Did Czechoslovakia receive foreign aid like Yugoslavia did? Did Czechoslovakia have a century of ethnic tension between Slovak and Czechs like Serb and Croats did? Even if the country was called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia it was ruled by a Serbian King, so Croats didn't want to replace Austro-Hungarian rule with another one, they wanted independence. There were so many little things when combined on a big pile it spelled disaster for the future
And then the czechs took most of the industry and alegedly the majority of the gold reserve, kept the czechoslovak flag, didnt change many Company names like the bus transits shortcut is CSAD when they should have droped the S, but you know, whe, as good brothers overlook these things, we still like em
The IMF: If you shake the jar continuously and dump the ants on the ground, they will fight until they kill each other. The black ants think the red ants are the enemy and the red ants think the black ants are the enemy when in reality the actual enemy is the guy who continously shock the jar
Many socialist republics in Eastern Europe went to loan from the IMF (voluntarily) in the 1970s, thinking those loans they could invest would pay for themselves. Spoiler: having a top-down socialist planned economy, doesn't make for good investments. Especially when you made the loan yourself. It was their own fault.
@@mellofello2537 Too easy to blame IMF for Yugoslavia's own troubles. besides that, Yugoslavia made their own decicion to loan from IMF. Easy to blame external forces when it's your own fault.
@@marnixmaximus3053 people always talk of the IMF like the world should give them money without any demands and when they stop giving them money because the country didn't comply with those demans, the IMF is "the bad guy" for the mismanagement of the countries that voluntarily took those loans and promised to comply with the demands of the loan
When the economy was good, and leadership was strong, people tend to set aside their differences in order to enjoy the benefit of stability and wealth.
@@baki4341 The main reason why it was like that was because tito was ACTUALLY honest, unlike most communist leaders, and respected all ethnicities within yougoslavia. A main point that I like referring to is the fact that Macedonians are different from Bulgarians, like how Montenegrans are different from Serbians, they have a different narrative and different viewpoints of how things should be and it would be silly to assume Montenegro would still get along with Serbia if they United as would Macedonia if it ever united with Bulgaria, Tito was the only person that had the balls to say "Yes, these people ARE different and I truly believe in them" for that he is a hero to many.
@@S_whoelse Montenegrin is a geographical term for Serbs in montenegro originally. Due to Montenegro’s status and independence due to the kingdom, principality before separate to Serbia it’s also a nationality today technically. However they aren’t different. Montenegrins are Serbs and always have been… I’m saying this as a Montenegrin. All our ancestors identified themselves as Serbs as well, kings, queens, nobles, warriors, priests, everyone. Most of Montenegro would be alrigjt with it since it’s a unified Serb state and they are same people. As long as they have some form of autonomy which is purely because of economy and avoiding centralization. However at the moment people would not be interested in that kind of change due to the already ongoing changes, and switching from independence to union federation so quick would be really messy as you’d have to make even more changes and dismantling.
The beginning of the video reminded me of a joke of sorts that we used to tell in Yugoslavia. We used to joke that "Jugoslavia je okružena BRIGAMA" ("Yugoslavia is surrounded by troubles"). The acronym "BRIGAMA" (by troubles) is formed from the first letters of the names of countries that did then surround Yugoslavia -- Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Greece, Austria, Mađarska (Hungary), and Albania.
@@andresduques2013 R (romania) is one of letter in word BRIGAMA (worries or toubles) B bulgaria, R romania, I italy, G greece, A austria, M magyars, A albania... yugoslavia was non alied country surrounded by either NATO or Eastern block which Socialist Rep Romania with Ceausescu was member. hungary, romania and bulgaria were behing the Iron curtain when SFRYugoslavia existed... but it is just silly word play
One of the few channels that covered the break-up decently. Some channels omitted the pre-WWI history of the Balkans region. It is important to include this aspect of the formation of Yugoslavia to understand the deep underlying current of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, etc. There are aspects that your video hadn't dealt with was that certain parties in Yugoslavia had aligned themself with Nazi Germany and conflict exist between those factions and those that fought the Germans. There were even competing partisans factions. It has a complicated history of conflict within its various ethnicity. When I was in junior high school in mid-80s, one of my hobby then was to collect stamps. Yugoslavia is one of the few countries that I never did get any stamps of.
@@backtothefront9696 There is a youtube channel named *SerbianComposers* There are a lot of works from the mid 19th century composers onwards, including from the time of K. of Serbia and K. of Yugoslavia
Born and lived in the YU long enough to approve video it is quite accurate although He did some fundamental mistakes like rising the payment 12:35 not accurate at all as the bankruptcy of the firm's he mismatched yugoslavia and post yugoslavia time in fact the salary was fixed on the rate 1:4 as max difference in every company between max payment and the lowest payment ( worker-manager) Diffewrence was too low and management could not pay a good worker enough versus bad worker not to forgot it wasnt easy to fire a bad worker because of socialist mentality you were forced to deal with some really lazy worker remember my dad (manager in one company) complained about that. The rising of prices was because of inflation ( up to 100% per year) which was driven from other reasons and was actually beneficial to the ordinary worker because thanks to the bank loans for ordinary workers they could build their own houses, buy a car.... but because of inflation they payed back to the bank only a fraction of the real price namely the loans had only fix interests aprox 10% per year. 14:30 USSR never send any money to Yugoslavia in fact USSR owed Yugoslavia +1 bilon $ in 1990 for goods imported from yugoslavia Fast forward Yugoslavia didn't fell apart because of socialism or even multitnical tensions (they were present of course but not as main reason) but because of greed and ill ambitions by some individuals which wanted to be another Josip Broz Tito.
My Mother is from Bulgaria, she moved in the 90s and was also very similar in that matter, but luckily our country (I was born in Austria though) didn’t join Yugoslavia even though we almost did.
Try to watch "Weight of Chains" 1,2,3, gives a different perspective on IMF and foreign interests, and you can see in a couple of sections what people of different ethnicity thought about their neighbor that had different nationality, religion.
That was brilliant thanks. I have tried several times to get a rough overview of the situation but struggled. I'm sure there are are many who will say much missed as you can only cover so much in a 40 min or so video and it felt like a good job of providing an overview without getting bogged down into he said she said details. I really felt like I got a rough idea of what was happened. Thanks again.
24:28 While the Bosnians and Croats did fight together most of the time , It should be noted that the Croat - bosniak war occurred, a conflict which took place between 1992 to 1994, mainly in the Herzegovina region.
Sadly, as an American, I wasn’t even aware that Yugoslavia had broken up until about 25 years later!!! I’m telling you, schools and the media in the US all too often fail to acknowledge that there is a whole world out there beyond our borders. Now, here I sit at 40 years old, watching TH-cam so I can learn all the things that I should have been taught in school and/or seen on the news.
That's a pity. We were closest to the perfect political system (at the time, of course). Being so well respected, one of the founder country of the Non-Aligned Movement (consisting mainly of ex colonies which parts of ex YU could also be considered) in a bipolar world, balancing perfectly between two forces. I don't think that kind of country will ever exist in Europe again. When Tito died, so many countries sent their presidents, PMs and other representatives making it one of the biggest funerals in history. Now divided, no country by itself will ever be even close to that status. Nobody cares anymore, I feel like we are colonized again (but by different methods).
@@cammiixx This video misses some large points, the Kosovo war, the Crotian War, The Bosnian War and Srebrenica massacre (europes worst massacre after WW2), the NATO 1999 bombing campain, the albanian ethnic clensing attempt, its almost out of context
@@peropero2307 It would be funny if it was even slightly true, but it's not. Serbia is in top 15 in the world alongside Croatia when it comes to English language understanding. Just search EF English Proficiency Index and you'll see.
Love your videos, I am from Ireland, when I was at school we only learned what the landmass was of European countries, a few mountain ranges and what their biggest export was. Your videos need to be taught at schools, they are very informative, I lived through many of these events but really did not understand what was happening. Thank you
I got to know people from former Yugoslavia. I also have Bosnian Serb relatives, I worked in a company in Milan whose owner was Croatian. All very good people of a unique correctness. As an Italian I can only say that this tragedy struck me a lot and I never thought it would happen.
My godfather is from Serbia and he explained what it was like to work during the period of hyperinflation in the early 90s. Prices changed so fast that he started out getting paid every 2 weeks, then once a week, and eventually he got paid after every single workday because inflation rates reached 313,563,558 percent. I never thought about that aspect of hyperinflation before he mentioned it.
Great video. It is very difficult to be objective when you live in time and space in which all this happened and it still is, but it seems that you touched all the important bits. One of the saddest things is that Tito always talked about preserving the brotherhood and unity of all ethnic groups and being prepared for the enemy that never sleeps as they fought nazis just few decades earlier, but then Yugoslavia broke apart inside out because of the incompetence, nationalism and mythomania.
..Jugoslavija se raspala jer je padom berlinskoj zida...izgubila smisao....razbili su je rusi I amerikanci zajedno...kao sto i sve drugo rade po planu....
Tito was very naive. He thought everything would remain cool after he dies, but he forgot the Serbian nationalism. Serbs have never abandoned the idea of Greater Serbia. They were just sitting and waiting for the old man to kick the bucket. And sure enough, pretty soon after he did, war broke out. "...wherever a Serb lives, it's Serbia..." And, it's not over yet. Adriatic looks mighty tempting to the Serbs, and to their Russian friends.
@@melchid8448 I believe that people in other parts of the world didn't feel how intense that splitting was as we in Europe. Yugoslavia managed to survive right in the middle between the two biggest military alliances in the world.
As a man living in ex-yu country, many problems revealed after Tito’s death which only Tito could manage properly. Power vacuum after his death basically crumbled Yugoslavia beyond imagination.
@JRodgesevant You are right, he is fascist. I read his other comments above and it is clear as a day that behind those comments hide some postwar looser who compensates for his low self-esteem with narrow-minded thinking. Kind of like Qanons members do in the US.
Except forceful redistribution is practised in almost every western country, with the wealthiest of them (such as the nordic countries) doing to most redistribution.
I watched a lot of videos on this topic, talked to a few first hand accounts, read a lot on the topic as well. This is one of the best informed videos I’ve seen.
The only major aspect not covered in the video is the influence of various external centers of power who treated Yugoslavia as a playground for pursuing their own interests and saw the future of former Yugoslavia in different, often conflicting, ways.
