Why did Yugoslavia Collapse?

Why did Yugoslavia Collapse?
Yugoslavia. For many, a long-forgotten failed nation. For others, an all-too-painful, and recent, memory. A once-united federation made up of six neighboring republics, Yugoslavia’s existence was never a simple one. With constant ethnic and religious division, it seems that it was only a matter of time before a breakup would be imminent. But was that the only cause of Yugoslavia’s collapse? And how did the ethnic disputes actually lead to the destruction of an entire federation?...
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[tony locke]

I lived and worked in Yugoslavia in the 1970's and loved the place and people, BUT, as you rightly pointed out, the ethnic divisions ran deep and so, even back in '78, I knew it was only a matter of time before it fell apart. However, what a beautiful place it was with so much diversity from the alpine areas of the north to the Dalmatian coast and the mountains of Bosnia and the southern lakes.

[tony locke]

@Gamer god Relative to the other communist countries, which were under Soviet control, life in Yugoslavia was pretty good. What you most definitely didn't do was make any statement critical of the government. True shopping was not done by creating a shopping list...you went out and bought what you could, got it home and then thought what the heck can I cook with this. Strangely though, when you could get things like mushrooms, they were a treat and savored.

[Gamer god]

How did you like the communism

[tom gu]

What up with those degenerate anti Serbia comment???

[cafta]

@kamran misri no it doesnt lol !

[Cromwelldunbar1650]

@caftaeresting réplique! I drove through Yugoslavia once, and travelled through it by train once. Having lived and studied in Spain beforehand some years before I was drawn to making comparisons between the two dictatorships that were Franco’s and Tito’s and unjustifiably resulting in favour of Franco’s but purely by the social fact that the people of Spain had little hesitation in sharing their antipathy with an Englishman, whereas wherever I stopped in Yugoslavia, and even in tourist motels et al I found no one absolutely not a soul, willing or able to communicate inner feelings. I was so disappointed and couldn’t understand it at all! Indeed the only two occasions where I have thought in retrospect that I should and could have developed some philo-politico-socio thought exchange by correspondence were a) a few words with s/o in a train corridor who responded to my negative observations suggesting that my thoughts might lie with a « Rexist » alternative which was his word suggested. He seemed open to a discreet exchange but linguistics failed us also there were too many around in the train corridor but a great pity because intellectually he was above them all eg he could have been a doctor. The other instance was a waiter in the very southern town of Niss near the Greek frontier to whom I expressed some light-hearted politico banter observation, who apparently took my point favourably but added a « shush » indication of warning for me to be careful with what I expressed… Thus did I compare Franco Spain and Tito Yugoslavia…to my frustration never able to reach any kind of conclusive comparison as to reasons for Yugoslavs to be so reticent…Where Spaniards were so expansive… despite theihLater I gave up concluding that Slavs were not open-minded and ever suspicious because of their long-lasting history of their role of subservient class to semi feudal social environments…and far too belated reforms leaving their mental states much too be desired. Far example, what can one think where a Russian Czar was murdered by his people yet he had done so much to free them from their serfdom? Isn’t that enough to sense that the very concept of Goodness is in no way the monopoly of any single class?

[Richie B]

I was lucky enough to hitchhike thru Yugoslavia in 1973. Everybody was very nice and it was easy to get a ride. Country was beautiful and the food was great. Very pleasant memories of that lovely place.

[🦅KosovaAlbania🦅]

Slobodan destroyed Yugoslavia He want a greater Serbia

[Serdar Ateşer]

On the Road with my Family in a Ford Taunus car from İstanbul/Turkey to Napoli-İtaly and Munich-Germany (for Olympic games 1972) we were there too! Wonderful, lovely country, with happy and beautiful people were what we experienced. So sad what happened afterwards:(

[Haltu Á Ketti]

then behind the close doors that was not the case at all slaughters of millions of people etc

[A mills]

I remember doing a report about Yugoslavia and its diverse cultures for school way back in 1988. It's a good lesson on how in some circumstances multiculturalism can go horribly wrong.

[Pawel Jakub Knebloch]

Germany in 2023 literally.

[Jay Fielding]

It isn't multiculturalism when you have seven nations sewn together. Multiculturalism means all cultures spread throughout.

[Domagoj Pećar]

​@Petar N there were no concentration camps in this part of Europe! Srijem was back then part of Croatia. We don't deny that Ustaše were bad and doing bad things but there was no genocide! Pardon me, there was...genocide of Croatians in east Herzegovina? And who prosecuted them? Četnici!

[Domagoj Pećar]

​@Petar N and another missinformation. Serbia was under direct control of Nazis and your home traitor Nedić. Ustaše ccouldn't be blamed for Belgrade. And one more thing...Jewish comunity center in Zagreb was only one in all Nazi Europe that survived during the war. It was never closed like in rest of occupied nations.

[Elaine Chubb]

An interesting video, and I am not quarreling with the presentation, and realize you are talking about a short period in a very long and complicated history. In my personal opinion, there are important factors in the former Yugoslavia and the larger Balkan region that cannot be overlooked. In prehistory and the period up through the Roman Empire, this region was in fairly constant turmoil, with a patchwork of ethnic groups and constant invasions, mainly from the east--with "barbarian" peoples such as the Goths, Huns, etc., moving across southern Europe. The big divide in Yugoslavia goes back to when the Roman Empire was divided into East and West. The demarcation line between the two ran N-S right through Yugoslavia. And during the Middle Ages the divisions grew--West, Latin-speaking, Roman alphabet, Roman Catholic Church ... East, Greek-speaking, Greek/Cyrillic alphabet, Eastern Orthodox Church ... Divisions continued, with the Ottoman Empire conquering the East and the Venetians and then the Austrians and Hungarians taking control of the West. Hence the split between Croatia and Slovenia on one side and Serbia on the other. Bosnia-Herzegovina was first under Turkish control and then seized by Austria. North Macedonia was under Turkish control and in the eastern half. That meant there was not a shared history in the republics of Yugoslavia (or the kingdom that preceded them), or that the history was not seen in the same way by the different South Slavic peoples. The divisions built over long centuries, so it was naturally hard to counteract them in mere decades.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Teoman Vural]

@luan berisha Arnavutlar balkanlarda kadim bir halktır ama tarihsel süreçte önemli bir rol oynayamadiklarini biliyoruz elaine hakli olarak yer vermemiş

[MagirusDeutz Jupiter]

I was in Bosnia in 1996 for 6 months, and spoke to a lot of locals, who unfortunately could not speak good English, but what I gathered all in all was very frustrating and confusing for them. The conflict was a great example on how things can get totally out of hand when regions of nations are unbalanced and egos are paramount. Politics, ethnic groups, economics, land rights, all together in a turmoil ran its course in a cruel very sadly finish. I hope peace and harmony for the region, as I found this part of the world fantastic in all aspects.

[allanhouston22]

@tom gu yes, same story like Putin had for Ukraine. Brotherly nations think alike

[tom gu]

@allanhouston22 there was never a concentration camp in srebrenica and those were local serbs living in bosnia who defend bosnia from croatia nazis and Muslims

[tom gu]

I was born in republika srpska! In 2000!

[Justa Youtuber]

Reminds me of our Congress and blue/red states

[Carlos De Sousa]

Very interesting. Although I lived through all the news and wars of the time, I was too busy trying to " do life " , that I never had the opportunity to understand what that huge conflict was all about. Finally I have some idea of what transpired. Thank you ☺

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Zejd Durgut, Brandbergsskolan 7A elev]

No this was a very bad video. U should watch a documentary to actually understand

[Arijan]

The war in the balkans never ended. It continued in KZbin comment sections.

[Bruda z Huda]

Kao sto ni WW2 ne je završio,ali eto izgleda da se uskoro mora sve rjesit

[Justa Youtuber]

Remember: my religion, ethnicity, and language is better than yours. Everyone repeat this.

[Hobbit Sodomizer]

Sad but true. Good thing do there are lots of us from old YU states that look toward btighter future without hatred. Learn from past to make better tomorrow.

[Zeljko Opalic]

@Tare Duka well considering what Salih Mustafa did to his own people I wonder what horrible thing people like that have done to Serbians, and there are plenty of people like that in Kosovo you call them terrorists.

[Tare Duka]

@Zeljko Opalic cosa hanno fatto Zeljko?!??

[Brad Clifton]

I have often asked the question of modern perceptions of nationhood. 200 years ago, many places we call countries now, that fall under singular rule and, name never existed. I would argue the Yugoslavia was just such a place. Definitely a border area where conflicts between powers were common and changes in control just as frequent. As with places like Armenia. This created a multi ethnic, racial, religious melting pot. Any true sense of a nation across the region would be unlikely to ever have existed. Today, especially in Africa and the Middle East we have dozens of countries which have this problem. Lines on maps do not effectively describe nor serve the multiplicity of peoples contained with those lines.

[Brad Clifton]

@Ernest Frigelj I would not go that far but, I would argue that for large parts of history many, many peoples had very little consciousness of their official Kings and rulers except when wars raged through or taxation was pushed to fund said wars. The rest of the time most are just too busy surviving to care.

