Balkan War | War in Croatia | War in Yugoslavia | British Mercenaries | This Week | 1992
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As British troops prepare to join the UN peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia, THIS WEEK talks to some of the British soldiers already out there risking their lives in the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
They are Britain’s “Dogs of War”, the mercenaries who have volunteered to fight for the Croatians in their bitter battle with the Serbian federal forces. For the first time these British soldiers-for-hire, some ex-forces and others complete novices, talk in detail about why they have given up their jobs, left their families and travelled across Europe to fight for someone else’s cause.
First shown: 17/04/1992
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Well, Croatian Army had around 12-15 fully schooled Yugo Army generals and admirals and 3000 other officers and NCO-s who deserted YPA, joined and formed general staff as early as summer of 91.
vojvodina is croatia ! it it is not serbian. serbs stole it. they killed many croatian men and women
@@bossa6989 The Balkans are rightful Byzantine land!
I realize you're trying to be funny but it's not working. At all.
And a lot if ex para regt mercenaries training them
@buttplug - serbia is the only rightful byzantine land. Less Kosovo and Vojvodina of course.
The speaker retells it so calmly. Real people lived through this...
I’m one of them 😞
The fuck you expect him to do genius? Scream and cry throughout the entire video?
@@TheMadGod thats probably what most of us would have done
@@Yohan99999 that is a fair point, but its not very formal to present a documentary in that way.
Because hes a alpha male, very calm n relaxed
Serbia is the common denominator in all of the wars in Yugoslavia. The Serbian project for a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbia was one of the major causes of the break up of Yugoslavia.
as it should be
Exactly
US expertise is the major nominator for every failed operation like Operation Una in 1995 which saw 51 Serb civilians killed and many more wounded. Yugoslavia war was bad for everyone, particularily the influence of cultures and nations that is not born in Balkans.
@@antlkkk8754 It was bad for eveyone. I know this for a reason. Serbs lived in Bosnia along with Croats and Bosniaks. My grandparents were killed in their homes outside Sarajevo by Bosnian paramilitaries. My mother managed to escape from Sarajevo before the seige started. My father was arrested along with thousands of other men because they were Serbs. My father and his lads were forced to dig trenches during fire fights between Serbs and Croats or Croats and Bosniaks for the Bosnian Croats army. Some men that were arrested were killed or tortured for refusing. All sides did this and it says why people say war is beyond hell. Politicians that started the conflict need to also be killed. After you see this reply I bet my ass that someone is going to blast me with idiotic statements.
@@antlkkk8754 and the fact that bosniaks are almost a minority in bosna i hercegovina makes it worse.
Let it be known, that NOT A SINGLE CROATIAN SOLDIER CROSSED THE SERBIAN BORDER.
i dont know if this is a hate comment or not
@@mariostanciu9571 fact
Os se kladit
Logically, it was a war of independence, the Croats were fighting for their land. Not a war of invasion and domination like the Serbs
@@antlkkk8754 true, but also not true. Croatia tried to create an offensive and push into Serbian land, which failed due to heavy resistance from Serbians.
the man speaking at the end was spot on
The war was never in Yugoslavia. It was in Croatia and the Serbs were the aggressors. They also attacked their neighbours Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. What does that tell you? Get it right.
Buddy serbia a d Croatia had an agreement. Croatia broke the agreement..that's how it all blew up. Just face it Croatia nazis we're scared of retribution from ww2. Serbs had their chance to make Croats and turks finally suffer for what those nazis did in ww2..it's kind of funny that Croats still do the nazi salute..I'm glad everyone In balkans finally get along.. I'm sure in parts of Croatia I wouldn't leave my car alone if it had serb plates..but that's the extent of it..everyone in region just wants to live..finally
@@mikevarga6742 amazing every word of what you just said was wrong
@@jestersnake7853 bs
@UCxqVvkUzqjhSwwSkxjcY52A Croatia broke agreement, what agreement? Constitution of former Yugoslavia allowed any of 6 Republic to declare independence in every time they wanted.. That was only suitable agreement you idiot
@@role6159 the ceasefire agreement jack azz
Slovenians, Croats, Bosnians and Albanians were dragged into this war by Serbian nationalism.
You are not nationalists?? Each and every one of you were a nazi puppet and still are.
Beautiful out there now went on holiday, cheep beer 🍺 good food.👍🏻
What did you visit?
Did you see dead bodies?
@@karlhans6678 why would he see dead bodies, I doubt he visited during the war
@@karlhans6678 oh yeah, whenever i visit Croatia coastline, theres just dead bodies lying around
We sent weapons to Croatians illegally, which here in Argentina was known as the "arms trafficking to Croatia" file. We would also send weapons to the Bosnians.
I wasnt awear of this, thats pretty cool. Ty for the help!
Hvala
Argentina is a well known nazi haven.
you sent the weapons and you blocked the Croats, that's why most of these soldiers lost their lives to the Croats not to the Serbs because of your help😂
in my memory only Austria sent croatia weapons 🇭🇷❤
I remember this was 20 years old unbelievable what mad war
More like 30
Bosnia is a beautiful country, we travaled all balkan countries but Bosnia is by far the prettiest of them all, best regards to Bosnia and take care! :)
Croatia is far more scenic
🤡
Bosnia is not a country but a region. Bosnia&Herzegovina is a country.