As early as 1970s or 80s, a W Euro (W Germany?) MP revealed NATO s 1st Yugoslavia breakup plan, while others followed. There is a more recent video ( sorry?, forgot title. but perhaps on youtube claimed to show that at least 1 of ex Yugoslavia wars was cynical joint!!! covert action by Slobodam Milosevic, F. Tudjman, and ??--leaders of those 3 new countries staged that war for some benefits, Video even shows the 3 leaders at a party-- during the war!! If time line is true a Machiavellian self serving twisted plot? That would exceed any Euro opera, film, or novels wildest imaginations!!
But he did. See 13:50. On one will give someone else money in exchange for nothing. Ofc that push of foreign was implied. He just did not go deep into details, or video would last 2 hours.
Everyone always had their players on this Balkans of ours. That's why Yu was created in the first place, to be able to resist outside influences. The moment we forgot that, it cost us 150k souls, half a M disabled and ~3M displaced. Congrats to us, yayyyy!! ;D
It kind of didn‘t. Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India once before they broke up. The reason why such a diverse region even got formed into one country is the same reason for African destability. Colonialism. If you are asking about why modern day India keeps it together. No clue. Clima i guess?
@@ivanbalvan1619 Essentially the Independence movement and the idea of a unified Indian identity and general geography since...we all live on the same subcontinent roughly?
@@zeldamage001 The independence movement emphasised the idea of 'India' as a whole. Even before there was always an idea of a the land of India as a whole. This idea was already created on the foundation set by the British Raj treating the entire place as a single country for a 100 years. Why does it stay together now? Because all the stafes recognize that they're better off in the Union and most citizens see themselves as part of India. There were independence movements in the North-East but that's reduced over time and then there's J&K which as we all know is complicated
I found this channel this week by accident and now I've been watching all the videos. Such good content! Particularly as a South American, we don't have deep education history pos-WWII outside our region (we were too busy dealing with out own insane dictators! So that's our main focus on modern history) so this has been a great learning experience for me. Thank you for the quality content.
Im guessing you are brazilian by your name (sry if the assumption is wrong). South american countries arent the only ones lacking a deeper post ww2 education on its school system, having moved to europe at a young age, its clear the problem isnt merely reserved to south america (people tend to be interested in learning their own history it seems). A second note, what dictators are you reffering to? the only one coming to mind would be Maduro.
@@carolinabazani4292 I'm not Brazilian and my name is not Portuguese at all lol, it's Spanish (most names in South America are, we were colonized by Spain after all). And every South American country had dictators in the past century, Maduro is the only one right now but Argentina had many dictators including Videla who was a monster, Perú had Fujimori, Chile had Pinochet, Venezuela also had Pérez Jiménez back in the day and so on... now there's democracies but the levels of corruption are rampant, so I'm not sure how democratic that actually is
Excellent job. 👏👏 This is a very complicated war and I had never managed to find out detailed information that i could easily comprehend. This video is what I needed because of the details about the country from its creation until the breakup, the details about the way it functioned and on why it stop functioning later on, the speed on the narrator's tone, the music, the comical pictures where needed and much more. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic that your focus lies on economic aspects of these events. I've read and watched a lot about yugoslavia, but this video made me aware a lot of new aspects. Thank you
Yes, economy was one of the main reasons...20 yeras before break up, in 1971 was so called Croatian spring...when Croatian communist party was looking for more independence against central goverment in Belgrade...than Tito stops it...around 70 000 Croats who was involved , most of them intelectuals was fired from jobs, some of them go to prison...one of most known parol of demonstration was "Croatian wallet in Croatian pocket", and "Croatia rifle on Croatian shoulder"...That was a little bit too much for Tito and communist party of Yugoslavia, so they stopped it...the next 20 years is known as "Croatian silence" because everybody was afraid to talk about that issues. It is interesting that communist party of Serbia was not against that Croatian leadership in 1971
Some things were missed in the explanation like:IMF gave the loan under a condition that economy has to be transformed and the companies have to make profit without the support of the state , otherwise company has to declare bankruptcy. The major issue and problem with that condition was very short time for that transformation, one year. Most companies went bankrupt and more than 50% of working population become unemployed without hope that situation would improve. In such situation of social despair ethnic tension started to rise.
Thank you for making this video! Its good giving more insight of the break-up of Yugoslavia more knowledgeable and in-depth how it happened and why. Thank you 😊
Thank you for a clear explanation of what happened back then. I couldn't understand it then and struggled to get any clear information afterwards. Complexities, indeed but not impossible to understand as you've just proved.
While most of the facts in the video are true, or close enough to truth, the video manages to create a false narrative by omitting crucial facts. It hardly ever mentions the ethnic tensions and violence which accompanied Yugoslavia even as it was still "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes". The renaming to "Yugoslavia" has nothing to do with "branding", and everything with covering up the ethnic tensions: murder of leading Croat politicians by Serb nationalist in the national parliament in 1928, the assassination of the (ethnically Serb) king by Croat nationalist in 1934, etc. These ethnic tensions got much worse during the WW2, had never been resolved, and eventually caused the country to disintegrate. Economic inequalities were just a symptom, a result of different ethnicities having different levels of education, work mentality, and social organisation.
Good point, but one thing still needs correction: king Alexander was killed by the Macedonian nationalist (they were in league with the Croats, all right).
Well explained, considering the complexity of the Western Balkans. Although you missed explaining real agendas behind many actions, because this conflict originates way before any Yugoslavia was ever created.
This is one of the best videos on the topic of breakup of Yugoslavia. Short and very clear. As a Croat, I can say it is very difficult to explain to a foreigner what actualy happened and not lose their interest half way down the timelane which has to cover atleast all what happened in the region in thru the 20th century, not to mention that also the historical conditions since the middle ages also had to do with how it all ended in the 1990s. Very good job!
Don't base your knowledge on this video, it's filled with holes, badly explained, and it sound like he just read it off wikipedia, skipping over details that are important in later on... I suggest Feature History's videos on the same topic, not too long, and get's the message across in a detailed manner...
ScrewT4pe *smokes cigar* sorry, but I’ve already watched FH’s videos, and my opinion is that this one is better. FH isn’t bad, but I like this channel better
I can tell you like someone who was and still, is a first-hand witness of all of this starting from the 70is to today, you make a really good explanation in a video only 30 min long ... an excellent job ... for me the best part is about the economic problems ... one more time good job thx on it ... sub from me ...
This is an incredible video. I was a child when my relatives brought me back a souvenir from their holiday in Yugoslavia (probably now Croatia) in the early 90’s. Then in my teens, I watched the “war in the Balkans” (as the UK news called it) on the TV. You’ve really helped me made sense of what I saw and heard back then. Thank you. ❤
The Yugoslav Communists supported Hitler while he had a pact with Stalin. Only when Hitler attacked Russia on June 22. 1941, the communist uprising in Yugoslavia began, against Hitler and capitalism. In that communist uprising, about 2 million people, mostly Croats, were killed and expelled from the country. In Croatia and Slovenia alone, there are hundreds of mass graves with thousands of skeletons, the victims were not only captured soldiers, but also women and children. Communist Yugoslavia was created on the basis of mass crimes, and thus disintegrated with new mass crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
It is a tribunal founded and financed by USA with sole purpose to justify their illegal attack on Yugoslavia without the mandate of UNSC. Its absolutely biased to the point of being comical. It freed all prominent US puppets, even those who actually murdered civilians with their own hands, such as Albanian criminal Haradinai (who also killed 19 witnesses in his Hague trial case), muslim Oric who cut out babies from pregnant women and was video recorded in burnt Serbian villages where they played football with cut off civilian heads, and Croatian general Gotovina who was recorded in Brioni tapes planning largest ethnic cleansing of Serbs in post ww2 Europe with their president Tudjman. On the other hand, all the Serbs got life sentences even if they did no crime, didnt ordered any crime, or even knew about crime, just for being prominent Serb leaders. This tribunal was chance to put an end to this war if it sentenced all war criminals on all sides. Instead it just deepened hatred and bitterness and fuels the seed of another war.
@@cibetka76 Your comment is what happens when you are fed one sided propaganda based around self-victimization. Maybe you should actually look into the court cases before you make such comments.
@@KaSousek58 I read all the court cases on NGO site Fund for humanitarian rights. Entire transcripts, not just indictions and sentences. Its precisely what happened. There is no concrete crime there for Serbian leaders, all the fake incidents like Racak, Mrkale and the others were removed from indictions after witnesses and documents started refuting it and making it very embarassing for USA. Those people were never linked to any crime. Not by doing, not by ordering, nor planning. Only by presumed (by USA) participation in presumed joint criminal venture, which is complete rubbish, putting people who were mortal political enemies, hated each others etc all together in this venture, and without any proof such venture ever existed. While such venture on Croatian side which was tape recorded and whole public saw transcripts in Croatia and world wide was ignored. You can take example of Kosovo. Each and every serbian soldier was issued the written geneva convention rules, and briefed by officers, and strict orders were given at all times to not harm any civilian. And its a common sense, because we all knew USA is waiting for any wrong move to justify bombing our country, and we were aware how they use fake propaganda on example of Bosnia and Croatia. Not a single civilian was deliberately harmed in Kosovo by our forces, excluding very few cases of notorious terrorists who locked in their fort-houses and wouldnt let women and children out when called to do so. In such cases, for example Jasari, police besieged house for several days, negotiating and trying to save civilians, but was shot at constantly, and in finally eliminating these terrorists there was several civilians killed too. In all the actions Serbian forces in Kosovo acted with much more prudence, care and tact certainly then US forces do around the world. When USA couldnt find any crime by Serbian forces, frustrated for not having excuse to bomb, they staged Racak, C.Walker and his helpers collecting 40-something terrorists killed in combat from trenches and bunkers and lining them up in one place to seem like execution, proclaiming its civilians, even though they were all UCK. This was trumpeted by whole orchestra of western media who are part of NATO war machine, and used as excuse to bomb. Along they used alleged exodus of Albanians, that was actually organized, even enforced by UCK. Again common sense, exodus never happened from areas controlled by Serbian forces, only those held by UCK. Albanians were very afraid of UCK who killed more albanians then Serbs did, and they even today dont dare talk because criminals and drug dealers and murderers who were in UCK are now politicians, president, prime minister etc. Later on, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta withdrew that report on Racak, saying it was US envoy Christopher walker who forced her to write it, and this fake report was dropped from Milosevic indiction. Everyone in the Balkans knows its fake, there was several days of fighting for Racak, it was a nest of UCK, and no civilian was killed there or anywhere. Also everyone in Balkans on both sides knows people like Taci, Haradinaj, Ceku etc. who were well known pre war criminals, personally killed in gruesome way many dozen of people, and were behind the organ extracting from kidnapped serbian civilians, which was confirmed both in book of Karla del Ponte and investigation by EU prosecutors Dick Marty and Jonathan Ratel. The whole story about Kosovo is dark page of US cynism, corruption and pure evilness in starting conflict, completely twisting reality through media, comitting war crime of aggression, and softly colonizing a country, working with terrorists and criminals as they often do, covering crimes its own and of its puppets, and laughing at victims through the fake and corrupt war crimes tribunal. You guys have literally no idea about the scale of deception and dark truth behind all this. Its similar in Croatia where whole Serbian population was killed or expelled, Bosnia, where only in Sarajevo alone more Serbs were killed then in all alleged Serbian crimes put together around ex Yugoslavia, or Kosovo where also whole Serbian population was ethnically cleansed, more then 100 monasteries and churches were destroyed etc. No one was convicted for any of those crimes, for simple reason they are US puppets and its US court. There is nothing more to it.
