TheSaneWarboy so little?...it is not so little at all....ok comparable with China or Russia or Usa but you have many many more lands way smaller with even more etnic groups.....o
Znik NEVER was...if we were part of yugoslavia this does not mean that we are a balkan country..if we are a balkan country than also Italy and Austria are balkan country or not?....your geography seems very poor;)
As a citizen of Bosnia I have to say that this video was astoundingly well done.It was impartial and backed by facts and not eithers side propaganda. There is just one thing that was incorrect about it that was at the end that the republics are now prosperous. We are not prosperous we are poor as fuck lol.
Nah man, quality of life is still high. I moved to USA 2 years ago for work, and travel often to Sarajevo and Belgrade, and our "carpe diem" hedonistic mindset is just uncontested! We manage way more with 200-500e than what people do here with $1500-3000, while spending more time with friends and family
Nenad Radovanovic While a quarter of the population is unemployed, corruption is at an all time high, most salaries are around 200 e and thousands of ppl leave every year. Now my statement was that we are not prosperous and that we are poor as fuck and these facts confirm that. Now you are right about are mindset and we just dont give a fuck about that and enjoy life as much as we can. Seems that "different" nations of former Yugoslavia have a pretty same mindset lol.
I was always wondering as a Greek neighbour why they split... This video has helped me to understand more about that... They had a dream basketball team, it was almost impossible to beat them!
That Bearded Guy i hate Yugoslavia but that team would be top 5 for sure,old communist Yugoslavia have picked players by national standard,so you needed to have all nations included in first team
They could’ve possibly won the euro in ‘92 if they’d decided to not kill each other. Scmeichel really appreciated that, made a career at United based on that.
As someone who lives in Bosnia, born 11 years after the war, you got everything perfectly right. Its so scary what happened and sends chills down my spine. Both of my parents fought for Bosnia and their lives not so long ago. I pray this doesn't happen again.
"We will defend every inch of croatia" I am prety sure he said centimeter. Edit: this was a joke that was nothing to do with Yugoslavia and now i started a war in replies. I was just making fun of imperial system and how we use metryc, and now everyone thinks i am fascist
When I was at school I met a girl who had come from Bosnia. This was in 1999-2000. I have always been interested in finding out some of what she had lived through. We made a connection even though we had just met and it was good to talk to someone who also came from an country that was politically unstable and violent (mine being South Africa) despite the instability being there for very different reasons. I never saw her that much again, not sure if she moved away. I think about it often. Everyone else went to lunch and we stayed talking because no one else around us seemed to understand.
I am from Slovenia and the 90s were great for us. What was happening in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia were terrible. I still remember the frightened refugees today.
JONATHan CaPiChanO Imagine what its like to have to study this shit in history classes, and especially when you get biased af lessons tryimg to justify your "side's" actions. Both sides had blood on their hands and did horrible stuff but of course they won't admit it about themselves, they just point out the horrors commited by their "enemies", bunch of hypocritical cunts
I agree, this video is bullshit, serbs were not afraid of Croatia becoming independent because of WW 2, they wanted the "Great Serbia" and genocide all others.
When growing up in Cleveland, no one said their nationality was Yugoslavian. You were a Slovene,Croat,Serb,etc. When the fighting began we were not at all surprised.
@@joekoz3815 Lmao, all countries are "made up"! It was a federation not all that unlike todays EU. I remember being young and confused about how we can live in Slovenia and Yugoslavia at the same time. XD The reason for fighting was that with Titos death, there was nobody to keep nationalisms and various church patriarchs in check or provide common point of identification (he was half Croat, half Slovene, living in Beograd). Balkan peoples are old peoples, proud of their respective heritages with a strong faith, big temper and looooong memory. But who can blame them? A lot of healing has to take place here. A common Yugoslav state was acctully in my opinion a brilliant attempt to put all old hatreds to rest, too bad, people didnt listen!
All countries created by a union or confederation of different cultures and religions will be like that initially. It’s called Sectionalism. It leads to massive problems and ends up harming the entire country as a whole. In the United States pre-civil war the state you lived in used to be considered more of an identity than a national identity. It’s the reason why secession was so easy for people to get on board with. Robert E Lee opposed slavery but the only reason he seceded was because he saw himself as a Virginian more than an American. Its understandable but quite dangerous. While I’m usually for independence, I have sympathy for the Serbians who simply wanted to keep their country together even through violence when NATO intervened. I can without a doubt say that if Europe got involved in the American Civil war things would have been very bad for the US and the world eventually. However I’m still going to side with the countries that wanted their independence from Yugoslavia because they were countries that have existed for hundreds of years. They had their own culture and they were forced together by the Serbia and the Western Allies in WW1 and then conquered by Germany in WW2, and then influenced by USSR.
The reason why they send tanks is becouse slovenian Territorial Defense attacked yugoslav bases and outpost, they turned off electrcity,water to the families of officers of yugoslavian army who livde in slovenia, they even killed yugoslav soldiers on a border post while they were surrendering the camera was there from news from germany i think.
@@MA-cx9os Not true. Barracks were attacked and power was cut down as retaliation after they send tanks on our streets and not earlier. Slovene TO did not attack YPA until they got out of barracks with tanks and infantry. That is the fact whether you like it or not.
@@slosova Ofcorse yugoslav nacional army army of yugoslavia,slovenia were in yugoslavia so slovenian to attacking jna is seperatis attack and they should have kill all seperatist not widraw a legal force from a legal land l.
Fun fact: Stalin sent many assasins to kill Tito but they were all discovered and sent home.Tito sent a letter to Stalin: Dear friend, don't send any more assasins or I will send one to Moscow and he won't need to be sent home.
In May 2021 a channel called Knowledgia posted a 12-min video titled "Why did Yugoslavia Collapse", which I had just finished watching. Having now watched this video, I am very impressed with how much better this account of these wars are - especially with the accuracy and completeness of the events. The difference was so great that I simply must subscribe now. Thank you, WonderWhy! 😏
The video "Why did Yugoslavia Collapse" is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead, only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanian population, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, and became very anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo (and alleged Croatian and Slovene support of idea), it started exactly because of Serbian nationalism and expansionism led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. Video never mentioned fact, at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread huge fear among Croatian Serbs missusing history, also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and local Croatian Serbs started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, video never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia after it was flattened with earth sa same as Mariuople in Ukraine. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today
Yeah, they forgot to mention Bill Killton illegally dropping depleted uranium bombs, they also forgot to mention Slobodan Milosevic was found innocent but they kept him in jail anyways until he died or was killed.
meyoumovie You’re not 100% right. It was NATO that was responsible for the uranium bombings, not USA. US never declared a formal war. Milosevic wasn’t exonerated until 2016 which was years after his death or assassination. He was still on trial, which means he wasn’t guilty or innocent yet so it makes sense he was still in jail.
@@Odoxon7522 EU is just a way to make it easier for globalists to control things...impose their agenda...they just make it mandatory for all member states to obey, massive immigration for example. Economy ? Dude...nobody can stop European countries to trade as they did before the globalist project known as EU. I don't like what's going on in France, Sweden, Germany....I don't want our politicians to follow their lead.
My parents both grew up in Mostar and had to flee during the war, crazy to think how if some of these things didn’t happen how different my life could be. Awesome video!
I’ve been to Mostar, one of the most beautiful and serene towns I’ve been to. Almost cracked my head walking on the bridge cos the marble was so smooth
While North Macedonia didn't have to deal with war against the Yugoslav military, they still had to deal with an Albanian insurgency in 2001. This resulted from the Macedonian government banning both the use of the Albanian language and the Albanian flag. The ethnic Albanians wished to secede from North Macedonia and this insurgency lasted for over nine months. A ceasefire which gave the Albanians greater rights ended the conflict in November of that year and thus ending all the Yugoslav Wars
Hey buddy, It really is not my fault that i am ugly to most;) ;) and that many girls,mostly Bosniak girls hurt my feelings by telling me how ugly i am,you know very well what was done to them in the Aggression on Bosnia.......btw(Kosovo Is Not Serbia )........ ✌️
Not totally true, democratic albanian parties actively took part in the Parliament before 2001 and ethnic rights were gonna come democratically, that was not the main reason of the start of the 2001 insurgency. In 1999 kosovo war got so much out of hand, Macedonia with US collaboration allowed shelter of 400k albanian refuges almost 1/4 of it's population, but at the same time there were illegal paramilitary units crossing into macedonian territory and organising a new liberation front, their first and only goal at the beginning was to make greater albania.
Mr KIM there is no such state as "north macedonia" this is Slavalbanians who do not wish to be called as Macedonians. Macedonians, and you Koreans must know this well, are Greeks
Sauron's Padawan well maybe with the help of dzeko, kolarov, pjanic, milinkovic-savic, oblak, savic, mitrovic, and so many others... they might of not only won this years World Cup but the ones prior.
Funny story bro. If u didnt know, today is a semifinal game between Croatia n Serbia at waterpolo eurocup. Croatia knocked out Montenegro in a faking clutch azz game before dat and Serbia eliminated Hungary. 3 world best waterpolo nations are Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro at the moment.
But they would not get as far as croatia did by themselves, with many different ethnic groups there wouldnt be as much communication and their would be fights within the team. On paper, sure they would have a great team, but in reality they would not due to ethnic problems
Imagine if Yugoslavia never broke up. The team that would have played the 2018 world cup consist of: Modric, Rakitiç, Milisovic-savic, Mitrovic, Pjanic, Skrna, Vida, Oblak, omggg
@AmeriKa1050 The Ustashe regime systematically murdered approximately 200,000 to 500,000 Serbs.The Ustashe cruelty and sadism shocked even Nazi commanders. Men, women, children were hacked to death, thrown alive into pits and down ravines, or set on fire in churches. Children were found impaled by stakes in villages. -Wikipedia.
