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Austro Prussian war???
Ok 👌
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She man’s over my scaped until I THEAH all over her
Should have mentioned how nato illegally attacked serbia in 1999
Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that mr krabs sold SpongeBob’s soul for 62 cents
For fricking 62 cents!!!
Also they can drown in the ocean and start fires
WE SHALL NOT FORGET
Indeed
Balkan politician will do it for free
"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic
That GTA game is so underated and still the best one with the best scenario and characters!
Wanna go bowling?
They were pretty willing in many cases. They hated eachother so much even the SS were surprised how little it took to get the Balkan citizens to start genociding eachother and Hitler even admired the Muslims there to the point he talked about encouraging Islam in Germany. Tons of the fighters in the Yugoslav wars weren't originally soldiers but more like rebels or militias.
@@arthas640Hitler while having a much higher opinion of it then Christianity had zero interest in spreading the religion to Germany 😂
@goblindeter8258 A game that sold 25 million =/= underrated. Yall gotta quit throwing that word around
Can't believe I thought Irish history was complicated. This is next level.
Ive got Uncle in Blue Helmets (Polish soldier in UN), He told me that this entire war was hell. His friend once took his sidearm out of nowhere, shot his company dog and then himself
he must saw terrible things :(
The U.S. has blue helmets invading our country now. That is the purpose of the UN. The U S -created foreign militias are now domestic and just waiting for the time. The new UN troops (illeglas entering the U S.) will be "peacekeepers" and turned against Americans. Creates more spinster dick moves, lies, corruption, and not elected people placed into positions. I loathe the UN and their filthy troops. I HATE them ALL. The non-aiding move that completed the genocide in Srebrenica happened under Yasushi Akashi. He was close friends to the Clintons. Yasushi was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN. he was also head of the UN Transnational Authority in Cambodia. All these corrupt plays are no different than Benghazi, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Saigon..just to name a few....ALL intentional! Hillary Clinton," That was four years ago, at this point what difference does it make?" And who can forget about Madeline Albright, " dirty, filthy Serbs."
What an asshole he took out the dog too 😮
@@_RasputinReborn_ Trauma does terrible things to humans
@@_RasputinReborn_ In his deranged mind he maybe thought he was freeing it from that hell too.
this war was devastating and not talked about enough, so many atrocities but nearly no one talks about it, this is why we watch the armchair historian
@mechupaunhuevon7662 thats true also but most people talk about the gulf war, iraq war and Afghanistan war on terror
@mechupaunhuevon7662 true also after the ukraine war started pretty much everyone that didn't live in the balkans forgot about the yougoslav war, it gets overshadowed by much more devastating conflicts
@@soudino2723they didn’t forget about it, it just isn’t as pressing as an ongoing war
So many atrocities on all sides.
ever tried to talk with any Russian about any atrocity or war crime Russia ever did?
They'll start with "and what about NATO/US bombing Yugoslavia?" in 120% of all cases...
I had 4 family members fight in these wars on different sides. My mother was a Croatian Serb and my father was a Croat. Before they met each other my father and his cousin immediately joined the Croat uprising in 1992 when they eventually made the choice to join the war. My mothers brothers were externally hateful of Croats and joined the Croat-Serb paramilitaries. I’m not sure if they ever saw each other or directly fought one another but my father was dating my mother at the time of fighting began, they didn’t see each other for over a year once it started and he never knew that her brother were on the opposing side. My mothers family eventually escaped into Hungary once they could and my father was able to visit her when he was allowed leave. They were married in 1994. After it all ended, one of my mothers brothers was killed, he was 20 when he was killed in 1994. And my father was unhurt along with his cousin and my mothers remaining brother. My uncle and and father never spoke for almost 20 years. Refusing to see each other or talk. Only ever saw each other a couple christmases in that 20 year gap. Eventually my father reached out and they sat down and talked to one another, old men at this point. My father never hated my uncle, but my uncle always thought he did because of his actions in the 90s. They lost over 20 years of happiness bc each one thought the other hated them. When my dad eventually told me these stories it broke me down seeing how much other people hated each other in those times and how they thought it carried on with them almost 20 years later without knowing it was never there between them. I’m glad to see documentaries like this showing so much details on how the war affected thousands from then and now. I wish nothing but love to my fellow Slavs and people of the balkans. I know some people still have entrenched feeling and emotions, but it’s relieving to let go of the hate and see each other as fellow men and women. My account will be lost to the comments and that’s ok, I’m just glad to have finally found a place to share my families story with so many other like minded individuals. May the dead rest and the living forgive.
thank you for your message of peace 🙏
May the dead rest, and the living forgive...
it seems kinda "prototypical" for slav families at thst time. The massive hate surrounding this conflict is shocking.
Why do you write Serb in small letters and Croat in big?
Why didn't you capitalize the word "Serb"?
As someone who is interested in history, the Yugoslav wars can be described by two words “cluster f*ck”
As a Serb with a mother from Croatia (ethnical serb from Croatia) and a father from Bosnia (bosnian-serb), what happened is sad. To me, we are the exact same people, just different religions, but ultra-nationalism, post-communism and scars from World War II made it brutal.
War between neighbors and brothers is the worst. My old grandparents got killed, and my grandparents and mother got ethnically moved from Croatia. My mother's cousin's best friend was Croat, and he came to the village and said, "Leave today because tomorrow we will arrive and tomorrow we aren't friends anymore''. My father has the same stories and I know all people from the war has them. I hope we can all move past this old hatred and resolve the lingering problems with RS and Kosovo. The West Balkans, aka ex-Yugoslavia, need to get along to develop.