@@cibetka76 can you provide a link to this NGO. I cant find anything about it on internet and it seems your main source is information by NGO site, not actual court cases. Also, you do realize that there are people who admitted their crimes like for example Martić. Your statements do not correspond to any publicly available data so you will have to provide a link for your statements. Idea that more Serbs were killed in Sarajevo than all other people in all other locations combined is especially dubious. So yeah, sry but your statements shows you have not actually read court cases but rather base your opinion on NGO site that can't be found on google. If your source is Fond za humanitarno pravo, then your statements are even more odd considering that NGO constantly talks about serbian war crimes and I have never seen any of their publications that would confirm your statements
Grew up with many people from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia etc. 1 who told me about the wars. No wonder there were so many at my school, all refugees. This happened when I was a only a few years old but never realized until recently what really happened.
This was really good mate. Thank you. I also didn’t know that there were differences between Yugoslav communism and Soviet style communism. It’s a beautiful part of the world.
I have a family member who went to Kosovo because of the war to provide aid under her charity. Her stories are quite interesting and one thing constantly mentioned is that many different troops were there (Italian, UK etc)
Very good explanation of breakup. I have just missed other influenced things - oil crise in 70-ies, debt crisis in 80-ies (not just in Yugoslaviy, but also in south America). And one interesting data - Slovenia today has more debt as whole Yugoslavia in 80-ies. IMF wasn`t and isn`t agency for help, but it is political agency to gain USA`s claimes around the world. In that way will be more adequate and interesting video.
@@milosjovicevic6083, history is always subjective my friend. From your last name (I'm guessing), you reside/have ancestry in some part of what was once Yugoslavia and understand that some of the information presented in the video might misrepresent or contradict a view you hold. That being said, I truly am interested in knowing what key information you really disagree with.
@@prithviprakash1110 I believe that the narrator may be a good man, but he left out many crucial things. One could say even the most important thing. The main problem with Yugoslavia was the influence of the Vatican. The Vatican has long wanted to turn Orthodox Serbs into Catholics. Serbs did not give up their Orthodox Christian faith. The Vatican turned entire continents into Catholics, but failed to penetrate through Serbia to the East. In 1914, Serbs defended themselves against Germans, Austrians, Croats, Muslims, etc. Serbia heroically liberated the whole of Yugoslavia in 1914-1918. We paid 1.3 million victims. However, in 1941 the ungrateful Croats reunited with Hitler's Germany and set up concentration camps for the Serbs. They killed over 300,000 Serbs, they even had camps for children. We Serbs forgive them again (we naively believed in the Slavic brotherhood) and in fact the Croats have always tended more towards the Vatican. Somehow Yugoslavia survived until the end of the eighties. Then again, Croatian and Muslim extremists began to hate. The West (the Vatican of course) sided with its Catholics and through the world media (CNN etc) revised history. They created a problem for Serbs because Serbs are pro-Russian and the West has a pathological fear of Russia. The break-up of Yugoslavia has most to do with the Vatican, Western intelligence and the Americans' desire for dominance in the Balkans. They wanted to remove Russian influence from the Balkans after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR.
@@milosjovicevic6083, thank you for that very detailed explanation, it was very informative. I have to say, the politicisation of history is a global pandemic atm, where facts are deliberately or accidentally left out, and as a result portrays certain groups in an unfavourable light. This is a common problem in my country, India as well, which is over 6000 years old. That being said, I had no idea that there was even involvement of the Catholic Church in the breakup of the Slavic State. That's incredible how Serbia has survived multiple attacks and still has a nation standing to this day.
@@prithviprakash1110 Unfortunately, the territory of Yugoslavia is a turning point in the "worlds". The crossroads of Europe and Asia, the road to the Mediterranean, to Africa. For centuries, all empires wanted to control it. Especially the West and the Vatican. What bothered them the most was that there were pro-Russian Serbs of the Orthodox Christian religion only 800 km from the Vatican. It was a thorn in their side. They did everything against the unification of the Slavs in that part of Europe. In the end, American imperialism continued the same policy. I like India so much :) The former Yugoslavia and India were the leaders of non-aligned countries. Western imperialism was annoyed that there were states that did not want to be their servants. I likes your information, didn' t know all that :) Very nice of you, i love to learn new stuff :) Serbia lost literrary 28% of population in WW1 Than we lost also 10% population in WW2 Yes bro, we somehow survived Even today we refused to go in NATO All Europe is NATO pact We don' t want to be with NATO imperialist Because of that we have our honor Serbia is only state in Europe who doesn' t have american troops on own land :)
3:14, this includes the territories that were gained after ww2, and is using the communist flag. Yugoslavia was a kingdom after ww1, and didn't own Istria. The communist flag seems to be appearing a lot while referring to the kingdom for no apparent reason here
Thanks for making this video! I really enjoyed it! I can’t stop rewinding to 21:15 when you talk about the breakup of the states while Dvorak’s 9th symphony plays in the background. It makes it really more intense and dramatic. Once again, thx for making this and can’t what for future episodes!
13:46 btw that map shows finland pre ww2, it lost territory in the south west, the corridor to the barents sea, and another bit south of there, around the same latitude as the white sea
Breakup of Yugoslavia: causes bloodshed, war, and lots of controversy and drama that still exists today Meanwhile, Breakup of Czechoslovakia: aight imma head out, Czechia
18:58 isn't quite true. When republic borders inside Yugoslavia were drawn in 1945. ethnic composition was basically same as in 1991. There wasn't major shift due to population moving.
@@Akcija1930 tbh, the difference between the ustaše and četniks was only that ustaše were in opwer and četniks weren't. they did the same genocide spiel and were equally as bad for the local population. They were only fighting for the king on paper. And that hate towards serbs started in yugoslavia 1 when serbia wanted more centralisation of power and as such oppressed other regions so that feeling of being oppressed coupled with fascist hatred of everything different culminated in hatred.
Big thumbs up for this video. A Serbian from Belgrade here. I must add that mass media in Serbia was so much controlled by the regime, that majority of people in Serbia in the 90s didn't even know what was happening inside or outside of the country. People were seduced and brainwashed with controlled news, new music stars, future-tellers... The entertainment TV got a totally new wicked dimension with a degrading of a culture and common sense (people in Belgrade were afraid of solar eclipses, I remember that). It was the era of the sanctions, isolation with no travel or tourists, and before the internet, with people looking and relying on a TV program too much. The majority of the forces that did the war crimes were paramilitary forces led by nationalistic movements, with no control. Arguably the biggest military-paramilitary Serbian leader was Arkan, the leader of "Arkan's Tigers", while his wife Ceca was the biggest music star in the region (singing cheerful songs and folk-pop ballads about love). It would be nice to make a video about media control.
Arkan: from the stands to the battlefields. An interesting history (I know that is not all). For those that don't know: Arkan, before the war, led Delije, the ultra group of Red Star Belgrade. After the war he became the owner of Obilic, a once neighbourhood club in Belgrade that started winning everything after he took over (the only club to win the league besides Red Star and Partizan after the initial breakup of the Yugoslavia). Of course the wins came mostly under threats to the opponents. After he was forced to step down, Ceca ran the club back to the ground.
Your longform content is perfect as I sit here and crochet a scarf, lol! It's the first thing I've ever made and looks to be coming along well! Thanks for keeping me entertained and informed as I work.
Nice presentation and pretty accurate too. Could have spent a bit more time explaining the WW2 situation (3 separate movements, one of which was radically pro Nazi), which would have given a bit more historical context but overall really well done. I of Croatian ethnicity, visited Jugoslavija in late 1988. Whilst in Serbia very much all good, business as usual but when in Croatia it was easy to see there was a bit of feeling and trouble brewing. I never imagined it would go the way it did and that it would happen so quickly. Well, Jugoslavija might seem to have been a good idea at the time it was formed but I guess it was always an artificial country doomed to eventual failure.
That would make sense. 1988 Serbia didnt felt the tension the other repulblic or autonomy regions did because Slobodan's goverment in Serbia was couse of tension and tension wouldnt be naturally felt from the source as would in the affected areas
Kosova was never serb is ethnic population 90% albanians, serbs come from Carpates and they have to go from where they come!!!!!!! Kosova is indipendet state 🇽🇰❤
I love history with a passion, and I just stumbled on this video. I loved it!! Your presentation was clear, well thought out and well delivered. It provided a lot of fascinating detail - but not so much that it could only be understood by history professors. The graphics were excellent, the script well written, and the narrator was excellent (and as the cherry top was his Eastern European accent!). As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description. In short... great job..! I’m glad I found you! As of this moment I shall like, comment, and subscribe. 🙏 And eagerly await your next videos.
"As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description. " What? He flat out blamed the Serbs for everything lol
Excellent and in-depth video explaining in details the economy shortcomings in the late 80s. The only remark I'd have is that the ethnic tensions existed throughout Tito's rule. Many so-called nationalists were either imprisoned or eliminated, while some managed to survive in exile. There were numerous attempts to overthrow the Yugoslavian government, but to no avail. Things started to fall apart right after Tito's demise. The bad management and corruption just sped up the process of its collapse.
By far the best explanation and easy to follow video of the breakup of this country. I know its very complicated lol. This video helped me understand this topic alot better. Well done!!
