Former Yugoslavians are bad actors (6)

I believe the answer is:

croats

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'former yugoslavians' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'bad actors' is the wordplay.
'bad' is an anagram indicator.
'actors' anagrammed gives 'CROATS'.

'are' is the link.

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