@@andreashykade2352 you mean "Bosnia and Erceggovna"
@@Sphynxsno
This is not Balkan war. Balkan wars happened way before in the past.
The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913.--
bro said the yugo's federal army was sent to "protect" them from the croats HHAHAHAHA
Yo, my grandpa did that training and hello from croatia
Hello
Hvala Ante Gotovina ❤
Oluja❤
Hvala HOS!!!!!!
ZA DOM SPREMNI
Yugoslavia collapsed because of America. Soviet Union also collapsed because of America. And now Russia is collapsing because of America. Sad truth..
Yes, and because of Germany and UK too.
Yugoslavia collapsed because serbs wanted domination. They wanted croats, slovenes, bosnians and macedonians to be seen as sub-serbian ethnicities
Слава Хорватії !!! 🇺🇦🇭🇷💪
za dom spremni
Za grob hahahaha
Za koga?
@@greedyinterntainment5973to je ot HOS
@@AudiEditzOfficial
Je
In Bosnia ,during that aggression on Bosniaks, ( Bosnian Muslims ) the Serbs raped thousands of Bosniak women and young girls ( kids ) and not only that but in very brutal ways. 1992-1995!!
Serbian women and girls were being raped and mutilated .
Mercenary is a stretch, they were paid the same as any other Croatian soldier which was very low at that time, they were volunteers who heard about the tragedies and came to help. Serb dominated Yugoslav media depicted them as mercenaries and dogs of war to discourage them.
THANK YOU FOR THE LINK.
Still I am wonndering why did not USA and western powers (who were in a strong global position) prevent the war. They helped of Slovenia to skip the federation but left Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegoviana to fight. Tells about such kind negotiators it does not appeal me either.
They didnt help Slovenia shit. There was 10 day war, during which YNA lost, so they gave up and left, cose there wasntbmuch interest in Slovenia enyway, as there wasnt Serbian minorities...
Because they started it and war is money.
Oh for fucks sake. They just wanted to split up the country, not to help anyone.
@Hercegovac Why was Yugoslavia doing well until these guys came along? Why is it that old troubles came up again once the US started spending more time in Yugoslavia? Why is it that separatist movements got more and more popular while the US advocated for the countries to split apart? Why is it that more and more of our industry is being sold to EU and US companies and investors?
They didn’t give a shit about our country nor our people. They just cared about profit.
Yes, splitting up Yugoslavia country is the best thing that could have happened, no more communism
The country was already split up by the time they arrived, and it was the Serbs doing it
Not dogs of war, volunteers
Risking your life for 20 pounds a week🤔 they should pay soldier's more for their service ✌🏻.
Service?
Ko je to riskirao svoj život za 20 funti tjedno 🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄
Ex Green jacket doing mercy work for just 20 quid a week!!!? WTF I know it was 1992 but 20 quid 💷 was still fuck all back then
+ plus food and doubtful shelter
20 quid in croatia was probably a lot more money than 20 quid in the UK
What’s a quid?
@@russelljong831 Quid is a name term for the British Pound sterling money
They go for the action not the money. Sad but true.
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They are not dogs of war and today they are for Croatia and thanks those people. He get salary as all others soldiers at that time in begining i know 100 Germany marks on month 91 year if he have higher rank then more but agin as others. Croatia call them who knows something about army who are a proffesional soldier. They are all from U. K. Germany, France, Netherland, Albania, Hungary... army a proffesional soldiers in those countries
Imperialism never dies. 😔🏴
England 💪🏻💪🏻🏴💪🏻💪🏻!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Havermeyer7908 , are you proud of being imperialist... ? Sad world.
@@galiusargentum9048 Kindly explain how any of this is imperialism. I bet you think Srebrenica was staged and that there were no warcrimes against the Bosnians, you Far-right Cetnik imperialist
@@Havermeyer7908 , any form of imperialism is undesirable. It's a matter of principles.
@@galiusargentum9048 ok serbonazi
whatever the war, the Anglos are always there
Anglos : hey there, *SLAVE*
Anglo BVLLS
Ahahahahha thia guy is funny...my friend they didmt need amy foreigners help..they had an army that was 4th force in europe a well known fact
Like Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Palestine... This conflict made little to no sense in the greater picture of being human beings in the latter 20th - 21st century.
Wdym?
Whis how anglo saxso bringing freedom
Wdym Serbia was invading Croatia
Does anybody remember what the USTASE did to the serbs in the 1930s and 40s?
Maybe that's why they were a little pissed off.....
"....what the USTASE did to the serbs in the 1930s and 40s?"
I don't know?What?
@@malimate2660
They killed millions of Serbs, they were allied with Hitler and wermacht! Don't you know your history!
