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' is set in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars, and has a Serb force hunting down the protagonist for inadvertently photographing mass graves during a recon mission.
* ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance'' has a Serbian crime syndicate in Norway, who get into a mob war with the local Norwegian crime organization when the son of the former's boss is assassinated.
* ''Film/LayerCake'' has the Serbian mafia, who are former war criminals and have an operation so vast that when one of their deals goes bad, their only real concern is killing everyone responsible as a "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem never fuck with us]]" message rather than recovering their merchandise.
* ''Film/NoMansLand'' has the Serbs deliberately lay down the protagonist, a Bosnian Muslim, on an anti-personnel mine.
* ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' has a ruthless Serbian drug lord in Denmark named Milo. Milo himself runs afoul of even more ruthless Albanians in the third movie.
* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' features an Albanian crime organization as the main antagonists, who run a sex trafficking operation and who kidnap the protagonist's daughter.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'' has a Serbian war criminal named Viktor Drazen, who Jack Bauer and his squad killed the wife and daughter of two years before the events of the first season.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan and Booth discover that a murdered girl had come from South Central Europe, and when they went to the place she had been staying, they discover a den filled with sex slaves who originated from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and their pimp was a human trafficker from Albania.
* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy", Troy and Abed's Balkan friend Lukka turns out to have been involved in genocidal cleansing back in his home country.
* In ''Series/Daredevil2015'', there are various gangs and crime groups divided by ethnicity. One of these groups are the Albanians. Matt Murdock, when he's assaulted by [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] during a visit to a client, makes a deal with their leader to help him escape the prison by invoking an EnemyMine against Fisk.
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** In "Enemy", a stash-house massacre leads Fontana and Green to a heroin ring that includes an old Albanian gangster.
** In "Angelgrove", one of the initial suspects in the murder of a controversial filmmaker is an Albanian gangster (played by the same actor who played the Albanian gangster in "Enemy", in fact.)
** In "Kingmaker", the murder of an undercover police officer by the Albanian mob kicks off an investigation into a rising politician.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' has delved into this trope a few times:
** In "Homo Homini Lupis", a criminal is hired to kidnap the family of corporate executive who's been embezzling money. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Much to the loan shark's horror]], the kidnapper turns out to be a former member of the Serb Volunteer Guard who [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil repeatedly rapes]] the embezzler's daughter.
** In "Blasters", an investigation into the death of a FormerChildStar leads Logan and Wheeler into a bootleg DVD ring run by the Albanian Mob.
* The pilot episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involves the SVU investigating the murder and mutilation of a Serbian war criminal who had fled to the US and started a new life as a taxi driver.
* ''Series/NewTricks'' has [[spoiler:a Serbian war criminal hiding as a monk in an addiction clinic, and killing a man who recognized him]].
* ''Series/SEALTeam'' has Bravo Team going to capture a Serbian arms dealer who has been linked to multiple bombings targeting U.S. military personnel in the premier of it's third season, and has a scene of Bosnian Serb forces executing Bosniak civilians in "Ghost of Christmas Future".
* ''Series/SleeperCell'' has a Bosnian terrorist in its first season.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has a comedic example in the Mafia of Cooks, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a criminal organization of chefs]] who speak in Slavic accents, live in a Mediterranean-like city, and enjoy punching things, especially old ladies.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has protagonist Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman, who are Serbian immigrants and the former a [[spoiler:war criminal of the Yugoslav Wars]], and features Albanians as a major gang.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has the J'avo, C-Virus infectees whose' name is Serbian for devil, speak Serbo-Croatian, have no problem killing civilians or taking them hostage and are the main combat force of Neo-Umbrella. The game also has a rare heroic example in Jake Muller, a BloodKnight mercenary from a fictional Serbo-Croatian speaking country known as Edonia who has the antibodies for the C-Virus in his blood due to being [[spoiler:Albert Wesker's son]].
* ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM II: U.S. Navy [=SEALs=]]]'' has the Sesseri, an Albanian black market syndicate.
* ''VideoGame/SniperGhostWarrior2'' has Merinov, a powerful Serbian weapons dealer, conspirator and one of the most personal enemies of the protagonist Cole Anderson, and a genocidal leader of the Serbian military, Marko Vladic.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'' has Milos Nowak, AKA Milan Nedich, a suspected war criminal from the Bosnian conflict known as the Barber of Bosnia, who allegedly scalped some of his prisoners. He's one of the only mandatory kills in the game, and killing him does not effect your mission statistics.
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' has it's BigBad Zoran Lazarevic, an infamous Serbian war criminal, and his mercenary company.
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This stereotype stems from UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, and the atrocities and war crimes committed by the factions involved in these wars. Before this, Yugoslavia was also known as the place where UsefulNotes/WorldWarI started, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serb revolutionary in Sarajevo. Even today, the Balkans remains a powder keg of ethnic tensions, with the issue of UsefulNotes/{{Kosovo}} still being an ongoing sore spot of the region.
Compare to RambunctiousItalian and SpicyLatina, which are other hot-blooded Southern European stereotypes, and RenegadeRussian, for a similar Slavic villain archetype from a former communist country. Often a part of a GenericEthnicCrimeGang or TheMafia.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''{{Manga/Jormungand}}'' has it's "Dragon Shooter" arc set in a thinly disguised Serbia know as Republic T, with the Koko's attempting to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal that is an {{Expy}} of Zeljko Raznatovic.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Played with in ''ComicBook/The99'', where Serbian ex-soldier Zoran is initially mistaken for TheDragon because his metal prosthetic arm and leg make him look monstrous, but he turns out to be working for the good guys.