In the early 90s, I was an editor on the international desk of an English language daily newspaper in Tokyo. I was in my late 20s and had never been to the Balkans. Watching this video unleashed a flood of memories regarding the news I handled every day and all the names, places and events came back in an instant. Well done on an informative video. Cheers.
But have you ever wondered WHY it is western interest? The west understands that if it isn't there, then the Russians will be. Its just realist doctrine.
@@illyrian3057 that's a straight up lie, Albanians living in Kosovo are getting out of control. There was a boy beaten up just cause they heard him speak Serbian.
We don't hate each other but when one group tries to suppress another, how can there be war. I am albanian and I have a very good Serbian friend. He is intelligent enough to understand that he cannot justify the oppression and the genocide that had been done. When acceptance happens, we can move forward and establish peaceful relationships.
@@megg8566 same here, a lot of my hrvatski family still refuse to acknoledge some of the very bad things that happened in the past, but we cant solve the problem if we cannot accept the past first
@@user-ts2ny8jg9d its the damn elite, or secret agendas. We never get told the truth. So the regular people blame and hate one another. yet both kinda got screwed. I feel like it's always a lie that gets told by some deceiver... Like currently. This time worldwide... We need to unite, when clearly they even make us distance so much so they force us a corona diagnoses some places?! Which means loss of rights... ur kids will be taken... according to the law they wanna pass. Right? Correct me if wrong, i wish i was wrong so much. At least in usa. Its called trace act 66 66 🦧🤷♀️🙃 Unite!!!
And in 2004, a kid in North Carolina did a report on Yugoslavia, and that sparked a love of slavic languages and politics that lasted through college and into his job as a translator for Serbia in the UN.
Alexis M Macedonians kiril and metodi created the Macedonian alphabet in Macedonia in the 8th century. Then 3500 Macedonian missionary’s spread the Macedonian alphabet and slav orthodox religion in a Macedonian language even all the way up to Russia. The Macedonian language is the root of all slavic languages and it has been recorded in history that the language the Macedonians spoke in medieval times (10th century) was similar to the language of Alexander the Great.
Vollzer I just searched the definition of “barbarian” and this came up. The TRUE definition if barbarian!!! The word barbarian was used originally by the Greeks to refer to any non-Greek: Egyptians, Persians, Indians, Celts, Germans, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Macedonians, Carthaginians, Vikings, Goths - all of these became known as barbarians. The ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (bárbaros) meant “babble 😄😄😄😄🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰
I’m super thankful for this video, I wanted to write about Yugoslavia for an English essay and I didn’t expect this subject to be this wide. I would be so confused if this video didn’t exist!
+Shotwells Also, here in Sweden, Superman is called Stålmannen, literally the man of steel, or the steel man. So there's an joke among Swedish communists, where Stalin is called Superman!
@@yugo45-b8c i know what it was all about, i'm croatian and i studied about this for my entire life, i saw the consequences of all of that, and i visited vukovar multiple times so don't teach me about all of this
You don't really understand Slavic nature. We absolutely enjoy killing each other until somebody conquers us. Imagine that: you speak the same language, yet you're of different ethnicity, of course, there will be a conflict.
@@Browndwarff Yet Pakistan seceded from India... Religion is a mess I tell you... Sometimes it's good that you speak a different language, stupid people can't argue as much - language barrier.
@@SloveintzWend that's because of incompatibility of Islam wherever they go! We have more than 22 officially recognised languages and thousands of ethnicities in India. With culture, people, language changing ever 10 km. Can you beat that!
@@risheshbhat3848 Donno why, but It seems my last comment was erased... Wonder why?... But ll' tell it again, there's no significant difference between Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, or Montenegrian... All the same language... It's not political, it a common bloody sense.
During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. serbs wanted their claims made at Treaty of London 1915. for Greater Serbia, but Allies said that if Yugoslavia isnt made, they will retain AustroHungary. So they accepted unity with croats. What is interesting, France offered Serbia Madagascar for keeping Habsburg monarchy.
My whole family and I are Bosnians and I remember when I was a kid my grandpa would talk about Yugoslavia and how they split up because he was born in 1956 he would know lots about it. He talked the most about Tito because he was president during that time and he knew alot about him.
@@iam_zena While some maybe try to claim otherweise, Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian are a kind of dialect of Shtokavian, which represents the base of these languages spoken in this area. There are of course regional differences in pronounciation, scripture and vocabulary, but they are still very similar. As for the language spoken in Bosnia...probably all three of them, although Bosnian would most likely be your choice in this case.
now look at what condition you're living in was it rly worth it ? it was for few corrupt people that make money of war but for the rest you got fucked. greetings from slovenia
Long ago, *MANY* etchnic groups lived together in harmony. But then, everything changed when literally everyone attacked. Only Tito, master of all ethnic groups, could stop this and bring peace. But when they needed him most, he vanished. Edit: I know ethnic groups hated each other before, during and after Tito's rule. And I know he was a dictator. But this was a simple Avatar The last Airbender reference and a joke. So stop that comment war.
@@Potato-yd3hv Oh wow it's a reference so I can purport ridiculous statements as facts and not put any thought into my funny haha joke to actually fit the subject matter
This video is bullshit, he said Slovenia population is so and so and mostly ethnic, hahaj, half of Bosnia moved there prior to the war, I think that there is at least 70% bosniaks and Serbs and Croats that make up population of Slovenia
Justin Valderrama, I felt the same while listening about this mersless bloody madness of serbs. Nevertheless the vidio is great. Like & respect to the author.
@@dreamer3776 The serbs werent merciless bloody madmen, this account is not the full story. The full story is just way more fucked up. But in general the serbs wanted to keep their power, keep yugoslavia together, and there were forces outside that wanted to stop it. This also combines with all of the internal divisions that were always there and they just got boosts from outside forces. The balkans were a convenient war. A war they liked. That they wanted and that they got.
If you wanna know what happend watch this: m.ua-cam.com/video/waEYQ46gH08/v-deo.html&has_verified=1 Real life footage, documents of USA and NATO and interviews with former agents.
Other interesting topics: Cyprus South China Sea West Germany, East Germany, Austria and the lost eastern territories China and Taiwan Breakup of the USSR
+George the Kafir China and Taiwan is covered in "How many countries are there?" briefly. Also as a German I'd like to see the German history on this channel, just for an outside pov ^^
+Patrick Wienhöft I find it interesting how it is seldom mentioned about what happened to Germany after WW2, such as expulsion of ethnic Germans from the eastern territories.
Yugoslavia was a big and strong country, but some forces wanted to take it down, and make many wars to separate it into weak contries while they hate each other, it's truly a disaster now all 6 countries are considered small and poor
You have no clue of anything, you are such a disrespectful ignorant. Take a visit to any South American country and you will see what is a poor country
I work at a restaurant in Canada, one of my bosses is a Serb who immigrated here due to the war, she thought war was “ridiculous” and thinks other Balkan countries are great, she described it as “we’re all the same people anyway..”.
Tell Branko he has no idea what a coward is. Apparently escaping a literal WAR that was basically a SLAUGHTERFEST and wishing for peace makes you a coward
Branko Djordjevic izdajica jer koristim lepe reci? Pa uzmi recnik neki, prosiri malo vokabular. Ne dozvoli da za Srbine stalno pricaju kako smo seljaci i prostaci. Izdigni se iznad drugih i pobedi
@@chernousstripus1846 I get that, I just don't understand why they would go communist unless they were forced to. They had just had they're country ripped to shreds by extremests, did they really think going the other way would do any good? Or is there something I'm missing?
@@arya6085 they've gone communist because the ethnics would be equal (no domination or special role) even some 'communists' turned to nationalism after tito's death(Franjo Tuđman for example;first president of today's croatia)
My dad fought in this war and been in many more causing him to have PTSD what you have said in the video and what he told me was pretty accurate but was a little different
As a bosnian muslim not all srbs where war criminals, some of them fought for Bosnia. Many of the streets in my town are named after bosnian srb heroes who gve there lives for Bosnia, and one of the greatest and most popular bosnian generals was Jovan Divjak who was born in Belgrade. People are not the problem ideas are
Ali Baba u pravu si brate ja sam srbin ali imam bosanske hrvatske crnogorske drugare I iskreno kad pricamo razumemo se perfektno nego nije narod kriv sto se jugoslavija raspala nego amerika I unija... zao mi je kakva sranja moram da citam ovde
The religion is not an issue - at least not in bosnia. Before the Ottomans came the bosniaks were Bogomils, a heretich branch of the christian church and the pope sent crusades againts us. The ideals of bogomilism and islam is pretty much the same and that combined with the crusades and pressure from orthodox and the catholic church at that times made the majority to convert, some ofc were converted forcefully but that was bread and butter for all armies back then as religion was equal to state. Bosnia has always been multietchnic and i hope it always will be - we take pride in that. We are the epitomy of Titos vision of brotherhood and unity. Just look at Sarajevo. In a single town square there is churches of the Orthodox faith, the catholic faith, islam and judaism and no single wrong doing is occuring...is that not brotherhood? is that not friendship?
Georgia - unlike let's say Bosnia is NOT in a crossroad of religions, cultures and ideas...so there is no need to adopt it or abandon it for that matter.
thanks so much for this video. went to Bosnia a few years ago and now in Belgrade. visited TITO"S grave a few days ago. this region is among my favorite in the world and always looking to study / learn more ! edit: wow, I guess I watched this in Bosnia, as I have already commented on this video 😅
Just like the Spanish civil war. He promised the people bread, then flew bombers over the city dropping thousands of tiny loaves of stale bread with a note held with a rubber band around each one.
Slovenia never started any war. What are you talking about? An act of secession is not an act of war, especially since the right of the republics to self-determination was also formally put in Yugoslav constituion at the end of 70s. We had a ten day conflict with federal army untill they agreed to stop THEIR agression and progression towards the capital and we enabled them to retreat out of the country, some even by sea, so it was safer for them! Other nationals could also apply for citizenship immediatelly after the dissolution and we took in masses of Bosnian refugees, so no, you can`t put what happened in Bosnia on our head!