1:01 "But most of the people who lived here were neither Austrian, Hungarian, or Ottoman - they were Slavic..." The term "Austrian" back then was not linked to any ethnicity or nationality, but to the House of Austria. Many Slavs certainly considered themselves loyal to the House of Austria and considered the idea of Pan-Slavism a pipe dream. After all, Slovenes had lived under Habsburg rule for many centuries, and had much more in common with their catholic German-speaking neighbors next door than with the orthodox Serbs from Serbia, whose history was very different. The real oppression began when Yugoslavia was established, because the name of the country made it clear that only Slavs would call the shots, whereas others - Germans, Hungarians, Italians etc. - were now a minority. The same happened in Czechoslovakia, a country which from the beginning and already visible based on the name of the country did not accept that Germans were the second largest ethnic group. For the English and the French the destruction of Austria-Hungary was certainly a success; for the people in the region, a reformed United States of Austria-Hungary would certainly have been preferable. It was not by chance that it was exactly the proponent of this idea and the person who most opposed to war was murdered in 1914.
Although there were very minor inaccuracies regarding ww2 I was fascinated to actually see in depth theory of states craft being used for the later parts. Well done man.
@@majdavojnikovic How come? Ustashe killed first king of Yugoslavia. And during ww2 Ustashe made ethnic divisions between Serbs and Croats insurmountable. And Chetniks I didn't mention also.
One of the best explanations so far, how this really happened. The most important thing is that there was no single point or reason of failure. I wish that EX YU countries put this explanation in history books.
I would have loved to see more battlefield tactics during the war itself. For example, how they barricaded the roads with trucks so that tanks couldn't get through. Or how they caused the river Drava to overflow to stop them coming over a bridge.
This is not a "rambo-boys-with toys" military video about the wars in the former Yugoslavia. It's forcus is on the roots and causes of the break-up of the country, not on who had "cooler" battle strategy & tactics during the war.
I like how slowly you explain complicated topics. I don't know why a lot of youtubers rush their videos and talk very fastly. I can not follow and they earn less money!
Great video, however, map of Yugoslavia before 1945 had no red star and was slightly smaller on the western border: Istria and coast north of Istria were part of Italy, not kingdom of Yugoslavia.
@@monsieur1936 Actually, they could've looked at a more simpler country like Germany. Sure, we view all the Germans in Germany as just "German", but just like Yugoslavia, Germany has linguistic historic and religious differences as well. In fact if you ask me, Low German Dialects and High German Dialects are far more different from eachother than Croatian and Serbian are. Northern and North-Central Germans are mostly protestant christians while the south and west are catholic, and the east is almost entirely atheist; just like how one half of the Yugoslavia was orthodox, the other catholic, and a small minority muslim. Just as there had been independent Croatian and Serbian kingdoms, Germany spent most of its history as small divided states. Imagine a world where Yugoslavia was the Germany of southern Europe...
The problem were the people who wanted to exploit the differences, like the whole muslim discrimination system put in place in India today. Don't know too much about it, i just know that you're kicking the hell out of them. The same idea that was used back then in yugoslavia. You should have learned from us =) We should all learn to see through the "divine and conquer" exploiters
@@atruv2089 It seems to me that germany was always too divided for one group to take charge. Excluding the big guy Prussia, one small township taking over 100 others isn't really realistic. If you're serbia, 4vs4 politically, and you're in charge of the biggest and best equipped army - the federal army (JNA), it's realistic to go for it. Also, personal experience (and too deep of a scale for this video to go in to), the idea of the greater serbia started waaay back, here in north west of ex yugo, as far as the 60's, serbian nationals were specifically sent to be chief policemen or factory managers. What ever prominent position you can think of. Of course, the guy sent from serbia married a local croatian woman, a real shitshow in the 90's; one son's running around the town screaming "this here is serbia" and having mad luck that nobody attacked him (we were always friendly in the north west, even in war. Also, only a local situation that I know of, there were probably a lot more such families that had to keep their mouth shut and stay at home, just so they weren't a target), the other brother going to the front as a serbian croat, killing the serbs. I just can't understand how could their government not care for the families they knew they were destroying when they choose to go "big serbia". They made them happen sending those serbs through out yugoslavia. Here, today, it kinda seems like that duck meme - they choose that peace was never an option. And that's so sad. Never before in the history of mankind were these parts of the globe as politically relevant on the world stage as in those days. And don't get me wrong, I don't wanna go back. I just wanna feel respected again.
@@666nihil we aren't kicking the hell out of Muslims, it's a single party who is in charge right now is trying to push communal prejudices and bigotry against Muslim. It tries to scapegoat them for anything. But, the system isn't discriminatory. As I said, they should have learned how to handle diversity from India. In India we didn't gave an Army to every state, too much autonomy is as bad as no autonomy. And instead of making 1 representative from one Republic they should have used a population based representation system. And instead of making only 6 Republics they should have further divided those republics into states.
This was Avery from History Scope, thank you for watching!
(I forgot to say that this time)
Why did you use the communist flag of Yugoslavia in the beginning
@@duckly5362 Because that's the country I'm talking about in this video.
History Scope well before it went communist didn’t it have the regular blue white and red without the star in center
Completely bias and borderline racist!
You clearly lay all blame to the Serbs and portray the other Republics as freedom loving victims!
Utter BS!!
Cross Blood the video is about the breakup of Yugoslavia, which from the Second World War had that flag, including during the breakup
The breakup of Czechoslovakia:
Slovaks: "Hey bros, we think it would be just better to part our ways now."
Czechs: "Ye, sure buddy. Good luck!"
End.
Did Czechoslovakia receive foreign aid like Yugoslavia did?
Did Czechoslovakia have a century of ethnic tension between Slovak and Czechs like Serb and Croats did?
Even if the country was called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia it was ruled by a Serbian King, so Croats didn't want to replace Austro-Hungarian rule with another one, they wanted independence. There were so many little things when combined on a big pile it spelled disaster for the future
I always like seeing your comments. Also nice profile picture.
@@HistoryScope Now go away or I'll taunt you a second time.
thats how yugoslavs thought it would be. We were surprised and caught with our pants down when serbs got aggressive
And then the czechs took most of the industry and alegedly the majority of the gold reserve, kept the czechoslovak flag, didnt change many Company names like the bus transits shortcut is CSAD when they should have droped the S, but you know, whe, as good brothers overlook these things, we still like em
I'm glad that someone recognizes that Yugoslavia had the strongest resistance movement in WW2 and managed to liberate itself.
I agree.
The polish resistance was by far much more organized, though
@@Jancias which makes it even more Impressive since they were fighting them selfs and the enemy and still won
@@Jancias how so i am genuenly interested cause the yugos had entire corps divisions brigades and such?
The fact that Germans were getting clobbered by Russia probably helped a lot.
When you hear the words "The country turned to the IMF" you KNOW shit is going to go down.
The IMF: If you shake the jar continuously and dump the ants on the ground, they will fight until they kill each other. The black ants think the red ants are the enemy and the red ants think the black ants are the enemy when in reality the actual enemy is the guy who continously shock the jar
"""Who""" else could it possibly be?
Many socialist republics in Eastern Europe went to loan from the IMF (voluntarily) in the 1970s, thinking those loans they could invest would pay for themselves. Spoiler: having a top-down socialist planned economy, doesn't make for good investments. Especially when you made the loan yourself. It was their own fault.
@@mellofello2537 Too easy to blame IMF for Yugoslavia's own troubles. besides that, Yugoslavia made their own decicion to loan from IMF. Easy to blame external forces when it's your own fault.
@@marnixmaximus3053 people always talk of the IMF like the world should give them money without any demands and when they stop giving them money because the country didn't comply with those demans, the IMF is "the bad guy" for the mismanagement of the countries that voluntarily took those loans and promised to comply with the demands of the loan
My grandma came from Yugoslavia and told me a ton of stories of her journey before passing. Thanks for the vid.
Finally, a TH-camr that included San Marino on their map. You've made San Marino's day
If you use a magnifying glass you will see that the City of Vatican is also there!
Its avery the Cuban American
You know you've made it on TH-cam when Avery comments on your videos
Yeah me too. But hey, I'll take Avery's comments as a sign of success :D
I find you in many videos comment sections avery the cuban american greetings from bosnia steay strong socialist brother
When the economy was good, and leadership was strong, people tend to set aside their differences in order to enjoy the benefit of stability and wealth.
According to my Mom things was Great until 1980 ans that when imf reforms was taking place
@@TheJerico246 Basicly everything went to shit after Tito died
@@baki4341 yep
@@baki4341 The main reason why it was like that was because tito was ACTUALLY honest, unlike most communist leaders, and respected all ethnicities within yougoslavia.
A main point that I like referring to is the fact that Macedonians are different from Bulgarians, like how Montenegrans are different from Serbians, they have a different narrative and different viewpoints of how things should be and it would be silly to assume Montenegro would still get along with Serbia if they United as would Macedonia if it ever united with Bulgaria, Tito was the only person that had the balls to say "Yes, these people ARE different and I truly believe in them" for that he is a hero to many.
@@S_whoelse Montenegrin is a geographical term for Serbs in montenegro originally. Due to Montenegro’s status and independence due to the kingdom, principality before separate to Serbia it’s also a nationality today technically. However they aren’t different. Montenegrins are Serbs and always have been… I’m saying this as a Montenegrin. All our ancestors identified themselves as Serbs as well, kings, queens, nobles, warriors, priests, everyone.
Most of Montenegro would be alrigjt with it since it’s a unified Serb state and they are same people. As long as they have some form of autonomy which is purely because of economy and avoiding centralization. However at the moment people would not be interested in that kind of change due to the already ongoing changes, and switching from independence to union federation so quick would be really messy as you’d have to make even more changes and dismantling.
The beginning of the video reminded me of a joke of sorts that we used to tell in Yugoslavia. We used to joke that "Jugoslavia je okružena BRIGAMA" ("Yugoslavia is surrounded by troubles"). The acronym "BRIGAMA" (by troubles) is formed from the first letters of the names of countries that did then surround Yugoslavia -- Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Greece, Austria, Mađarska (Hungary), and Albania.
I remember that! 👍👍👍
Yet she (Yugoslavia) become biggest trouble of them all
@Jo yes of course that is truth and reality of sick minded person as you are.
Troubles? I'm genuinely curious, how could Romania be a trouble for Yougoslavia?
@@andresduques2013 R (romania) is one of letter in word BRIGAMA (worries or toubles) B bulgaria, R romania, I italy, G greece, A austria, M magyars, A albania... yugoslavia was non alied country surrounded by either NATO or Eastern block which Socialist Rep Romania with Ceausescu was member. hungary, romania and bulgaria were behing the Iron curtain when SFRYugoslavia existed... but it is just silly word play
One of the few channels that covered the break-up decently. Some channels omitted the pre-WWI history of the Balkans region. It is important to include this aspect of the formation of Yugoslavia to understand the deep underlying current of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, etc. There are aspects that your video hadn't dealt with was that certain parties in Yugoslavia had aligned themself with Nazi Germany and conflict exist between those factions and those that fought the Germans. There were even competing partisans factions. It has a complicated history of conflict within its various ethnicity. When I was in junior high school in mid-80s, one of my hobby then was to collect stamps. Yugoslavia is one of the few countries that I never did get any stamps of.