* In "The Slavers" arc of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', Frank Castle faces off against a Balkan sex trafficking ring composed of hardened soldiers/war criminals from the Yugoslav Wars. Their horrible treatment of their victims instills a white-hot hatred within Castle that leads to one of Frank's deadliest moments of [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil unto evil]].
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[[folder:Fanfic]]
* ''Fanfic/DespairIsland'' has Zolkoff, a Serbian mafia thug and Chris's main helper who enjoys brutally killing and taunting his victims.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', which features extreme TorturePorn, has been described by its director Srdan Spasojevic, as an allegorical of the experience of the Balkans War.
* ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' is set in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars, and has a Serb force hunting down the protagonist for inadvertently photographing mass graves during a recon mission.
* ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance'' has a Serbian crime syndicate in Norway, who get into a mob war with the local Norwegian crime organization when the son of the former's boss is assassinated.
* ''Film/LayerCake'' has the Serbian mafia, who are former war criminals and have an operation so vast that when one of their deals goes bad, their only real concern is killing everyone responsible as a "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem never fuck with us]]" message rather than recovering their merchandise.
* ''Film/NoMansLand'' has the Serbs deliberately lay down the protagonist, a Bosnian Muslim, on an anti-personnel mine.
* ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' has a ruthless Serbian drug lord in Denmark named Milo. Milo himself runs afoul of even more ruthless Albanians in the third movie.
* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' features an Albanian crime organization as the main antagonists, who run a sex trafficking operation and who kidnap the protagonist's daughter.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TwentyFour'' has a Serbian war criminal named Viktor Drazen, who Jack Bauer and his squad killed the wife and daughter of two years before the events of the first season.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan and Booth discover that a murdered girl had come from South Central Europe, and when they went to the place she had been staying, they discover a den filled with sex slaves who originated from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and their pimp was a human trafficker from Albania.
* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy", Troy and Abed's Balkan friend Lukka turns out to have been involved in genocidal cleansing back in his home country.
* In ''Series/Daredevil2015'', there are various gangs and crime groups divided by ethnicity. One of these groups are the Albanians. Matt Murdock, when he's assaulted by [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] during a visit to a client, makes a deal with their leader to help him escape the prison by invoking an EnemyMine against Fisk.
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** In "Enemy", a stash-house massacre leads Fontana and Green to a heroin ring that includes an old Albanian gangster.
** In "Angelgrove", one of the initial suspects in the murder of a controversial filmmaker is an Albanian gangster (played by the same actor who played the Albanian gangster in "Enemy", in fact.)
** In "Kingmaker", the murder of an undercover police officer by the Albanian mob kicks off an investigation into a rising politician.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' has delved into this trope a few times:
** In "Homo Homini Lupis", a criminal is hired to kidnap the family of corporate executive who's been embezzling money. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Much to the loan shark's horror]], the kidnapper turns out to be a former member of the Serb Volunteer Guard who [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil repeatedly rapes]] the embezzler's daughter.
** In "Blasters", an investigation into the death of a FormerChildStar leads Logan and Wheeler into a bootleg DVD ring run by the Albanian Mob.
* The pilot episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involves the SVU investigating the murder and mutilation of a Serbian war criminal who had fled to the US and started a new life as a taxi driver.
* ''Series/NewTricks'' has [[spoiler:a Serbian war criminal hiding as a monk in an addiction clinic, and killing a man who recognized him]].
* ''Series/SEALTeam'' has Bravo Team going to capture a Serbian arms dealer who has been linked to multiple bombings targeting U.S. military personnel in the premier of it's third season, and has a scene of Bosnian Serb forces executing Bosniak civilians in "Ghost of Christmas Future".
* ''Series/SleeperCell'' has a Bosnian terrorist in its first season.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has a comedic example in the Mafia of Cooks, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a criminal organization of chefs]] who speak in Slavic accents, live in a Mediterranean-like city, and enjoy punching things, especially old ladies.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has protagonist Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman, who are Serbian immigrants and the former a [[spoiler:war criminal of the Yugoslav Wars]], and features Albanians as a major gang.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has the J'avo, C-Virus infectees whose' name is Serbian for devil, speak Serbo-Croatian, have no problem killing civilians or taking them hostage and are the main combat force of Neo-Umbrella. The game also has a rare heroic example in Jake Muller, a BloodKnight mercenary from a fictional Serbo-Croatian speaking country known as Edonia who has the antibodies for the C-Virus in his blood due to being [[spoiler:Albert Wesker's son]].
* ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM II: U.S. Navy [=SEALs=]]]'' has the Sesseri, an Albanian black market syndicate.
* ''VideoGame/SniperGhostWarrior2'' has Merinov, a powerful Serbian weapons dealer, conspirator and one of the most personal enemies of the protagonist Cole Anderson, and a genocidal leader of the Serbian military, Marko Vladic.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'' has Milos Nowak, AKA Milan Nedich, a suspected war criminal from the Bosnian conflict known as the Barber of Bosnia, who allegedly scalped some of his prisoners. He's one of the only mandatory kills in the game, and killing him does not effect your mission statistics.
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' has it's BigBad Zoran Lazarevic, an infamous Serbian war criminal, and his mercenary company.
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