+Lucas Acevedo Nah, we won't..this is pretty much how it went down, all sides did very horrible things. Only people who'll flip are people fueled by nationalistic ideologies who think their peoples sacrifice is the biggest while others isn't. Even though I know that Kosovo and B&H are still ticking time bombs waiting to blast, I hope it all settles peacefully some day. May it never happen again.
+Mattija94 Indeed. I meant the nationalists in my comment, by the way. But you know what'll happen; a nationalist will find this and say Macedonians don't exist or Kosovo belongs to the Serbians or Bosniaks have no right to live or something like that's.
Yeah, I personally have family who have been involved in war from Serb side and I'm still not holding a grudge, so I don't understand these so call "nationalists", especially ones who don't even remember those days. It's easy to threaten one another and say certain stuff when you haven't been through that kind of stuff.Most of them were either too young to remember, or weren't even born. We have to much hatred between slavs these days, it shouldn't be spread on next generations..
my grandma always told me everyone more or less got along under Tito when she lived in Serbia. Ethnic tensions were there, but it wasnt crazy and more or less everyone just got on. She left for America before the break-up, so I cant say on how it was in the 80s and 90s, but its really sad to see how our brothers and sisters had such a hard falling out
@@haristhebosniaklion8584 and what's the point in revenge, you again want to arrange an internecine massacre between nations? Each of your peoples distinguished themselves in this, not only the Serbs. I, as a person from a country (Russia), where 27 million people were killed in World War II, I do not understand why stepping on the same rake
I hired a guy from Serbia in Utah. He spoke perfect english, and was funny as f with one liners. He drove a shuttle for the hotel I was managing. One time a 500 lb woman crashed through a chair and her husband said they were going to sue the hotel for "weak chairs" in the room. The Serb response was that "The chairs are made of wood, not stone." That guy made me laugh.
Those one liners that made you laugh are so called "Serbian humour" I know Albanians and Croatians who are "mortal enemies" supposedly and they will say (or admit) there's nothing funnier than Serbian humour. The nature of those one liners is: that it's not about telling a joke, necessarily. Often or usually it's spontaneous and it's more like dropping a comment. In passing. Out of frustration or admiration or whatever the situation. (calls for :) ) Sometimes translations don't work -have no effect. Not b/c of linguistic barrier. It's about mentality, temperament, culture...when you hear it in Serbian you fall off your chair -laughing. But when you say it in English - nothing is there, funny is just gone, lost...unfortunately.
@@Aleksamson I'm Serbian so I understood and found it funny 😂 This isn't a Serb joke though, he said it in a spontaneous way and it is just a comment but has a funny meaning behind it. 😊😊👋👋
Sadly, these videos always try to paint an image of Yugoslavia collapsing on itself, but there was a lot of intervention from the Western powers at that time.
But it was nationalism that killed yugoslavia. Nationalism very rarely does good. It caused an Arch duke to get assassinated, it caused an austrian artist to become leader, it caused this etc. It also caused the Indio Pakistan wars and lots of other shit
Stan Torren Nationalism is not something that people are born with. It is always top-down. Anything that’s top-down can and will be used by those with their own agenda, nationalism included. In simple terms, you had a few bad politicians with their twisted visions that served as a public face for the foreign influence, that rallied the common folk to accept weird ideas like nationalism. You could correctly argue that such a thing is not possible among people who are not raised in a fascistic way (and I’m using the term quite broadly here), but that equally applies to most countries nowadays, as witnessed by blind adherence to inhumane COVID-19 measures, not specific to any of the peoples in the Balkans.
well, western powers created and funded yugoslavia. nationalism is bad, unless its yugoslavian nationalism than its good i guess. for 50 years people were brainwashed with the yugoslavian nationalism, power, brotherhood and unity.
@@filijala7925 what u just said was true. But the western powers didn't create yugoslavia, nor did they keep it alive. The yugoslav partizans freed the country WITH a bit aid of the western powers and the ussr. Yugoslavia chose to be neutral after the war so their economy would be at its best. The western world only supported yugoslavia because the yugoslavs didn't want to have anything to do with the ussr. And after the ussr collapsed, the western world stabbed yugoslavia in the back
I am from Serbia, and personally, I do not hate any country, I actually really love Croatia, as all the people I met there were really nice to me, in Serbia, we all hate Milošević, and I personally think that there shouldn't have been any war at all. Greeting to all of you in the Balkans, my Slavic brothers :)
You are real "Drug"! I hate Milošević too, but I don't hate Serbia because of that, I really love Serbia, we are same people. :) Greetings from one Croatian girl. :3
Americans: Man, the 90s were a great decade with all the music, movies, and Nick game shows! Don't ya agree? The Balkans: *flashbacks* While the rest of the world are all the grownups at the adult dinner table...the Balkans are the kids table
@@pavleilic1390 how come usa stayed in one part ? or maybe europe is dismantled after usa came to europe ? or mirdle east ? or , shall we say libya, iraq, afgastan, pakistan, syria, corea, taiwan....etc
I havent seen anything that covers all the history of Balkan but I have seen a nice documentary called "Houston We Have a Problem". Not everything is true (they say) but worth watching.
Kingpig 85 YOU HAVE HOMEWORK ON YUGOSLAVIA?!?!?!?! I NEVER LEARNED A SENTENCE ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA IN ALL OF THE HISTORY CLASSES IVE BEEN IN!!!!!!!!! ;JKFVN;N;DKFJSDNFLSDKFSDFNLSDFNSODUFH
@@mxchxlxs809 Kind of like how the US is often referred to as the "America" even though America is two entire continents. (You don't see Canada, Mexico, Brazil, or Chile caring, do you?) But to be accurate, Macedonia - the region - includes Macedonia, a part of Greece, and a small part of Bulgaria, so to call it a region of Greece is incorrect. Regardless, I don't know why the Greeks care so much about the name of their neighbors. I mean, holding the country's EU membership hostage over a name...really? But whatever, they're "North Macedonia" now.
Thank you for excellent, unbiased overview. It's one of the best I saw on the topic of Yugoslav wars. Unfortunately, I had to witness most of events you described.
Thank you for putting this video together. It certainly feels like it was intended to provide actual historical information. This is in contrast to many videos on this subject that are predominantly designed to spew propaganda.
What I like about Niko is that he is straight to the point about everything. No bullshit, right in the throat point blank. That I really respect. I despise any bullshit about anything and everything. Love totally direct, real fast. NICE.
Froid Indeed. My wiki-fu is strong: "Balkanization, or Balkanisation, is a pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another."
@@ДушанПавловић-о2я BBC just repeats the opinion of Haag and is so pretty biased. They don't mention enough how Bosnians killed Serbs and Croats, and first tried to show that Gotovina and Croatian Generals commited war crimes in Oluja, which was really stupid. Beeing anti serbian isn't biased bec. Serbians were the main aggressor in this war and commited war crimes all the time.
Some older folks might say it was Heaven on Earth in Yugoslavia (during Tito's time). It was .. if you kept your head down, your eyes shut wide, never asked for freedom of speech, never asked for freedom of vote, never said anything against the dictatorial KPJ (Communist Party of Yugoslavia), never said a thing about national or ethnical identity, didn't practice any kind of religion, didn't want any kind of expressional liberty, etc. In other words, if you were a simple blue-collar worker (that didn't want to practice religion or anything else in life, exept for work, home, family, and a simple lifestyle) minding your own business (of course without anything to say or ask about politics) you could live happily in Yugoslavia, and you had enough money and opportunity to buy everything your simple lifestyle wanted.
Well you actually could practice religion as long as you didn't want to be a member of the party, the people didn't really want elections, they weren't necessary if the government was good as it was back then. And most people nowadays don't talk about political parties in their day to day life so it isn't really difficult to just not say shit about the KPJ
10 minutes into the video I realized that I lost track of what’s going on where and that I should have been probably writing it down in the first place.
It's not that hard. Nationalists were fighting federalists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. At the end nationalists won. Yugoslavia was a federation of small nations. Centralized and very rigid against any separatism and nationalism. Local leaders wanted more power and played on the strongest card ever - nationalism. They are all happy now. Poor, wounded and fooled but happy. I mean, those who stayed. About 40% of Yugoslavs had left the region.
marko kraljevic džaba brat, kad mom ocu, koji je lekar specijalista i koji radi ko konj-bukvalno ga teraju sa posla, dobija konstantno manju platu. Vučić smanjio plate za 5% pa povećo za 1%
Ja bih zamolio Vučkove botove da ne komentarišu debilne izjave jer je njihova za sendvič i sok prodana bulja previše providna. Nijedna stranka u ovim banana republikama ne valja jer su svi marionete. A vi mentoli ih branite i tonite, ja neću jer dobro razmišljam a još bolje pamtim.
Balkans produce more history than they can consume.
It's crazy here. I still have no idea how this many ethnic groups are on soo little land.
TheSaneWarboy so little?...it is not so little at all....ok comparable with China or Russia or Usa but you have many many more lands way smaller with even more etnic groups.....o
***** And croatia, slovenia, serbia, Bih, montenegro and kosovo is not? I know full well what balkan is.
Evilsamar Slovenia is not Balkan...check better the borders...
Znik NEVER was...if we were part of yugoslavia this does not mean that we are a balkan country..if we are a balkan country than also Italy and Austria are balkan country or not?....your geography seems very poor;)
As a citizen of Bosnia I have to say that this video was astoundingly well done.It was impartial and backed by facts and not eithers side propaganda. There is just one thing that was incorrect about it that was at the end that the republics are now prosperous. We are not prosperous we are poor as fuck lol.