@@DilbertCronicles no wonder I don't understand the history in this country. It is so complicated, complex and fascinating at the same time!
I love how most of the comments are "get ready for war in the comment section" and there is none.
Greetings from Serbia, love ya all.
Love you too from kuwait
I hop in expecting it every time but I only have to argue once every three videos.
Welcome from Bosnia!
Поздрав и љубав из Мексика!! Учим српски :)
Волим историју Србије и Југославије
🇲🇽❤️🇷🇸
Here in Central Iowa, I have 2 Serbian, 3 Croat, 1 Bosnian (Muslim, don’t know ethnic), and 1 Kosovan friends.
Trust me, the convos are 🍿
Arizona ❤❤❤(Jesus saves)👍
>not German, Hungarian or Ottoman
>but instead Slavic
>plays Brahms Hungarian Dance
yes
The music starts when I talk about Austria Hungary.
I couldn't find fitting royal free Yugoslav music
@@backtothefront9696 He meant royalty free. As in "wont get copyright strike".
@@backtothefront9696 There is a youtube channel
named *SerbianComposers*
There are a lot of works from the mid 19th century composers onwards, including from the time of K. of Serbia and K. of Yugoslavia
@@HistoryScope Actually there is a good one called "March on the Drina" (I think) "Marsu na drinu" which is a royal Serbian march from Ww1.
extremely shallow video
This was a massive hole in my knowledge-set that I didn’t even know existed. Thank you History Scope.
For me personally it's the Middle East, I wish more schools touched on that region and western Asia.
Don't worry, this is oversimplified like most history.
Hi you must be American.
Europeans largely know about this due to the brutal wars of the 1990's on our doorstep.
@@noahbowie5985 Mhm, unfortunately our scope of modern history is only really kept to World War 2 and doesn't expand until say.. 10th or 11th grade.
Born and lived in the YU long enough to approve video it is quite accurate although
He did some fundamental mistakes like rising the payment 12:35 not accurate at all as the bankruptcy of the firm's he mismatched yugoslavia and post yugoslavia time in fact the salary was fixed on the rate 1:4 as max difference in every company between max payment and the lowest payment ( worker-manager)
Diffewrence was too low and management could not pay a good worker enough versus bad worker not to forgot it wasnt easy to fire a bad worker because of socialist mentality you were forced to deal with some really lazy worker remember my dad (manager in one company) complained about that.
The rising of prices was because of inflation ( up to 100% per year) which was driven from other reasons and was actually beneficial to the ordinary worker because thanks to the bank loans for ordinary workers they could build their own houses, buy a car.... but because of inflation they payed back to the bank only a fraction of the real price namely the loans had only fix interests aprox 10% per year.
14:30 USSR never send any money to Yugoslavia in fact USSR owed Yugoslavia +1 bilon $ in 1990 for goods imported from yugoslavia
Fast forward Yugoslavia didn't fell apart because of socialism or even multitnical tensions (they were present of course but not as main reason) but because of greed and ill ambitions by some individuals which wanted to be another Josip Broz Tito.
There was a girl in my school from Yugoslavia. She was very quiet and focused on her school work. She always got the best grades. ❤
That culture are always the best at everything be it Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia
My Mother is from Bulgaria, she moved in the 90s and was also very similar in that matter, but luckily our country (I was born in Austria though) didn’t join Yugoslavia even though we almost did.
@@IamArno Slavs in General
Loved how it covered the economy stuff more indepth. While others might shine a light on the ethnic tensions, you really took a unique approach!
Try to watch "Weight of Chains" 1,2,3, gives a different perspective on IMF and foreign interests, and you can see in a couple of sections what people of different ethnicity thought about their neighbor that had different nationality, religion.
@@RapTilians the imf is evil incarnate
@@StoutProper They certainly don't care what happens to people or countries as long as the money keeps churning and spinning..
“They gave their flag a 1 star review”
best sentence describing their flag
1 Yugoslav Star Review is like 5 American xD
Good point, absolutely worst flag ever
@@vanja2565 One of the best looking ones, dont mix your stupid politics into it.
@@arianmartic7965 it's not lmao, holy shit even if I like the country flag is retarded
@Angel Comrade što? Pogledaj zastavu, boje zvezda, bože sačuvaj Belgija ima lepšu zastavu
Plays a song called Hungarian Dance while talking about slavs. Call it unfortunate timing.
Written by a German who lived in Austria no less
Well we were in a personal union with hungary (Croatia)
@@bruhstasa6784 lol you were occupied so Serbs liberated you
@@rellshisui811 Not true.
@@Pajdas610 it's clearly is
That was brilliant thanks. I have tried several times to get a rough overview of the situation but struggled. I'm sure there are are many who will say much missed as you can only cover so much in a 40 min or so video and it felt like a good job of providing an overview without getting bogged down into he said she said details. I really felt like I got a rough idea of what was happened. Thanks again.
24:28 While the Bosnians and Croats did fight together most of the time , It should be noted that the Croat - bosniak war occurred, a conflict which took place between 1992 to 1994, mainly in the Herzegovina region.
Another pointless war because of religion.
Not really Croat-Bosniak War, rather Hercegs-Bosniak War.
@@soos3811 herzegovians fought for croatia therefore they are croatian
Central Bosnia these two sides fought pretty hard as well.. Travnik comes to mind.. All of Lašva Valley in fact.. Etc..
it was 1 Year ... 1993-1994
Sadly, as an American, I wasn’t even aware that Yugoslavia had broken up until about 25 years later!!! I’m telling you, schools and the media in the US all too often fail to acknowledge that there is a whole world out there beyond our borders. Now, here I sit at 40 years old, watching TH-cam so I can learn all the things that I should have been taught in school and/or seen on the news.
What a twit. Stop lying to get attention.
Ah kkkkkk hooo
Dw I didn’t even know what Yugoslavia was - Australian schools didn’t teach us anything about it either.
That's a pity. We were closest to the perfect political system (at the time, of course). Being so well respected, one of the founder country of the Non-Aligned Movement (consisting mainly of ex colonies which parts of ex YU could also be considered) in a bipolar world, balancing perfectly between two forces. I don't think that kind of country will ever exist in Europe again. When Tito died, so many countries sent their presidents, PMs and other representatives making it one of the biggest funerals in history. Now divided, no country by itself will ever be even close to that status. Nobody cares anymore, I feel like we are colonized again (but by different methods).
@@cammiixx This video misses some large points, the Kosovo war, the Crotian War, The Bosnian War and Srebrenica massacre (europes worst massacre after WW2), the NATO 1999 bombing campain, the albanian ethnic clensing attempt, its almost out of context
The comments are more civil than I expected
thats cuz serbs don't understand english
@@peropero2307 lol
@@peropero2307 It would be funny if it was even slightly true, but it's not. Serbia is in top 15 in the world alongside Croatia when it comes to English language understanding. Just search EF English Proficiency Index and you'll see.
@@juicersLULE press X to doubt
@@peropero2307 oh we don't? What a suprise that I saw a Croat spitting his bile again. You cannot live a day without thinking about Serbs.
Love your videos, I am from Ireland, when I was at school we only learned what the landmass was of European countries, a few mountain ranges and what their biggest export was. Your videos need to be taught at schools, they are very informative, I lived through many of these events but really did not understand what was happening. Thank you
“They gave Their flag a 1 star review...” haha, lol, that was brilliant!!
In hindsight, it was some freaky foreshadowing.
😂 i wanted to comment the very same.
I got to know people from former Yugoslavia. I also have Bosnian Serb relatives, I worked in a company in Milan whose owner was Croatian. All very good people of a unique correctness. As an Italian I can only say that this tragedy struck me a lot and I never thought it would happen.
Milan. What Milan? I'm Milan!
@@milan51259 Milan is also a City in Northern Italy
@The Caliphate Bosnia is for serbs croats and Bosniaks. What are you on about?
Tragedy? It was a blessing for us Croats, we dont want anything to do with the balkans, we are moving our beautiful country forward
@@powderskier5547 zajedno sa svim delovima koje Srbi naseljavaju vekovima
I’m not sure if someone already said this but the Kingdom of Yugoslavia did not have the star on its flag until the communist took power after the war
Yea he himself said that too. Probably edited that vid at 4 am
I specifically state that in the video. So yeah, somebody already said that :D
@@YugoslavGamer chill bro
ja it had an upside down dutch flag
@@YugoslavGamer chill out lol
My godfather is from Serbia and he explained what it was like to work during the period of hyperinflation in the early 90s. Prices changed so fast that he started out getting paid every 2 weeks, then once a week, and eventually he got paid after every single workday because inflation rates reached 313,563,558 percent. I never thought about that aspect of hyperinflation before he mentioned it.
Great video. It is very difficult to be objective when you live in time and space in which all this happened and it still is, but it seems that you touched all the important bits.
One of the saddest things is that Tito always talked about preserving the brotherhood and unity of all ethnic groups and being prepared for the enemy that never sleeps as they fought nazis just few decades earlier, but then Yugoslavia broke apart inside out because of the incompetence, nationalism and mythomania.
There is more nuance to it. Some of us in Croatia are well aware of many other issues that were bound to make Jugoslavija fall apart sooner or later.
..Jugoslavija se raspala jer je padom berlinskoj zida...izgubila smisao....razbili su je rusi I amerikanci zajedno...kao sto i sve drugo rade po planu....
Tito was very naive.
He thought everything would remain cool after he dies, but he forgot the Serbian nationalism.
Serbs have never abandoned the idea of Greater Serbia.
They were just sitting and waiting for the old man to kick the bucket.
And sure enough, pretty soon after he did, war broke out.
"...wherever a Serb lives, it's Serbia..."
And, it's not over yet. Adriatic looks mighty tempting to the Serbs, and to their Russian friends.
Always blows my mind when I get reminded that Yugoslavia was neither part of the west nor the east.
I mean half of the world was Non-Aligned. China was also non aligned after sino-soviet split along with India and Indonesia
@@melchid8448 Yeah I'm probably kinda biased that 'the world was split in two sides' with growing up in central Europe.
@@txm100 Oo which side?
