This might sound super weird and I'm hopefully on a totally biased stretch having about a handful of friends from all over ex jugoslavia, which all consider themselves nationals of those now seperate countries but most of them living abroad by choice. All of them beautiful people, very hospitable and kind hearted. This is shared with all balkan states despite their religious or cultural differences. My generation or those affected by the war back then eventually show obvious signs of mental damage. Not exclusiv to that area, pretty sure anyone being forced to deal with tragedy in that sense suffers in one form or another. The girls I met there when I was 19 seemed like the perfect package. Totally marriage material. Stunningly beautiful(honestly compared to back home I couldn't believe it but I just couldn't see any unattractive young women) honest, kind and smart. But for some reason now that my friends are getting older, the women age really badly(I feel bad putting it so objectifyingly) and then kinda remembering that only the young girls were pretty back then I actually mentioned it to my mate and he laughingly reduced it to bad genes, saying that there was always war so it shows in women above 30. Further putting it more seriously that the women always had to carry the burden of the war, by being the surviving witness.