Look at France - Germany or Sweden -Denmark, once enemies but now friends.
Get rid of the followers of islam and the problems will go away.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 You would still exist
As a former war refugee from Kosovo at the age of 3 in 1998
God bless you
My parents were ethnically cleansed from Banja Luka just for being Croats. It's a horrible experience.
💯💯💯 also scars from WW1*
It’s baffling to me that UA-cam is treating talented creators like this due to ridiculous monetization guidelines. Thus forcing them to find other avenues to gain income off their artwork.
Griff, I’ve been watching for almost two years now. You’re one of my favourite channels to watch. Much love to the team!
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These problems don’t exist on Rumble. No censorship
@@Ulfrich_StormcockRumble is a backwater
@@Prespanda still no censorship
@@PrespandaGood job.
We want monopoly and no options in life.
As a citizen of a former Yugoslav Republic, I must say you did an impressive job
that’s crazy. what is the country like?
Which one?
If you don’t mind, I really would like to know. What happened to your citizenship/passport after the breakup of Yugoslavia? I assume it would’ve been your only citizenship so do you become stateless or so you get the citizenship of whichever political entity controls the city/village you were born it?
@@ReySchultz121 he probably means he left the country after the dissolution
@@ReySchultz121 Serbia
Great video man. I love how you covered every aspect and historical background of this conflict but also some lesser known facts like the military aspect of some conflicts (the Bosniak operation, the level of international/NATO involvement) and you didn't just stick to the usual ''atrocity driven'' narration which is usually covered, but mainly I enjoyed how you mentioned Macedonia as the final battleground of the Yugoslav wars, which (although not anymore a part of the coutnry) was stabbed in the back by the Kosovo crisis' refugees and rebels and had to face them too, leaving a 20-25% of them till to this day.
Great job, I'm impressed ❤❤
My great grandfather and great grandmother came to the US in the early 1900s from Croatia through Ellis Island and ended up in PA. I'm 1/4 Croatian and it was a sizable part of my childhood growing up with the traditions. This was a good telling of a very confusing conflict.
Hope one day you'll return!
Where from Croatia did they come?
@@JukSon-go4xf Baska on the island of Krk near Istria.
“ When the war came, I did bad things, but after the war I thought nothing of doing bad things. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people” Niko Bellic
After you walk into a village and see fifty children, all lined up at a church's wall with their limbs cut off while hanging upside down, you understand that the creature who did this doesn't have a soul.
These words haunted me for quite some time.
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When I saw the title of this video I immediately thought of Niko Bellic. A veteran of the Yugoslav civil war who did and saw unspeakable atrocities. It really adds alot of context to his character and why he is so traumatized once you learn in detail what happened during the collapse of Yugoslavia.
it wasnt a civil war, The war started because Serbia (then SR Serbia)wanted to take control aggressively on croatia and bosnia territory@@nocommentary9928
Good to see someone finally remember the yugoslav wars
UA-cam tends to demonetize anyone who covers this topic.
@@badluck5647 The problem is that when you upload to youtube the video reaches to many more people so from financial standpoint its hard to leave the platform
@@badluck5647 so they should, especially with such biased BS approach.
It should never happen again
How Come after the WW2 everyone was united and noone tried then to kill each other because they are a Croats of a Serb, Christian or a Muslim. I still don't get it how cruel how stupid people were to kill their own friends, nebghiours even family members because the politicians said so
Another excellent video from one of my favorite channels!
i've been wating for this video for years
Thank you so much
As a Croat, its refreshing to finally see high quality documentary on the Yugoslav wars. Well done indeed.
would you rather if this didn't happen and Yugoslav stayed the country of all and become better?
@@jefferyd.rodriguez638 Serbia continuing to embezzle from Croatia within Yugoslavia would've made Croatia much much worse, not better
Yes not bad but gotovina got his own movie lol
Ma nista posebno, nije duboko ušao u temu
@@jefferyd.rodriguez638That would be really awfull, yugoslavia was a state with a stupid ideology mixed with mixed with a lot of countries wich really should not have been together
Can I just say. The animation and uniforms in this video are on point
The rifles aren't
@@DornanJankovic they are
His pronunciation isn't
@@tonijelecevic9238he is american as an american who is learning serbian it is very hard
@@tonijelecevic9238 It isn't bad for someone who doesn't know Serbian fluently
Props to whoever did the animation and graphics!
It was arguably your most interesting video topic in a while
Macedonia: I'm leaving
Milosevic: Understandable, have a nice day.
Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia: can we leave?
Milosevic: So you have chosen death
Tito was that one store manager who leaves for 1 day and the whole place becomes a mess.
My god has this man nailed it lmao.
The issue was Tito made such a dysfunctional system ON PURPOSE, he made himself irreplaceable, while forcing nations to live in the same country with no one bothering to ask anyone if they actually want it. Yugoslavia was always a fake country and a doomed utopia. What Tito was doing was the equivalent of beating a woman into becoming your girlfriend...an then acting surprised when she flees the moment you arent looking.
Because used force to keep,it together
He was the one who brought Albanians to Kosovo and he made Yugoslaviu with Croatians after the thing they did in WW2 so he was responsible for it
@@tomhenry897true. Some preferred that honestly.