[slaven vulic]

@Brad Clifton i guess to simplify what i am trying to say is that Yugoslavia never was a nation that had new nations comming out of it. Same as Great Britain isnt a nation, its, basicaly a geographical definition. Southslavia was a region that unified few prexisting nations

[slaven vulic]

@Brad Clifton hmm. there are few things in ur comment that doesnt hit the chord somehow. Yugoslavia literally means Jugo (prononouced as Yugo) - south and Slavia as in slavic lands. Yugoslavia was never really a nation but union of south slavic existing nations as its name suggests... a Southslavia. Within those nations and their traditional teritorries there was a mixing due to that region being in European center of east/west struggle for centuries (west and east roman empire, later west europe and ottoman europe etc), but Union of south slavs had defined nations within it and for most defined borders (counting all the disputes etc which exists eveywhere). Most of Yugoslav republics were actually a nations that were kingdoms etc and had their own parliments and statehood regardless of independent or part of union status, and that was the fact for bigger part of Yugoslav nations, uinterupted statehoood since 8th, 9th century. If you want to argue nationhood bcs of complexity of a nation, then what are english really? In england one speaks bastart german/nord/french language and is a product of brittons raped by a roman raped by angles and saxons raped by a viking, raped by another viking who is now a neutralised french, where you have Yorkish/northumbrian dane law north with perdominantly saxon south forming a... nation? Things are always complex

[Brad Clifton]

@slaven vulic yup. I'd agree with that. But, much of that nationhood was in dualities and multiplicities. Several different cultures with different ideas of what would define a nation. Often very contradictory. No more so that between Christian and Muslim nations. Again, former Yugoslavia was just such a place. The region may have a defined title but, that does not create one people, one nation. As with Ireland, their submission to British rule was largely enforced at the end of sword, spear and musket. They are part of a region called Britain but, today. Do the Irish primarily define themselves as Irish or Britain's or, are the interchangeable. I'd suggest, push come to shove, we would see 4 nations not one, should the very thin tether of burocrats fail.

[andrija ankovic]

Assuming this is an attempt of explanation for those who know little about, it is pretty well done. There is, however an important fact missing in the introduction. The Kingdom of Jugoslavia was created only in the 1918. The main nations that formed it, Serbs and Croats, before 1918 and never before in the human history lived together under one state or one kingdom.

[travian travian]

Yugoslavia was made up of several State Unions, some of which trace their roots back to 1189. And the idea of ​​Yugoslavia gathered true fighters against the world order of that time

[Marko M]

Decko ti pojma nemas o ovome, raspitaj se malo ,malo vise

[andrija ankovic]

@Andrej Grebenc Quite true, and also, the very name "Jugoslavija" was formalized by the king only in the late 20's, not before.

[Andrej Grebenc]

It was called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (SHS). They did not recognize Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bosnians.

[Janete Quintanilha]

In 1997 I shared a dormitory with a Yuguslavian girl while studying in England. Very nice, educated, helpful . I hope she's all right no matter where in old Yuguslavia she is

[RAV]

We totally underestimate efforts early Indian leaders made to keep the union united. Every state in India speaks a different language and is a different ethnicity to a certain degree. We all coexist now as a huge nation and proud. Other countries couldn't stay like that. India is truly a marvel in this regard.

[Kung Alexander]

@RAV true, and then you guys made each other unwelcome

[Milica Stanar]

​@Your Neighbour That happened in Yugoslavia. When politicions of every state became greedy of power, thay separate the country 😒

[RAV]

@Twenty Two Every developing country has political hounds that specialize in violence. They trigger the fears of people and the people are naive and pushed enough to fall for it. So yes. Hindu and muslim groups did skirmish in India on multiple occasions. Delightfully, the new generation is empowered enough to reduce it and there is less of it now.

[Twenty Two]

Can you please explain to me something? I watched the movie Slumdog Millionaire, and there's a scene where Muslims and Hindus are in conflict. Is this based on a true story?

[Quo Vadis]

Ok

[Daniele Pavone]

Quite a good video, another video The Breakup of Jugoslavia gives a more technical analysis of the causes of the break up of the country. Not just ill feelings or different ethnic gorups, economic and other reasons are at the base of the collapse.

[SGT Mike]

I realize you only have so much time, but there are MAJOR factors left out, that directly, and almost forcefully, led to the dissolution of the Former Yugoslavia. These elements did not lie within the borders, namely, the western powers. When I first deployed to Macedonia in early 1994, we too were given a broad-brush explanation as to why we were there. 6 months later, we soldiers of the US 1st Armored Division, found ourselves in one of the most contested regions of Republika Srbska, the Posavina Corridor. On the ground, we learned from the perspective of the People “there”, in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. I feel you did a fine job of covering some of the internal problems, but maybe consider piggybacking a separate episode explaining how the rest of Europe, and especially the Untied States influenced the divide.

[FadzuFashionTalk]

Where is caos USA has always to do with it and some countries in Europe.

[FadzuFashionTalk]

Where is caos USA has always to do with it and some countries in Europe.

[bogdantora]

Divide & conquer

[The YetiLines]

@emergesteel and vietnam

[Csaba Kis]

As a hungarian, and already living in those years (albeit as a childí6teenager) - I have always shaked my head -> history repeats itself, the ethnic groups there, especially the Serbs, made all the very same mistakes that the hungarians did in 1867-1918 - not addressing ethnic questions properly. Yugoslavia (or the predecessor kingdom) was already established in a shaky ground - the senseless, greedy land-grabbing after WW1 set the stage for failure already ... true, Tito was a formidable balancing/unifying force BUT he failed to establish a successor/system which would ensure the continuation of the union. I remember as a child I was horrified about the media reports from the region - since having serbian ancestry on the maternal family line, it was especially sad to see how neighbours jumped onto each other, destroying everything they build in decades. I also partially recall the 80's - in the Eastern Bloc people were envy of the general economic/welfare success of Yugoslavia ... I really hope the Balkans will finally get its long deserved peace -> the only way I see at the moment, is joining the EU for the remaining non-members ... Greetings from Hungary!

[Aleksandar Blagojević]

@Tim Yumichuck you obviously know nothing about history

[Aleks V]

@Tim Yumichuck world war 1? Soviet union did not exist at the time During both world wars, Serbia was actually more aligned with the British empire, that is why during both wars the Serbian monarchy retreated to British protectorates The Godfather of the current crown prince of Serbia is King Charles the third of England Sorry to point it out but your opinion is clouded by prejudice and is not backed by facts

[Aleksandar Blagojević]

Totally agree on everything

[Aleks V]

@П Ч sorry bit I disagree, not the census of 1991 but the census of 1941 should have determined the new national borders, anything else rewarded genocide. Unfortunately, in the 90's that was the case and as such all sides clambered to boost their numbers at the expense of others. As for the Macedonians, they wanted peace and probably are paying the highest price, having to negotiate their non existence to join the EU

[George T]

The yugoslavian example shows that ethnicity is some much more language and racial proximity. Serbs and Croats are both Slavs, speaking the same language. However, the different historical paths they have followed made them perceive themselves that belong to distinct ethnicities. On the other hand, this does not apply for the Germans. Bavarians are mostly catholics. Northern germans are mostly protestants. They even fought against each other in the 30 year war. However, they all consider themselves germans.

[that1niceguy]

It's interesting - the curremcy started to deteriorate to a degree from 1982 onwards, from 1992 onwards it was catastrophic, but it wasn't that much better before 1992 either. Early 1994 was the final to the 2nd longest hyperinflation in history (2nd only behind early 20s Soviet Union) and second highest inflation rate peak (more than 300 million % monthly, 2nd behind post ww2 hungary). A Dinar that was fairly stable at around 20 per German Mark in the beginning of the 80s went down to 70'000 per Mark in 10 years and had to be reformed to a factor of 10'000 to 1. And since this reform did little more than redenominate the currency, everything after that was catastrophic. Citizens of a state with income levels among the highest incomes of Eastern Europe went to having almost 1 in 5 people struggling to accumulate enough money to even buy BREAD and the remaining people reliant on relatives abroad transfering money and relatives in the countryside providing a little bit of food.

[Zvonimir Lucic]

Yes, one of the biggest lies being sold in this part of Europe is that Yugoslavia was an economical powerhouse. It was almost like a Potemkin village. On paper, per capita, it was the poorest of all eastern European nations. The only travelling Yugoslavs did was to go do "baustela" work in Germany. While Czech, Hungarian, Polish tourists came to Yugoslavia for leisure summer holidays. The 80's inflation was the last nail in the coffin.

[Vxmpiez]

If Yugoslavia still existed they would be one of the best in Football, Basketball, swimming, water polo, tennis, and much much more. Edit: Its sad that other countries persuaded Croatia and Slovenia to try and get independence, we could of definitely lived together, look at all the other countries with different religions in them. We are all the same people as well.

[Tomex]

Yea, and now only Croatia is good in all of those :)

[Rodger Wayne]

Nikola Tesla

[Jay Fielding]

All these countries are far better off alone. Yugoslavia ended itself when it threatened those Croatian helicopters.

[Mirjana Em]

@JUNO PUNO neka njih, samo neka nas opet ne uvlaće u neke njihove kuhinje

[Nay Sayer]

@Sladan Petkovic what do u think serb name came from? from serv as a servant

[Dragan Minic]

Everything he said is consistent with my understanding of the events. Well done. I will forgive his pronunciation of a few names, after all, my Australian wife couldn't pronounce mine.

