Yugoslav Wars | Animated History

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[@mr.hedado741]

Austro Prussian war???

[@pyeitme508]

Ok 👌

[@shitpostinggang]

👍

[@Turklander24]

She man’s over my scaped until I THEAH all over her

[@Bababoy6969]

Should have mentioned how nato illegally attacked serbia in 1999

[@pabcu2507]

Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that mr krabs sold SpongeBob’s soul for 62 cents

[@Neverpullingitout]

For fricking 62 cents!!!

[@DJ-iu5bb]

Also they can drown in the ocean and start fires

[@TheSussyOne2]

WE SHALL NOT FORGET

[@CornVerse32]

Indeed

[@novo121]

Balkan politician will do it for free

[@soudino2723]

this war was devastating and not talked about enough, so many atrocities but nearly no one talks about it, this is why we watch the armchair historian

[@soudino2723]

@mechupaunhuevon7662 thats true also but most people talk about the gulf war, iraq war and Afghanistan war on terror

[@soudino2723]

@mechupaunhuevon7662 true also after the ukraine war started pretty much everyone that didn't live in the balkans forgot about the yougoslav war, it gets overshadowed by much more devastating conflicts

[@holdenjanzen7029]

@@soudino2723they didn’t forget about it, it just isn’t as pressing as an ongoing war

[@belen3732]

So many atrocities on all sides.

[@peka2478]

ever tried to talk with any Russian about any atrocity or war crime Russia ever did? They'll start with "and what about NATO/US bombing Yugoslavia?" in 120% of all cases...

[@warboss346]

Me: So which conflict did you fight in? Niko bellic: Yes.

[@noimage1254]

"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic

[@goblindeter8258]

That GTA game is so underated and still the best one with the best scenario and characters!

[@DrJReefer]

Wanna go bowling?

[@arthas640]

They were pretty willing in many cases. They hated eachother so much even the SS were surprised how little it took to get the Balkan citizens to start genociding eachother and Hitler even admired the Muslims there to the point he talked about encouraging Islam in Germany. Tons of the fighters in the Yugoslav wars weren't originally soldiers but more like rebels or militias.

[@screamingseal4805]

@@arthas640Hitler while having a much higher opinion of it then Christianity had zero interest in spreading the religion to Germany 😂

[@SavagePatch115]

​@goblindeter8258 A game that sold 25 million =/= underrated. Yall gotta quit throwing that word around

[@matthewballister5684]

I had 4 family members fight in these wars on different sides. My mother was a Croatian Serb and my father was a Croat. Before they met each other my father and his cousin immediately joined the Croat uprising in 1992 when they eventually made the choice to join the war. My mothers brothers were externally hateful of Croats and joined the Croat-Serb paramilitaries. I’m not sure if they ever saw each other or directly fought one another but my father was dating my mother at the time of fighting began, they didn’t see each other for over a year once it started and he never knew that her brother were on the opposing side. My mothers family eventually escaped into Hungary once they could and my father was able to visit her when he was allowed leave. They were married in 1994. After it all ended, one of my mothers brothers was killed, he was 20 when he was killed in 1994. And my father was unhurt along with his cousin and my mothers remaining brother. My uncle and and father never spoke for almost 20 years. Refusing to see each other or talk. Only ever saw each other a couple christmases in that 20 year gap. Eventually my father reached out and they sat down and talked to one another, old men at this point. My father never hated my uncle, but my uncle always thought he did because of his actions in the 90s. They lost over 20 years of happiness bc each one thought the other hated them. When my dad eventually told me these stories it broke me down seeing how much other people hated each other in those times and how they thought it carried on with them almost 20 years later without knowing it was never there between them. I’m glad to see documentaries like this showing so much details on how the war affected thousands from then and now. I wish nothing but love to my fellow Slavs and people of the balkans. I know some people still have entrenched feeling and emotions, but it’s relieving to let go of the hate and see each other as fellow men and women. My account will be lost to the comments and that’s ok, I’m just glad to have finally found a place to share my families story with so many other like minded individuals. May the dead rest and the living forgive.

[@Baijixiong]

thank you for your message of peace 🙏

[@BeingFireRetardant]

May the dead rest, and the living forgive...

[@andidollinger7062]

it seems kinda "prototypical" for slav families at thst time. The massive hate surrounding this conflict is shocking.

[@GamesOfficialYouTube]

Why do you write Serb in small letters and Croat in big?

[@corenko]

Why didn't you capitalize the word "Serb"?

[@Caoimhin1909]

Can't believe I thought Irish history was complicated. This is next level.

[@alrf503]

If u think that's complicated then Macedonias history is going to be a whole nother level for you

[@andrewberrocal2281]

@@alrf503…..what….whats that like?

[@alrf503]

@@andrewberrocal2281 oh boy imagine a nationality split into two with both separate histories language and tradition. Little knowledge about the origins about the other side. Thousands of skirmishes resurrections on empires rebellions the creation of separate languages and so much more that is only the tip of the iceberg heck at one point the nationality got so deverce that Macedonian DNA is found in every nationality in the Balkans and thats not including the separate nationalities that have Macedonian DNA

[@strawberry_milk6q]

check chinese history

[@alrf503]

@@strawberry_milk6q at least that's documented half of Macedonian history was discovered in the 2000s by digging up ancient ruins

[@schmidtytime]

It’s baffling to me that KZbin is treating talented creators like this due to ridiculous monetization guidelines. Thus forcing them to find other avenues to gain income off their artwork. Griff, I’ve been watching for almost two years now. You’re one of my favourite channels to watch. Much love to the team!

