Sovietization of Yugoslavia and Albania - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

Our series on the history of the Cold War period continues with a documentary on the Sovietization of Yugoslavia and Albania.
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[@vastzero6504]

I remember an anecdote that goes: A man, in 1946, stood in a square in Belgrade and yelled: "Down with Stalin!" He was subsequently sent to Goli Otok and jailed for 5 years. Upon being released from prison he returned to Belgrade and not wanting to make the same mistake, went to the same square and declared: "Long live Stalin!" He was promptly jailed for another 5 years!

[@radunMARSHAL]

And that is, of course, complete bullshit, because Goli Otok didn't exist in 1946 but was, instead, constructed in 1949, and no one was actually jailed there for 5 years but 1 or 2 at most and in 1956 the last political prisoner was released.

[@vastzero6504]

@@radunMARSHAL its a joke and probably changed over time...

[@radunMARSHAL]

@@vastzero6504 An anecdote and a joke are two different things. Anecdote is a personal story that started spreading from person to person and a joke is, well, a joke. Anecdote pretends to be close to reality and joke over blows and parodies the reality.

[@vastzero6504]

@@radunMARSHAL those are very good points. Perhaps it's a story or a fable. Can you provide me the definitions of those, because it's obvious my purpose of sharing that was to provide a wholly accurate and academic dissertation on the nuances of Yugoslav/Soviet relations.

[@Arhpeco]

The joke is incomplete, after his second term the man returns to the square and starts yelling, down with USSR just when Hruščev is visiting , so they arrest him again and bring him before the judge. The judge says: Look sir please stop, cant you see that the politics is not for you? The man replies: I will stop, but i do not get it, why am i being locked up by the same people?

[@justdom248]

Switzerland was so non-aligned it wasn’t even in the non-aligned movement

[@AP-yx1mm]

@Jack Bat I have recently passed the exam of Swiss Politics, and as swiss student I can assure you that the swiss neutrality consists of institutional convention whereby Switzerland is bound not to intervene militarily in a conflict. That's it. The political neutrality is another beast, Switzerland is culturally heterogeneous and it suffered in this regards severely during the WWI almost sparking an inner conflict. Since everything in Switzerland has to be decided on consensus, part of the culture was not to interven/be aligned because it might create inner divisions (also being obligated to fight with Napeoleon also cemented this idea of neutrality). This however doesn't mean that Switzerland doesn't follow its interests.

[@LeCitre]

Switzerland is a premier member of I got mine movement

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@Jack Bat ...

[@28ebdh3udnav]

They didn't even join the UN until 2002.

[@justsomeguy3931]

Damn True Neutral alignment types...

[@juanjuri6127]

Albania: Nothing can dissolve the ages-old bond between the sisterly nations of Albania and -Yugoslavia- -Soviet Union- People's Republic of China Yugoslavia: what Soviet Union: what China: what Albania: what

[@user-hh8vi2rc6l]

Albania and China have always been allies. Anyone who says otherwise, should go to room 101.

[@MASB29]

@@user-hh8vi2rc6l since ancient times

[@emermbiemer302]

marios gianopoulos they lived in Epirus close to Albanians 😂 you’re a funny greek. My dad and sister went to Greece in 1989 . They stopped in a roadside stall or shop I’m not sure where they were selling fruit. My sister says in Albanian “ dad I want some cherries “or something like that. The “Greek” guy turns to his wife and says in Albanian “ Po kjo kopile ku e di gjuhen tonë”? How does this child know our tongue . My father got pissed because “ kopile” in Albanian now means bastard child the correct word would be vajze now but they speak old Albanian where it means girl. My father said we’re Albanian .the Arvanite was dumbfounded because he had no idea they (Arvanites) and Albanian was the same language. The suliots were Albanian too and the Greek war of independence was nothing more than and Albanian civil war fought between Albanian Muslims and orthodox. The orthodox went on to adopt the “ language of the church” and founded modern Greece. It would have been like catholic Albanians start talking latin and call themselves Italian .

[@lesasaaa990]

@lagjes cuni2 actualy, Albanians liberated France and Poland too,not only Greece! Major player they are.. In some video game i suppose

[@lesasaaa990]