[Luda glista]

The biggest problem of Yugoslavia is that all the factions of WW2 which were in war with each other inside the territory of Yugoslavia during WW2 were basically forced to live together after WW2 ended, and were mixed together, especially in Bosnia ( Chetniks, Ustase and Partisani also extreme groups of Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs were forced to live together, lots of households were mixed, mixed marriages everywhere, mixed neighbourhoods etc). Former enemies became neighours, and so stories and experiences from father/grandfather were told to son/grandson what happened in ww2, how bad they had it or which family member was killed by which Ethnic group who was killed by Croats, by Serbs or by Bosniaks.. So after Yugoslavia broke up and the wars started a lot of people were very happy to take guns and "repay" or do "revenge killings" on their Ethnicaly different neighbours for things that happened to their Grandfather/Grandmother or close family in ww2...

[chip-fftt]

Maja pogledaj ovo

[Ryan L]

I always wondered why Yugoslavia collapsed. Now I understand. It's very sad. If only the different groups of people could've found a way to work together, and for each other, this country could've survived in a post communist world.

[Lucija Sunce]

You do not understand anything...

[Zejd Durgut, Brandbergsskolan 7A elev]

It was the serbs who did a genocide on the muslims in bosnia

[Газдинство Миловић]

Actually author put just superficial knowledge which actually isnt quite or true at all...Why would you believe everything you see im first place..

[Jio Joe]

One very important factor is missing. As the socioeconomic system was clearly collapsing some communist party members (from all the republics) got _very preoccupied_ about the loosing power perspective and started to play the nationalist card. There were some foreign(Germany and Italy in particular) interventions as well...and things got way out of hand.

[Keralaforum]

You said it! Germany took revenge for the painful defeat they had in WWII against Marshall Tito!

[Donald Duck]

so so sad RIP Yugoslavia, you will be missed, born December 01, 1918; died sometime in an unknown date (wiki fails to remember) in 2003.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[bao pham]

The break up of Yugoslavia led to the end of Yugo Auto. Supply parts came from several different republic that were at war with each other. Left over parts were used but soon faced quality control issues

[lightdragon]

yet they still exist

[JT Moore]

Back in the early 80s in grade school a family moved to my hometown from Yugoslavia. It wasnt until the breakup of the country that I learned that they were Serbian. Growing up we never knew all the states of the Communist countries because it was a Union and no mention of individual former countries. I still have some Yugo currency that they gave me back in like 83.

[julapont]

If Yugoslavia still existed they would be a power in basketball.

[Uzi Thedreadpoet]

@Mmm good for you

[Mmm]

@Uzi Thedreadpoet pfft no and it’s football big man not soccer

[Ultimate_Football10]

@Miss Pinky Jujubean expect for football (soccer) bc they couldn't beat Cameroon, not gonna lie Cameroon is a good team, but most ppl expect u to beat them

[Ultimate_Football10]

@Astro and 2018 bro And maybe 2022 but we never know

[Jan Chreňo]

So much souls left the world because Collapse of Yugoslavia, same as my heart died when Czechoslovakia ended. At least we did it peacefully, sad the Yugoslavia did not use the peace way... but here it was harder :)

[ZEE IBIT]

Can't talk about this problem without mentioning religion problems... and a historical perspective of the evolution of the national identities since Greek times would be much appreciated... also the 'middle ages' influence of Venice, Ottoman empire, etc. etc. waitin' for a second video with this points cleared,,, ;-)

[Owl]

You are correct, but religious problems can easily be swept under ethnic difference since it coincided with other ethnic lines.

[Etruscan Civilization]

Before my viewing of this video the only thing that I knew about Yugoslavia was a very small car name the "YUGO" sold in the United States during the early 1970's. Also, after I completed my Masters degree and was working to afford my second European trip to Amsterdam, Holland, I met one of the most beautiful and nicest women that I will always remember who told me that she was from Yugoslavia, and she was only 22 yrs old in 1986, and i went back to see her again the following year because she had me so mesmerized with her intelligence and beauty, and with the most smoothest skin texture that reminded me of a bright yellowish shiny leather. I forgot her name, and I can still see her beautiful face within eyes of my mind F O R E V E R.. 😍😍😍😍

[Pawel Jakub Knebloch]

Yugoslavian women are truly the most beautiful in the world.

[Etruscan Civilization]

@Ignjat Horvath Thanks for that brilliant opinion about a country I know very little about, but I do admire the peoples integrity..

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Etruscan Civilization]

@Twenty Two I liked your story because everything you said was true regarding how people communicated during that time period.. We can now use Facebook messenger while talking to people all over the world for FREE, and see the many beautiful faces of the people we admire..🙂

[Twenty Two]

I'm born in 1996. but i know a lot about Yugoslavia because my parents are from Macedonia. What an interesting time to be alive. Modern enough to visit other countries and meet new random people who speak a different language and have a good time together. But still not modern enough to have social media and ask for her facebook hehe.. You had to write down a name and address on a piece of paper so you can write letters afterwards. Occasionally you would use a phone call, but international phonecalls would be too expensive. My mom told me a story when she was on a school trip in another country, she had a small radio device shaped like a coca-cola bottle. Very cool and unique item for it's time. She borrowed it to a friend from another country and accidentally forgot it there. After my mom came home from the school trip, she spent weeks or probably over a month trying to get in contact with her friend, asking a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend, just to get the name and address to write a letter and get the radio back haha..

[MrKockabilly]

They were already different nations prior to WW1 (remember what country was the first recipient of a declaration of war in WW1?). The fact that they (slovenes, croats and serbs) formed a union after WW1 and then tightened after WW2 under the Soviet sphere was already something. Their "breakup" was inevitable once the external power that clamps them together loses some grip.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[worlddd777]

@UNS GUS My friend, i wouldnt laugh with that level of ignorance

[UNS GUS]

@worlddd777 communists against communists haha

[worlddd777]

Yugoslavia almost went to war with Soviets in 48, because they said no to Stalin

[Victor]

Yugoslavia was never part of the Soviet sphere after WW2.

[chloemay91]

I work in a pub and have a regular at work who’s in his late 80s who talks of these times. I’m watching now to understand more but I’m still lost but I love him to bits. Our Bob..amazing man. 2 pale ales and a port everyday

[nijetonija]

For someone who is not from Yugoslavia: We should first start from the Balkan Wars and the period before the war, WW1, and then from WW2. We lived between three big powers: the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, later Germany, Russia and America. And what do the great powers do? They play outside their borders. It does not suit the great powers to have another competition that has perhaps the best position in the world (the crossroads between everything). Their task was simple, to repeat a well-known recipe, impoverish the state and bring riots, change a bit their history in books. It is important to say that not everyone was well during communism, whose leader was Tito, for the reason that it did not turn out that Tito maintained peace (there was a lot of fear among the people). The task is done. They have our best scientists, engineers, craftsmen and workers. And we are not the only ones, it has been done to all countries in this world. We are all still colonies of a couple of world powers like Britain, America, Germany, Russia, China.

[CroLarus]

This is best explanation. Between NATO and Warsaw pact (and others) there woos no place for "nesvrstani" (non-sided).

[Ivan Jelenic]

Yup, they play on local greed/ego/megalomania, flame the discord, and push from the sides.

[Amelplayer!!!]

Im from bosnia

[BV]

Mostly accurate. As for Kosovo you gotta start before 1989. Even early 80's before big bad Milosevic, and why the local ethnic Serb population protested what was happening to their homes. Also humans never learn and fight over religion and imaginary lines on a floating rock in space.

[Ivan K]

I think a part that is missing is the economy baaed on donations from sssr and the western countries during the cold war … that was pretty big part of why yugoslavia collapsed. The reasons in the video played big role too

[Engineering is my blood]

I would love to see a more detailed video about the bosnian war which was the most destructive war within the collapse of Yugoslavia. The ethnic devision is still a huge problem today. And it seems that its just a matter of time that Bosnia and Herzegowina might experience a redraw of borders whether being verbally or with war… I hope for peace for everybody.

[ZeroRemorse]

It's a shame that the various ethnic groups couldn't get along well enough to stay together under the federation. United they were strong enough to demand fair trade rules and had a strong enough military to demand the greater powers of Europe heed their demands. Post break up the former Yugoslavian nations came out much weaker, more divided and politically forgotten in Eastern Europe. A real shame.

[scooby 123]

No Croats are complaining

[Cornpop The Bad Dude]

@Pierce Blackburrow Sebs, croats and bosnians did not hate wach other. We were manipulated by our leaders and the west. if you rally think that we all hated each other then you must've lived in a pretty fuked up place.

[Linke Loetje]

When I was a kid in fifth grade my teacher said that Yugoslavia would fall apart when Tito would die. That was in 1965. He was right It was later but it indeed fell apart.

[MachineThatCreates]

All I know is they had some bloody good sporting teams when it was all Yugoslavia. Who remembers 1974 world cup? Djaije,,Marich,,Acimovic etc and didn't a Yugo team beat the yanks in basketball at the Olympics? Unity and brotherhood was definitely the go.

[Milica Stanar]

​​​@Dževad Bayraktar No people in Serbia mixed very little with Turks, We have less than 1% of their genes. But I don't know whats it like today among Muslims in Bosnia, couse I have seen a lot of people from Arabic countries there. Yes we are mix of old Balkan people and Sloveni and all Sloveni like Norwegians and people from Sweden( sve dan) have haplogrup I.

[Dževad Bayraktar]

@MachineThatCreates original serbs were not tall; it was when they mixed and all other slavs with local tall people in balkans especially dinaric mount people the genetics changed and later mixing with turks it all contributed to better genetics unfortunately serbs continue to have bad leaders who lie to them almost about everything thus create future problems for next generation

[MachineThatCreates]

@My MIa happy days. Slavs are healthy tall and great basketballers. I asked my mum why I and Slavs in general are tall and she said "because we walked all the way from the Carpathians and our legs stretched" sounded good to me.