They literally did nothing in the 30s because the kingdom of Yugoslavia was still alive and kicking until it capitulated to Germany in 1941. It was after countless cases of oppression, persecution and murder committed by the Serbs in the 20s and 30s that the Ustase came to power in 1941 and started the purge.
@@juliansantos6846
First...Croats fought against the Turks, while the Serbs were vassals for 400 years, because they participated in the Ottoman Empire with 13 grand viziers, seven of their deputies, 23 viziers, eight admirals (Kapudin Pasha), numerous provincial governors and with countless great defterdars. The Turk Mehmed Pasha Sokolović restored the Orthodox Patriarchate in 1557, so that the Orthodox began to spread to Bosnia and Croatia (they demolished 463 Catholic churches in Bosnia and a 15 monasteries) where there were none before the Turks.Later, Orthodox temples arose on the foundations of mosques and Catholic churches.Together with the Turks, they fought at Nikopol on September 25, 1396, against a large Christian coalition, where Stefan Lazarevic with 5,000 horsemen was on the Bayazite side. The Christian coalition did not recover until Jan Sobiecki.... Second... In World War 1, 10,000 croatian soldiers were on the side of Serbia, actually under the insignia of Yugoslavia, when they were killed by the Serbs in Odesa because they did not want to wear Serbian insignia on their caps (about 1,000 killed)...... .......
1918 - '21, about 250,000 Muslims were expelled from Serbia and Bosnia, an agrarian reform was carried out, and the land was distributed to Serb colonizers (Muslims owned 91.1 percent of the land).Third... The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was Great Serbia, because all nations were oppressed and persecuted (300 murders and Croatian politician S. Radic). Croatian cultural associations are banned, the Parliament is abolished, the Croatian language is removed from schools and administration, narrows and falsifies Croatian history in school textbooks.... In 1941, the Croats defended their country, and the Serbs in Cro. burned Croatian villages, because they were the majority in the army and police with weapons. In Dalmatia, under the protection of the Italian fascists, they burned villages and killed in turn.............. And these are the Serbs 'on the right side' in Serbia, under the protection of the Russian SS Protection Corps in 1944, who only in 1944, with the proclamation of the Serbian King from London, went to war against the Germans.
.....ua-cam.com/video/ThASpOvUcXc/v-deo.htmlsi=mAzCRU59poBpVlD9
"They killed millions of Serbs"...............If we look at the population list from 1931..........633 256, all Orthodox until 1948............543 795 Serbs in the Republic of Croatia,(about 10,000 emigrated to Vojvodina, some died in the Partisans and Chetnicks)...... A large part of NDH documents was locked by the President of Serbia in the Military Archives in Belgrade..........
Google........... Greater Serbia
@@DomPatek This is true, evident by the Ustase propaganda during ww2. Not only that but also communist partisans hiding in mountains and villages disguising as commoners made it nearly impossible to fight a proper anti partisan war.
you mean this ua-cam.com/video/p-rtmpZ9mnw/v-deo.htmlsi=mXDAtERBgvlL0tm3
I wonder how we lost the war.
westerners:😆😅🤗
thank goodness for that. i wouldnt want us to be condemned everyday for being catholic and have to waive an ugly serbian flag being forced to live in greater serbia (or still Yugoslavia i suppose). thank goodness for westerner support in this case.
they only helped to get something out of it (to kill ur economy)
@@rastlonadjalin9455 yougoslavia's economy wasn't that great before the war either. At least now we aren't communists.
oh i agree with that
Some Croatian soldiers even said that they set traps for the English to make it look like an accident, because they did not want to accept them into their units, who persistently applied, the English were responsible for the greatest tragedy of the Croats in Bleiburg in 1945, and every Croatian soldier that he knows and he must have taken his revenge in the treacherous way they prepared for them, many Croats here that I know say themselves that if the English had given them all possible equipment, they would have refused to go to war with them, and there was no other way to throw them out of the units than to removed in this way, either it was a magic potion or an ambush, mostly many of you disappeared, but certainly not from Serbian hands
🤘🍄🍄🍄
This was religion war all together
no it was war for territory, noone cared for religion much esp. because yugoslavia was propagating state atheism for 40+ years
Not really a religion war
Much more like a Turf War
@Tony So World war 2 was religion war too then, catholic vs orthodox vs protestant and they all hated each other? Stupid logic Tony, the war was motivated by desires to usurp/take someone elses land/city/living space and to genocide/execute enemies. You have no clue whats up if u use that logic. Yugoslav people werent very religious at all, as the yugoslav ideology was atheistic/communistic, so it makes no sense to be a communist and for example christian at the same time etc. You really do not know what you talking about.
@Tony Again you are clueless, yugoslavs are linguistically slavic, not racially , racially slavic are ukrainians, polish, belarussian and russian peoples. Educate yourself.
It stills look like that today.
no it doesnt lol are you dumb
Thoses same soldiers had a truce a for a Novel
In Bosnia ,during that aggression on Bosniaks, ( Bosnian Muslims ) the Serbs raped thousands of Bosniak women and young girls ( kids ) and not only that but in very brutal ways. 1992-1995!!
They committed genocide.
Croatian ustase Skum bags
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