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by Patrick Moore INAT IS A WORD THAT EXISTS IN MANY BALKAN LANGUAGES and can be translated roughly as “spiteful defiance.” Many Serbs have traditionally regarded mat as a badge of national pride, signifying heroic resistance against impossible odds. On a less elevated level, it can simply mean stubborn opposition to whatever comes along, in […]