@lagjes cuni2 i love your choice of finding a source to back up your stories, (croatia) they write so nice ferry-tales for exemple 1.2 milion Albanians left Albania when Turks ocupied it ( hahahahah 1.2 million, i mean ok to say 100K, but Albania in 1920 didnt have 1.2 milion TOTAL population, and in your story they say 1.2 left Albania in YEAR 1450 ??, wtf you had 10 Mil population in that time? More then France? You are so great and old Nation.. I dont know how Turks did have a chance at all Also you need to check who was Đurađ Kastriot, Serb Nobelman who Albanians call Skenderbeg (founder of Albanians) www.telegraf.rs/zanimljivosti/zabavnik/2908252-sve-o-skenderbegu-ovo-je-djuradj-kastriot-junak-srpske-krvi-kojeg-krademo-albancima-ili-ga-oni-ipak-kradu-nama-foto Also, where are your origins? illirians ? haha yea suuure, me also, Slovens didnt came to Balkan ... But arent you from Caucasus ? I mean for sure there were Albanians there, you can check ANY source, .. and As you know Serbian here's something to check for you naslovi.net/2018-10-30/kurir/evo-koje-je-pravo-poreklo-albanaca-dosli-su-iz-daleka-iz-zemlje-albanije-koja-se-nalazi-na-kavkazu/22468060 And here is something from your favorite source , Croatian, for your national symbols, and how is fake www.alo.rs/vesti/politika/objasnio-poreklo-dvoglavog-orla-i-upropastio-albance-njihov-grb-je-praznoglava-kokoska/201177/vest

[@obitwokenobi9808]

"Sovietization of Yugoslavia" *Laughs in Tito*

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Especially since Yugoslavia eventually went with western trade sooner or later.

[@Imnotsmg4bob]

Yugoslavia *Laughs in Croatian Independence*

[@lenini056]

@@Imnotsmg4bob Today, Croatia is way more poor and in debt than their days with Yugoslavia.

[@dragonrykr]

I am from Montenegro (part of Yugoslavia) and here there is a common saying: "During Tito we didn't have freedom of speech, but we had everything else Now we can say whatever the hell we want, but that's about it"

[@averinus7706]

Tačno... mada brate, nije ni to tako bajno ka što stari pričaju. Teško se živjelo. Moglo se, bilo je sigurnije vrijeme, ali težak je život bio u Jugoslaviju, a posebno u Crnu Goru. Neće stari o tome da pričaju zbog nostalgije.

[@dragonrykr]

@@averinus7706Pa iskreno, nigdje bilo narocito bajno prije 50 godina, normalno da je sad u mnogima aspektima bolje... ali s obzirom na doba, u mnogima zemljama je bilo gore nego u Jugi

[@anotheraccount2052]

dragonrykr I’m from Montenegro too I’m actually going back this week it’s very true

[@stjepan1188]

@@averinus7706 ima ona jedna statistika koliko je ljudi zatvoreno po regijama crna gora skoro skroz crvena bila

[@renato8473]

Why don't you guys make another revolution and come back with the old State?

[@EdMcF1]

in the mid-1980s, I was on holiday in Portugal and I had a Short Wave or Medium Wave radio. I was looking for an English-language channel and I found Radio Tirana in English. It was a fascinating rant proclaiming the glory of Albania, denouncing the West, the Yugoslavs, and then the Soviets and proclaiming the achievements of the revolution. I thought 'Am I the only person for 1,000 miles around listening to this?' as I imagined the broadcaster ranting on, sitting in a tatty studio in TIrana, with a formica table, tatty brown paint on the walls and nylon clothes, under a portrait of Hoxha.

[@Openbaarmaker]

I think Albania deserves an episode of its own. They really had a turbulent history in the Cold War. First there was the Hoxha-Tito split, and Hoxha turned to Stalin. After Stalin, Hoxha found Krushchev too soft, and he turned to Mao. But after Mao's death, Hoxha was all alone, and Albania became a closed state. You should really visit the National Art Museum in Tirana, it was like hypercommunism over there. There's this one painting that Hoxha found too depressing, so he had the painter incarcerated for life. He was better off than the poet who wrote a poem full of critique about he communist government, he was hung by the neck.

[@mansijpal8180]

Stalin : So will u be part of our communist allies? Tito: Well yes but actually no😁😁

[@theemperorschosen7607]

Tito: I don't think I will

[@themeerofkats8908]

Tito wasn't a communist anyways

[@ivansimunek4829]

@@themeerofkats8908 how was he in charge of Communist Party of Yugoslavia then ?

[@papadragon695]

This video might piss off Stalin. lookin at you Tito

[@justinian-the-great]

There are many stories about Tito-Stalim split and some are really interesting. When Stalin criticized Tito for being anti-Soviet Tito gave him one very interested response. He said: "No matter how much one can love the Soviet Union, he cannot love it more than his own country!" Then Stalin, during the split, tried to send many assassins to kill Tito. But Tito said him: "Stalin stop sending your assassins. We already captured five of them. If you don't stop sending them, I'm going to send one of my assassins in Moscow.....and I won't need to send another." And mighty Stalin, afraid for his life, stopped sending them!

[@justinian-the-great]

@lagjes cuni2 Why you have to be rude man? I'm just saying what is written in history. Also Deretić isn't even historian and is widely anti-communist.

[@Porkeater2610957]

That's Titoist nonsense.