[My MIa]

Yes you are right.We beat the Yanks and basketball was one of the most popular sports back then ...it remained the same in Serbia and Croatia until present day.Serbia alone won the Yenks too.

[TheBaconeaterz]

Did someone say KFC

[Tom]

I love that you touched upon the topic of Yugoslavia its almost strange there isn't enough people talking about it.

[Waynos Fotos]

That is because people from that region get very heated, and rightly so. This video does not cover what happened on the ground. Villages were attacked by military, Men shot, women graped and then the entire village burnt to the ground without any survivors, (well all they could find). Every single person killed. All sides did this, it was, genicide, racial clensing, what ever you want to call it. Many can still remember the horrors and hatred is still ingrained in many people. Many lost children were brought up by foster families after WW2 and the 90s war. People will never forget these horrific times. War could spark again, we have Muslims and Christian Orthodox leaving in very close proximity in Bosnia Herzegovina with the border of Republicka of sprka, and currently there is tension.

[Asterix X]

I hope it was meant to be ironic?

[Kreenick]

There’s just so much conflict in our history it’s hard to have a firm grasp on everything.

[Bartol Kovač]

Most of what you said is truth however the conflict of yugoslavia dates all the way back before its exsistance and is much more complicated then this even tho you explained this part of history very well

[Bartol Kovač]

@Eddo Dorocic its easy to look at it that way isnt it so now lets ignore the fact serbs denied culture and language of croats saying its only catholic serbs in turn radicalising the people which would then go on to commit genocide as a revange and then you have partisans which denied both serbs and croats and the cycle repete except this time croats tried to get out peacfully but people were afriad nothing will be different from last time sparking the war which radicalises both sides. Once again its easy to point to these issues and say thats to be blamed but thats ignoring the very complicated history serbs and croats have together and in this post i didnt even talk about chetnik slaughter of croats and muslims or even about muslims at all so yes it is way more complicated

[loopie]

Finally someone saying this. He says at the beginning that it goes way before but then doesnt touch upon all the things that happened during ww2 and before.

[Vanilla macaron]

You should have mentioned how Slovenia broke off from the union early in the conflict of the 90s, with almost no blood shed.

[JUNO PUNO]

The Serbs had zero interest in Slovenia! In Slovenia there was not an substantial Serb population. Plus in Slovenia no mineral resources.

[O O]

I love talking to old people that grew up in Yoguslavia. They have such pride in what their country was and they'll tell you for hours how Tito was the greatest person that ever lived and how even though they were communist they weren't poor communists like the Russian's and they had freedom.

[Ned]

@Richard Bas are you some nazzi ustashe descendant from WW2?? 😳 how you mean croats hated Yugoslavia, part of croatian people were with serbs just like Tito, against the evel?!

[Richard Bas]

Those are Serbians you are talking to bro. All lies. Croatians short of a few older Communists hated Yugoslavia. Same with Slovenians. You speak to Serbs. .

[lightdragon]

not just old people. My parents also grew up in yugoslavia. And they‘re not communist

[Mars]

Obviously it was strategic long term thinking to multiply maximum points in Eurovision we could get. What else would it be?

[suze giljer]

😄😁

[Veronika Jelenc]

😹

[Ridwan]

@Amarillo Rose just like brother same in Indonesia Is founder member non aligned movement and just indonesian founding father Ir. Soekarno some point have ideology like Yugoslavia, to play both side Indonesia use Soviet to have money built infrastructure or Military power use west allies to secure inteligent and have insurance for independent fortunately Yugoslavia pay a price for full scale civil war thats criple your unity to separate each other meanwhile in Indonesian have issue and history some indonesian comander have abduct and kill by Comunist party and Communism move movement genocide some bunch religious person this version history is just written by own Government have Controversional & taboo value Soekarno Regime change by dictatorship by General Soeharto & i know this history just because coldwar theather capitalist vs Communism movement

[Aboleo80]

@Benjamin Christensen It is propaganda we were fed back in the day. It still exists in Serbia, other former republics woke up from that dream. I can name at least 10 countries of top of my head that were stronger and I'm sure there were many more. USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China, India, Both Koreas, Both West and east Germany, Italy, Turkey, Iraq, South Africa, Israel, Egypt, Poland even Bulgaria and Romania had armies that equaled in numbers to Yugoslav army.

[Benjamin Christensen]

@Milos Obrenovic LOL.. 4th in the world, but 6th in Europe?? I don't think you are a logical being...

[The Purple-Bear]

My family is of Yugoslavian heritage, always seemed like a shame what happened to the nation my ancestors came to the US from

[Richard Bas]

Serbs

[FUN CAMP]

Being born in former Yugoslavia I thought this is a fairly accurate depiction of what happened. As kid i didn't notice the tentions and differences but got learn the very quickly in the early 90s.

[PIONESA]

​@Richard Bas damn bro I am glad you was there and watching everything .

[Richard Bas]

@Ned Serbia was for maintaining a united Yugoslavia. They controlled and dominated the other regions. Took the wealth from more prosperous Croatia and Slovenia. Enforced Serbian doctrine over Catholic regions. Serbs used threats, violence, imprisonment and execution as their main weapons. Anyone who tells you any different is lying to you. The only Croats or Slovenes that supported a unified Yugoslavia were small factions of Communist sympathizers. Large majority of Croatians were and ha e always been Croatian Nationalists and never recognized Yugoslavia. It was also a bloody war when it broke up. Serbs committed some of the worst atrocities of man vs man in human history.

[Ned]

@Richard Bas so what? Serbs were favorized in Yugoslavia? Then why would they destroy it? Or serbs defended Yugoslavia? I am a little confused..

[Richard Bas]

You are Serb. Thats why.

[03. Achyuthan S]

The history of Yugoslavia is a really sad tale.. so much potential.. all abandoned by infighting and the outside world pouring gasoline on the fire.. what’s worse is that 4 of the republics had the same language too. It only shows that humans are tribalistic and will always find identities that keep some in and some out.

[Mark Foster]

This was very informative! I had thought that their manufacturing of the failed Yugo car had caused their destruction due to the massive warranty claims.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Noris Boren]

A vehicle manufacturer could spend one extra dollar for quality and make the new owner happy .

[Noris Boren]

I liked the Yugo cars ; small city car, gas efficient, and new design. If made with "quality" steering wheel, dash plastic, bolts ; engine, wheel & axle bearings ; interior ; softer shocks & tires they would be competing with Fiat 500 & Smart cars. To be so good at sports they certainly could build quality vehicles .

[Luka Maskovic]

xD

[Xebenkeck]

As the problem with any federation, there were rich regions and there were poorer regions, the rich regions always felt their success was proping up the lesser regions and the feelings for autonomy grew, using ethnicity as a backdrop for it. The lesser regions felt the government was only helping the rich regions therefore feeling oppressed, using ethnicity as the reason, which also promped the feel for autonomy. Thus you have conflict between the regions, people in their quest for national unity end up blaming another ethnic group, and history repeats itself again and again and again. War

[MaDDrone]

Bosnians: “I want to go to the beach” Croatia: No

[Petri Vesho]

@Gerry🇷🇺 kosovo is Dardania, before Slaves come in Balkans. Always albanian land

[Gerry🇷🇺]

Albania: we want a part of your country. Serbia : No way America/ NATO : ok we will sort something out for you, don't worry .

[MantraX049]

"Town of KIN" 😂😂😂😂

[Armin Xvs]

Bad and overplayed joke - which is even wrong. Look up Neum. The real joke should be Moldavia: I want to go to the beach. Ukraine: NO! Look it up. The border is a real troll move haha

[Armin Xvs]

@Fortnite and News and what "big and rich" nation do you belong?

[jure kapus]

I feel like not explaining the situation before 1945 doesn't give enough context for why Yugoslavia collapsed. Disputes go far back even before WW1 and balkan wars.

[Nemanja Djokic]

@Waynos Fotos that's what they want you to belive.

[spid volem]

@Waynos Fotos it would have started anyways

[Waynos Fotos]

@spid volem yep! And the Serbs started World war one.

[spid volem]

@Timothy Hernandez actually there is a war every 30-40 years

[Mandhoj Budha Magar]

What I saw the life of the people in former Yugoslavia was no less better than any european country. People had their apartments, cars( Own product). And the country was well developed and industrialised. Our students were there for professional educations on scholarship. Sad that it broken up. The country played important role in gathering together the neutral countries during the cold war.

[Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos]

@Nikica Dini Renic To inform you About war the great powers decide and the peoples follow

[Nikica Dini Renic]

@fightback don't forget that USA an UK, always find help from inside, and western and Eastern parts of ex Yu are still on the tail of Western world

[fightback]

Yes , they were a safe harbour for many from the West and from the East . Yugoslavia was extremely important to many people just because it had a lot more freedom than the USSR. On the other hand they were not a pro USA country . Yugoslavia worked in many good ways and Tito should have tried to adres the differences as well . But he was just one . Others could have made more effort into modernising the power structure . On behalf of Yugoslavia i say these problems are being faced by many nations and Federations in the world. Nigeria is a good example . Belgium also . It needs working inside federations of different people. But USA destroys everything. Britain also .

[Siki Witit]

As an Albanian from Montenegro it was so sad to see this country end.