@@melchid8448 I believe that people in other parts of the world didn't feel how intense that splitting was as we in Europe. Yugoslavia managed to survive right in the middle between the two biggest military alliances in the world.
Yeah Tito was one of the few people who was willing to stand up against Joseph Stalin.
As a man living in ex-yu country, many problems revealed after Tito’s death which only Tito could manage properly. Power vacuum after his death basically crumbled Yugoslavia beyond imagination.
@RadTheLad LMAO
@JRodgesevant You are right, he is fascist. I read his other comments above and it is clear as a day that behind those comments hide some postwar looser who compensates for his low self-esteem with narrow-minded thinking. Kind of like Qanons members do in the US.
@RadTheLad What Smallpox Outbreak ?!? What you are referring to?
@RadTheLad Oo that one! Thanks!
Except forceful redistribution is practised in almost every western country, with the wealthiest of them (such as the nordic countries) doing to most redistribution.
I watched a lot of videos on this topic, talked to a few first hand accounts, read a lot on the topic as well. This is one of the best informed videos I’ve seen.
The only major aspect not covered in the video is the influence of various external centers of power who treated Yugoslavia as a playground for pursuing their own interests and saw the future of former Yugoslavia in different, often conflicting, ways.
As early as 1970s or 80s, a W Euro (W Germany?) MP revealed NATO s 1st Yugoslavia breakup plan, while others followed. There
is a more recent video ( sorry?, forgot title. but perhaps on youtube claimed to show that
at least 1 of ex Yugoslavia wars was cynical joint!!! covert action
by Slobodam Milosevic, F. Tudjman, and ??--leaders of those 3 new countries staged that war for some benefits, Video even shows the 3 leaders at a party--
during the war!! If time line is true
a Machiavellian self serving twisted plot? That would exceed
any Euro opera, film, or novels
wildest imaginations!!
Do you have more info on this?
But he did. See 13:50. On one will give someone else money in exchange for nothing. Ofc that push of foreign was implied. He just did not go deep into details, or video would last 2 hours.
Everyone always had their players on this Balkans of ours. That's why Yu was created in the first place, to be able to resist outside influences. The moment we forgot that, it cost us 150k souls, half a M disabled and ~3M displaced. Congrats to us, yayyyy!! ;D
Yougoslavia: 5 languages, 4 religions and 7 minorities
India: that's cute
P.S. very well made video!
So, why the hell was India even unified in the first place? And how in God's name did they manage to stay that way?
It kind of didn‘t. Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India once before they broke up.
The reason why such a diverse region even got formed into one country is the same reason for African destability. Colonialism.
If you are asking about why modern day India keeps it together. No clue. Clima i guess?
Your comment is brilliant😎
@@ivanbalvan1619 Essentially the Independence movement and the idea of a unified Indian identity and general geography since...we all live on the same subcontinent roughly?
@@zeldamage001 The independence movement emphasised the idea of 'India' as a whole. Even before there was always an idea of a the land of India as a whole. This idea was already created on the foundation set by the British Raj treating the entire place as a single country for a 100 years.
Why does it stay together now? Because all the stafes recognize that they're better off in the Union and most citizens see themselves as part of India. There were independence movements in the North-East but that's reduced over time and then there's J&K which as we all know is complicated
I found this channel this week by accident and now I've been watching all the videos. Such good content! Particularly as a South American, we don't have deep education history pos-WWII outside our region (we were too busy dealing with out own insane dictators! So that's our main focus on modern history) so this has been a great learning experience for me. Thank you for the quality content.
Im guessing you are brazilian by your name (sry if the assumption is wrong). South american countries arent the only ones lacking a deeper post ww2 education on its school system, having moved to europe at a young age, its clear the problem isnt merely reserved to south america (people tend to be interested in learning their own history it seems). A second note, what dictators are you reffering to? the only one coming to mind would be Maduro.
@@carolinabazani4292 I'm not Brazilian and my name is not Portuguese at all lol, it's Spanish (most names in South America are, we were colonized by Spain after all). And every South American country had dictators in the past century, Maduro is the only one right now but Argentina had many dictators including Videla who was a monster, Perú had Fujimori, Chile had Pinochet, Venezuela also had Pérez Jiménez back in the day and so on... now there's democracies but the levels of corruption are rampant, so I'm not sure how democratic that actually is
@@claudiadelgadom where are you from? I would like to visit Mexico, Cuba and Andean countries from Equador to Argentina. Btw, I am from Croatia.
@@carolinabazani4292 What a arogant person. Maduro is nothing comparing with Pinochet and others.
Hey fellow south american yeah we were to busy dealing with whatever tf of a mess we created this time
Excellent job. 👏👏
This is a very complicated war and I had never managed to find out detailed information that i could easily comprehend.
This video is what I needed because of the details about the country from its creation until the breakup, the details about the way it functioned and on why it stop functioning later on, the speed on the narrator's tone, the music, the comical pictures where needed and much more.
Keep up the good work.
Fantastic that your focus lies on economic aspects of these events. I've read and watched a lot about yugoslavia, but this video made me aware a lot of new aspects. Thank you
Economics are probably the main driving force in conflict
If the economy is stable people tend to be more level headed and rational
Yes, economy was one of the main reasons...20 yeras before break up, in 1971 was so called Croatian spring...when Croatian communist party was looking for more independence against central goverment in Belgrade...than Tito stops it...around 70 000 Croats who was involved , most of them intelectuals was fired from jobs, some of them go to prison...one of most known parol of demonstration was "Croatian wallet in Croatian pocket", and "Croatia rifle on Croatian shoulder"...That was a little bit too much for Tito and communist party of Yugoslavia, so they stopped it...the next 20 years is known as "Croatian silence" because everybody was afraid to talk about that issues. It is interesting that communist party of Serbia was not against that Croatian leadership in 1971
Some things were missed in the explanation like:IMF gave the loan under a condition that economy has to be transformed and the companies have to make profit without the support of the state , otherwise company has to declare bankruptcy. The major issue and problem with that condition was very short time for that transformation, one year. Most companies went bankrupt and more than 50% of working population become unemployed without hope that situation would improve. In such situation of social despair ethnic tension started to rise.
Thank you for making this video! Its good giving more insight of the break-up of Yugoslavia more knowledgeable and in-depth how it happened and why. Thank you 😊
Thank you for a clear explanation of what happened back then.
I couldn't understand it then and struggled to get any clear information afterwards. Complexities, indeed but not impossible to understand as you've just proved.
While most of the facts in the video are true, or close enough to truth, the video manages to create a false narrative by omitting crucial facts. It hardly ever mentions the ethnic tensions and violence which accompanied Yugoslavia even as it was still "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes". The renaming to "Yugoslavia" has nothing to do with "branding", and everything with covering up the ethnic tensions: murder of leading Croat politicians by Serb nationalist in the national parliament in 1928, the assassination of the (ethnically Serb) king by Croat nationalist in 1934, etc. These ethnic tensions got much worse during the WW2, had never been resolved, and eventually caused the country to disintegrate. Economic inequalities were just a symptom, a result of different ethnicities having different levels of education, work mentality, and social organisation.
Good point, but one thing still needs correction: king Alexander was killed by the Macedonian nationalist (they were in league with the Croats, all right).
Alexandar was not killed by a croat
@Natan multinational effort with ultra facists
When it’s History Scope then it’s an insta-click.
Well explained, considering the complexity of the Western Balkans. Although you missed explaining real agendas behind many actions, because this conflict originates way before any Yugoslavia was ever created.
What can i read to get those insights?
This is one of the best videos on the topic of breakup of Yugoslavia. Short and very clear. As a Croat, I can say it is very difficult to explain to a foreigner what actualy happened and not lose their interest half way down the timelane which has to cover atleast all what happened in the region in thru the 20th century, not to mention that also the historical conditions since the middle ages also had to do with how it all ended in the 1990s. Very good job!
Very interesting and complete video. Great work once again.
Easily the most underrated channel on TH-cam. These videos are so good at explaining history and you deserve more than 135K subs.
This one was pretty bad in many aspects tbh...
Don't base your knowledge on this video, it's filled with holes, badly explained, and it sound like he just read it off wikipedia, skipping over details that are important in later on... I suggest Feature History's videos on the same topic, not too long, and get's the message across in a detailed manner...
ScrewT4pe *smokes cigar* sorry, but I’ve already watched FH’s videos, and my opinion is that this one is better. FH isn’t bad, but I like this channel better
I can tell you like someone who was and still, is a first-hand witness of all of this starting from the 70is to today, you make a really good explanation in a video only 30 min long ... an excellent job ... for me the best part is about the economic problems ... one more time good job thx on it ... sub from me ...
This is an incredible video. I was a child when my relatives brought me back a souvenir from their holiday in Yugoslavia (probably now Croatia) in the early 90’s. Then in my teens, I watched the “war in the Balkans” (as the UK news called it) on the TV. You’ve really helped me made sense of what I saw and heard back then. Thank you. ❤
Fun fact: at 17:16 the blue white and red stripes as shown in the frame, is a logo of HEP the biggest and main electricity provider in Croatia.
it's been a while Comrade but boy oh boy am I glad to see this video.
The Yugoslav Communists supported Hitler while he had a pact with Stalin. Only when Hitler attacked Russia on June 22. 1941, the communist uprising in Yugoslavia began, against Hitler and capitalism. In that communist uprising, about 2 million people, mostly Croats, were killed and expelled from the country. In Croatia and Slovenia alone, there are hundreds of mass graves with thousands of skeletons, the victims were not only captured soldiers, but also women and children. Communist Yugoslavia was created on the basis of mass crimes, and thus disintegrated with new mass crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
Do I want to watch a 30 minute video of the breakup up of Yugoslavia?
Yes.
The War tribunal of the former Yugoslavia sounds interesting. Its no Nuremberg but sounds interesting.
It is confusing and one sided but still interesting.
It is a tribunal founded and financed by USA with sole purpose to justify their illegal attack on Yugoslavia without the mandate of UNSC. Its absolutely biased to the point of being comical. It freed all prominent US puppets, even those who actually murdered civilians with their own hands, such as Albanian criminal Haradinai (who also killed 19 witnesses in his Hague trial case), muslim Oric who cut out babies from pregnant women and was video recorded in burnt Serbian villages where they played football with cut off civilian heads, and Croatian general Gotovina who was recorded in Brioni tapes planning largest ethnic cleansing of Serbs in post ww2 Europe with their president Tudjman. On the other hand, all the Serbs got life sentences even if they did no crime, didnt ordered any crime, or even knew about crime, just for being prominent Serb leaders. This tribunal was chance to put an end to this war if it sentenced all war criminals on all sides. Instead it just deepened hatred and bitterness and fuels the seed of another war.