Nah man, quality of life is still high. I moved to USA 2 years ago for work, and travel often to Sarajevo and Belgrade, and our "carpe diem" hedonistic mindset is just uncontested! We manage way more with 200-500e than what people do here with $1500-3000, while spending more time with friends and family
Nenad Radovanovic While a quarter of the population is unemployed, corruption is at an all time high, most salaries are around 200 e and thousands of ppl leave every year. Now my statement was that we are not prosperous and that we are poor as fuck and these facts confirm that. Now you are right about are mindset and we just dont give a fuck about that and enjoy life as much as we can. Seems that "different" nations of former Yugoslavia have a pretty same mindset lol.
Hawke35 mogu li ti reć da ri je engleski ekstra ;)
Petar Pandža Sad ne kontam jel to sarkazam il ne haha..ako nije jbg buraz igrice, filmovi,ovo ono nauci se ponesto XD
Lux Matrix NOW THAT is an awesome plan..I thing that anyone with at least some brain is planning to get out of here..
How to create a comment war: Create a video on
a) Israel
b) Balkans
c) Cyprus
I think India and Pakistan are on Top in Comment War
Northern Ireland is Irish.
@@neverluckym8728 no its korean
@@KennyGold-tc3yy Liberian
Alberta/Quebec
EU
UK
South Africa
And Bayonetta in smash ultimate.
I was always wondering as a Greek neighbour why they split... This video has helped me to understand more about that... They had a dream basketball team, it was almost impossible to beat them!
Which is exactly where and how the skopjes first appeared!
@@andrewong2956
Watch the video again, especially the first part
@@Кусак You mean how Yugoslavia first formed?
We split because Serbia attacked us and that is only true
@@milakapovic1092 why did they attacke you? What have you done?
People: So how complicated is your history?
Balkan: Yes
UA-cam commenters are the least funny people in existence
ShredderZX shut up fake European
Let's just blame it on the Serbs again.
@@LanleyCrow lets blame it on albania again.
If people from outside the Balkans find the history of that region complicated, one can't blame them.
Yugoslavia was split up by UEFA because its national football team would be too strong.
Agreed
I remember watching them. They were real good.
Boban, modrić, pijanić, šerič, milosevic, dzeko, jović, oblak
That Bearded Guy i hate Yugoslavia but that team would be top 5 for sure,old communist Yugoslavia have picked players by national standard,so you needed to have all nations included in first team
They could’ve possibly won the euro in ‘92 if they’d decided to not kill each other. Scmeichel really appreciated that, made a career at United based on that.
"Today, all former Yugoslav republics are peaceful and prosperous nations."
Clearly you do not live there.
Lol yea
@Complex Construct Scottish
Kako je to zajebo.
@@good8619 da hahahhaa
lol tru
As someone who lives in Bosnia, born 11 years after the war, you got everything perfectly right. Its so scary what happened and sends chills down my spine. Both of my parents fought for Bosnia and their lives not so long ago. I pray this doesn't happen again.
Shitcountry Croatia 🇭🇷 is member of NATO what do you think about that?😂🤦♂️
@@Hagser i dont think i quite understand what is the reason behind your statement
So you are like 13? 👶🏼
@@SaadAltuilaai sixteen
Hey, I’m Bosnian too with a Bosnian dad
And this is the SiMPLIFIED version!
BAAYDUHH
It really is.
I think I’d rather have the Oversimplified version
@@lildreadnaughtstarwar Me too. Although this one is good
if you look at that topic more closely you are going to ser that Croatia isn’t as innocent as portrayed here
"We will defend every inch of croatia"
I am prety sure he said centimeter.
Edit: this was a joke that was nothing to do with Yugoslavia and now i started a war in replies. I was just making fun of imperial system and how we use metryc, and now everyone thinks i am fascist
Or every meter🤣
Hi frim Croatia abd he didn't
he said "pedalj" which means inch
Logan History Walker and i am pretty sure we dont care
We win the war thanks God! Long live Franjo Tuđman!
"Usa politics are sooo complicated "
The balkans: hold my rakija...
Bruhhhhhı lolololol
Lmao
Rakija means whine beer is pivo
@@JackTheBunnyYT no vine is vino
@@JackTheBunnyYT Rakija is rakia, vino is wine lol
When I was at school I met a girl who had come from Bosnia. This was in 1999-2000. I have always been interested in finding out some of what she had lived through. We made a connection even though we had just met and it was good to talk to someone who also came from an country that was politically unstable and violent (mine being South Africa) despite the instability being there for very different reasons. I never saw her that much again, not sure if she moved away. I think about it often. Everyone else went to lunch and we stayed talking because no one else around us seemed to understand.
In which country the two of you went to school ?
@@bascelija Western Australia
@@tarrynharris373 the best state in Straya 😌
"War is when young are tricked by the old to kill each other."
-Niko Bellic
Actually the actual quote is "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the rich and powerful to kill each other." - Niko Bellic
@@Lazer-bp9lf the actual quote is "war is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other"
Literally just started gta 4 as I read this creepy 🤓
Best character we got ❤️
True hero
Most of the World: I miss 90s.
Former part of Yoguslavia: Are we joke to you?!
I am from Slovenia and the 90s were great for us.
What was happening in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia were terrible. I still remember the frightened refugees today.
@@aleksanderlikar5375 you still remember Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia? Is Kosovo a joke to you? After all thats where the worst masacres happened.
@@b-mixchannel6735 I apologize to you first.
Kosovo too, I agree.
Most of the World: *Yes.*
The 90s for Kosovo was the worst decade ever.
One of the most confusing wars Ive ever watched a video on.
JONATHan CaPiChanO u have never heard of the war of the roses...that was a nightmare to read
JONATHan CaPiChanO Imagine what its like to have to study this shit in history classes, and especially when you get biased af lessons tryimg to justify your "side's" actions. Both sides had blood on their hands and did horrible stuff but of course they won't admit it about themselves, they just point out the horrors commited by their "enemies", bunch of hypocritical cunts
try war of the bucket
I agree, this video is bullshit, serbs were not afraid of Croatia becoming independent because of WW 2, they wanted the "Great Serbia" and genocide all others.
It's a good thing you guys don't hold bias opinions...
This is extremely informative and well made for someone of Croatian descent like myself. Interesting to learn more about what exactly happened
When growing up in Cleveland, no one said their nationality was Yugoslavian. You were a Slovene,Croat,Serb,etc. When the fighting began we were not at all surprised.
@Slaven Kripto Yes, a made up country.
Come to think of it, people in school would identify that way, except for my neighbours who always said they were Yugoslavians
Most yugoslavs however still live in the US to this day :p
@@joekoz3815 Lmao, all countries are "made up"! It was a federation not all that unlike todays EU. I remember being young and confused about how we can live in Slovenia and Yugoslavia at the same time. XD The reason for fighting was that with Titos death, there was nobody to keep nationalisms and various church patriarchs in check or provide common point of identification (he was half Croat, half Slovene, living in Beograd). Balkan peoples are old peoples, proud of their respective heritages with a strong faith, big temper and looooong memory. But who can blame them? A lot of healing has to take place here. A common Yugoslav state was acctully in my opinion a brilliant attempt to put all old hatreds to rest, too bad, people didnt listen!
All countries created by a union or confederation of different cultures and religions will be like that initially. It’s called Sectionalism. It leads to massive problems and ends up harming the entire country as a whole.
In the United States pre-civil war the state you lived in used to be considered more of an identity than a national identity. It’s the reason why secession was so easy for people to get on board with. Robert E Lee opposed slavery but the only reason he seceded was because he saw himself as a Virginian more than an American. Its understandable but quite dangerous.
While I’m usually for independence, I have sympathy for the Serbians who simply wanted to keep their country together even through violence when NATO intervened. I can without a doubt say that if Europe got involved in the American Civil war things would have been very bad for the US and the world eventually.
However I’m still going to side with the countries that wanted their independence from Yugoslavia because they were countries that have existed for hundreds of years. They had their own culture and they were forced together by the Serbia and the Western Allies in WW1 and then conquered by Germany in WW2, and then influenced by USSR.
*"Please reconsider your independence"* - Polite yugoslavs with tanks
The reason why they send tanks is becouse slovenian Territorial Defense attacked yugoslav bases and outpost, they turned off electrcity,water to the families of officers of yugoslavian army who livde in slovenia, they even killed yugoslav soldiers on a border post while they were surrendering the camera was there from news from germany i think.
Are you talking about Ukrainian army involvement in Donbass?
@@OCTAVIANVS_AVGVSTVS_CAESAR No, am talking about the break down of yugoslavia and the beginging in slovenia.
@@MA-cx9os Not true.
Barracks were attacked and power was cut down as retaliation after they send tanks on our streets and not earlier. Slovene TO did not attack YPA until they got out of barracks with tanks and infantry. That is the fact whether you like it or not.
@@slosova Ofcorse yugoslav nacional army army of yugoslavia,slovenia were in yugoslavia so slovenian to attacking jna is seperatis attack and they should have kill all seperatist not widraw a legal force from a legal land l.
Fun fact: Stalin sent many assasins to kill Tito but they were all discovered and sent home.Tito sent a letter to Stalin: Dear friend, don't send any more assasins or I will send one to Moscow and he won't need to be sent home.
That's funny!
Thay's true. ☺
To, pionirčino zakleta!
That's awesome! How do you know that?
Evribadi nouz dat, dud...haha
In May 2021 a channel called Knowledgia posted a 12-min video titled "Why did Yugoslavia Collapse", which I had just finished watching. Having now watched this video, I am very impressed with how much better this account of these wars are - especially with the accuracy and completeness of the events. The difference was so great that I simply must subscribe now. Thank you, WonderWhy! 😏
The video "Why did Yugoslavia Collapse" is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead, only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanian population, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, and became very anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo (and alleged Croatian and Slovene support of idea), it started exactly because of Serbian nationalism and expansionism led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. Video never mentioned fact, at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread huge fear among Croatian Serbs missusing history, also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and local Croatian Serbs started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, video never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia after it was flattened with earth sa same as Mariuople in Ukraine. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today
Believe me, this is short, simplified version.....