[@deznuces9342]

Stalin died before tito, and they found the letter from tito that said the exact same thing about sending spies 😁, but tito always wanted to be let's say, subtle 😁

[@numba7549]

Adecodoo its actually true he said that

[@giacomocuttin5630]

Trieste was not divided between Italy and Yugoslavia (as stated at 5:10), simply the Zone A was defenitevely assigned to Italy and zone B was given to Yugoslavia

[@gfox-ck5xx]

My grandfather was in Goli Otok for being a Stalinist. Got out after 7 years, and got a job.

[@semkoops]

I actually like the 'lecturing' most people in the comments complain about. To focus more on what the host is telling and to properly digest that information is a more engaging form of learning to me than having visuals thrown in my face all the time. I also like the (relatively) slow pace. None of that 'snappiness' of other YT videos. Good work!

[@mcfontaine]

Sem Koops couldn’t agree more. They should be confident in the content and not worry about the so called “lecturing”. People need to stop relying on lots of “stuff” and just focus on the message.

[@Zadrigo]

From the host's explanations, this video should have actually been named "Unsuccessful Titoization of USSR and Albania".

[@KikirikiSemenke357]

Albania left Warsaw pact in 1969, after Sino - Soviet split and became more isolated after split with China duiring 70's. In meantime Yugoslavia was developing faster than any Soviet block states because of Western aid, which we became dependent on. In the 80's, after Tito's death, everything felt apart and Yugoslavia broke up in boldly war from 1991 till 1995.

[@camillomancini5619]

Until 2008 #Kosovo

[@VojislavMoranic]

@@camillomancini5619 Serbia is a ancient nation. It can wait a few decades. You upstarts on the other hand have never achieved anything without foreign aid. You have no knowledge of frontal warfare, no military tradition and extremely undisciplined. A war now between Serbia and its breakaway province would be one of total war, with fronts, artillery, tank warfare, extreme logistics. In short a polar opposite to the 99 insurrection because in that war Serbia was forced due to NATO air supremacy to limit its forces to infantry in mountainous areas. Logistics were a problem and artillery would only fire in the most dire of circumstances. And still even under that pressure of having a lack of logistics, manpower (you cant move fresh troops from Serbia proper to the Albanian border if you have enemy air supremacy) the Army of Yugoslavia won in the land war and left the province after the peace deal was signed. Also keep in mind that Yugoslavia never committed its core of professional troops to the war because of the expectation of land aggression from NATO in the North and from Macedonia. Kosovo and Metohija no matter how significant to Serbia as a place of history had to be put in fourth place on the list of important places to defend. Thusly i end this with a old saying "No ones candle burns forever"

[@darkodjokic4432]

@KikirikiSemenke357 that's a bull. only albania (and at the very end, bulgaria) had lowest gdp than yugoslavia, every other red country was waaaay ahead of us. not only that, but yugoslavia went bankrupt in 1982, however Milka Planinc and other comrades had no balls to tell that truth to the "working class". Anyone who lived during that time, as I did, remember well scheduled and much more often unscheduled power restrictions, food supply shortages, odd/even days on gas pumps. Ahhh, golden eighties... My ass. Here, read and educate yourself a bit predragrajsic.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-economy-of-titos-yugoslavia.html

[@ras573]

Fun fact: Yugoslavia was the only socialist country to allow American cartoons, especially by Disney. But they weren't paying any royalties to American companies. So when Disney found out, he just said Okay, let them.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

At least the country had our cartoons.

[@anaalebic-juretic6509]

And The American Greatest Hits, the record that I bought in 1964 in Yugoslavia@@ChristopherSobieniak

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@anaalebic-juretic6509 Was it on the Jugoton label?

[@anaalebic-juretic6509]

Yes, entitled "Najveći amarički uspjesi". I still might have it somewhere@@ChristopherSobieniak

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@anaalebic-juretic6509 The album I found was called "Daleko Mi Je Biser Jadrana - Dalmatinske Pjesme - Dalmatian Songs".

[@PiratesRock]

Excellent video, will you take a look at the increasing Soviet influence of Finland? (Or Finlandization?)

[@robertorojnic4370]

Thank you for making this documentary bit. Great work! Kudos.

[@emermbiemer302]

Someone needs to do a story on how tiny Albania kicked out the Soviet Union off their own submarine base and kept the base together with 5 soviet subs.... ballsy move considering the Soviet Union was a powerful nation

[@fafinosusername8778]

Thats badass tbh

[@andin3720]

To be honest Albania was lucky. It benefited from its location because it didn’t share a border with the Soviet Union or any Warsaw Pact country. Plus Albania was geographically very close to Italy, so NATO also played a role.

[@soul8938]

andi N Hell nah albania had to always be on their toes because of their vulture like neighbours yugoslavia and greece only waiting for a chance to occupy

[@blackcat1642]

Nobody makes videos on this subject on the whole plataform, i mean all things aside thats a great service you guys are providing

[@kingofalb]

Very informative and rarely discussed topic. Great video.