I was border patrol soldier in Hungary on the border with Croatia in 1992. We were watching closely what's goin' on.
Your animating is getting really good
I actually did get the chance to visit Vukovar this summer to meet some family from there that I never met before. It is miracilous how much of it has been rebuilt and how much beautiful the city has gotten. Apart from memeorial sites there were barely any visable damages to buildings. The family members I met are fantastic people full of positivity and happiness and I was over joyed to meet them. During the war they got extremely lucky and escaped Vukovar 4 days prior to the siege. One of them became an army nurse later on during the war. I hold no ill will towards my slavic brothers and sister and I hope we never again have to witness such barbarism from anyone. May peace reign eternal
The effects of the war are still present though. The population has halved, all the young people are leaving to other parts of Croatia or abroad. Vukovar has gone from being one of the most prosperous towns in Croatia, to one of the poorest.
the serbs arent your brothers, they would still like nothing more than to destroy croatia, occupy it and kill every single non serb
As a Serb that has family in Vukovar, I must say that I was visiting the town every year for past 23 years, it was rebuilt but still has ways to go, a lot of houses are still damaged, including mine, it has bullet holes on the front of the house, and the money that was supposed to fix the Vodotoranj ( Vukovar's iconic building ) was still not used to repair the tower.
I have many Croat friends and Serb friends, but my family there was always telling me to be careful what to say, since I grew up in Belgrade, to not draw unwanted attention from Croats that hate Serbs, there are Serbs that hate Croats as well there. But growing up I had met a Croat family that changed my mind and has invited me to their restaurant and they were asking a lot of questions about our life in Serbia and how they're glad their son could meet with Serbs to show him that the two nations could still be friends despite the differences, and that we're all humans, and this is part of my childhood, that made me stop hating the others based on their past etc. This is an important thing, because in schools both Serbs and Croats have a big history lessons, on what the both countries did to each other (Jasenovac, 91's for Croats etc.)
We're different, but we can come together!
Vukovar water tower was fixed with the money they gathered for that purpose, on the other hand life in Vukovar will never be same as it was before the war mostly due to unprosecuted war criminals living there. As you have friends there you can ask them about this ( Croatian friends) and you ll hear stories. Also one like this is doctor in Vukovar city hospital still working she was showing which of the wounded Croats was fighting and they god killed, up to this day she is working. So Vukovar is really really complicated situation for everybody to understand, @@jovanjovanovic7721
As a Croat that lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina it hurts me what we have done to ourselves. Before this war, there was another (WW2) where Yugoslavia lost 10% of it’s population and was razed to the ground. Our grandfathers joined together and rebuilt the country, so much hard work had been put in to that idea of brotherhood and unity only to be burned to the ground just 50 years later. We are just like tribal people, bloodthirsty of our neighbour’s blood just because he prays to a different god or has a different name. We deserve no better, while in the 90’s Europe was uniting, tearing down borders, we were building walls with bodies of our brothers in their foundations. I am disgusted by us. My heart goes out to anyone no matter the side who has lost someone in these pointless wars ❤️
They all have the same god.
@@Justin-pe9clyeah but a different belief
Yeah, its a shame how detrimental those paedophile riddled skydaddy cult organizations (religions) have been to humanity for literally thousands of years, to even this day.
So embarrassingly stupid, that the belief in an literal *multithousand years old, bronze aged mythological, fictional, fairytale books, that is about an LITERAL paedophile loving, and genocidal psychopathic skydaddy, and yet that psychopath is the "good guy" of the fictional fairytale, and did more atrocities than the supposed "bad guy" (satan) of the fictional fairytale, and then to be so indoctrinated into the skydaddy CULT, that people actually kill(& a LOT of other horrible, disgusting things) for it is some of the most scary delusional, and abso-fuckin-lutely stupid thing humanity has ever invented. Smh!
I will say, atleast the belief in those bronze aged, paedophile riddled skydaddy cult organizations is slowly dying out, and people are FINALLY seeing it for the con/scam that it is!* 😂😊
@@jonhall2274The brains of people are naturally geared towards worship. You will find that people now just worship different things.
Tito did something nobody managed before him. He managed to unite multitribal into one federation.
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"Serb-dominated Yugoslavia"
In reality:
Presidents of Yugoslavia:
Ivan Ribar (1945-1953)-Croat
Josip Broz Tito(1953-80)-Croat
Since 1980. until 1991.
there is no one president.
Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia:
Josip Broz Tito(1945-63)-Croat.
Petar Stambolić(1963-67)-Serb.
Mika Špiljak (1967-69)-Croat.
Mitja Ribičič(1969-71)-Slovene.
Džemal Bijedić(1971-77)-Bosnian Muslim.
Veselin Đuranović(1977-82)-Montenegrin.
Milka Planinc(1982-86)-Croat.
Branko Mikulić(1986-89)-Croat.
Ante Marković(1989-91)-Croat.
In time of Ante Markovic's government, Croatian and Slovenian separatists attacked Yugoslavia
( member of UN) and Yugoslavian army.
"Siege of Sarajevo 1992-95. "?
Census 1991.
in Sarajevo:
Bosnian Muslims-49%
Serbs-30%...
"Serbian aggression"?
Before WW2
Serbs -44 % population of Bosnia
Bosnian Muslims-30%
Croats 22%
In WW2, Croats and Bosnian Muslims comitted genocide against Serbs,Jews,Romani people...
Finally, a Yugoslav Wars video from the Armchair.