😂 and that's an understatement
theres a 6 part bbc documentary. i watched part one and they havent even mentioned bosnia yet...
Yeah, they forgot to mention Bill Killton illegally dropping depleted uranium bombs, they also forgot to mention Slobodan Milosevic was found innocent but they kept him in jail anyways until he died or was killed.
meyoumovie You’re not 100% right. It was NATO that was responsible for the uranium bombings, not USA. US never declared a formal war.
Milosevic wasn’t exonerated until 2016 which was years after his death or assassination. He was still on trial, which means he wasn’t guilty or innocent yet so it makes sense he was still in jail.
I believe you... But for people from the other side of the world. It's a good way to get interested.
War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other. ~ Niko Bellic
THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY THAT SOMEONE HERE IS QUOTING NIKO FUCKING BELLIC LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL
That wasn’t Niko
That Tony the neighborhood slow adult
With the help from the CIA made the conflict even more beautiful.
Nice Quote.
"Niko, this is your cousin Roman. Let's go bowling!" -Cousin Roman.
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
What's next?
EU , I hope.
@@denisdralec1993 Why EU? It would affect your life because the EU's economy makes up a big chunk of the world.
@@Odoxon7522 EU is just a way to make it easier for globalists to control things...impose their agenda...they just make it mandatory for all member states to obey, massive immigration for example. Economy ? Dude...nobody can stop European countries to trade as they did before the globalist project known as EU. I don't like what's going on in France, Sweden, Germany....I don't want our politicians to follow their lead.
EU is next.
UK
My parents both grew up in Mostar and had to flee during the war, crazy to think how if some of these things didn’t happen how different my life could be. Awesome video!
I’ve been to Mostar, one of the most beautiful and serene towns I’ve been to. Almost cracked my head walking on the bridge cos the marble was so smooth
Guys as someone from a Yugoslavian country believe me when I say this Is the simplified version
Jesus, this is simplified? My God.
@@michaelregis1015 of course it is
@@michaelregis1015 this you can consider like entry level of understanding break up of Yugoslavia
😂😭very stupid video ,
@@michaelregis1015 The BBC did a great documentary that's on UA-cam - The Death of Yugoslavia.
“... but everything changed when Tito died”
And then the *everybody* attacked
Underrated ahahahah
Well what did you expect they lied about his death for 10 years!!
Evrything changed when the fire nation attacked
Yes
I'm glad that I don't have to take a history exam on this.
It's not super complicated as non-Balkan people think. But yeah... you might not want to know how much hate there actually is on our damned lands. 😳
@@mileusniicm Problem?
You're glad you don't have arguments about the wars
Me too..!
Glad I don't have to take History exams on this!
While North Macedonia didn't have to deal with war against the Yugoslav military, they still had to deal with an Albanian insurgency in 2001. This resulted from the Macedonian government banning both the use of the Albanian language and the Albanian flag. The ethnic Albanians wished to secede from North Macedonia and this insurgency lasted for over nine months. A ceasefire which gave the Albanians greater rights ended the conflict in November of that year and thus ending all the Yugoslav Wars
Hey buddy, It really is not my fault that i am ugly to most;) ;) and that many girls,mostly Bosniak girls hurt my feelings by telling me how ugly i am,you know very well what was done to them in the Aggression on Bosnia.......btw(Kosovo Is Not Serbia )........ ✌️
Lol Kim Jong un are you leader of North macedonia and where is South Macedonia.... It's only one country Macedonia
@@kevinking2380 Greece stole South Macedonia ;(
Not totally true, democratic albanian parties actively took part in the Parliament before 2001 and ethnic rights were gonna come democratically, that was not the main reason of the start of the 2001 insurgency. In 1999 kosovo war got so much out of hand, Macedonia with US collaboration allowed shelter of 400k albanian refuges almost 1/4 of it's population, but at the same time there were illegal paramilitary units crossing into macedonian territory and organising a new liberation front, their first and only goal at the beginning was to make greater albania.
Mr KIM there is no such state as "north macedonia" this is Slavalbanians who do not wish to be called as Macedonians. Macedonians, and you Koreans must know this well, are Greeks
Yugoslavia would have an insane World Cup team if they stayed together :(
Nonsense, Croatia almost won the world cup...how is that not insane already??
Sauron's Padawan well maybe with the help of dzeko, kolarov, pjanic, milinkovic-savic, oblak, savic, mitrovic, and so many others... they might of not only won this years World Cup but the ones prior.
Funny story bro. If u didnt know, today is a semifinal game between Croatia n Serbia at waterpolo eurocup. Croatia knocked out Montenegro in a faking clutch azz game before dat and Serbia eliminated Hungary. 3 world best waterpolo nations are Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro at the moment.
But they would not get as far as croatia did by themselves, with many different ethnic groups there wouldnt be as much communication and their would be fights within the team. On paper, sure they would have a great team, but in reality they would not due to ethnic problems
Nationalist croatia loose the world cup, unite Jugoslavia would have won.
Reason: due to political instability
Comments: to prevent a godlike football team
Or basketball team
Imagine if Yugoslavia never broke up.
The team that would have played the 2018 world cup consist of: Modric, Rakitiç, Milisovic-savic, Mitrovic, Pjanic, Skrna, Vida, Oblak, omggg
@@tuga_ace Or almost every other sport in fact. :)
Or basketball. Holy shit. Average height over 2m :)
@@blackmercury956 add vlahovic,ilicic,jovic,kolarov,kolasinac,
Kovacic,vrsaljko,perisic,mandjukic
Bosnia : I want to swim
Croatia: *NO*
I wondered about that too, how unfair is that???
Bosnia actually has a small part of the Adriatic sea. The city there is called Neum.
@@joco8290 imagine having 98% / 2% on having the sea. Coz Neum beach only measured 2miles / 12 kilometers dumb useless
@AmeriKa1050 The Ustashe regime systematically murdered approximately 200,000 to 500,000 Serbs.The Ustashe cruelty and sadism shocked even Nazi commanders. Men, women, children were hacked to death, thrown alive into pits and down ravines, or set on fire in churches. Children were found impaled by stakes in villages. -Wikipedia.
Tito: yes
In the early 90s, I was an editor on the international desk of an English language daily newspaper in Tokyo. I was in my late 20s and had never been to the Balkans. Watching this video unleashed a flood of memories regarding the news I handled every day and all the names, places and events came back in an instant. Well done on an informative video. Cheers.
There is one very important ingredient missing here: western interests
But have you ever wondered WHY it is western interest? The west understands that if it isn't there, then the Russians will be. Its just realist doctrine.
@@AskarisLegacy Because Rothschilds and Rockefellers have to rule the world.
@Sean
Colonial interests.
All our resources are being robbed by G7 countries ever since NATO colonized the place.
@Sean
Also - "overpopulate" is an idiotic notion.
Yugoslavia is a bigger landmass than Britain and it had 22 million people.
@@NikolaAvramov I have to agree, the Slavs don't overpopulate. Not one Slavic nation is overpopulated, more Slavs please. Stupid comment by Sean.
As someone from Balkan country (Serbia), this is pretty objectively and decentralized. You weren't taking sides and that deserves respect.
@salim soltan Why Albanians killed Serbs in Kosovo?
@@sasazapadnik9335 true.
@salim soltan we didn't kill anyone in Kosovo, in fact, they are killing us Serbs.
@@perica1553 How LMAO? We did not kill not even 1 Srb
@@illyrian3057 that's a straight up lie, Albanians living in Kosovo are getting out of control. There was a boy beaten up just cause they heard him speak Serbian.
Tito: *dies*
Slovenes and Croats: COWABUNGA IT IS
Lmao
uz maršala tita
* *Zdravljica plays* *
They split up so that they could vote for each other in the Eurovision song contest.
I’m from Balkan and I’m always interested in listening people from other countries speaking our names...😂😂
Zar ne? Smešno do besvesti kad ljudi pričaju slav imena.
Random Idiotical Vibes “Slobodan Milosević”
“Franko Tućman”
*МАСЕДОУНИЈА*
I'm Brazilian and I don't know what which of this names means but I really like them!😂
You are from Balkans???
What is your language
Welcome to Balkans where we hate each other but still give 12 points during the Eurovision.
always, we might have had wars, but we don’t betray in eurovision
Sadly Eurovision is run by politics
We don't hate each other but when one group tries to suppress another, how can there be war. I am albanian and I have a very good Serbian friend. He is intelligent enough to understand that he cannot justify the oppression and the genocide that had been done. When acceptance happens, we can move forward and establish peaceful relationships.
@@megg8566 same here, a lot of my hrvatski family still refuse to acknoledge some of the very bad things that happened in the past, but we cant solve the problem if we cannot accept the past first
@@user-ts2ny8jg9d its the damn elite, or secret agendas. We never get told the truth. So the regular people blame and hate one another. yet both kinda got screwed.
I feel like it's always a lie that gets told by some deceiver...
Like currently. This time worldwide...
We need to unite, when clearly they even make us distance so much so they force us a corona diagnoses some places?! Which means loss of rights... ur kids will be taken... according to the law they wanna pass. Right? Correct me if wrong, i wish i was wrong so much. At least in usa. Its called trace act 66 66 🦧🤷♀️🙃
Unite!!!
And in 2004, a kid in North Carolina did a report on Yugoslavia, and that sparked a love of slavic languages and politics that lasted through college and into his job as a translator for Serbia in the UN.
The Kirby T is that you? I also love the Slavic languages !!!!!