[@Jesse_Dawg]

This is a great series. Love the topics

[@Crafty_Spirit]

First video I watch here... you are the same David as from the K&G podcast! Now I'm keen on learning more

[@yotoronto12]

Stalin: Join my faction or else Tito: Am I a joke to you?

[@andraslibal]

Trieste: the port city of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@s.m.s.5738]

Titoism intensifies

[@vladob3]

I hope so!

[@saccount-z3]

long live DEAD tito!

[@atsekoutsoube]

Being Greek it was most interesting to watch this video. Well Done.

[@ilejovcevski79]

being a former Yugoslav as well!

[@atsekoutsoube]

I think he had a brief mention to the civil war in this clip. Let's suggest to the channel accordingly

[@ilejovcevski79]

@@atsekoutsoube as one of the events directly connected and leading into the Cold War, i sure hope so. Maybe they are doing the East first and the West later?

[@mlynto]

Yugoslavia in any form was not really a friend to Greece. Yugoslav government asked Hitler for a chunk of a Greece territory in exchange for Yugoslavia joining axis forces and also after WW2 Yugoslavia played a major role in supporting communist forces in Greece during civil war there.

[@passenger8705]

Stalin was aware of the Bulgarian- Yugoslav negotiations about join a federation. Actialy it was the Stalin who propose this idea (or it was at least supporting it). The reason for this idea not to happen was that the Soviet-Yugoslav relations has changed. How you imagine Georgi Dimitrov to make negotiations wit the Yougoslav without consulting with Stalin. They were his puppets. "what Moscow say" this were their logo.

[@MakisthegreatG7]

great video really in depth analysis of the mostly overlooked country of Albania. Check out the Greek Civil War of 1945-1949 which still leaves its marks on the greek society

[@ilejovcevski79]

I am sure they will, maybe even in the next episode. After all the Civil War was directly connected to both the Cold War and this episode.

[@maxnikolenko2302]

Great work fellaz

[@TheGreatGadfly]

Say what you want (slant/no slant, too quick/long enough, etc.) but I’m learning info via satellites anywhere I go on a daily basis. Thank спутстер (Sputster).

[@HK-pp9ig]

Great story, great objectivity. I liked how you described the "changes" in the Albanian government after they split from Yugoslavia tutelage. The interior minister was "removed" - yes, as in "the interior minister was shot dead" by his close friend hoxha, and many more government ministers, including one prime minister, were killed by hoxha during his long restrictive and paranoiac regime. Yugoslavia was a much more liberal state compared to all other socialist countries; while Albania was similar to North Korea, if not worse. Love the accuracy and objectivity of this video.

[@franciscomm7675]

Wasn't enver hoxha the third longest communist ruler in history?

[@AunknownMan]

And worst... Worst than the Kims

[@napoleoniii8372]

@@AunknownMan worse than Pol Pot?

[@AunknownMan]

@@napoleoniii8372 if you count that Albania had 2.5 million population and the regime killed 500.000 through the years, yes he was crazy bad

[@JUGOstalgic]

@Crusader Boy 9000 what the fuck are you talking about, when hoxha came to power albania had the population of only 1,2 million and when he died the albanian population was 3 million. How about you stop spreading bullshit and learn some history you utter moron.

[@JUGOstalgic]

@lagjes cuni2 the thing I mostly dislike Stalin for is that he did not send help to the communists in greece, which resulted in communist defeat and oppression of hundred thousands of people under right-wing dictatorship.

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

When are you going to do the Sovietisation of what would become the German Democratic Republic?

[@martinprince7728]

leave the best for last

[@patricksputnick5094]

I would call it fabricating an artificial state within an occupied territory into something that became to be known as The DDR.

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

@@patricksputnick5094 So true lol.

[@neilwilson5785]

This is very good.

[@killertigerace]

Don’t forget about Hoxha bunker programs

[@michaelcutler5538]

Albania: holds elections *bunkerboy72 has entered the chat"

[@veterankasrkin7416]

Stalin: You are traitor Tito. Tito Lulzs

[@aroundhere1200]

Interesting.

[@arlind6480]

BUNKERS

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@AunknownMan]

Albania went actually full neutral and closed too, no relation apart from China, and had an army and bunkers to mantain independence, 750.000 Bunkers and Fortifications and some nuclear bunkers, 700.000 soldiers good equipped and 1400 tanks almost 900 aircraft, as a German i would say they would have kicked our ass pretty bad XD

[@AunknownMan]

@Artemis they had mostly soviet weapons, of course not uptodate but still can do damages

[@AunknownMan]

@Artemis the porpuse of the army was just to defend after all, they had enemy on every sides.

[@MrGentilushi]

Every citizen in Albania above age 16 was sent to the Military. After they finished the Military , everyone once a month had mandatory training called 'Zbor' including females. Females used to learn how to operate weapons. In 24 hours Albania could muster an army of nearly 1 million people. Not all professional but trained with basics of warfare. Any army invading Albania would have found itself in a real Hell, worse than Vietnam. The invading army would have to clear 700000 bunkers to secure the victory. 'Crazy' Hoxha got paranoid. I still remember the test Sirens in 1989 and we went to hide under this huge bunker in front of our home with all the neighborhood. We didn't know it even existed.