[O B]

@Milica Stanar no... there is more muslims at least in the census reports. i have yet to see a single count that says there are more albanian catholics than muslims

[Milica Stanar]

​@kamran misri Thare are probably more Albanians who are Catholics than Muslims. Mother Teresa was a Catholic. But never mind, God is one

[Bledar Ndreu]

@Dževad Bayraktar there are no turks in Albania at all

[Bledar Ndreu]

@kamran misri in your dreams there are no muslim ethnicities but nationalities bosnan albanians etc there are moslems, catholics and orthodox albanians in one single nation and 3 states no caliphate in Balkans we are not middle east

[Dževad Bayraktar]

@Kosovar Berisha its complicated; many turks that stayed in todays Albania for example are today Albanians even in Kosova they over time became Albanians excepts few small pockets; at one time turiksih local people were adding vic to their last name too and even in albania ended their last name with I because there was racism and pressure when Ottoman Empire collapsed and those people that stayed were afraid thus they often localized their last name to slavic sounding or Albanian sounding depending where they were...it really only shows what area you maybe live in; for example turks in Azerbaijan sometimes have ov in their last names because of that time period it doesn't mean they are not Turkish/azeri so these guys are Albanians just bc they have vic it doesn't mean they are not and besides they can also change their last names to original if they remember it but usually people leave it alone if it has been couple or more generations

[Maureen Stevens]

Thank you for this detailed information. When studying geography many years ago it was Yugoslavia. I was busy working and raising a family while this breakup was happening and didn't fully understand. So again thank you.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This video is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead, only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanian population, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, and became very anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo (and alleged Croatian and Slovene support of idea), it started exactly because of Serbian nationalism and expansionism led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. Video never mentioned fact, at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread huge fear among Croatian Serbs missusing history, also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and local Croatian Serbs started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, video never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia after it was flattened with earth sa same as Mariuople in Ukraine. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Andy Nguyen]

This reminded me of the divide between the different States of Australia during the Covid pandemic! I am very concerned about Australia's future, we must learn the lessons of what happened in former Yugoslavia!

[Cherry Kovacevic]

Love from NSW

[Cherry Kovacevic]

I agree.❤

[kubyo indiya]

yah ethnic division indeed

[jason m.]

This series of events fascinates a lot of us, not least of which is it happened right in front of a lot of us in real time. Pretty much all of us 1990’s teenagers remember at least one Bosnian refugee family. And saw this on the news through the entire decade.

[Al Balog]

​@Nikola Avramov I'm Hungarian and I remember seeing things on TV as a kid in the mid 1990s not understanding much. But I do remember a Serbian kid tell me about the Croatian Ustaše in "Operation Storm" during August 1995, which he told me in 1998 about how they "were kicking people out of their house". It was something that stuck out to me. By 1999 with the growth of an infant Google, there was more uncensored information coming through, especially where the search results were less rigged. I also learned the the truth about the NATO bombings and the US-sponsored Kosovar separatists. So I learned quite a bit at the young age of 9, so I could easily see through similar scams ever since then.

[lele]

I forgot to mention, my mother and her family are from Novi Sad, Serbia.

[lele]

My mom taught me about the history of this because she herself lived through it. That's why she came to the United States in 1992, when she was only 12 years old. She has seen her friends in wheelchairs or missing arms because of the war.

[PlaviStrumf]

unfortunately even though you progressed you are still manipulated through your goodness and kindness to the point where its just plain stupid and self destructive...and you carry that burden without even knowing it...just like the old ones ...

[PlaviStrumf]

@Mike Lastname your way of life is in caucassian roots which come straight out of bosnia long before britain was even settled or sweden.

[Rabiul Hasan]

I always watch this channel's videos. They provide short but important information within 10/12 minutes. Thanks team Knowledgia.

[Йован Добройевичь]

@Rabiul Hasan what did you not understand

[Rabiul Hasan]

What you say im not understand.

[Йован Добройевичь]

Neki Lik ovo je toliko besmisleno Razbacano, prvo priča o hrvatskoj pa celo Kosovo, pa crna gora

[Йован Добройевичь]

Neki Lik are you from the balkans If you aren't, ofc you wouldn't notice the fact that it's clickbait

[Йован Добройевичь]

Neki Lik what?

[Dizzy Guy]

Great video!! Just want to point out that the multi party system happened right after Titos death. Each autonomies region had a voice/vote 8 voices (Slovenia, Cro, BiH, Vojvodina, Serbia, Kosovo, Mont, Macedonia) when Milosevic took autonomy from Vojvodina, Kosovo and Montenegro it was seen as him giving himself 4 voices. Others were afraid that they would be next so they split. This is why people in the region (old Yugo) blame Serbia for the break up of Yugoslavia

[Ignjat Horvath]

This video is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead, only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanian population, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, and became very anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo (and alleged Croatian and Slovene support of idea), it started exactly because of Serbian nationalism and expansionism led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. Video never mentioned fact, at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread huge fear among Croatian Serbs missusing history, also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and local Croatian Serbs started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, video never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia after it was flattened with earth sa same as Mariuople in Ukraine. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[uglyenoughtobewise]

@worlddd777 Yes, there are many complexities to be considered, and as with every conflict in history, you'll get different interpretations of key events from people on opposing sides. The writing was on the wall long before the war officially started, and although I was just around 10 at the time, I remember the pre-war arming period clearly. Back then I lived in Virovitica, and one day, as we were returning from a nearby field, our truck was stopped at the town entrance. We were warned that it would be best to avoid going back home for the time being, but I was given no further details by my parents. When we finally returned later that evening I found out what had taken place: the local garrison of Yugoslav People's Army, the army that was supposed to be the sole protector all of us, was caught distributing weapons to Serbian civilians in the area. That's another important detail that this video fails to mention - many high-ranking positions in Yugoslav republics other than Serbia were also held by Serbs, and that was especially true in the army. Thankfully, some of them, primarily the more cultured and better educated officers, weren't too keen on waging war against largely unarmed people - often their friends and neighbours - and that gave us a fighting chance in the early days of the war, at least in some parts of the country.

[worlddd777]

@uglyenoughtobewise A lot was going on that people dont know. In december od 1990, Serbs were cancelled from Croatian constitution as equal nation, followed by Spegel secret video where he talks about arming and attacking Yugoslavian army also in 1990. And finally, there were many attacks on army bases one year before war officially started and no one talks about this. Kosovo was planned for war since 1970s, it was just matter of time.

[Optimist Sourav]

We Indians have different identities, different languages, I'm a bengali. But we can proudly say we're Indians

[Buay Ah Leh]

Was in these beautiful countries in 2017. We had a chauffeured journey from Slovenia down South. Beautiful places with cheap food and accommodation. Visited kumrovac, the birth place of Tito.

[Megapangolin]

Interesting video. Very much a broad skate over the issues and conflicts though.

[Sven Mance]

Yugoslavia looked so cool on the map opposing Italy on the other side of the Adriatic

[Nay Sayer]

@Sasuke honestly, serbia, macedonia, north parth of albania and west part of bulgaria share the same DNA hapalogroup, while croatia, montenegro, bosnia and herzegovina have the same... so... i think borders betwen croatia and serbia should be like that

[vanda pietrantonio]

@Jasna Car ¹1¹¹11

[Ati Salvaro]

@kingkonut The Ottomans curved out the middle. Some Croats moved to Austra then, in 1500s, and other converted to islam, eventually ceasing to consider themselves as Croats. We got it back, but Tito renewed old colonial borders

[sonoftorin]

This is the top comment? Wow such insight smh.

[Simeon Ivanov]

@RosieQueen68 All this countries have soo different languages that there is nothing to unite them.

[Filip Janusz Ziolkowski]

One of the most hardest periods in Niko Bellic's life

[Welly Goncalves]

Best comment!!!!

[i put a pipebomb into your mailbox]

not until when he heard the word bowling and meet a psychopath

[dgmartino2]

Writing this as someone in the US who peripherally heard of these countries and their conflicts. I think these basic breakdowns of each current country/region and its ethnicity, language, and religion, while simplistic, helps explain why they all had such strong national identities that developed. Religion and language plays a large part of forming an ethnic identity, which leads to a national identity in this case. As an example, Croatian and Serbian languages are almost identical, but they are different religions. An example where language creates a strong ethnic identity is between Croatians and Slovenes who are both Catholic, but have different languages. Again simplistic, but helpful for the big picture. This is my Quick AP World facts based on majority numbers and is by no means exhaustive nor explains the whole picture lol. Also writing this out to help me remember cause I'm a history nerd. 1) Slovenia = ethnically Slovenes, language Slovenian, religion Catholic 2) Croatia = ethnically Croatian, language Croatian (almost identical to Serbian uses the Roman alphabet), religion Catholic 3) Serbia = ethnically Serbian, language Serbian (almost identical to Croatian uses a mix of Cyrillic and Roman alphabets), religion Eastern Orthodox 4) Montenegro = ethnically Montenegrin (genetically very similar to Serbians), language Montenegrin, religion Eastern Orthodox 5) Bosnia and Herzegovina = ethnically Bosniak, language Bosnian, religion Muslim 6) Kosovo = ethnically Albania, language Albanian, religion Muslim 7) Macedonia/North Macedonia = ethnically Macedonian, language Macedonia, religion Eastern Orthodox Please feel free to comment and add to it, or tell me I am point blank wrong. Maybe I messed up, but this what I was able to pull and surmise.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This video is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead, only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanian population, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, and became very anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo (and alleged Croatian and Slovene support of idea), it started exactly because of Serbian nationalism and expansionism led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. Video never mentioned fact, at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread huge fear among Croatian Serbs missusing history, also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and local Croatian Serbs started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, video never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia after it was flattened with earth sa same as Mariuople in Ukraine. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Antonios Dimoulas]

@MrLouka005 The Greek mathematician and astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, 330 BCE. Is the first that said… Earth is a sphere orbiting the sun together with the visible planets, in a Heliocentric system. It took 1800 years for humans to settle on that idea. And even today some people will argue about that.