My father told me a story about the bombings in Slovenia. When he was still a child some fighter planes flew over him to bomb a radio station next to his city, but they missed. Some people have said that the pilots were Slovenian and they intentionaly missed
Most Pilots in JNA were Slovenian, they did not want to bomb their homes
The interesting fact is that the pilot of the destroyed F-117 during 1999 Belgrade bombing was Slovenian as well ...
My home town is 5km away of bombing side in Slovenia. We had a bit of luck and a lot of quick actions with this war.
@@intel386DX Nah u just lying. The pilot was American and his name was Darrell Patrick Zelko. Not very slovenian sounding name to me.
@@hyperboreanschizo Zelko is sloven name . actually the man who shot down F-117 is Hungarian from the Yugoslav army , his name is Zoltán Dani
War is horrifying. Im a Bosnian Croat and my father fought in the war. He died in a car crash when I was 4 years old but my mother told me stories about him. I remember a story where he and his regiment were blockading a street, and he was in charge of stopping vehicles passing through. A Bosniak Muslim family came through with their car, hoping to escape the genocide happening in a nearby town. Though his orders stated he shouldve sent them back, he allowed them to go through. Eventually the family was able to escape to Germany, and they visited our town recently. They were shocked to hear he passed away, and frequently commented how good of a man he was and how he helped them escape
Wow that's a amazing story. Your father was a great man. I'm a bosniak from krajina and we collaborated a lot with the croat oluja operation to free the region from serb forces. What happened in places like Srebrenica or Vukovar should never repeat.
I met a bosniak once who told me about how he fleed during the war, he ran into a Croatian unit while trying to flee to northern europe and the only reason he survived the encounter was because one of the soldiers was a childhood friend from School.... Like imagine how fucked up that is.
The 90s were really fucked up.
Your father was obviously a great man. May he rest in peace.
@@MukationWow that’s sad and crazy. Here in the west the 90s is seen a good/prosperous era.
Although in the here in the Caribbean we aren’t really exposed to war.
If you guys knew war was horrifying then you guys shouldn't have declared independent from Yugoslavia.
And after gaining independence, your country is still poor as f*ck. What's the point of the bloodshed in the 90s?
@@natenae8635anywhere but africa, middle east, post soviet states and yugoslavia
Reading through the comments, I read so many personal stories. It's quite emotional. All kinds of people were touched by this war, not just the locals, but foreign aid volunteers, peacekeepers, journalists...
So many stories that ought to be known.
I was born in 1983 and have always had a passion for current events and history. Trying to read about what was going on in this part of the world as a boy was basically impossible. This is by far the most concise explanation of exactly what happened....and I am still confused, guess I'll put this video on repeat.
" War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."
"Let's go bowling!" 🎳
Far from applicable here
@@LowFlyer What distance? Please tell me the number of km or meters.
Grenade launcher man at 6:14 is extremely well animated
Ive been interested in the Yugoslav wars lately and its a mighty coincidence that this was posted
this video made in so easy to understand for some of my friends, thank you
Great video, very well done. My father fought for the Croatian forces in Bosnia, and we emigrated to Canada after the war. I'm friends with a lot of Bosnian and Serbian people here, which makes all the hatred and war crimes even more pointless and horrendous. I don't know how it escalated, but I'm sure the politicians and low-lives are to blame.
Same here in Sweden. My local town has a Serbian community, with a great office building for barbeque parties etc and like only half of the usual suspects at the parties are serbs, the rest are croatians and bosniaks.
I have a bosnian-croat as a co-worker and like half our conversations are about when we're going to balkan and what towns we are visiting etc :D
@@MukationNazi sympathizer.
@@hello7522my brother in Christ you cannot think that anyone is going to take your pro-serbian stuff seriously if you just attack random people who speak about peace and do not say anything negative
@@pumapandora1310 The writer is glorifying his father, who fought for the neo-Nazis that commited genocide against Serbs. How would you react if Hitler had a son, that constantly glorified the holocaust and other actions of his father? Would you support him too?
Don't forget the churches, catholic and serb orthodox, still spreading filth to this day, but we're slowly choking them out
Who knew that such a brutal war would result in so many memes. Balkan people really know how to make jokes
Dark humour is common among us all, so that comes as no surprise.
I am a Serb from Bosnia. While it is incredibly hard to cover Yugoslav wars with all its details into 18 minutes, have to say you have managed to give one of the best and most unbiased videos about it. I was subscribed to your channel before this but I'm glad I did. Keep up the great work!
Unbiased? All i hear is nationalism, nationalist Serbs, and nationalist Milosevic that was most Yugoslav and least nationalist of all others lol
It's not exactly unbiased, it's kinda okay compared to most others but it still is kinda biased
@@hatsuhioki9361 what he is trying to say is, that this video is one of the few thats not made by the sole intend to criminelize serbs as the only monsters in this horror.
Unbiased for sure... there is no such thing that is unbiased in this world, especially on the internet. A pošto razumeš srpski ili nisi odgledao ceo klip ili nisi razumeo deo kad kaže da je istorijski Kosovo Albansko i da je UČK predstavio herojima umesto teroristima i trgovcima organima.
@@hatsuhioki9361Yeah slobo was more of a commie than a nationalist. I mean you litterally cant hear one nationalistic thing during his rallies. Im not blaming the croats or bosniaks wanting to seceed but this nationalist, greater serbia bla bla bla is just funny. My whole family was in the war never did they think about some greater serbia. Serbs like croats in bosnia fought for their areas.