[@memer7118]

@Artemis The aircraft was composed of J7 Chengdu's which are basically a more modernized version of the Soviet Mig-21 and those were excellent at the time,they are even used nowadays by China,Pakistan and some other country. I almost forgot they also had Shenyang J-6's which are basically Mig-19's. I don't know what you mean by "defensive units" but once China was Albania's best ally,their soldiers were trained by them and had a good equipment.

[@michaellewis1545]

Good video. I have never about how these countries became communist. Also why do you show the host in profile from time to time?

[@antonkalda4357]

Very nice and educational videos but will you talk about The sovietization of The Baltic states?

[@andreascovano7742]

How do you keep yourself from falling into political bias?

[@ilejovcevski79]

Indeed, the dry matter-of-fact-ish not taking side presentation is commendable. Their videos are by far my most anticipated on KZbin.

[@kazmodan82]

He does not fall into political bias because the winners and losers of the Cold War have been decisively determined by history. There is nothing to fight over or argue about. Communism was a massive failure in Eastern Europe. It failed to deliver a standard of living that was comparable to Western Europe while at the same time committing large scale atrocities against real and imagined political enemies. Sadly, for Albania and Yugoslavia, the end of communism led to political instability, war and hardship caused by nationalism that was previously suppressed by communism. Therefore, in the end, for Yugoslavia and Albania, the one good thing that communism did (the suppression of nationalism) was undone, but none of the good things that western capitalism brings (free enterprise, a higher standard of living, lower corruption) came true. You can see what I'm talking about when you read some of the nationalist comments for this video.

[@Eljuancho915]

I have a norinco sks with berat carved in to it on one side and alt, in fier on the other with a 4 point star and 93 carvednin as well what does the alt,in mean ?

[@christopherjustice6411]

Tito also threatened to kill Stalin. He was a genuine badass.

[@theparadigm8149]

Yeah! Definitely one of my favorite Cold War commies...

[@gigasigma8373]

lmao didnt enver hoxha threaten to burn all of yugoslavia aswell??? Tito and Enver hoxha were big rivals and if a wore broke out between the two it would be deadly.

[@hidof9598]

@@gigasigma8373 , that's rad as hell

[@ritemolawbks8012]

Just A Suggestion: The intro graphic @ [ 0:27 ] wisely has the American side represented by the Statue of Liberty, Coke, an M-16 rifle, and a Big Mac. On the Soviet Russia side, a matryoshka doll, vodka, AK-47, and a strange Russian 🤮 dish are there, but an ushanka hat and St. Basil's Cathedral would have been more recognizable to people who've never been to Russia.

[@deniseproxima2601]

They never show the other weapons or speak from the many different sorts.

[@tommy-er6hh]

a good episode, sorry you did not have time to mention the Tito's stuggle with the Chetniks post war.

[@mail2257]

Good old times in Yugoslavia:'(

[@sturmtruppler6909]

Last time I was this fast Germany was still a country.

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

Dear Uploader, can we have a video about *Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971* . It was a very important war occured during the Cold War and resulted in the liberation of a nation while being oppressed under Pakistani Imperialism . Please do it ! From a fellow Bangladeshi fan ♥

[@PoggoMcDawggo]

I think he's planning on doing every country region by region.

[@harisahmed8009]

A civil war and a regional war

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

@@PoggoMcDawggo Well that's good but I think it will take much time to shift from Eastern Europe to South East Asia xD

[@dchegu]

Well he could a bunch of them esp.the multiple India v Pakistan war, the China v India border war n heck even the Tamil tigers in Sri Lanka.

[@youriefavre9003]

Could you talk about the US military coups in neutral countries in America such as Chile, Venezuela and Brazil?

[@alexanderpedersen1707]

Maybe use more Maps of The countries mentioned?

[@serious_capricorn6081]

USSR i am the biggest power in Europe in Asia Tito aligned with India : Not anymore 😂

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

India was part of the British empire in 1946. It wasn't independent.

[@serious_capricorn6081]

Non Aligned movement started after India's independent by Jawharlal Nehru

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@serious_capricorn6081 oh ok my mistake

[@MASB29]

And Africa I guess

[@altinshehu3756]

Wasn't india like really weak and in a constant war with pakistan back then

[@camillomancini5619]

Albania 🇦🇱

[@williamhoole2065]

Tirana..said like Taranta (Toronto Canuck pronounciation).

[@michaelcutler5538]

Albania: Hey Yugoslavia, can I have a loan? Yugo: For fighting foreign influence? Albania: yeeeeees Albania: Actually builds bunkers, like a boss

[@janisvanags8960]

Hey, how it is that this is last countries covered in Sovietization topic? But what about Baltic states?