[Josipa G]

@MrLouka005 He is doing some brain gymnastics. Chakavian speakers switched to Shtokavian in 16th century, deliberatly. This is well documented in Croatian dictionaries, like I said, from Bartol Kasic and Jakov Mikalja, in 16th century. So, in 17th century a lot of Chakavians turn to be Shtokavinized. Toth means Slovak, and Hungarians have a lot of Horvath surname so Hungarians can confirm everything. Slavonia never ment Slovakia, name of what Venice used, for Slaveni, Schiavoni, and Schiavonia, and there is a Catholic church of San Giorgio, so that means for Croats, not Serbs, and not Slovaks, so you see, that didn't mean Slovakia. Slovenens that lived in Holy German Empire can confirm that, ofc, that those were Slavs, and not only Slovaks, as Slavic first meant Slavonic,like the language Old Church Slavonic, and slave/Slavs is latest Anglo-saxon- franco- german rasism, as in latin slaves were namesd servus, and Sclavos were Slaveni that lived in Sclavinie, as latin languages back then couldn't tolerate sl and used insted sk or sc. Slovenes can also confirm Istria situation, and that after the great plague, they came to live as Venice offered and needed people. A lot of family in 16th centuries from islands were transported to Istria. Sure thing is that all those slavic people before Hungarians came lived in Great Moravia with Czechs, also, and in Samo's Empire. But, they don't have any problems today one with another, only Serbia is provoking this nonsense. Lately. I read theory that Romanians were forced by Vatican to speak their language as they are- guess- ofc- Serbs!!!! Languages are recognized as different, and sure that is due to all language that are spoken, not just standard, as Croatia have Kaikavian and Chakavian and Serbia Torlakian it is due to different literature. Lately, they want to steal that, too. Also, Czechs and Slovaks they have their languages separated. It is the same thing. You can see malicious one can be or just ignorant. Not sure what is worse. So, ofc that once Kaikavian speakers and some people from Slavonia maybe - were the people of Samo's Empire with Slovaks, Czechs, Slovenians, and of Great Moravia but that was long time ago, before Croats came and establish some political and military primitive state under Franks. They however are not Serbs, and Serbs did the same, absorbed some Slavs living there , and why, well, those Slavs didn't have good military organization, not political entity for a a big kingom/empire or big number of Slavs. Croats and Serbs both were just warriors that came picked other people living there, like Hungarians did a bit later. Croats anyhow never forced nor fight that Great Moravia (we still don't know the real borders of that one) like Hungarians. Croats pacted with Hungarians (choose their king) and made a good deal, preserved political and military organization that Hungarians respected and still Croats and Hungarians (and the Poles) are best friends. Later, people of Varazdin nor Slavonia didn't live in Holy Roman Empire like Slovenians or Czechs. They became Catholic with the time after Schism and not Orthodox, and identity with Croats, not Hungarians (well Zapolya was choosen by Hungarians), and that is whole story, why he is not stating that Slovaks are Czechs then? Then after fall of Austro Hungarian Empire and religious division was made by Serbs after they got their Orthodox church, and after the language divison failed, people got trapped in King's dictatorship, that they hated, as Habsburgs were for Croats heroes that saved them of Ottomans, Croats never liked Gavrilo Princip, or that kingdom of Yugoslavia that was prision, and no, due to partisans and last war Croats have modern Croatia not due to serbian King who erased Croatia (and Slovenia). Hell, even Montenegrins rebel first. This is another brain salto, common online that Croatia independence has something to with serbian king who erased Croatian name. And funny, how never ever question Slovenia, so one can in details see malicios, and fixation of Croatia and it is deeply psycological issue and problem. I don't know is it due to WW2, but Croats weren't Ustashe supporters only 2-3% of them were (those were maily form Herzegovina, and in the last war, Croats didn't know that part of them in Herzegovina started to was with Bosniaks Muslims, and more Croats died in the WW2, there is census from 1947 because Ustashe were covered and Croats fought as partisans, whole cities were partisans like Sibenik). Anyhow, this history today is not so important, once upon a time, some Croats, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenians lived in Great Moravia and spoke the same, because nation today, it is political and not historic decision. Voivodina then should be returned to Germans. And Zadar to Italy. It is not like that, anyhow. Croatia has its propaganda also, but not about Croatia or Slavonia, as they were always mostly croatian, slavic, for thousand years, but with Venice, as Venice was an ally, without Venice due to Ragusa (that wasn't so free city like they love to tell and identity with, it was Ottoman client, so to say, gave Neum, what Dalmatia and Istria would be Croatia today? Probably it would be Bosnia). But Serbs however, have a bigger problem, and probably will have forever. Due to several brain gymnastics their propaganda is doing, and I don't think this will be solved ever, but lucky for Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia, NATO is there. Serbia ofc is vassal state of Russia, that had to gave up Montenegro and had to recognized it after Russia did.

[MrLouka005]

@Josipa G i know that he is wrong, but he think that he is right. He should educate, read and think, and that is not google It . Reading books and Thinking is Hard. Propaganda is easy. And that is the sad thing people who knows the thruth dont even want to talk or wrtite about it. Thank you regarding this and time with writing the Thruth. And the the ones who think they knows are right. Modern times. It is like people who think Earth is Flat, the number of belviers are growing.... sad

[Sarmad H]

I love yugoslavia ❤

[melvert33]

I can remember seeing coverage of the Yugoslavia war on the news every night for years when I was a kid, it looked brutal

[rano jutro]

@Valdrin Rexhepi That was opposite Albanian killing Serbian. Still doing with American help

[melvert33]

@Nikola Avramov incorrect, it was BBC

[bosnianlady10]

@Бојан Илић Yes, protesting should be a death sentence.

[marco borraz]

The video and explanation are good; however, I think you should do another video to explain that the division of Yugoslavia was not as simple as that. I´ve read several books and most of the authors mention the political and military interference of Western countries (Germany, the UK, the US, and NATO ) with the only purpose to break up this country into several separated nationalistic republics. That missing part of the story would be really interesting to watch.

[Domagoj Pećar]

@NeverNotHoopin I am also from Croatia and don't agree with that. Back then we were free? I am sad to hear that. I can't call free country where majority of all high positions in every aspect of life is held by the people of another country (Serbia) and I can't call free country where is prohibited to even mention anything against that country or you'll end up on Goli otok. Only existence of Goli otok is pretty good agument to call Jugoslavia dictatorship. I agree with you that today we are in a sense getting robbed because of politicans we have , but it can't get bad like in Jugoslavia. I grew up in Osijek. On some buildings there are still visible holes from machinguns from people that wanted to 'free' us in 1991.

[NeverNotHoopin]

@Domagoj Pećar good points but Britain and France have to follow the US will so they had actually nothing to say. The point I don't agree with is that Serbs controlled everything in SFRJ. That's an old saying to try and justify decisions of republics that wanted the separation. I grew up in the capital of today's Croatia and the amount of resources Belgrade pumped into SR Croatia was insane. But it is what it is my man. Back then we were free, now we are occupied and are getting robbed of our resources. Our people that emigrated into western countries are just a cheap labor. "They'll be our slaves while we enjoy their sea"

[Domagoj Pećar]

@NeverNotHoopin good points made there but I was talking on something other. I didn't mean that west wanted control over SFRJ (which was very hard as you explained). I meant they wanted SFRJ as a whole and here are my arguments: 1. Serbia had control over almost everything in Jugoslavia and west powers, especially Britain and France had very good relationships with Serbia (because they were allies in WW1 and in WW2) so it naturaly ocured that Britain and France will be on Serbian side- if Serbia want to keep Jugoslavia, Britain and France also want to keep Jugoslavia 2. In sense of economy it is easier and cheaper to ship something through one big country than many smaller ones.

[NeverNotHoopin]

@Domagoj Pećar I do not agree with that. Several reasons. At that time SFRJ was only 500$ per resident in debt which means that nobody could control it. Strong military for that time, stabile economy which produced everything, from a needle to a tank, so no need for imports. No need and with that no allowance for foreign companies to do business inside the country. Now foreign banks an companies are milking the cow. There are some other reasons but alone if you think logically, It's easier to control 7 people separate then when they are all 7 at the same place.

[Cardan011]

History of Balkans in nutshell: Small pond with too many crocodiles.

[Ivelin Karageorgiev]

This is the history of Europe in a nutshell.

[Ray Stewart]

Not crocodiles...sharks..

[Filip Andric]

More like a small pound surrounded by crocodiles.

[Tomasz Rabianski]

@Ivan Jelenic Agreed, Yugoslavia seems more diversified (which doesn’t really change what I wrote above).

[Ivan Jelenic]

@Tomasz Rabianski its not exactly the same - e.g. theres 3 different religions here, etc.