*Hello from Makedonia to all my jugoslavian brothers and sisters, I love you all!* 💞
Love from America 🇺🇸♥️🇬🇷
@@Stars.-Bars.-n-Cheese
🇲🇰❤️🇺🇸
every time I hear about this it reminds me of Niko Belic from GTA IV
its crazy how a video game can kinda emotionally connect you to a random war from a country you don't know anything about
IIRC Niko Bellic was a Serb who served in the Yugoslav Wars. With that in mind it's understandable the motivation behind Darko Brevic betraying his comrades
@@QuentinofVirginia and dude was heavily traumatized by what the Serbs did to the Kosovars, and I think Roman's mother was also killed in the war, I still have no idea how people know he's a Serb and not the other ethnicities involved since they didn't really make it clear in the story
@@Ar1AnX1x he's a Serb raised in Bosnia, so perhaps Republika Srpska
@@Ar1AnX1x Because Roman said this quote: "You'll be fine. Better than my SERBIAN" when Niko asked if Roman had forgot their own language.
So yeah, Niko is 100% Serbian.
@@NguyenTran-mf9gj so when he was talking about horrible war crimes, he was talking about Serbian war crimes or probably both sides? so in reality Kosovars also killed a lot of Serb civilians? I thought Serbs did almost all the damage
I don't remember much of this conflict being covered by the media when I was growing up. Looking at the current map of Eastern Europe compared to what used to be Yugoslavia, along with videos like this does a lot to shed light on the history. Thanks for covering this.
As an American, I get nationalism. I've had enough of it shoved down my throat over the years, but honestly I wish we could all stop being so f*cking racist.
Finally, the video I anticipated the most.
Growing up as 90s kid in Indonesia, most of our Tv channels at that time had a mandatory news at night "Dunia Dalam Berita" (The World In News) most of the news was about the war in former Yugoslavian states, and for sure the visit of our 2nd President Soeharto to Bosnia, where we also sent indonesian peacekeepers as part of UN troops there.
Saat itu sering banget muncul berita soal Yugoslavia ya bang? Ada yang paling abang ingat salahsatunya?
Im a Bosniak and the memories of this war still lives on. Everywhere from ruined buildings, to holes on the ground literly everywhere. But despite this we moved on. Trying to rebuild ourselfs from our horrible past and while some would say we are a second world nation i think we are doing just fine. Make peace not war
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No, Bosnia is not, just like any other former Yugoslav country. We are plagued by rampant corruption and organised crime.
Love and peace to you all
Was it better when it was Yugoslavia
@@bamaramify i was born a few years after the war but i have heard many stories about it
@@HawkThunder907thats how it ever was.. The reason why the young people leave the countries..
Even tho the Slovenian war lasted for only 10 day, my mom keeps telling me this were the scariest days of her life..
Shooting 4 teen yugoslav soldiers that surrendered?
@@temistogen Shouldnt have signed up to cleanse and invade their neighbors because they wanted to secede from a rotten government.
@@temistogen Where'd you get that? Twitter?
@@MatIsBad
Austrian Television called ÖRF
at that time showed how slovenian killing yugoslav solders Whith White flag in Hands.
Till this day NOONE from slovenian who Commited this war crime DIDNT answered and convicted.
@@MatIsBad lol they done far worse than 4
A masterpiece like always
Thanks for taking your usual tempered look at sometimes unsavory events.
We actually just covered the 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik a few weeks ago, and also did a feature on the 1995 Dayton Accords last year. The Yugoslav Wars are an incredibly tragic, yet overlooked, chapter of recent European history.
Wishing peace to Griffin and the whole team, keep up the groundbreaking work
Thank you armchair history for everything. I've subscribed to this channel for a good 3 years I believe adn It's been horrible to see what UA-cam is doing to you and many other channels. I hope you and the team pull through. Thanks for the video.
I'm very happy to see so much diversity of historical events being posted lately. World War 2, while very interesting and important, feels way too overdone at this point and it's nice to see a break from it. Thank you for the great content!
You should do a whole video about the insurgencies in Preshevo, Bujanovac & Macedonia. They are the most underrated conflicts / insurgencies in the region
My father when he was still living in Italy and just started dating my mother abroad in Canada during the 90s did a total of 3 supply runs into Sarajevo driving supply ambulances full of aid provisions. Two with the Red Cross and one with the Turkish Red Crescent. He has a Medal from the Order of Malta for this and has many stories from each trip!
Your father is a hero may he be granted Jannah 🙏
I think my grandfather was in Bosnia during this time for about 3 months. I'm not sure and I don't wanna ask him. I don't want him to revisit such bad memories
Excellent timing as I just arrived in Sarajevo yesterday. Thanks AH
AH = Adolf Hitler?😳
@@RandomEmperoractually it stands for Adolf Historian (armchair historian’s father)
@@northwestpassage6234 lol 💀
Thank you for video sir
I had a friend in elementary school. Her grandpa was a Serb, who married a Croat. The two ended up moving to America. When Yugoslavia collapsed, his Serbian friends asked him when he was going to kill his wife. The ethnic hatred was truly insane.
Ethnic nationalism, by far the worst kind of nationalism.
Kosovo belongs to the philipiness!
