Eventually, some facts emerged in an interview that Karadzic gave to an unidentified journalist of Svetigora, the official monthly of the Metropoly of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Cetinje (Resurrection of a Huddled Soul, March 1995, No. 35-36, pages 14-23). At a later date, some scientist will maybe make detailed analyses of Karadzic's actual instead of ostensible religiosity, but this article outlines at least his own pretensions.
The interview starts with a statement that for thirty-four years he was observing in Sarajevo and the environments (for which he claims to be entirely Serbian) the Serbian souls that were in exile and squatted somewhere deep down in a man. He was observing the Serbs who withdrew into the depths of their real nature, who suffered because of their everyday public behaviour that was to such an extent contrary to their internal experience. Yet, says he, the Bosnian Serbs were more courageous in performing their religious rituals, particularly funerals. Karadzic claims that power-holders bribed some Serbs to keep their fellow-countrymen in obedience and to keep them down.
In 1975 or 1976, Karadzic goes on, he and another well-known Serb were carrying a yule-log along the main street in Sarajevo, on Christmas. It was experienced as a "drama" and at the clinic it was proclaimed to be an act of insolence. The journalist then asked: "Well, do we have to understand that communism was just a mask for Islamization?" Karadzic answered: "Yes, that's absolutely right. Non-Serbian peoples used communism as a means to keep the Serbs in a subordinate position, while promoting national and religious programmes of the Roman Catholic Church and Islam." He further says that the percentage of atheists was not bigger among the Serbs than the others, but it seemed so only because "the Serbs could be devoted to their God and their own souls exclusively inside their own homes and their own solitude."
After that Karadzic discusses the fate of the Muslims (i.e. Bosniacs) who consider themselves to be of Serbian nationality. Karadzic claims that the lost or "misplaced" Serbs are those who had a greater religious interest and who switched over to Islam, while those who kept the collective awareness of their Serbian past function as Serbs whose families were converted to Islam. Since they do not have Orthodox spiritual quality, they have an "Orthodox pain before God". "It is clear that the way to salvation of the Serbs of Muslim religion is the return to Orthodoxy. I declare it under full responsibility; I know that not everyone can do this or that and it is not easy, but I know that it is the only way to overcome the dualism in their souls. They have been temporarily - what are a few hundred years compared to the eternity - in another religion, either because of the occupier's pressure or for personal comfort… which does not mean that they do not have a lot of Serbian, Christian and Orthodox inside them. With the present state of things, they will be neither Muslims nor Serbs." Karadzic then reveals his plans for all Bosnian Muslims:
"Therefore, I believe that the Serbian people will fully recover only when the majority of them - I speak about the nation - including the Serbs of Islamic religion, heal their souls and enter the oneness of their being. Naturally, this must not and cannot happen under coercion."
Karadzic continues with his claims that there were conversions of Muslims to Orthodoxy before and during the war, but that the Orthodox priests did not want to baptize them during the war, so that some of them had to travel as far as Germany to get baptized, and then they returned to Bosnia.
Some of those converts, after having become loyal Serbs and Orthodox, are now very close to the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs. Karadzic then revealed that the Patriarch Pavle I gave his blessing to the establishing of the foundation "Saint John the Baptist" that will deal with Christianization of Serbs and all others who wish it.
Asked about his role in the "national revival" of the Serbs, Karadzic modestly denied any role either his or of his party, apart from renewing the people's freedom and removing barriers, so that "spirituality of people and Orthodox spirituality started to flow freely, as a river that no one but God can stop and, of course, God does not want to do it because God himself is behind it all."
Karadzic claims that, from the political point of view, they can be proud because they have renewed the freedom of the people, while "all the other is God's deed. God probably made a present of freedom to us because he was the one to teach us what should be done, and the Holy Spirit whispered into our ears what we should say, of which I am particularly convinced, because often I went to meetings without a prepared concept - actually, it was always like that, with the exception of three or four important historical meetings - and I have always followed the Gospel: Do not worry about what you are going to say. The Spirit itself will tell you what you have to say."
After that Karadzic asserted that there had been an intention to keep the Serbs in obedience by means of the delusion called "brotherhood and unity". Now those Serbs who were the victims of the Titoist propaganda are the most fervent supporters of the Serbian transformation. The psychiatrist Karadzic explains it to be quite understandable, because being the most cheated they are also the angriest ones. He emphasized that the chetnik (aggressive nationalists) behaviour was demonstrated mostly by children of Tito's partisans.
Asked how the traditional enemies, Serbs the chetniks and Serbs the partisans can be reunited, Karadzic gave an Orthodox answer in the form of "repentance" and "reconciliation". The repentance should not necessarily be public, but if everyone repents within his/her heart, the division on chetniks and partisans will remain in jokes and anecdotes only.
Karadzic also said that the Bosnian Serbs were now aware of their historical role of leaders of the revival, not only of Serbs but of Russians, as well. "We strongly believe to be on the right God's path and that these people will pay their debt to the Serbianhood and Orthodoxy. Our deaths, sufferings and stamina we accept as God's mercy and a gift of the fate to realize all of this, and if God allows, to save Serbia and Montenegro from being destroyed."
Karadzic believes that it is high time that the Bosnian Serbs get acquainted with their Orthodox heritage and start being proud of it, all of which used to be pushed to the back of their minds. "We have to work on it that every Serb gets to know the details of his/her religion, and particularly what the God's temple means." Each separation from Serbianhood leads to disappearance of the nation.