[Bill Lu]

I’m just curious, but by any chance, is the booze from Austin, TX, USA, named after the former Yugoslav leader (and for that matter, the inspiration behind a character in the Nickelodeon TV series Rocket Power)? Regardless, that Yugoslav leader must have done many things right to keep the six republics from secession under his rule.

[Michael Maniatakos]

There are possibly more geopolitical reasons for the split … large regional powers, especially those with a bit of a rogue element were not welcome back then …

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Yahoodi Agent]

When one guy has problems with 6 others, it's that one guy who IS the problem

[Josipa G]

Correct.

[Nicholas Herbert]

I love your coverage of this topic as I know little to nothing about it but still very interested and plan to watch more videos, this being my first one. Just some constructive feedback though, your dialogue is a bit slow and monotone. Your visuals are well done but I wish there were more detail. You seemed to hover on the map a lot with little changing around there, but you're delivering a ton of info without any supporting visuals. Overall, I struggled to keep my focus on this. I hope you can make future videos more engaging.

[Vanja Brankovic]

He shouldn't talk about Jugoslavia at all...

[KINIIYA NENE]

Thanks for the briefs, I’m rereading team of rivals which is very fascinating and educative. It’s my earnest prayers that Africa can become one United nation.

[synthetic]

Africa cannot unite due to its ethnic and religious differences, economic differences and corruption.

[diogen939]

@Ehis lucky Of course they were, but Zulu empire was on the way to unification, and even if it was a fail, it would do much better than strangers coming and drawing borders with ruler.

[diogen939]

@Ehis lucky kick out "civilized influence" and look what happens 😁

[Ehis lucky]

LoL. Not even the different 50 African nations are united. And you want to unite all of Africa. Keep dreaming

[Kalafinwë]

It would have been an even better historic narration if you started in the formation of Yougoslavia, then going through WW2, cold war, etc...

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[UNS GUS]

@Drago Dereta its serbian propaganda

[Drago Dereta]

Watch "The weight of chains" on YT.

[Nikola Avramov]

Then he'd have to openly lie even more.

[Sizor Unyon]

You have forgotten one very important fact. Before the disintegration, Yugoslavia was 4 military powers and 39 countries in terms of economy in the world. The great powers in the world did not want to compete with such a Yugoslavia in which everything was arranged and was neutral country - Not West - Not East !

[Dževad Bayraktar]

@Antonio Gonzalez🖤 🤘 he meant in Europe as it was commonly stated by some western military

[Bono Ceh]

@Antonio Gonzalez🖤 🤘 It is true. Iam Yugoslavian

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today.

[Renato D]

Yugoslavia was fastest growing military/economy power in europe. Which Britts, French and Germans didn't like it at all. But yes Yugoslavia was 4th military power, but not in World, in Europe.

[Leon Aacer]

4 military power in world em but if so you wold have sanduiched nato not being sanduiched by nato

[V-Doc]

Thank you! This was a great summary!

[SamBlue]

Imagine the sports teams that a unified Yugoslavia could’ve fielded.

[Tanja Denic]

@No Name croatian mother , like Doncic half serbian , Drazen petrovic , dario saric , luka modric and many more thats why its just sad not to be the same country

[Tanja Denic]

@Josip Zekić maybe true if you look on group sports , but if you look at individulas , watch how brutal that would be at first place , plus i think footbal in only case and maybe accident , but if you have more quality , bigger chance to be better in all sports , and we from yugoslavia are very talented for everything

[No Name]

@GoykoRajak Im pretty sure that Novak Đoković is half Croatian also

[Gak P]

@Josip Zekić Were they not good in basketball?

[chaijiichan]

I once had a classmate in highschool in Tokyo, Japan in 1967 at St. Mary's International School... quite a big guy... I wonder where he is right now, July 2021... I'm thankful as a Filipino that although people say the Philippines is a basket case at least we're not a failed state and are still thriving (although being bullied by giant China haha)... Question: what happens to citizens of failed states or countries that have disappeared? They become stateless or right but what kind of passport do they get to carry? Anyone knows? Please share your knowledge here.

[Vladimir Popovic]

In the case of an ethnically cleansed Serb who was born in Yugoslavia, on territory of Socialist Republic of Croatia in 1984, with the events that unfolded, became a refugee at 7 years old, no more Yugoslavia so no more Yugoslavian Citizenship or able to get newly formed Croatian citizenship, or Serbian citizenship for that matter. Remained a refugee from 1991 until moved to United States in 2000. Became a Permanent Resident of United States until 2015, when finally could afford to take the citizenship test and become a citizen of United States of America at age of 32. So for 25 years no citizen of any country, waited 32 years to be able to vote for the first time. Thats what happens.

[Sedona N]

I have some ancestors who immigrated to the USA from Yugoslavia. Trying to find some more history on my ancestory.

[GingaCenturion]

I watched this video with my Croatian girlfriend. She always goes out of her way to emphasize that Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian are different languages and I always tease her that they aren't. She got so triggered when you said they were the same 😂

[Ime Prezime]

@Igor serbia is younger state than Croatia. Serbus literaly means servant. After centuries with turks being on ex serbian land there were no more serbian in existence. So small pile of people wanted to split up from turks saying how they are other nation. They took croatian language and changed it a little bit, letter and religion so they can act like they're not turkish. When they did that then they pronounceed them self as serbians(the people who got extinct after turks came)

[PartizanBgd011]

@NoSmoke Jazwinski hahahaha. What a history buff you are.

[Richard Bas]

She is right. Video not even close reality. Only Serbs would like this video.

[El 10]

@Antonios Dimoulas ¿?

[Antonios Dimoulas]

@El 10 You guys are so confused, no wonder they split you apart…🙄🤥

[Jeremiah Boolfrawg]

A lot of these people were put to work with me at the newspaper place putting the newspapers together following their having to leave their homeland. Nearly all were ones who married outside their ethnic nationalism. As like Izeta could live in Tuzla because she was Bosnian but her husband Sveto couldn't. And Sveto who was a Serb could live in Belgrade but Izeta couldn't. So for them to stay together and their kids not be scorned then they came to America. I really liked all these people

[Vanja Brankovic]

So many people who were mix married lived in Serbia during the conflict, I am one of them, my family is an entic mix...Izeta could live in Serbia if she wanted, many of my refugee muslim friends lived in Serbia until they went to Canada, Australia, USA, Western Europe, due to extremely difficult economic situation...

[George Kotiadis]

Not gonna lie I wish I could have been their to see this amazing nation strive in the 60s and 70s.

[KPS🇷🇺]

@Драгољуб Михаиловић Molim te nemoj da lažeš narod. Politički zatvori nisu postojali, sloboda govora je bila prevelika i niko nije ubijan zbog svog mišljenja. To je bila ogromna greška, trebao je da bude suroviji. Tito je bio suviše dobar čovek.

[Драгољуб Михаиловић]

It was a dictatorship under Tito. People forget he had labour camps for political prisoners in Goli Otok.

[Artificial Anime Universe]

Do on Czechoslovakia too!

[Roger Hudson]

You didn't take enough detailed account of the external forces that helped tear Jugoslavia apart. The American government and foreign bankers being very guilty. The external imposed economic shocks helped destroy 'bratsvo i jedinstvo' (brotherhood and unity).

[Marija Sušac]

Realy? What if we realy didn't want to stay? What if we realy wanted to be independent? Greetings from Croatia.

[Shaun Cameron]

Maybe so, but the internal turmoil and dysfunction made all that possible. Ultimately, Yugoslavia has mostly itself to blame for why it collapsed.

[iris baez]

Example of what we have inside of every one of us: DIVISION. We carry so many people inside as thoughts we have. One second we think is right and the next we think is wrong. WE ARE A CHAOS.

[Boc Boc]

One who has not personally experienced war will have a hard time understanding why wars occur at all. Why the war in Yugoslavia occurred is easy to explain. While Tito was alive, corrupt politicians did not dare to commit any major robberies of the state because they would end up in prison very soon. When Tito died .. the race began over who would steal more .. they soon bothered each other .. so they started inciting the people .. promising them everything and anything just to have as many armies at their disposal. When they realized their goal ... then they kicked that people in the ass and continued to plunder in peace, and they still do that today !!!

[vedrancy]

Let me be clear: Croats do not hate Serbs. We just don't want us to be the same country. If Serbians do want that (which we all supposedly know they still do), and Croatians don't want that, then Serbs have only 2 options, really; admit to themselves that we'll never be the same country, or try to take it by force again. We're here to stand our ground if the latter happens again.

[vedrancy]

Croatian War of Independence. You know who was the agressor. Why else would that war be waged within Croatian borders. If it was within Serbian borders, then Croatia would be agressor. Same with Russia attacking Ukraine, and no amount of conspiracy theories will ever completely hide the truth of what really happened.

[Vanja Brankovic]

Thank you! The best explanation so far...

[Slidell Robotics]

Bottom line: Tito passed. He (and fear of him) was the only thing holding it together. I did a term paper on Tito in the late 70's, and while putting it together, I knew that "Yugoslavia" (an obvious portmanteau of a country) would fall apart as soon as Tito passed or otherwise lost power. There are few people able to follow in Tito's bloody footsteps. And heck, "Balkanized" has been a word since the 19th century. The big question to me was how even Tito (who lined up prisoners, put a plank over their heads, and hammered them into line so he could kill many prisoners with one bullet) held that hot mess together.