And this is why Civil Nationalism fared better
My dad had a friend that was Serbian he said during WW2 or probably Yugoslav Wars the Croats had this thing where they would bury you in the sand like Major Pain style and turn on a Lawn Mower for fun if you was Serbian your ass was Grass quite literally take on a whole different meaning
Croatia, Serbia , Kosovo , Albania.....are the same thing for most people not interested in the history of Yugoslavia.....I mean ...until recently I thought Nokav Jocovik was Croatian....
My own father served there as a UN peacekeeper. He has told me many stories about the war. How the airfields were being watched by snipers, how people had to runaway, how his friend got killed by a serb while building a hospital, that same serb was hanged (not by the UN people tho), he saw people getting killed, he saw civilians laying dead with none being alive in a restaurant when he opened the doors to it. He spent his last years of the war in Sarajevo. He told me about granades falling down into the city every day, snipers watching over their base looking for anyone to shoot. He almost got shot by a sniper and the bullet flew in front of his eyes and hit the ground between him and his friend. He has showed me pictures of his friends funerals. I've seen his badges and things he took for a memory. He has sometimes told me about these. He bought himself a Jurassic park T-shirt. And later he gave it to me. Or well... It had the picture of a Jurassic park. But instead of it reading "Jurassic park" it read "Sarajevo". (And) he has told me and asked me to never go to a war, it's a terrible business. (Edit: Added that he later gave me the T-shirt)
my father fought that all
@@sejozwakDidn't expect seeing you here. I've been watching your videos. :D
civil war is the most terrible war of all, when neighbor kills neighbor, and people have personal reasons to hate each other
even if a peacekeeper experienced such horror, it’s scary to even imagine what unarmed people felt in the middle of the waves of this brutal massacre
@@kiryllshynharow9058Civil war tears people and families apart. Friends, sisters, brothers, family members and relatives. All fighting against each other (Not in every family tho but happens a lot).
@@henex1296 ua-cam.com/video/z2wF6K4wsv0/v-deo.html&lc=Ugy6rTG2GpSQOTM5RUh4AaABAg yes you are right and one guy already wrote his own story about this
This conflict is so compels it needs a 3 part series form this channel to cover it.
Great work!
The quality of the animations on this channel have steadily improved, its great!
At this point, Armchair Historian is asking to get demonitised 💀
And its imporantnat to resiste
8:13 great attention to detail writing Sarajevo bothi in latinic and cyrilic. All in all a great video
Thank you, great video you told the story how it is
Im genuinely impressed that griffin and his team chose to tackle this war, from what i understand, its SUPER tough to put all the pieces together when it comes to retrospecting the yugoslav wars
History is written by the victors
@@unclev7075just there were no victors in the Yugoslav wars
@@tomaravlic5730 oh there was. Someone always profits/wins in war.
That's because he choose to leave out a lot of important topics.
For example, how USA publicly funded everyone who wanted separation from Yugoslavia since before the war even started.
@unclev7075 History is written by multiple people, not just the victors.
Thank you for providing well wrote, factual, and non biased history.
I wish more people could watch you and learn more about what has happened in the world around them.
Not biased lol....
Canada sent a battle group as part of UNPROFOR. Under General Lewis MacKenzie they secured the airport at Sarajevo. Later a second battle group would be involved in a week long battle with Croat forces known as the Battle of Medak Pocket.
Yes finally been asking for months!!!!!
Thank you for finally making this video.
As a resident of one of these republics, I can definitely say that this video was very accurate. Thank you for this video Griffin.
Are you going to make more videos about Yugoslav war? I'm sure people are gonna like it. This is subject is really interesting.
I'm from Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and was there in the 90s, it was insane to say the least...
Portugal loves you guys, please keep up the amazing work 🇵🇹🙌🏻🙌🏻
What do you mean by "the amazing work", killing each other, or making videos about it? 😜
@@juremustac3063 making the videos of course 🤣
4 of my family members fought in Yugoslav Wars, and I have to say, all 4 of them said the same thing: war is hell, and it makes people mad.
Truth be told, I feel sorry for all those who were victims. This is a painful part of those who lived in Former Yugo. I have to say this was painful, I am a post war person, but this war was madness for everyone
Me: So which conflict did you fight in?
Niko bellic: Yes.
my parents grew up in yugoslavia and they only had fond memories of their childhoods, they went to school, played outside, were friends with different ethnic groups and didn't think much about politics. everything changed
Another great video as usual 👍🏻
my both grandpas fought in the Yugo wars, they both told me and my other relatives that the war was pretty brutal. Thankfuly both survived the war
I was 5 years old during the Yugoslav wars, i remember hearing "srbe na vrbe" being chanted in the streets of Celje, i didn't even know what was going on.
LOL. You Slovenians barely knew the taste of war since you guys only experienced a brief 10 days war against the JNA 🤣🤣
10 day war😂😂😂
@@NguyenTran-mf9gj Unlike Croatia and Bosnia, Slovenia didn't have a large Serb minority, wich is why our conflict only lasted for 10 days. Macedonia also doesn't have Serbs, wich if why they left so easily.
I'm not racist against Serbs, i have some good Serbian friends here in Slovenia, but Serbian nationalits were the scum of Yugoslavia. And i'm glad we didn't have many Serbs here in Slovenia to start conflict.