[@mlynto]

Probably because Baltic states were annexed into USSR therefore not separate states anymore.

[@CaptainAhab117]

The first time I ever played Hearts of Iron IV I picked Yugoslavia and immediately went communist. Not sure why, it just felt right.

[@justsomeguy3931]

Great video with awesome info as always. Looking forward to you covering the dissolution of Yugoslavia. This is what this reminds me of: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ60n5WdeKh6f8U One of my very favorite movies.

[@georgebettasso1395]

Would their be an Sovietization of East German episode?

[@TheColdWarTV]

Yep

[@88amona]

Can you cover Africa and what was going on there during the cold war?

[@TheColdWarTV]

We will

[@efzahmed6311]

Hoxha LOVED to build bunkers

[@juanjuri6127]

i mean, don't we all?

[@inamacalin1]

Ah tito the only man who dared to assissinate stalin.

[@biglenin7306]

I don't think you can consider the workers councils to actually be a form of influence by workers. It doesn't matter what country you're in.

[@biglenin7306]

@Artemis hmmm that you for your comment. I find it very interesting. Do you have anymore information on the subject?

[@connarcomstock161]

Albania - BUNKERS BUNKERS BUNKERS BUNKERS BUNKERS BUNKERS

[@vladob3]

Great work! Just to mention a few mistakes: 1. There were no Yugoslav-Albanian companies. Yugoslavia was involved in infrastructure development and trade in Albania, but it was minor after the Tito-Stalin split. Most of the mentioned facts are about Kosovo, which was part of Yugoslavia, like for example high price for coper. 2. The Resolution of Bujan was not a treaty and it was not signed in 1946, this is lapsus probably because the Nazi regime was long gone by then. It was just a resolution that mentioned possibilities for integration of Albania or the splitting/integration of Kosovo. It was signed on 1st December 1943. 3. II WW was not ended and Yugoslavia was not fully liberated in spring 1945. Ok, ye it was spring, but parts of Yugoslavia were under Nazi occupation till 9th May 1945, when Nazi Germany surrendered. 4. Trieste - The situation around this Adriatic city is a bit more complicated. After the end of I WW, after the Habsburg empire collapsed and before first Yugoslavia was created, Italian troops rushed in Istria and some other western parts of today's Slovenia and Croatia. and those parts were disputed between Yugoslavia and Italy between I WW and II WW. Early 1930's Mussolini's fascists occupied even more western parts, whole Istria and some Adriatic isles. So at the end of II WW Yugoslav army (partisans) rushed to liberate a much as possible and in progress conquered also most of the disputed territories, and established border at more or less formal Habbourg-Italy border. As early as summer 1945 it was pretty clear where the border between Italy and Yugoslavia should be. That is how famous zone A & zone B where created. Formally both zones were under the control of international allied force, actually, Zone A was under the control of Yugoslav authorities. This situation lasted until the Treaty of Osimo in 1975. And then it was decided that line between zone A and zone B will be the border between Yugoslavia and Italy. Why it lasted o long. 1. Yugoslav authorities have it as a negotiation point and as a common focus of people in everyday politics. America and allies used this as to prolong negotiation with Tito about entering the western coalition. But the biggest benefit for the CIA and America was the fact that this weakened link between Italian and Yugoslavian Communists. And it was a strong argument to weaken the leftist's popularity in Italy.

[@ramadaniljaz1323]

There were yugoslav albanian companies , because tito wanted to develop the low developed republics so they can all achieve equality

[@vladob3]

Ramadan Iljaz this is really interesting fact. I newer saw any information regarding that.

[@ramadaniljaz1323]

@@vladob3 yes i assume you are yugoslavian , if you are i can reffer some books to you about it (in serbian language)

[@vladob3]

Ramadan Iljaz please do. I always love to learn some more.

[@ramadaniljaz1323]

@lagjes cuni2 Albania was not part of yugoslavia , but even the communist party in albania voted in favor to enter yugoslavia before stalin and tito parted ways (kochi dzodze being the leader of the pro yugoslavian movement in albanian communist party) and he was killed after tito was deemed guilty by stalin , you can check it yourself

[@victorcenac1247]

Why did the soviet troops pull out of Romania in... 1958?

[@kingkonut]

The Stalinists weren't purged they were just away on business.

[@ftmstem9705]

English subtitle need.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

FTM STEM no

[@potatojuice2236]

It was very objective. Thank You. You could mention Tito"s concenration camp Goli Otok, and peasants rebellion in 1950, against collectivization.

[@BokicaK1]

Ivan Subasic did not become prime minister until 1944. In 1941 prime minister (of goverment in exile) was general Dusan Simovic, who was followed by Slobodan Jovanovic, Milos Trifunovic and (not sure of his real name) Bozidar Simic. Each more unsuscesuful than his predecessor.