@@cibetka76 Your comment is what happens when you are fed one sided propaganda based around self-victimization. Maybe you should actually look into the court cases before you make such comments.
@@KaSousek58 I read all the court cases on NGO site Fund for humanitarian rights. Entire transcripts, not just indictions and sentences. Its precisely what happened. There is no concrete crime there for Serbian leaders, all the fake incidents like Racak, Mrkale and the others were removed from indictions after witnesses and documents started refuting it and making it very embarassing for USA. Those people were never linked to any crime. Not by doing, not by ordering, nor planning. Only by presumed (by USA) participation in presumed joint criminal venture, which is complete rubbish, putting people who were mortal political enemies, hated each others etc all together in this venture, and without any proof such venture ever existed. While such venture on Croatian side which was tape recorded and whole public saw transcripts in Croatia and world wide was ignored.
You can take example of Kosovo. Each and every serbian soldier was issued the written geneva convention rules, and briefed by officers, and strict orders were given at all times to not harm any civilian. And its a common sense, because we all knew USA is waiting for any wrong move to justify bombing our country, and we were aware how they use fake propaganda on example of Bosnia and Croatia. Not a single civilian was deliberately harmed in Kosovo by our forces, excluding very few cases of notorious terrorists who locked in their fort-houses and wouldnt let women and children out when called to do so. In such cases, for example Jasari, police besieged house for several days, negotiating and trying to save civilians, but was shot at constantly, and in finally eliminating these terrorists there was several civilians killed too. In all the actions Serbian forces in Kosovo acted with much more prudence, care and tact certainly then US forces do around the world.
When USA couldnt find any crime by Serbian forces, frustrated for not having excuse to bomb, they staged Racak, C.Walker and his helpers collecting 40-something terrorists killed in combat from trenches and bunkers and lining them up in one place to seem like execution, proclaiming its civilians, even though they were all UCK. This was trumpeted by whole orchestra of western media who are part of NATO war machine, and used as excuse to bomb. Along they used alleged exodus of Albanians, that was actually organized, even enforced by UCK. Again common sense, exodus never happened from areas controlled by Serbian forces, only those held by UCK. Albanians were very afraid of UCK who killed more albanians then Serbs did, and they even today dont dare talk because criminals and drug dealers and murderers who were in UCK are now politicians, president, prime minister etc. Later on, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta withdrew that report on Racak, saying it was US envoy Christopher walker who forced her to write it, and this fake report was dropped from Milosevic indiction. Everyone in the Balkans knows its fake, there was several days of fighting for Racak, it was a nest of UCK, and no civilian was killed there or anywhere. Also everyone in Balkans on both sides knows people like Taci, Haradinaj, Ceku etc. who were well known pre war criminals, personally killed in gruesome way many dozen of people, and were behind the organ extracting from kidnapped serbian civilians, which was confirmed both in book of Karla del Ponte and investigation by EU prosecutors Dick Marty and Jonathan Ratel.
The whole story about Kosovo is dark page of US cynism, corruption and pure evilness in starting conflict, completely twisting reality through media, comitting war crime of aggression, and softly colonizing a country, working with terrorists and criminals as they often do, covering crimes its own and of its puppets, and laughing at victims through the fake and corrupt war crimes tribunal. You guys have literally no idea about the scale of deception and dark truth behind all this. Its similar in Croatia where whole Serbian population was killed or expelled, Bosnia, where only in Sarajevo alone more Serbs were killed then in all alleged Serbian crimes put together around ex Yugoslavia, or Kosovo where also whole Serbian population was ethnically cleansed, more then 100 monasteries and churches were destroyed etc. No one was convicted for any of those crimes, for simple reason they are US puppets and its US court. There is nothing more to it.
@@cibetka76 can you provide a link to this NGO. I cant find anything about it on internet and it seems your main source is information by NGO site, not actual court cases. Also, you do realize that there are people who admitted their crimes like for example Martić.
Your statements do not correspond to any publicly available data so you will have to provide a link for your statements. Idea that more Serbs were killed in Sarajevo than all other people in all other locations combined is especially dubious. So yeah, sry but your statements shows you have not actually read court cases but rather base your opinion on NGO site that can't be found on google.
If your source is Fond za humanitarno pravo, then your statements are even more odd considering that NGO constantly talks about serbian war crimes and I have never seen any of their publications that would confirm your statements
Excellent explanation!! Thank you for explaining this complicated issue at a slow pace so I can actually understand what is being said
Grew up with many people from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia etc. 1 who told me about the wars. No wonder there were so many at my school, all refugees. This happened when I was a only a few years old but never realized until recently what really happened.
This was really good mate. Thank you. I also didn’t know that there were differences between Yugoslav communism and Soviet style communism. It’s a beautiful part of the world.
I have a family member who went to Kosovo because of the war to provide aid under her charity. Her stories are quite interesting and one thing constantly mentioned is that many different troops were there (Italian, UK etc)
As a person of Croatian descent, I thank you for helping me understand this chapter of history.
Very good explanation of breakup. I have just missed other influenced things - oil crise in 70-ies, debt crisis in 80-ies (not just in Yugoslaviy, but also in south America). And one interesting data - Slovenia today has more debt as whole Yugoslavia in 80-ies. IMF wasn`t and isn`t agency for help, but it is political agency to gain USA`s claimes around the world.
In that way will be more adequate and interesting video.
I've been waiting for this video Comrade
This is absolutely brilliant. So well done! I learnt so much from this video.
Thank you so much!
Far away from truth
Bad history view
Lies lies
He talks lot of shits
@@milosjovicevic6083, history is always subjective my friend. From your last name (I'm guessing), you reside/have ancestry in some part of what was once Yugoslavia and understand that some of the information presented in the video might misrepresent or contradict a view you hold.
That being said, I truly am interested in knowing what key information you really disagree with.
@@prithviprakash1110 I believe that the narrator may be a good man, but he left out many crucial things. One could say even the most important thing. The main problem with Yugoslavia was the influence of the Vatican. The Vatican has long wanted to turn Orthodox Serbs into Catholics. Serbs did not give up their Orthodox Christian faith. The Vatican turned entire continents into Catholics, but failed to penetrate through Serbia to the East. In 1914, Serbs defended themselves against Germans, Austrians, Croats, Muslims, etc. Serbia heroically liberated the whole of Yugoslavia in 1914-1918. We paid 1.3 million victims. However, in 1941 the ungrateful Croats reunited with Hitler's Germany and set up concentration camps for the Serbs. They killed over 300,000 Serbs, they even had camps for children. We Serbs forgive them again (we naively believed in the Slavic brotherhood) and in fact the Croats have always tended more towards the Vatican. Somehow Yugoslavia survived until the end of the eighties. Then again, Croatian and Muslim extremists began to hate. The West (the Vatican of course) sided with its Catholics and through the world media (CNN etc) revised history. They created a problem for Serbs because Serbs are pro-Russian and the West has a pathological fear of Russia. The break-up of Yugoslavia has most to do with the Vatican, Western intelligence and the Americans' desire for dominance in the Balkans. They wanted to remove Russian influence from the Balkans after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR.
@@milosjovicevic6083, thank you for that very detailed explanation, it was very informative.
I have to say, the politicisation of history is a global pandemic atm, where facts are deliberately or accidentally left out, and as a result portrays certain groups in an unfavourable light. This is a common problem in my country, India as well, which is over 6000 years old.
That being said, I had no idea that there was even involvement of the Catholic Church in the breakup of the Slavic State. That's incredible how Serbia has survived multiple attacks and still has a nation standing to this day.
@@prithviprakash1110 Unfortunately, the territory of Yugoslavia is a turning point in the "worlds". The crossroads of Europe and Asia, the road to the Mediterranean, to Africa. For centuries, all empires wanted to control it. Especially the West and the Vatican. What bothered them the most was that there were pro-Russian Serbs of the Orthodox Christian religion only 800 km from the Vatican. It was a thorn in their side. They did everything against the unification of the Slavs in that part of Europe. In the end, American imperialism continued the same policy. I like India so much :) The former Yugoslavia and India were the leaders of non-aligned countries. Western imperialism was annoyed that there were states that did not want to be their servants. I likes your information, didn' t know all that :) Very nice of you, i love to learn new stuff :)
Serbia lost literrary 28% of population in WW1
Than we lost also 10% population in WW2
Yes bro, we somehow survived
Even today we refused to go in NATO
All Europe is NATO pact
We don' t want to be with NATO imperialist
Because of that we have our honor
Serbia is only state in Europe who doesn' t have american troops on own land :)
The last trials *weren't* held in 2007, but rather 2018 and 2019.
Very informative. Thanks for all your work.
3:14, this includes the territories that were gained after ww2, and is using the communist flag. Yugoslavia was a kingdom after ww1, and didn't own Istria. The communist flag seems to be appearing a lot while referring to the kingdom for no apparent reason here
You can tell this guy puts a lot of time and effort into his videos.
0:46 I can't be the only one that thought he was going to throw to an ad to Skillshare or something like that
XD
@@HistoryScope Jokes aside, great video. I now want to check out the rest of your channel
Thank you! :)
Haha
This topic is dear to my heart. One of my closest friends is from Kosova. I have heard horror stories first hand about the break up of Yugoslavia.
Thanks for making this video! I really enjoyed it! I can’t stop rewinding to 21:15 when you talk about the breakup of the states while Dvorak’s 9th symphony plays in the background. It makes it really more intense and dramatic. Once again, thx for making this and can’t what for future episodes!
13:46 btw that map shows finland pre ww2, it lost territory in the south west, the corridor to the barents sea, and another bit south of there, around the same latitude as the white sea
Breakup of Yugoslavia: causes bloodshed, war, and lots of controversy and drama that still exists today
Meanwhile, Breakup of Czechoslovakia: aight imma head out, Czechia
18:58 isn't quite true. When republic borders inside Yugoslavia were drawn in 1945. ethnic composition was basically same as in 1991. There wasn't major shift due to population moving.
I feel this covered much more than just the break up, which is nice.
too bad it didnt covered ww2 enough, it could explain croats hate toward serbs...
@@Akcija1930 tbh, the difference between the ustaše and četniks was only that ustaše were in opwer and četniks weren't. they did the same genocide spiel and were equally as bad for the local population. They were only fighting for the king on paper. And that hate towards serbs started in yugoslavia 1 when serbia wanted more centralisation of power and as such oppressed other regions so that feeling of being oppressed coupled with fascist hatred of everything different culminated in hatred.