Alexis M Macedonians kiril and metodi created the Macedonian alphabet in Macedonia in the 8th century. Then 3500 Macedonian missionary’s spread the Macedonian alphabet and slav orthodox religion in a Macedonian language even all the way up to Russia.
The Macedonian language is the root of all slavic languages and it has been recorded in history that the language the Macedonians spoke in medieval times (10th century) was similar to the language of Alexander the Great.
@@WatchmanofMKDN hahahahahahahahahhahah
Vollzer I just searched the definition of “barbarian” and this came up. The TRUE definition if barbarian!!!
The word barbarian was used originally by the Greeks to refer to any non-Greek: Egyptians, Persians, Indians, Celts, Germans, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Macedonians, Carthaginians, Vikings, Goths - all of these became known as barbarians. The ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (bárbaros) meant “babble
😄😄😄😄🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰
Vollzer use some common sense and stop believing fantasies.
If Macedonia was Greek, it would’ve never been mentioned separately in history.
I’m super thankful for this video, I wanted to write about Yugoslavia for an English essay and I didn’t expect this subject to be this wide.
I would be so confused if this video didn’t exist!
It's funny that the man who talked about "Brotherhood and unity" had the middle name Broz. " Hey man, let's be Broz"
+Froid It's funny with Stalin. Stal is the Russian word for Steel so technically he could be called the man of steel.
+Shotwells Also, here in Sweden, Superman is called Stålmannen, literally the man of steel, or the steel man. So there's an joke among Swedish communists, where Stalin is called Superman!
+Froid I didn't know that. Thanks :)
Broz Before Hoz
+Mitch Brown lol
this is the most underrated piece of history in the world
I don’t think I’d consider it to be history yet
@@yugo45-b8c i know what it was all about, i'm croatian and i studied about this for my entire life, i saw the consequences of all of that, and i visited vukovar multiple times so don't teach me about all of this
If Marvel studios pick up these stories. They can make 25 more movies.
Those shit movies will miles better then if DC made them
@King Brilliant If marvel movies are shit movies than they would still be lightyears ahead of DC's movies
How Sokovia broke up from Yugoslavia?
@Aizaz Aziz laughs I'm endgame and infinity war
@Aizaz Aziz I know it's just a joke joker was impressive
Watching this from Slovenia, this was factual and surprisingly neutral, very unbiased take.
Oh man I am a South Asian and we've hundreds of ethnic groups and languages living in within a country but this is something intense.
In India many states have their own language. I think fighting the British for independence made them more united
You don't really understand Slavic nature. We absolutely enjoy killing each other until somebody conquers us. Imagine that: you speak the same language, yet you're of different ethnicity, of course, there will be a conflict.
@@Browndwarff Yet Pakistan seceded from India... Religion is a mess I tell you... Sometimes it's good that you speak a different language, stupid people can't argue as much - language barrier.
@@SloveintzWend that's because of incompatibility of Islam wherever they go! We have more than 22 officially recognised languages and thousands of ethnicities in India. With culture, people, language changing ever 10 km. Can you beat that!
@@risheshbhat3848 Donno why, but It seems my last comment was erased... Wonder why?... But ll' tell it again, there's no significant difference between Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, or Montenegrian... All the same language... It's not political, it a common bloody sense.
Every single kid on Balkan struggles with history bc of this
Its not true
@@mima6000 True, I live in bosnia and its trueeee xD
@@mima6000 every kid who has had a world history class suffers because of this.
I'm well educated about these wars and they weren't as complicated as people make it out to be
i struggle m u c h
"The Breakup of Yugoslavia"? *grabs popcorn, STRAIGHT TO THE COMMENTS!
thats what i thouth lmao
the best and most realistic comment 😂
During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. serbs wanted their claims made at Treaty of London 1915. for Greater Serbia, but Allies said that if Yugoslavia isnt made, they will retain AustroHungary. So they accepted unity with croats. What is interesting, France offered Serbia Madagascar for keeping Habsburg monarchy.
Urmasice
As a Hungarian myself, I must say I'm not fond of those Paris conferences at that time.
Yup.
My whole family and I are Bosnians and I remember when I was a kid my grandpa would talk about Yugoslavia and how they split up because he was born in 1956 he would know lots about it. He talked the most about Tito because he was president during that time and he knew alot about him.
@@iam_zena Serbian
@@iam_zena While some maybe try to claim otherweise, Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian are a kind of dialect of Shtokavian, which represents the base of these languages spoken in this area. There are of course regional differences in pronounciation, scripture and vocabulary, but they are still very similar.
As for the language spoken in Bosnia...probably all three of them, although Bosnian would most likely be your choice in this case.
When someone explains the balkans:
The balkans: Peace was never an option
*hjonk*
Is that a personal attack or something!?
Yugoslavia is not the balkans is a part from the balkans
now look at what condition you're living in was it rly worth it ? it was for few corrupt people that make money of war but for the rest you got fucked. greetings from slovenia
Long ago, *MANY* etchnic groups lived together in harmony. But then, everything changed when literally everyone attacked. Only Tito, master of all ethnic groups, could stop this and bring peace. But when they needed him most, he vanished.
Edit: I know ethnic groups hated each other before, during and after Tito's rule. And I know he was a dictator. But this was a simple Avatar The last Airbender reference and a joke. So stop that comment war.
The ethnic groups always disliked each other. Tito dictated getting along. You can't force "getting along" for too long.
@@johnjackson3738 Clearly you missed the Avatar reference
@@Potato-yd3hv Oh wow it's a reference so I can purport ridiculous statements as facts and not put any thought into my funny haha joke to actually fit the subject matter
@@cushpnk Sir, pull the stick out of your ass and realize that jokes exist even if they're not true
@@cushpnk
It is funny because Tito was a bloody dictator lol.
He was the opposite to the Avatar.
As a Slovenian, i can say we were very lucky we had only 10 day war. We drew a long stick in that war.
This video is bullshit, he said Slovenia population is so and so and mostly ethnic, hahaj, half of Bosnia moved there prior to the war, I think that there is at least 70% bosniaks and Serbs and Croats that make up population of Slovenia
@@1bojanb Slovenes count as 83% of total population. Serbs and Bosniaks and Croats together are about 4 percent.
remind of archaic city states, when they killed between towns, some millenia ago...
@@kapaderos4983
They are not even "ethnic" slavs. They just speak slavic languages but are not real slavs like Russians or Poles.
@@salviniusaugustus5541 what is this nonesense?
Saddest breakup in history
best actually
I was thinking while watching this, "Damn, am I slow? I'm having trouble following this". I feel better after reading the comments.
Justin Valderrama, I felt the same while listening about this mersless bloody madness of serbs. Nevertheless the vidio is great. Like & respect to the author.
Exactly
@@dreamer3776 The serbs werent merciless bloody madmen, this account is not the full story. The full story is just way more fucked up.
But in general the serbs wanted to keep their power, keep yugoslavia together, and there were forces outside that wanted to stop it.
This also combines with all of the internal divisions that were always there and they just got boosts from outside forces. The balkans were a convenient war. A war they liked. That they wanted and that they got.
Bcs you just cant
If you wanna know what happend watch this: m.ua-cam.com/video/waEYQ46gH08/v-deo.html&has_verified=1
Real life footage, documents of USA and NATO and interviews with former agents.
Other interesting topics:
Cyprus
South China Sea
West Germany, East Germany, Austria and the lost eastern territories
China and Taiwan
Breakup of the USSR
Another one would be Irak or Afghanistan
+George the Kafir China and Taiwan is covered in "How many countries are there?" briefly.
Also as a German I'd like to see the German history on this channel, just for an outside pov ^^
+Patrick Wienhöft
I find it interesting how it is seldom mentioned about what happened to Germany after WW2, such as expulsion of ethnic Germans from the eastern territories.
The Troubles is a good one to do.
I definitely want to see the break up the USSR. I still don't understand it
The test review: American history
The test:Balkan history
Yugoslavia was a big and strong country, but some forces wanted to take it down, and make many wars to separate it into weak contries while they hate each other, it's truly a disaster now all 6 countries are considered small and poor
You have no clue of anything, you are such a disrespectful ignorant. Take a visit to any South American country and you will see what is a poor country
@@etche1897 We are poor for european standards. So im still right
@@devvgraphics not all of them. There are poorest countries in europe that weren't part of Yugoslavia
@@etche1897 I didnt say we were the poorest. And even that was not my point
@@devvgraphics so to be more powerful you propose to reinstate Yugoslavia into a dictatorship?
I work at a restaurant in Canada, one of my bosses is a Serb who immigrated here due to the war, she thought war was “ridiculous” and thinks other Balkan countries are great, she described it as “we’re all the same people anyway..”.
Tell him he's a coward..
Tell Branko he has no idea what a coward is. Apparently escaping a literal WAR that was basically a SLAUGHTERFEST and wishing for peace makes you a coward
Branko Djordjevic krivo mi je sto si Srbin. Svojim iskazom nam bas dajes los epitet
@@lunjaricafunjarica5532 I meni je isto krivo sto si Srbin izdajica
Branko Djordjevic izdajica jer koristim lepe reci? Pa uzmi recnik neki, prosiri malo vokabular. Ne dozvoli da za Srbine stalno pricaju kako smo seljaci i prostaci. Izdigni se iznad drugih i pobedi
TAKE A DRINK EVERY ETHNIC GROUP OR COUNTRY IS MENTIONED
TRUE SLAVS CHUG LOTS OF VODKA
Tics Joyce nur nvm. Yo or hablght
PRINCE KRAZIE well Rakija is more popular here but vodka is not bad.
Sip water like Karadzic sips water
PRINCE KRAZIE not really there are many other beter drinks
tito didn't left the tutorial how to lead the country.