[@BokicaK1]

Provisional goverment (not assembly) was created in March 1945

[@AP-yx1mm]

Dr. Ivo Šubašić is a croat, so that government was also "panslavic".

[@radunMARSHAL]

He sad that the dynasty was Serbian, which is true.

[@AP-yx1mm]

@@radunMARSHAL Yes but the government was led by a croat at the time, each and every government had members of the officially recognized ethnic groups...(They weren't strong on their own but they existed nonetheless)

[@radunMARSHAL]

@@AP-yx1mm I'm not saying that what you said is not true, I'm just pointing out that he didn't state that Yugoslavia was Serb but rather that the Serbian dynasty united Yugoslavia.

[@AP-yx1mm]

@@radunMARSHAL Yeah but he was talking about the Government...

[@averinus7706]

@@AP-yx1mm no, he wasn't

[@BojanBojovic]

Hmm, I did not know that Yugoslavia and Albania were so close connected, this explains few things that happened much later. From a logical standpoint it was shame that the unification of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria did not happen as those people were somewhat similar and it would be great to live together in one large country, however from a practical perspective the people are so problematic that the war that torn apart Yugoslavia would have been much worse if the larger state existed with 2 more republics.

[@bnast6849]

That would be two more problems to deal with. Only right thing would be taking northern "albania" and re-naturalize it's Serbian population.

[@gregoiremp]

Dear @The Cold War , on 5:50 you have a map where ex FYROM, now North Macedonia is dipicted as Macedonia. Please correct it.

[@01726463505]

Is this channel 'Kings and Generals' related?

[@brokenbridge6316]

I can sure appreciate how unique Yugoslavia was at the end of WWII. It defied the Soviet Union to be it's own nation. Not something anyone else can claim. And as for Albania what happened with them I find to be strange. But that's all I can think of it. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@gigasigma8373]

albania didnt let anyone claim it aswell, hoxha was just a very big fan of stalin but not only him, he was very good friends with tito aswell and tito actually wanted albania to join yugoslavia and enver was actually going to but ofc stalin had bad bloods with tito and didnt want a balkan superpower to form because if albania joined, bulgaria would aswell and then on and on. When USSR became revisionist albania defied them and legit threatened, yugoslavia, greece and the USSR for war kinda stupid from enver hoxha to do that though but we move on, he sides with china and he defies them aswell and he gets left with no allies, the country in complete ruins. Harshest communism a country ever experienced imo.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@gigasigma8373---Thanks for the history lesson.

[@Lin-eo5xu]

Can you talk about communism in China and the founding of the People's Republic of China.

[@chenyaolu5915]

Yugoslavia is a relatively moderate socialist government, without very severe rules. Albania seems the worst dictatorship in post-WW2 Europe.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

At least Yugoslavia had it pretty well.

[@robert48044]

is it true Albania had forced pregnancy? Like all the woman of a certain age had to get pregnant. either by sex or by Dr but they had to get pregnant. I heard t it mentioned once because Albania didnt have enough citizens for production.

[@camillomancini5619]

it wasn't like that, albanian communist party would give certificates and medals to the families that had many kids the mothers with a lot of babies were considered heroes by the communist party .......It was almost normal back then to have a lot of kids like 3-7...nowadays we albanians can't even support to feed ourselves ,birth rates have fallen drastically..... 1 to 2 kids max ,,, the youth is leaving the country and seeking asylum in germany france because of low salaries , corruption and high cost of living in albania....I am going to leave in 2 years after I finish my university degree in (IT) my brother who finished his degree has already left the country

[@Justice-qw7sj]

@@camillomancini5619 Wow really, iknow this is a late response but did you leave Albania yet? we still have problems with jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina so im thinking to leave too, btw i also am studying the IT..

[@jothegreek]

is this rippng the great war?

[@creatoruser736]

Yugoslavia and Albania might have liberated themselves from German occupation, but that was only because the Soviet Red Army was pushing them back in other areas and they didn't see the need to continue holding Balkans countries when their homeland came under direct threat. It was more of the Germans voluntarily pulling out and partisans harassing them along the way.

[@BokicaK1]

No, when Red Army arrived on Balkans (summer of 1944), partisans were in offensive, and Germans and colaboratinist forces in defencive. Sure, Red army helped a lot, since partisans were lacking armour and air force.

[@berserk6855]

Hahahaba my dude u dont even know history. When Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were invited to join Axis Yugoslav anti fasist movment declined it and thats why Nazi Germany declared war against Yugoslavia and yugoslav war prologend Barbarossa for 1 year, while occupyed Yugoslav communist partisans made a huge inpact in Balkan fighting being surrounded but still managed to fight off, they were the most effective partisan movement in whole Evrope with 800k soldiers fighting Nazis so yeah u are wrong

[@justinian-the-great]

Well, taking in consideration that more Axis troops were stationed in Yugoslavia than in allied fronts in Africa and Italy, yeah they were pretty big front. Actually, Yugoslavia, by the number of Axis troops stationed in it (usually 6-700.000 soldiers), was the second biggest front until D-day!