@@NguyenTran-mf9gj one of my grandparents is Bosnian who fought troughout the Bosnian war
My grandpa was in nova Gradiška and there was a bomber that bombed somewhere close to them but my grandpa and two or three more survived without any injuries but the others were dead when he came back home he didnt talk to my father nor my grandma he was shocked for like a week and that is still carved deep into his memory
My botu grandpas's fought during the Croatian war. One of them in the 114th brigade & my 2nd grnadoa from Trilj in the 126th Sinjska brigade. My grandpa who fought in the 114th brigade is from Otavice.
My uncle was a young Croatian volunteer fighter all throughout the war. He saw very intense fighting in eastern Croatia in the early years of the war when our forces were outgunned- but in ‘95s Croatia’s operation “Storm” (which should’ve been, and actually was, a relatively easy offensive) - he witnessed the worst day of his 4 year campaign: during a radio communication breakdown two Croatian platoons got into short but deadly friendly fire skirmish. A young boy from the other Croatian platoon died. My uncle was a platoon leader by then and it was a devastating experience for him. Ofc he has PTSD now.
To end on a “high” note, one of the random funny things he told me was the trench warfare in ‘91 in eastern Croatia where there is little of terrain protection as it is an open valley. He was stuck with his fellow soldier in a small trench for 2 days, and in the evening of day 2 his partner asked him if he could take a sh*t in the trench - which he was holding in for almost two days, and my uncle said “Are you serious? Do you think I care about the smell? I got bullets flying over my head.” 😅
What are you writing my brother, read more about history and then come back to edit this comment 😊
@@call_me_yegor what did he wrote wrong?
@@fromhelltocell I will not comment, his comment is enough 🙂
@@fromhelltocell He’s weird and plays mincraft. Why bother
@@call_me_yegor I’ll be in Belgrade early next year, let’s meet up so I can stomp on your weird neck.
I’ll take an entire series on the 90s Balkan wars from your team. It’s such a frightening yet fascinating war to learn history of that region. I wish more people were familiar with it
"Serb-dominated Yugoslavia"
In reality:
Presidents of Yugoslavia:
Ivan Ribar (1945-1953)-Croat
Josip Broz Tito(1953-80)-Croat
Since 1980. until 1991.
there is no one president.
Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia:
Josip Broz Tito(1945-63)-Croat.
Petar Stambolić(1963-67)-Serb.
Mika Špiljak (1967-69)-Croat.
Mitja Ribičič(1969-71)-Slovene.
Džemal Bijedić(1971-77)-Bosnian Muslim.
Veselin Đuranović(1977-82)-Montenegrin.
Milka Planinc(1982-86)-Croat.
Branko Mikulić(1986-89)-Croat.
Ante Marković(1989-91)-Croat.
In time of Ante Markovic's government, Croatian and Slovenian separatists attacked Yugoslavia
( member of UN) and Yugoslavian army.
I second that series on the 90s Balkan wars
Thank you for the video! I will do a presentation of the Yugoslav war because I do not really want to get into the medieval era and such because for me that’s boring as hell so I will do the Yugoslav war because it has all the stuffs I like! War crimes, communism and also really great music so thank you for making this video!
As a Croat who studied the war and politics i must say you did a great job with the video. Hopefully it wont happen again.
great vid as always
credits to the armchair historian and his team, these wars just aren't talked about enough.
The 90's was the best decade : 🎉
Meanwhile in Yugoslavia : 💀
90s was like the worst for most of the non western world
Good job, I am Macedonian and i am in mid 50s, i am witness of this beacuse i was regruted by the JNA at my 18th birthday, i was stationed in many places and the war was horrible, as a Macedonian i just wanted peace beacuse just a years ago this ethnicums were living their best lives there was no difference between serb, croat, macedonian, bosniak... we were living in peace, i had a numerous family in slavonia region and in sarajevo but after war they come to Macedonia beacuse of the war. This war doesnt know who is the good or bad, just 3-4 politicians and 10 generals with stupid ideas ( just years before war the generals and politicians were having a great live and than in that time of the history they were proud Yugoslavs) it has been 30 yrs from the wars but it is not the same the wounds are here, as a Macedonian i didnt wanted anything from this to happen but someone from outside had the job done and put the bad ideas in the heads of bad people, i am sorry for the casualties i see them in my dreams and i dont want to see that happen again, in 2001 i was regruted by Macedonian state to fight albanian terrorists which wanted to separate the west part od my country, they did many masacares and killings on civilians, in the years before the war in Macedonia albanians had best rights but the excuse for the rebelion were right ( we all know that is a lie they had similar ideas like slobodan milosevic and their ideas are live today) and this war had some outside mentors beacuse regular albanians had everything in my country but bad ideas from outside the country and bad people do the job. I am anti war i have kids my wife is croat my kids live in belgrade and ny, i am cosmipolit and i think war is bad, this thing will end when my generations will be dead and new generations will take over, sorry for the long comment but you did a great job by making this video and you bring some emotions
Жално што си го доживеал све тоа, брату.
Македонскиот народ неможе доволно да ти се заблагодари за тоа што си го направил.
You actually did a research before making this video. Definitely the best "in a nutshell" Yugoslav wars movie. Be praised.
"Serb-dominated Yugoslavia"
In reality:
Presidents of Yugoslavia:
Ivan Ribar (1945-1953)-Croat
Josip Broz Tito(1953-80)-Croat
Since 1980. until 1991.
there is no one president.
Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia:
Josip Broz Tito(1945-63)-Croat.
Petar Stambolić(1963-67)-Serb.
Mika Špiljak (1967-69)-Croat.
Mitja Ribičič(1969-71)-Slovene.
