In this episode of the series “ViewPoint: Should the 90s Be Forgotten?”, young people from across the region confront a sentiment frequently heard in public: that it would be best to remove lessons about the 1990s from the educational system. Does erasing difficult topics from textbooks truly protect new generations from division, or does it leave them vulnerable to manipulation?

Participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and Serbia share their reflections on what happens when schools remain silent about the past. We listen to their perspectives on whether “blank pages” of history would create space for a new future or merely more room for political manipulation, alongside their thoughts on whether it is even possible to build a shared future on the foundations of a silenced past.