[@dragonrykr]

@SyncKo An inconvenience is still something tho

[@ilejovcevski79]

@SyncKo Hence the term "Quisling"

[@Akritis_82]

On your map at 05:57 it shows a country named Macedonia? Do you mean FYROM or the now named North Macedonia?

[@mlynto]

The map shows situation back then therefore name Macedonia. Recently Macedonia and Greece reached an agreement for Macedonia to be officially called North Macedonia so that its name differs from the region in northern Greece.

[@harisahmed8009]

Can you do on Pakistan

[@SJ-nl6xl]

No

[@davidp.7620]

Tito, Tito, Tito je nase sunce

[@alanstrong3295]

Hope they have all recovered from German and Russian oppression

[@deznuces9342]

Tito was and will forever stay as the biggest, most respected and widely known leader in whole world. Like him or not, he knew what he was doing 😉.

[@pokeshark]

Tito and Ataturk.

[@Nestoras_Zogopoulos]

I believe i found a circle jerking thread

[@enderman_666]

>biggest Not really, no. >most respected Probably not, doubt it. >widely known Definitely not.

[@deznuces9342]

@Meksi the educated people

[@deznuces9342]

@Meksi so not you 😅

[@bgcvetan]

4:40 Americans don't forger or forgive.

[@paullytle1904]

Belgrade is pronounced beo-grad or atleast bell-grad not bell-grade

[@TheSparrow002]

:D

[@kristaqvin]

Based Hoxha moment

[@Porkeater2610957]

Addendum: Stalin was against AVNOJ(Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia), held in 1943, and the internal Yugoslav border divisions in such an anti-Serbian manner (Serbs were split into 4 federal Republics, and additional 2 redundant "autonomous provinces" within Serbia).

[@cossackhistorian7425]

No mention of the Četniks?

[@michamalinowski8015]

Wait... you were talking about the tension between Yugoslavia and Albania and did not mention the bunkerisation of Albania? Shame on you. That's like the most hilarious thing that happened during the cold war.

[@MrGentilushi]

After 1949 Albania was impossible to penetrate militarily because of the bunkers. It would be a suicide for any army. 700 000 bunkers have to be cleared one by one to secure the country. That is quite a huge task for any army. The only way was to nuke it.

[@soul8938]

Hoxha was pretty ruthless but in that situation i think everybody would have done the same imagine not having any diplomatic relations anymore (ussr, china) being completly alone no allies no guarantess And not to mention neighbours who have tried and always had the wish to occupy albania just waiting for the right moment like vultures (greece, yugoslavia) Bunkers everywhere

[@michamalinowski8015]

@@MrGentilushi You know who thaught the same? The French in 1939.

[@MrGentilushi]

@@michamalinowski8015 Maginot line is not the same as bunkers in Albania. In Albania it is not just one line aligned with the border. Every 500 m in Albania you can spot one. In cities in mountains along rivers, along borders,sea coasts, everywhere. They were built with the guerilla strategy in mind. To cause the enemy such issues with securing the areas that clearing those bunkers from people with guns would not be worth the fight.

[@Denis-fj1ky]

My family were the Qadi of the City of Korce in Albania since Enver didn't allow religion he revoked our title and imprisoned members of my family and worked them to death

[@moait-kaci1462]

There is a special place in hell for envar insha'Allah.

[@DarkEagle99]

@@albanianorthodox1612 Fuck all religions, my religion is albanianism

[@joeyminigames7147]

Denis edhe un nga Korca jam vlla

[@MrGentilushi]

@@albanianorthodox1612 Qadi is a 'Religious Judge' and Enver was right about religion.

[@michaelburman9705]

The word is "Yugoslav" "Yugoslavian" is incorrect

[@Dalmenco]

Yugoslavia was not even in the warsaw pact bloc

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Yep, they allowed trading with the West.

[@nadacalo9289]

Yugoslavia had nothing to do with Albania.They run to Yu till 90.

[@urimemihaj8398]

fun fact : Albania still exist today ;)

[@joeyminigames7147]

Urime Mihaj yea no shit idiot

[@michaelcutler5538]

They also have a statue of George Bush, for reasons

[@shauncameron8390]

As one of the poorest countries in Europe.

[@Zadrigo]

Yugoslavia will rise again!

[@SJ-nl6xl]

No. Serbia wont rise again. So stfu

[@Eraser55]

I support. Need to purge the nationalists first.

[@joeyminigames7147]

Zadrigo in ur dreams fuck no

[@oliverstianhugaas7493]

*Long Live Fiume.* You might shatter our bodies but you can never break our spirits.

[@s.majstorovic5598]

Lmao Istra and Zadar are ours, cry about it Mussolini fanboy.