@@GTAmaniac1 you must be either croat or wikipedia "historian" to write something like this, lol
@@Akcija1930 am I wrong though?
@@GTAmaniac1 very wrong, cetniks were heroes
Big thumbs up for this video. A Serbian from Belgrade here.
I must add that mass media in Serbia was so much controlled by the regime, that majority of people in Serbia in the 90s didn't even know what was happening inside or outside of the country. People were seduced and brainwashed with controlled news, new music stars, future-tellers... The entertainment TV got a totally new wicked dimension with a degrading of a culture and common sense (people in Belgrade were afraid of solar eclipses, I remember that). It was the era of the sanctions, isolation with no travel or tourists, and before the internet, with people looking and relying on a TV program too much. The majority of the forces that did the war crimes were paramilitary forces led by nationalistic movements, with no control.
Arguably the biggest military-paramilitary Serbian leader was Arkan, the leader of "Arkan's Tigers", while his wife Ceca was the biggest music star in the region (singing cheerful songs and folk-pop ballads about love).
It would be nice to make a video about media control.
Arkan: from the stands to the battlefields. An interesting history (I know that is not all).
For those that don't know: Arkan, before the war, led Delije, the ultra group of Red Star Belgrade. After the war he became the owner of Obilic, a once neighbourhood club in Belgrade that started winning everything after he took over (the only club to win the league besides Red Star and Partizan after the initial breakup of the Yugoslavia). Of course the wins came mostly under threats to the opponents. After he was forced to step down, Ceca ran the club back to the ground.
Great to see this go from poll to full fledged content
Your longform content is perfect as I sit here and crochet a scarf, lol! It's the first thing I've ever made and looks to be coming along well! Thanks for keeping me entertained and informed as I work.
The music is so good and perfect for this video!
21:54 Not true. Bosnia had no such constitution. All 3 nations had to agree for a change.
Imperial Germany is missing Alsace-Lorraine, northern Schleswig and Memel. @1:31
Nice presentation and pretty accurate too. Could have spent a bit more time explaining the WW2 situation (3 separate movements, one of which was radically pro Nazi), which would have given a bit more historical context but overall really well done. I of Croatian ethnicity, visited Jugoslavija in late 1988. Whilst in Serbia very much all good, business as usual but when in Croatia it was easy to see there was a bit of feeling and trouble brewing. I never imagined it would go the way it did and that it would happen so quickly. Well, Jugoslavija might seem to have been a good idea at the time it was formed but I guess it was always an artificial country doomed to eventual failure.
That would make sense. 1988 Serbia didnt felt the tension the other repulblic or autonomy regions did because Slobodan's goverment in Serbia was couse of tension and tension wouldnt be naturally felt from the source as would in the affected areas
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is also an artificially created country. It will probably break up in the end.
@@tetrahedron1000 You are correct and you could add the same about Scotland and maybe even Wales.
All countries are artificial.
I’m just a bit confused as to why you glossed over the issue with Kosovo
Kosovo is serb not independent
Because they still asleep and dreaming that there isn’t such as Kosovo 🇽🇰 🤣🤣
Kosovo is a region in Serbia
@@mikoajzpolski5550 what a deflection
Kosova was never serb is ethnic population 90% albanians, serbs come from Carpates and they have to go from where they come!!!!!!! Kosova is indipendet state 🇽🇰❤
I love history with a passion, and I just stumbled on this video. I loved it!! Your presentation was clear, well thought out and well delivered. It provided a lot of fascinating detail - but not so much that it could only be understood by history professors. The graphics were excellent, the script well written, and the narrator was excellent (and as the cherry top was his Eastern European accent!). As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description.
In short... great job..! I’m glad I found you! As of this moment I shall like, comment, and subscribe. 🙏
And eagerly await your next videos.
"As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description. "
What? He flat out blamed the Serbs for everything lol
@@zmajooov No, not really, he only really "blamed" the Serbs for the Yugoslav wars, which I think is appropriate? Correct me if I'm wrong
Great video, greetings from Slovenia
Excellent and in-depth video explaining in details the economy shortcomings in the late 80s. The only remark I'd have is that the ethnic tensions existed throughout Tito's rule. Many so-called nationalists were either imprisoned or eliminated, while some managed to survive in exile. There were numerous attempts to overthrow the Yugoslavian government, but to no avail. Things started to fall apart right after Tito's demise. The bad management and corruption just sped up the process of its collapse.
Finally! I been waiting so long for it! 😣❤️
I remember Yugoslavia as a country and then the fighting but never knew what had actually happened. Thanks for the information
Yup, it happened brother..like 32 years ago.
By far the best explanation and easy to follow video of the breakup of this country. I know its very complicated lol.
This video helped me understand this topic alot better.
Well done!!
Except nothing is true there
1:01 "But most of the people who lived here were neither Austrian, Hungarian, or Ottoman - they were Slavic..." The term "Austrian" back then was not linked to any ethnicity or nationality, but to the House of Austria. Many Slavs certainly considered themselves loyal to the House of Austria and considered the idea of Pan-Slavism a pipe dream. After all, Slovenes had lived under Habsburg rule for many centuries, and had much more in common with their catholic German-speaking neighbors next door than with the orthodox Serbs from Serbia, whose history was very different.
The real oppression began when Yugoslavia was established, because the name of the country made it clear that only Slavs would call the shots, whereas others - Germans, Hungarians, Italians etc. - were now a minority. The same happened in Czechoslovakia, a country which from the beginning and already visible based on the name of the country did not accept that Germans were the second largest ethnic group.
For the English and the French the destruction of Austria-Hungary was certainly a success; for the people in the region, a reformed United States of Austria-Hungary would certainly have been preferable. It was not by chance that it was exactly the proponent of this idea and the person who most opposed to war was murdered in 1914.
Although there were very minor inaccuracies regarding ww2 I was fascinated to actually see in depth theory of states craft being used for the later parts. Well done man.
Minor? He mentions ustashe exactly 0(ZERO) times
@@draganmarkovic491 he was talking about Yugoslavia, and ustaše and črtnici are not important in that story.
@@majdavojnikovic How come? Ustashe killed first king of Yugoslavia. And during ww2 Ustashe made ethnic divisions between Serbs and Croats insurmountable. And Chetniks I didn't mention also.
One of the best explanations so far, how this really happened. The most important thing is that there was no single point or reason of failure. I wish that EX YU countries put this explanation in history books.
This is such a informative video explained in such a easy manner. Really well done. I will keep coming for more
As a person living in one of the former Yu states,I can tell that you did good job with this presentation
I would have loved to see more battlefield tactics during the war itself. For example, how they barricaded the roads with trucks so that tanks couldn't get through. Or how they caused the river Drava to overflow to stop them coming over a bridge.
This is not a "rambo-boys-with toys" military video about the wars in the former Yugoslavia. It's forcus is on the roots and causes of the break-up of the country, not on who had "cooler" battle strategy & tactics during the war.
Excellent! I finally understand the many complexities involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars related to it.
informative and entertaining presentation. Thank you!.
What a great channel. Loving the background music. Definitely subscribing. Thank you!
I like how slowly you explain complicated topics. I don't know why a lot of youtubers rush their videos and talk very fastly. I can not follow and they earn less money!
Great video !! Could you do one about Caucasia and what happened there after USSR break-up?
This was very informative and highly fascinating but also just wanted to share that your accent is adorable. ;)
Thanks for such a clear explanation!
Great video, however, map of Yugoslavia before 1945 had no red star and was slightly smaller on the western border: Istria and coast north of Istria were part of Italy, not kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Somehow I want History Scope to give the toast at my wedding, because somehow the phrase *WILL. BE. UNITED.* will be snuck in amazingly 😂
Yugoslavia's president complaining about diversity
India: laughs in the distance
They should have learned from India how to manage diversity.
@@monsieur1936 Actually, they could've looked at a more simpler country like Germany. Sure, we view all the Germans in Germany as just "German", but just like Yugoslavia, Germany has linguistic historic and religious differences as well. In fact if you ask me, Low German Dialects and High German Dialects are far more different from eachother than Croatian and Serbian are. Northern and North-Central Germans are mostly protestant christians while the south and west are catholic, and the east is almost entirely atheist; just like how one half of the Yugoslavia was orthodox, the other catholic, and a small minority muslim. Just as there had been independent Croatian and Serbian kingdoms, Germany spent most of its history as small divided states.
Imagine a world where Yugoslavia was the Germany of southern Europe...
The problem were the people who wanted to exploit the differences, like the whole muslim discrimination system put in place in India today. Don't know too much about it, i just know that you're kicking the hell out of them. The same idea that was used back then in yugoslavia. You should have learned from us =) We should all learn to see through the "divine and conquer" exploiters
@@atruv2089 It seems to me that germany was always too divided for one group to take charge. Excluding the big guy Prussia, one small township taking over 100 others isn't really realistic. If you're serbia, 4vs4 politically, and you're in charge of the biggest and best equipped army - the federal army (JNA), it's realistic to go for it.
Also, personal experience (and too deep of a scale for this video to go in to), the idea of the greater serbia started waaay back, here in north west of ex yugo, as far as the 60's, serbian nationals were specifically sent to be chief policemen or factory managers. What ever prominent position you can think of. Of course, the guy sent from serbia married a local croatian woman, a real shitshow in the 90's; one son's running around the town screaming "this here is serbia" and having mad luck that nobody attacked him (we were always friendly in the north west, even in war. Also, only a local situation that I know of, there were probably a lot more such families that had to keep their mouth shut and stay at home, just so they weren't a target), the other brother going to the front as a serbian croat, killing the serbs. I just can't understand how could their government not care for the families they knew they were destroying when they choose to go "big serbia". They made them happen sending those serbs through out yugoslavia.
Here, today, it kinda seems like that duck meme - they choose that peace was never an option. And that's so sad. Never before in the history of mankind were these parts of the globe as politically relevant on the world stage as in those days. And don't get me wrong, I don't wanna go back. I just wanna feel respected again.
@@666nihil we aren't kicking the hell out of Muslims, it's a single party who is in charge right now is trying to push communal prejudices and bigotry against Muslim. It tries to scapegoat them for anything. But, the system isn't discriminatory. As I said, they should have learned how to handle diversity from India. In India we didn't gave an Army to every state, too much autonomy is as bad as no autonomy. And instead of making 1 representative from one Republic they should have used a population based representation system. And instead of making only 6 Republics they should have further divided those republics into states.
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