That is likely bescause tito did not predict that the soviet union would collapse or he had a hidden agenda
@@comrademartinofrappuccino holD up *cough* yugoslavia wasn't soviet puppet
@@chernousstripus1846 have i sayed they were a soviet sattelete state? they traded with the soviet union that is why
@@chernousstripus1846 I get that, I just don't understand why they would go communist unless they were forced to. They had just had they're country ripped to shreds by extremests, did they really think going the other way would do any good? Or is there something I'm missing?
@@arya6085 they've gone communist because the ethnics would be equal (no domination or special role)
even some 'communists' turned to nationalism after tito's death(Franjo Tuđman for example;first president of today's croatia)
My dad fought in this war and been in many more causing him to have PTSD what you have said in the video and what he told me was pretty accurate but was a little different
Bruh, look at Croatia. They just yoinked the whole coastline.
Us Bosnians can’t go for a swim now
@@imsrose4321 we left you a part....we liked you...we took everything else😂
italians wanting the illyrian coast:
*its free real estate*
please let us into balkans
@@Mahdio no thank you...we are fucked up as it is...I don't think we could actually handle some country that is actually doing okey😂
Mihaela Jukić well hey, we aren't doing the best either lmao
Great video! Taylor Swift should write a video about this breakup.
ahahhahahahahahaah
yeah she should write something about Kosovo's feelings of not being fully recognized as a free and independent country
M B Gonna get her another Emmy awards
xAnonymous 98x Beyonce has over 30, so Taylor Swift could have one or two and maybe toss Adele a couple right?
BM haha Beyonce is pure talent, but Taylor holds the record of winning 8 in a single award night tho.
As a bosnian muslim not all srbs where war criminals, some of them fought for Bosnia. Many of the streets in my town are named after bosnian srb heroes who gve there lives for Bosnia, and one of the greatest and most popular bosnian generals was Jovan Divjak who was born in Belgrade.
People are not the problem ideas are
Ali Baba u pravu si brate ja sam srbin ali imam bosanske hrvatske crnogorske drugare I iskreno kad pricamo razumemo se perfektno nego nije narod kriv sto se jugoslavija raspala nego amerika I unija... zao mi je kakva sranja moram da citam ovde
The religion is not an issue - at least not in bosnia. Before the Ottomans came the bosniaks were Bogomils, a heretich branch of the christian church and the pope sent crusades againts us. The ideals of bogomilism and islam is pretty much the same and that combined with the crusades and pressure from orthodox and the catholic church at that times made the majority to convert, some ofc were converted forcefully but that was bread and butter for all armies back then as religion was equal to state. Bosnia has always been multietchnic and i hope it always will be - we take pride in that. We are the epitomy of Titos vision of brotherhood and unity. Just look at Sarajevo. In a single town square there is churches of the Orthodox faith, the catholic faith, islam and judaism and no single wrong doing is occuring...is that not brotherhood? is that not friendship?
Georgia - unlike let's say Bosnia is NOT in a crossroad of religions, cultures and ideas...so there is no need to adopt it or abandon it for that matter.
So in your words only serbs criminal are those that fight against Muslims in Bosnia, right?
Interesting, that's something new.
Were serbs also orthodox from the beginning?
Great logic there.
thanks so much for this video. went to Bosnia a few years ago and now in Belgrade. visited TITO"S grave a few days ago. this region is among my favorite in the world and always looking to study / learn more ! edit: wow, I guess I watched this in Bosnia, as I have already commented on this video 😅
If Yugoslavia reunited today... Next day: Everyone wants independence.
Pretty much
Just like the Spanish civil war. He promised the people bread, then flew bombers over the city dropping thousands of tiny loaves of stale bread with a note held with a rubber band around each one.
+Luka Gaming Official I would rather slit my own wrists and bleed out then reunite again.
Arthur Cabral ohh shit that reminds me of catalonia
I miss Yugoslavia
Damn seems like the war was started by everyone except Bosnia but they got screwed the most.
@@xa1237 Sačuvati državu ubijajući 100 000 nevinih ljudi?
@@xa1237 da pisi na srpskom razumijet cete ljudi lmao learn english first and then curse foreigners for not learning other countries national history
bosnia and Kosovo were the true victims of this huge war
That's true, sadly..
Slovenia never started any war. What are you talking about? An act of secession is not an act of war, especially since the right of the republics to self-determination was also formally put in Yugoslav constituion at the end of 70s. We had a ten day conflict with federal army untill they agreed to stop THEIR agression and progression towards the capital and we enabled them to retreat out of the country, some even by sea, so it was safer for them! Other nationals could also apply for citizenship immediatelly after the dissolution and we took in masses of Bosnian refugees, so no, you can`t put what happened in Bosnia on our head!
I can already tell all the Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bosnians, and Albanians are going to flip shit over this.
+Lucas Acevedo Yup. I'm prepared. I tried my best to be as neutral as possible, but it's impossible to please everyone.
+WonderWhy Yeah. You did a pretty good job on it, but just like you said: you're always gonna shit in at least one person's Cheerios.
+Lucas Acevedo Nah, we won't..this is pretty much how it went down, all sides did very horrible things. Only people who'll flip are people fueled by nationalistic ideologies who think their peoples sacrifice is the biggest while others isn't. Even though I know that Kosovo and B&H are still ticking time bombs waiting to blast, I hope it all settles peacefully some day. May it never happen again.
+Mattija94 Indeed. I meant the nationalists in my comment, by the way. But you know what'll happen; a nationalist will find this and say Macedonians don't exist or Kosovo belongs to the Serbians or Bosniaks have no right to live or something like that's.
Yeah, I personally have family who have been involved in war from Serb side and I'm still not holding a grudge, so I don't understand these so call "nationalists", especially ones who don't even remember those days. It's easy to threaten one another and say certain stuff when you haven't been through that kind of stuff.Most of them were either too young to remember, or weren't even born. We have to much hatred between slavs these days, it shouldn't be spread on next generations..
my grandma always told me everyone more or less got along under Tito when she lived in Serbia. Ethnic tensions were there, but it wasnt crazy and more or less everyone just got on. She left for America before the break-up, so I cant say on how it was in the 80s and 90s, but its really sad to see how our brothers and sisters had such a hard falling out
@@haristhebosniaklion8584 and what's the point in revenge, you again want to arrange an internecine massacre between nations? Each of your peoples distinguished themselves in this, not only the Serbs. I, as a person from a country (Russia), where 27 million people were killed in World War II, I do not understand why stepping on the same rake
The Balkans: Battle Royale
Where we should land?
@@JampingVan Im droppin in Croatia
I’m goin in Sarajevo boys! Wish me luck!
A, Joseph Stalin 2, Wants, 20 Million Subs I am dropping Belgrade
Try to not land on Albania, you will die due to being out of bounds.
(Albania wasnt part of Yugoslavia)
"Diversity is our strength" - Yugoslavia
LOL Top Comment Award!
Coming to USA.
And it’s downfall
That's exactly what we Indian say about our country.
I'm a bit concerned
I have a feeling history will repeat itself.
*Looks at the U.S.*
*grabs popcorn* To the comments!
History By A Child STFU
*starts blasting "god is a serb"
*joins History by a child in eating popcorn
Lol same here
Thank you for this of course, which is very interesting too. Well done too!
I hired a guy from Serbia in Utah.
He spoke perfect english, and was funny as f with one liners. He drove a shuttle for the hotel I was managing.
One time a 500 lb woman crashed through a chair and her husband said they were going to sue the hotel for "weak chairs" in the room.
The Serb response was that "The chairs are made of wood, not stone."
That guy made me laugh.
😆
This made me laugh 😂😂😂
Those one liners that made you laugh are so called "Serbian humour" I know Albanians and Croatians who are "mortal enemies" supposedly and they will say (or admit) there's nothing funnier than Serbian humour.
The nature of those one liners is: that it's not about telling a joke, necessarily. Often or usually it's spontaneous and it's more like dropping a comment. In passing. Out of frustration or admiration or whatever the situation. (calls for :) )
Sometimes translations don't work -have no effect. Not b/c of linguistic barrier. It's about mentality, temperament, culture...when you hear it in Serbian you fall off your chair -laughing. But when you say it in English - nothing is there, funny is just gone, lost...unfortunately.
@@Aleksamson I'm Serbian so I understood and found it funny 😂 This isn't a Serb joke though, he said it in a spontaneous way and it is just a comment but has a funny meaning behind it. 😊😊👋👋
Haha!! Well done!! 😂😂😂
Sadly, these videos always try to paint an image of Yugoslavia collapsing on itself, but there was a lot of intervention from the Western powers at that time.
But it was nationalism that killed yugoslavia. Nationalism very rarely does good. It caused an Arch duke to get assassinated, it caused an austrian artist to become leader, it caused this etc. It also caused the Indio Pakistan wars and lots of other shit
Stan Torren Nationalism is not something that people are born with. It is always top-down. Anything that’s top-down can and will be used by those with their own agenda, nationalism included.
In simple terms, you had a few bad politicians with their twisted visions that served as a public face for the foreign influence, that rallied the common folk to accept weird ideas like nationalism. You could correctly argue that such a thing is not possible among people who are not raised in a fascistic way (and I’m using the term quite broadly here), but that equally applies to most countries nowadays, as witnessed by blind adherence to inhumane COVID-19 measures, not specific to any of the peoples in the Balkans.
well, western powers created and funded yugoslavia.
nationalism is bad, unless its yugoslavian nationalism than its good i guess.
for 50 years people were brainwashed with the yugoslavian nationalism, power, brotherhood and unity.
@@filijala7925 what u just said was true. But the western powers didn't create yugoslavia, nor did they keep it alive. The yugoslav partizans freed the country WITH a bit aid of the western powers and the ussr. Yugoslavia chose to be neutral after the war so their economy would be at its best. The western world only supported yugoslavia because the yugoslavs didn't want to have anything to do with the ussr. And after the ussr collapsed, the western world stabbed yugoslavia in the back
In 1979 the USA announced they no longer see a need for Yugoslavia existence. In other words...
