You're arguing semantics now. It doesn't matter if we call them Ustase or Radical Movement # 25312. It's a simple choice that works well withing game's framework: establish autocratic control and deal with a radical movement OR promote autonomous rule to an extent and cut the support for the radical movement.
Yeah, because who the hell cares about historical accuracy? Let us call Nazi Party the Rainbow Unicorn Party, because that is just semantics - as long as it works it should not matter how it is called.
1. as i mentioned and elaborated in an earlier post, the languages did converge after the reforms by Ljudevit Gaj in Croatia (began in 1830 where Gaj decided to standardize the stokavstina dialect that was in that time the least spoken dialect withing the kingdom, but in turn understood by all) and after the serbian reforms started by Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (in 1850, after the Wienna literary agreement that was propagated by the croatian illyrist movement under the idea of creating a new language base to strengthen the idea of a larger state that would later enable Croatia to become independent or get a huge level of autonomy within the empire), before that if you took an average serb and an average croat it would be as if a slovene were to speak to a bulgarian today - it is a slavic language but its not the same thing, not by a long shot. Today serbian and croatian are, as a result of the last 150 years of convergence extremely close, but they were not that in the past, and the convergence did not occur naturaly, which makes the very language an unnatural esperanto-like product
2. he would not have organized anything because the growing power of the HSS would make his movement and party either obsolete or the ideology would have drowned in the mass support gained by the HSS (HSS had more or less paramilitary formations during the Banovina that were pretty close to an actual army within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that you can get)
3. the Black Hand organized the assassination to remove the threat of a Trialist monarchy, which also meant the appeasement of the slavic nations under the crown, that would disable serbian territorial aspirations to the east according to the Nacertanije by Garasanin in 1844., so even if you are correct in stating that the coup wasnt a nationalistic act, the assassination of 1914. was, thus making the Black Hand a nationalist organisation
4. i agree that insults should be dealt with, but dealt with accordingly. attempted murder in a royal parliament is not understandable in any century and is more insulting than the very insult that was done in the first place. but, again to note, i agree with you that insults are not a way to go
5. if you were to provide me with any evidence that the serbian part of the monarchy was experiencing any kind or number of problems, issues or anything in that manner i will gladly listen (read) and amend my opinion accordingly
1. You really ought to learn a difference between a language and a dialect. This was not meant as patronizing but you cannot make an equivalence between one of the dialects that was a bit different than Serbian and the Croatian language in general. That is like saying that the Serbian language from Pirot area is not Serbian and base your argument on differences between them. Language is one thing, dialect another. Serbian and Croatian have always been the same with individuals dialects being different between each other, sometimes even more within the same language. For instance, a man from Belgrade will have no problem understanding someone from Split, but I hardly doubt that he would understand a word a person from Pirot says - even though it is the same language.
2. You just enter a logical fallacy loop here. He did organize it, and HSS did gain massive support - but it did not make his movement or ideology obsolete or drowned. Creation of Ustaše had nothing to do with anything else - it was an idea started long before.
3. Yeah, because some captains and majors in the Serbian army had the blueprints for the ideas of the Archduke so they decided to stop him... right. And I don't know where the hell you got the idea that reorganization of the empire would appease the Slavs - quite the contrary, it would provide them with a platform and political power for secession. Just like Croats were not actually appeased by Banovina in 1939 - they wanted independence. But I don't know, maybe Croats would indeed be appeased in reorganized Austria-Hungary, all other Slavs had a bit different idea.
And this is not a discussion if the Black Hand itself was nationalistic - you accused the Serbian government of, and I quote "that same radicalism by the serbian government led by the Black Hand". When was the Serbian government led by a Black Hand?! Never - it was a secret military organization that actually got destroyed by the same government you are accusing.
Also, maybe worth noting, Hungary was strongly opposed to the reorganization of the kingdom as Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia were under the Hungarian crown so any attempt would likely result in a war that would be highly beneficial to the Serbian nationalist circles - they would just scoop up the territory after the civil war in the A-U empire with little to no bloodshed. So it was all contrary to your claims. And before you say "there would be no war" I might point out that at every radical change in the organization of A-U, there was one. Plus, war or not, decentralization and reorganization would weaken and hasten the collapse of the empire that was already rotten to the core.
4. You would be surprised how many assassinations happened in parliaments and other similar government buildings. Because it is not just the punishment, it is also a message.
5. Problems? No problems, Serbs lived like kings. Not that Slovenia had 6 times more developed industry and industrial income per capita than Serbia, and Croatia double in 1938. Not that during the history of the kingdom 1918-1938 there were 2.193 factories constructed, of those 403 in Slovenia, 732 in Croatia (Slavnonia and Dalmatia included) and only 428 in Serbia that was actually the most devastated region after the Great War. Source: Ekonomska struktura Jugoslavije 1918-1941, Nakladni zavod Hrvatske, page 17.
Right after the war, in 1919, Serbia had some 70 factories, while Croatia and Slovenia were left with with 960. So more to start with and more constructed during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Croatian banks were the strongest in the kingdom, Croatia had access to the biggest ports and the sea for tourism and trade and had the best infrastructure network.
No problems really, just for some unknown reason most of the money and reparation funds went to Slovenia and Croatia while Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia were left piss poor. The Yugoslav government was so Serbo-centric that majority of the money and investments went to Croatia and Slovenia, that were already better off that the rest in the first place. But other than that, insults and subversive actions of liberated regions, national betrayal during the war, really, everything was just fine and dandy in Serbia. I don't know what was I thinking, sorry.
And if you really want to know, Serbian nationalists at the time actually did not want Yugoslavia at all. Generals from the Great War urged the king to give Split and everything north of it to Italians and be done with it, less headache - and after all, Croats and Slovenes were on the loosing side in the war. So Yugoslavia (both of 'em) was everything except some fruit of a Serbian nationalist dream - on the contrary, it was a nightmare, they hated the very idea of it. So that is why it is very funny, and a bit ironic, when some Serbian nationalism is mentioned in the same context as Yugoslavia. But hey, nationalists didn't actually have a say so we got what we got, a Frankenstein country that no one actually wanted except the king (a guy that no one actually loved and who framed and put the legitimate king in the nuthouse) and the Allies that wanted a strong buffer state. I really don't like nationalists, especially Serbian ones, yet even I am not willing to trump historical facts just on the basis of some personal preferences.
EDIT: Also, this discussion has gone long enough already, let us not spam anymore. If you want to continue conversation, we can use private message and exchange documents and information if you want. Cheers!