Džemal Bijedić(1971-77)-Bosnian Muslim.
Veselin Đuranović(1977-82)-Montenegrin.
Milka Planinc(1982-86)-Croat.
Branko Mikulić(1986-89)-Croat.
Ante Marković(1989-91)-Croat.
In time of Ante Markovic's government, Croatian and Slovenian separatists attacked Yugoslavia
( member of UN) and Yugoslavian army.
@@KraljStefan-ey3boThe president of Yugoslavia was nothing more than a figurehead. The real power was held by the joint presidency which was designed to check the nationalist tendencies of the different ethnic groups, but came to be Serbian dominated. The Serbs held the majority of the votes and thus controlled the presidency and as a result the country.
@@jamiegray6931
President Tito figurehead ? 😂😂 Lies, lies, lies... There is no joint presidency before the 1980s. The Serbs did not dominate the joint presidency and the joint presidency has no real power and was politically paralyzed. The republics of Yugoslavia (Slovenia and Croatia) did what they wanted.
Every proposal of the Serbs in the joint presidency was stopped by the Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Bosnian member.
@@KraljStefan-ey3bo Apologies, the Yugoslav president became nothing more than a figurehead after the death of Tito, they had little power to develop policy as a result of the 1974 constitution which decided how the country would be run after Tito died.
The separate republics were able to do what they wanted regarding internal policy but had no control over the states foreign policy ambitions. However, it is important to note that Vojvodina and Kosovo also voted in the joint presidency and were slowly losing their autonomy in the late 1980s. With Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina under effective Serbian control via political tampering it is no wonder the other republics were fearful that they would be next. Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia were ever fearful of Serb nationalism being used to take over their republics as Milosevic had done in the others.
With this it is little wonder that the country broke apart.
@@jamiegray6931
That is not true !
Serbia did not control anything and we see that here:
Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia:
Milka Planinc (1982-86) - Croat.
Branko Mikulić (1986-89)-Croat.
Ante Marković (1989-91)-Croat.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia:
Josip Vrhovec (1978-82)-Croat
Lazar Mojsov
(1982-84)-Macedonian
Raif Dizdarević (1984-87) - Bosnian Muslim
Budimir Lončar
(1987-91)-Croat
Vojvodina - part of Serbia
Kosovo - part of Serbia
Montenegro was under the control of Montenegrins (not Serbia)
Why was Serbia divided and why did Serbia had 2 autonomous provinces ?
The other 5 republics did not have autonomous provinces.
I am so glad to finally see this war brought up
I've been walked through the details of the war by many documentaries, have read silber and little's classic book, and lived through these events, and come away with a profound sense of reality.... Insofar that no fiction writer could have ever concocted these events in their wildest imagination.
Oh man. My uncle died in '93, trying to keep back the rebels somewhere in Bosnia, near Dubrovnik, along with six other men.
But I won't drop you my sob story because frankly? I didn't even know the man, I was born 15 years later.
What made me pause was that map at 6:57 , that made me realize how close they came to my grandma and other family, probably a couple of kilometers.
good content as always
A very underreported war, very important considering how much tensions between the balkan states still resides
Very nicely done video, though I was hoping for a bit more on the Kosovo war of 1998-1999. Especially since that was when the B-2 stealth bomber made it’s debut. Though I didn’t think you’d mention the LAPMB or the NLA, so well done for that. Oh and Kosovo Albanians are called Kosovars or “Kosovarët” I believe
Nice job! Yugoslavia has an interesting history, escpecially during ww2 and the 1990's!
I’m a Serb and honestly what saddens me the most is that even 30 years after the wars we are still stuck in the past unable to move on like the rest of the world… I think that once we start respecting each other instead of putting salt on each other’s wounds this region will prosper more than any other. But I can only hope…
Instead of respecting each other, we should just stop interacting with oneanother and focus on ourselves.
There cannot be unity in the Balkans. The whole 'Yugoslavia' project was a huge mistake made by Serbian leaders. Who could instead just make a greater Serbia.
Well, this video shows exactly why they couldn't make greater serbia
Well if your people stopped wanting a greater ethno Serbian state then peace could be a thing. Your Mr. Dodik still talks about war and genocide every three seconds
@@bosanski_CevapWhy don't Bosnia just get peacefully dissolved and all three peoples go their sepparate way?
@@Nista357 Because that much of the land that is now in eastern Bosnia that is dominated by Serbs were majority Bosniak before. Imagine if Russia took Ukraine than cleansed it of Ukrainians and than they wait for 30 years. Would it suddenly be fair to say it now belongs to Russia, ofc not. The victims family of that genocide still live until this day and to give away their land wouldn't be justice. Next to that, eastern Bosnia still has about 10% Bosniaks living there and you would be crazy to believe if they would save if that land was given to Serbia, the same people that tried to kill all those Bosniaks before.
Stops any brother vs brother wars, or any war PEACE FOR ALL.
You should make a video about the Anglo-French blockade of the Rio de la Plata, when Argentina had to repel an invasion by France and Britain trying to take control of their rivers. And guess what? Giuseppe Garibaldi aided them, leading a company of Italian mercenaries that attacked several Argentinian and Uruguayan towns and cities. It's a really interesting and underated historical conflict.
1:52 while croats did import weapons from ex WarPact countries, bakelite mags were never made in Yugoslavia, and JNA forces in that time would not have time to capture those, and even them they were so much rare, especially at the beginning, that there would be almost 0 chance encountering them.