I am from Serbia, and personally, I do not hate any country, I actually really love Croatia, as all the people I met there were really nice to me, in Serbia, we all hate Milošević, and I personally think that there shouldn't have been any war at all. Greeting to all of you in the Balkans, my Slavic brothers :)
You are real "Drug"! I hate Milošević too, but I don't hate Serbia because of that, I really love Serbia, we are same people. :) Greetings from one Croatian girl. :3
M.V. How are the relationship between the two countries today? Do mixed marriages between a Croat and a Serb occur?
MxcrashplayerBR well yes,the do
Greetings to all of you from one Montenegrin, love all of ya! :D
Marcus Mercer Pozdrav brate!
Americans: Man, the 90s were a great decade with all the music, movies, and Nick game shows! Don't ya agree?
The Balkans: *flashbacks*
While the rest of the world are all the grownups at the adult dinner table...the Balkans are the kids table
That's a good analogy.
*1940:* The balkans have only 6 countries
*2018:* HOLY SH** THATS ALOT OF COUNTRIES!!!
Western Imperialism
Ya'll mind if I
*b a l k a n i z e*
1918 only 3***!
@@pavleilic1390
how come usa stayed in one part ?
or maybe europe is dismantled after usa came to europe ? or mirdle east ? or , shall we say libya, iraq, afgastan, pakistan, syria, corea, taiwan....etc
Not 6, 4.
Btw, why there's no documentary about this on Netflix?
Netflix has very strong political interests
Too edgy
Netfilx is good for Satanic videos and programs, not informative documentaries like this.
I havent seen anything that covers all the history of Balkan but I have seen a nice documentary called "Houston We Have a Problem". Not everything is true (they say) but worth watching.
@@Smudgeroon74 Which Satanic videos? I'm curious
Bosnia is like the child victim of its Serbia and Croatia's divorce
stfu pls
ne, u
De si Balkanski brate.
true.
Literally tf
Yugoslavia: “I have the most complicated break up in history.”
My parents: “Hold my beer.”
Imagine us Croats/Serbs/Bosnians writing a history exam about this 🤢
Make a lecture about why nationalists are scum and their opinions shit before tanking the exam then the results will be different.
As long as they are not in the same class, everything will be fine 😁
It's actually very easy
One thing is for sure, every teacher will grade it differently based on their beliefs.
I know someone who didn't know shit for a history test and just wrote the teacher a cookie recipe, she got a 10.
Social studies homework would be easier if Yugoslavia still existed
Kingpig 85 you are crazy
Maybe the homework would be easier but your life wouldn't
Your textbook would be double the size, even if the map might have fewer colors.
Kingpig 85 LOL my nationality explanation would be easier
Kingpig 85 YOU HAVE HOMEWORK ON YUGOSLAVIA?!?!?!?! I NEVER LEARNED A SENTENCE ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA IN ALL OF THE HISTORY CLASSES IVE BEEN IN!!!!!!!!! ;JKFVN;N;DKFJSDNFLSDKFSDFNLSDFNSODUFH
#firstworldproblems
Macedonia joins the server: Can we leave?
Everyone else: Who are you? Sure w/e.
D Gray *cough* *cough* Macedonia is Greek
Isak Slavinat the country shouldn’t be called Macedonia. Macedonia is a region in Greece
Isak Slavinat what do you mean? It’s called *facts*
Isak Slavinat and I’m Greek
@@mxchxlxs809 Kind of like how the US is often referred to as the "America" even though America is two entire continents. (You don't see Canada, Mexico, Brazil, or Chile caring, do you?) But to be accurate, Macedonia - the region - includes Macedonia, a part of Greece, and a small part of Bulgaria, so to call it a region of Greece is incorrect. Regardless, I don't know why the Greeks care so much about the name of their neighbors. I mean, holding the country's EU membership hostage over a name...really? But whatever, they're "North Macedonia" now.
Love the accent my friend love your video from belgrade!
This video is one of the best historical videos I have ever seen.
I watched it 3 years ago and today I am watching it again.
Very good work...
And you are so crazy if you believe in this
@@1bojanb e moj ti... ovo ti je sve istina... ja sam iz Srbije idiote glup si jako
@@1bojanb correct, there are not such ethnic groups as "bosniaks" or Kosovars or "macedonians"
@@1bojanb The video is true
@@1bojanb What are you angry about little boy? The fact that he accepted the fact that Kosovo is independent?
This kind of video always has the kindest comments
Truly lol
Thank you for excellent, unbiased overview. It's one of the best I saw on the topic of Yugoslav wars.
Unfortunately, I had to witness most of events you described.
Nikola Nenadic, Do you know Niko Bellic?
jack stfu pls
NIkola Nenadic stfu pls
Holy shit a Yugoslavian
What country were you in
Thank you for putting this video together. It certainly feels like it was intended to provide actual historical information. This is in contrast to many videos on this subject that are predominantly designed to spew propaganda.
Damn niko bellic, must've had a hard time
Yea even Trevor shows respect
@@mrlee361 LOVELY
You are an idiot
He was on tractor in '95 😂
@@chriscro4615 THANKS
Niko Bellic fought in these wars
True he was also in Behind enemy lines. Was a sniper with a sick L96A1
Niko is very NICE!
@@JuzniVetar.92 you ok m8?
Sure
What I like about Niko is that he is straight to the point about everything. No bullshit, right in the throat point blank. That I really respect. I despise any bullshit about anything and everything. Love totally direct, real fast. NICE.
Balkans gonna Balkan.
Balkan
Froid Indeed. My wiki-fu is strong: "Balkanization, or Balkanisation, is a pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another."
+Iam1and 1isme True but what's done is done, you can't force the Croats, Slovenes and Bosniaks to leave their religions.
+Iam1and 1isme And Yugoslavia does not equate Orthodox, just because they're not Orthodox anymore doesn't mean they're not Slavs anymore.
+MANTLE Why ?
To be trearen like slaves ?
Everything is very accurate this video is very educational and you did a great job 👏
Me: *talking to a serb* So tell me about your peoples history.
Him: Sit down
demir kasapoglu You’d sit down for 2 seconds then
@@lypcizhenaf8988 How long would you sit down for North Macedonia? Half a second?
lol
Luis Carillo I wouldn’t even sit down
@@lypcizhenaf8988 😂 thing is, I feel bad for them for being so brain washed...how is it possible to do that to millions of people?
Luis Carillo what do you mean?
Bosnia: " Can I swim?
Croatia: " no "
@@bangi2757 neum
Neum
We got neum
Jimmy, buy some glasses! Bosnia has around 10 km wide coastal area with access to the sea.
@@bangi2757 we are not arabs 😡😡😡
You literally took that BBC doc and broke it down in simple terms for us. Thank you
@꧁_꧂ England just spread serbian propganda like the Haag.
@@joepeters8746 Are you serious? The BBC documentary is extremely anti-Serb...
@@ДушанПавловић-о2я BBC just repeats the opinion of Haag and is so pretty biased. They don't mention enough how Bosnians killed Serbs and Croats, and first tried to show that Gotovina and Croatian Generals commited war crimes in Oluja, which was really stupid. Beeing anti serbian isn't biased bec. Serbians were the main aggressor in this war and commited war crimes all the time.
Some older folks might say it was Heaven on Earth in Yugoslavia (during Tito's time). It was .. if you kept your head down, your eyes shut wide, never asked for freedom of speech, never asked for freedom of vote, never said anything against the dictatorial KPJ (Communist Party of Yugoslavia), never said a thing about national or ethnical identity, didn't practice any kind of religion, didn't want any kind of expressional liberty, etc. In other words, if you were a simple blue-collar worker (that didn't want to practice religion or anything else in life, exept for work, home, family, and a simple lifestyle) minding your own business (of course without anything to say or ask about politics) you could live happily in Yugoslavia, and you had enough money and opportunity to buy everything your simple lifestyle wanted.
Well you actually could practice religion as long as you didn't want to be a member of the party, the people didn't really want elections, they weren't necessary if the government was good as it was back then. And most people nowadays don't talk about political parties in their day to day life so it isn't really difficult to just not say shit about the KPJ
This is like trying to keep track of all the names and places when starting to read Game of Thrones
that's exactly what it felt like. Then after the 3rd rewatch all the pieces fit together
Appropriate since a lot of the scenes of King's Landing were filmed in Croatia :)
10 minutes into the video I realized that I lost track of what’s going on where and that I should have been probably writing it down in the first place.
So,I have a company)
It's not that hard. Nationalists were fighting federalists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. At the end nationalists won.
Yugoslavia was a federation of small nations. Centralized and very rigid against any separatism and nationalism. Local leaders wanted more power and played on the strongest card ever - nationalism.
They are all happy now. Poor, wounded and fooled but happy. I mean, those who stayed. About 40% of Yugoslavs had left the region.
Yep 👍😆
but very clear explained, many things make more sense to me now. I just love it.
@@miljannyjets BARILOCHE ARGENTINA
Kurac "prosperous" nemamo za leba.
ko vas jebe bre nece te da radite, nego bi sjedili po birtijama 24 sata i locili
marko kraljevic džaba brat, kad mom ocu, koji je lekar specijalista i koji radi ko konj-bukvalno ga teraju sa posla, dobija konstantno manju platu. Vučić smanjio plate za 5% pa povećo za 1%
da jebote moja drzava je sad kao mrvica hleba
Ja bih zamolio Vučkove botove da ne komentarišu debilne izjave jer je njihova za sendvič i sok prodana bulja previše providna. Nijedna stranka u ovim banana republikama ne valja jer su svi marionete. A vi mentoli ih branite i tonite, ja neću jer dobro razmišljam a još bolje pamtim.
Boris Krumov What the fuck
Way to state the facts and avoid bias, very hard to find videos about this topic that are not incorrect or biased.