[Marneil Media]

I'm actually only a few generations removed Yugoslavian immigrant on my grandfather's side. And then his parents married an American whose family has been here since the revolutionary war. It's cool to Know your ethnic background even if it's white as snow

[TheDong]

My friend gave me an old table long time ago. On the bottom, it says made in Yugoslavia. I still wonder how they got it here in the US

[Jessy Thomas]

I do not at all agree with the very first line of the video. Yugoslavia was never ever a failed state on the contrary it was a bridge between countries inside the Iron curtain and western Europe. Marshall Tito made it a very strong, secular and powerful nation after WW2. Yugoslavia was India's great friend.

[Boo Boo]

Failed state.

[Ignjat Horvath]

This is very faulty and shallow explanation of collapse of Yugoslavia. Any effort to explain divisions between Ex-Yugoslav nations and final collapse without any mention of Greater Serbia as an Serbian idea concieved around mid 19th century will result in very shallow and unsatisfactory explanation of subject. Also, video is containing bunch of ideas which are wrong, first of all, before Yugoslavila broke, Croats and Slovenes naver supported alleged separatism of Albanians at Kosovo autonomuos region, nor such idea existed before late 1990-es. Instead only what existed at Kosovo region during Yugoslav federation were large birthrates among Albanians, which resulted local Serbians suddently became minority, because of which Serbians were anxious. When talking about Kosovo it is iportant to know Serbs consider the place as historical birth place of Serbian nation, this is another important reason they are anxious about fact they became minority there. Furthermore, it is completely wrong idea the collapse of Yugoslavia started because Kosovo, it started mostly because of Serbia led by Slobodan Milosevic, which tried to form Greater Serbia taking large parts of Croatian and Bosnian territory, commiting mass atrocities, ethnical cleansing of non Serbs, and all kind of war crimes. In video you never mentioned fact at beggining of 1990. Serbia led by Milosevic first spread fear among Croatian Serbs, and also Yugoslav army dominated by Serbs gave local serbs abundance of heavy weapons, and they started rebelion against Croatia (very same Russia did at Donbas and Luhansk region in Ukraine). Also video never mentioned, Serbian tanks and thousands of soldiers crossed over Croatian border to invade Croatia, you never mentioned Vukovar, Croatian town at very border of Croatia and Serbia, that was invaded by Serbia. In Vukovar Serbian forces commited huge attrocities ranging from mass rape, mass murder, mutilation of people to arson and destroying historical buildings. Again you would understand subject much much better if you get known better with efforts of creation of Greater Serbia, which led not only to colalpse of second Yugoslavia but also to WW1 and creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all Serbian issues with their neighbours since second half of 19th century till today. For end, Yugoslavia was never part of Soviet area, it was communist but never under Soviets, so term "behing iron rurtain" is completely wrong when talking about Yugoslavia.

[Jopa Zna]

Comrade Tito, you passed away on May 4, 1980 at 15 : 05 h, we residents of the former Yugoslavia were already in the shit up to our necks about 15 : 15 h, and we haven't gotten out of it until today.Thank you for the best years of my life !

[Naz Dewitt]

Lol thank goodness for this video my friends thought I was crazy lmfao! I thought I was the only one who remembered Yugoslavia. Everyone thinks I’m crazy but truth be told this place once existed!!!

[yenthly devolder]

American i assume?

[Linoslav]

Well, we were tricked into it. Yugoslavia broke with around 12 billions in reserves and as much as three times that in international loans. Also, much of Yugoslavian companies had properties around the world, companies that no longer exist. So, it was only criminal wrongdoing that broke the country that was already on the way of joining European integration.

[Zlatan B]

You guys speak open and non bias on this subject good job!

[AI3]

When morality is lost, a country collapses, no matter how much technologically advanced.... Swami Vivekananda

[Marijan P]

When people talk about Yugoslavia, people focus too much on the second one. The second one should have never existed after the horrible things that happened in WW1, the first YU and the WW2. It was a very stupid thing to do to form the 2nd YU, just look at the time before it: 2 WW and a dictatorship where the east ant the west side of YU were against each other and all of that happened in 30 years. And this part of the world didn´t have a good side to choose from. The Ustaše were horrible, the četnici were horrible and the communists were horrible. All the bad things that happend in the 2nd YU were just a consequence.

[Lyka Stannis]

I beg to differ. Chetniks did nothing wrong.

[Destiny Blair]

are HDZ any better? we as a folk fight inside our country! I wait that Dubrovnik becomes independent, because they always thought they're better than the rest of the country and because they are far different

[MarlonDeNiro]

Very well done.

[Dez Nuces]

It's may 4th anniversary of Titos death. Thanks to marshall Josip Broz Tito, my parents had it good in Yugoslavia (SR Bosnia). They had a rather sweet life, life of security, dignity, rights as a citizen as well as workers. They both had high paying jobs, life was amazing. Dad served JNA (Yugoslav People's Army) on Brijuni Island as a sailor, he couldn't ask for a better place to do that. Met Tito in person and was pretty much mesmerised by that very, very special man, the old man had something in himself he would say. Builded a house from scratch with ease, both had cars, vacations wherever you wanted to go etc, etc... All of this without being a member of KPJ, the communist party. I am born during the Bosnian war of independence in 92', and it was rough. The war didn't make me hate other religions nor did my dad fill M head up with primal religious nationalism. I have many friednds that are catholic and orthodox christians, we get along like normal human beings. Yesterday, my last childhood friend moved out from Bosnia, now since I don't live there for the past 5 years, due to well, pretty much everything and anything that is going on there, I strongly supported him in that decision. Now you can love or hate Tito, but a fact is a fact, he created jobs, he pushed strongly for progressive way of life, education, rights for people and workers. Today we are ruled with sociopaths and wannabe war veterans who immediately throw fear of war into people as soon as their political situation is in danger. Because of that sick nationalism I was never more far away from my home, my friends and family, and I'm not the only one... That's why Death to fascism, freedom to the people! Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!

[Vanja Brankovic]

@Richard Bas Really? If you say so it must be true...

[Silviu I. Wagner]

@Richard Bas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's that all you can think!?!?!? Poor you....

[Richard Bas]

@Dez Nuces Croatia and Slovenia are thriving.

[jamal dbeski]

It was a powerful country respect by both the Western Powers and the Soviet Union but the rise of nationalism after the death of Tetto had caused the union to be divided into small insignificant nations.The 2 dominant nations of the former Yugoslavia Serbia and Croatia are now just tiny states hardly can be noticed in the world map.

[Nenad Gardilcic]

There are also tiniest states in the world-so what?Obviusly we couldn't live together any more and broke up for instance like Czechia and Slovakia but sadly on a violent way.

[Badar Joned]

Hope the existing situation is the best for the people…Let the past be a good advice to everybody…

[Mein Korper]

Marshall Tito (nose man) his real name was: Josif Walter Weiss, originated in Poland. He was an agent of the Soviet Secret Service in Teheran, Kabul and Ankara up to 1935. The true Brozovich Tito, in origin a Croat, died during the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Books: The World Conquerors by Louise Marshalko.///The Octopus by Elizabeth Dilling.///Behind Communism by Frank L Britton.///The Rulers Of Russia by Denis Fahey.///The Beasts Of The Apocalypse by Olivia O'Grady.///

[Zmajcek]

TLDW: instead of focusing on things that bind the people together (and there are many), politicians focused on differences, so they can line their pockets with money and make a name for themselves in history books.

[Zmajcek]

@Amar Mesic I have to say, Im not very optimistic abou that. I know plenty of people who wouldn't hesitate to pick up a weapon and fight for the "just" cause again. Until people learn to think for themselves and not be subject to tribal, social, media conditioning there will always be a danger of new tragic events. At least in Bosnia.

[Amar Mesic]

@Zmajcek Yeah. Hopefully we can get more ex-yu youth interested in politics & activism, that would bring me the most hope.

[Zmajcek]

@Amar Mesic you raise a very good point. Politicians are political representatives of their respective peoples and as such the underlying people cannot be absolved of responsibility. They elected them (well the majority did anyway), and cheered while (their) politicians made grandiose promises. Those that knew better and did not want to follow the rest of the tribe, were given few choices. You could shut up and be quiet or you could leave everything you spent your whole life building behind. And that is if you were lucky. Many did not have any choice.

[Amar Mesic]

I don't like it when the blame is constantly put on 'politicians'. Sure they control the government, but the people are the backbone of any system. Ironically enough, in a political system that was all about equality and brotherhood, Yugoslavs are more self-oriented than those in capitalistic Europe. So it's no surprise that this feeds up to higher levels where you get corrupt politicians in charge. When you have self-serving people, instead of putting in the work to uphold a united country, you get people who are willing to backstab their own neighbors. Conclusion: Real change starts from the bottom up. We have to stop serving our self-interests if we want unity.

[salec]

Well, I believe the politicians are the worst opportunists, but opportunists don't create problems, they use them to get ahead of us. On the other hand, what we the commoners of different ethnic groups had (held) against each other is basically puny and insignificant, not much different than what goes around in other ethnically mixed, but otherwise stable countries/nations. So, the great divide and rise of bad feelings, which led to later hostilities and atrocities, must be something which, even if not directly and deliberately induced on purpose from the guys up in government, surely could not had been anyone other's failure of responsibility but theirs. So in conclusion, the elites were incompetent and stupid to let things come to this, and then, to add injury to insult, the new elites which came in their place used the opportunity to gain riches and lifetime job security by adding gasoline to fire.