[@globaladdict]

Well, he's got Manscaped as a sponsor for this video. So sign up and shave ur balls if you really want to show your support lol.

[@Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese]

These problems don’t exist on Rumble. No censorship

[@Prespanda]

​@@Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheeseRumble is a backwater

[@Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese]

@@Prespanda still no censorship

[@PancakeProduct]

@@PrespandaGood job. We want monopoly and no options in life.

[@unamisthekgb]

As a citizen of a former Yugoslav Republic, I must say you did an impressive job

[@robGamings08]

that’s crazy. what is the country like?

[@ReySchultz121]

Which one?

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

If you don’t mind, I really would like to know. What happened to your citizenship/passport after the breakup of Yugoslavia? I assume it would’ve been your only citizenship so do you become stateless or so you get the citizenship of whichever political entity controls the city/village you were born it?

[@Ar1AnX1x]

@@ReySchultz121 he probably means he left the country after the dissolution

[@unamisthekgb]

@@ReySchultz121 Serbia

[@igusgodwin3939]

Ive got Uncle in Blue Helmets (Polish soldier in UN), He told me that this entire war was hell. His friend once took his sidearm out of nowhere, shot his company dog and then himself

[@jagymeister]

he must saw terrible things :(

[@augustbliss]

The U.S. has blue helmets invading our country now. That is the purpose of the UN. The U S -created foreign militias are now domestic and just waiting for the time. The new UN troops (illeglas entering the U S.) will be "peacekeepers" and turned against Americans. Creates more spinster dick moves, lies, corruption, and not elected people placed into positions. I loathe the UN and their filthy troops. I HATE them ALL. The non-aiding move that completed the genocide in Srebrenica happened under Yasushi Akashi. He was close friends to the Clintons. Yasushi was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN. he was also head of the UN Transnational Authority in Cambodia. All these corrupt plays are no different than Benghazi, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Saigon..just to name a few....ALL intentional! Hillary Clinton," That was four years ago, at this point what difference does it make?" And who can forget about Madeline Albright, " dirty, filthy Serbs."

[@_RasputinReborn_]

What an asshole he took out the dog too 😮

[@professional_pickme_boy]

@@_RasputinReborn_ Trauma does terrible things to humans

[@ericko5232]

@@_RasputinReborn_ In his deranged mind he maybe thought he was freeing it from that hell too.

[@martinivanovski562]

Macedonia: I'm leaving Milosevic: Understandable, have a nice day.

[@markofabecic6824]

Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia: can we leave? Milosevic: So you have chosen death

[@StefanG-ji7cq]

Sure they ask that nice... and leave where? SERBIA communists created Yugoslavia lol others countries lost war

[@minedoimperija]

Good to see someone finally remember the yugoslav wars

[@badluck5647]

KZbin tends to demonetize anyone who covers this topic.

[@u2beuser714]

​@@badluck5647 The problem is that when you upload to youtube the video reaches to many more people so from financial standpoint its hard to leave the platform

[@jawa011]

@@badluck5647 so they should, especially with such biased BS approach.

[@matejaradivojevic3473]

It should never happen again

[@matejaradivojevic3473]

How Come after the WW2 everyone was united and noone tried then to kill each other because they are a Croats of a Serb, Christian or a Muslim. I still don't get it how cruel how stupid people were to kill their own friends, nebghiours even family members because the politicians said so

[@VikoReEkore]

As a Serb with a mother from Croatia (ethnical serb from Croatia) and a father from Bosnia (bosnian-serb), what happened is sad. To me, we are the exact same people, just different religions, but ultra-nationalism, post-communism and scars from World War II made it brutal. War between neighbors and brothers is the worst. My old grandparents got killed, and my grandparents and mother got ethnically moved from Croatia. My mother's cousin's best friend was Croat, and he came to the village and said, "Leave today because tomorrow we will arrive and tomorrow we aren't friends anymore''. My father has the same stories and I know all people from the war has them. I hope we can all move past this old hatred and resolve the lingering problems with RS and Kosovo. The West Balkans, aka ex-Yugoslavia, need to get along to develop. Look at France - Germany or Sweden -Denmark, once enemies but now friends.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

Get rid of the followers of islam and the problems will go away.

[@debater452]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 You would still exist

[@katholischetheologiegeschi1319]

As a former war refugee from Kosovo at the age of 3 in 1998 God bless you

[@overlord165]

My parents were ethnically cleansed from Banja Luka just for being Croats. It's a horrible experience.

[@CraveSnowForGold]

💯💯💯 also scars from WW1*

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“ When the war came, I did bad things, but after the war I thought nothing of doing bad things. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people” Niko Bellic

[@TheGreatLiberator1209]

After you walk into a village and see fifty children, all lined up at a church's wall with their limbs cut off while hanging upside down, you understand that the creature who did this doesn't have a soul. These words haunted me for quite some time.

[@sarge89]

ey want to go for bowling?

[@nocommentary9928]

When I saw the title of this video I immediately thought of Niko Bellic. A veteran of the Yugoslav civil war who did and saw unspeakable atrocities. It really adds alot of context to his character and why he is so traumatized once you learn in detail what happened during the collapse of Yugoslavia.

[@cedomadaras8863]

@@Mxtmxt247 That's what civil war is stupid...

[@salek991]

As a Croat, its refreshing to finally see high quality documentary on the Yugoslav wars. Well done indeed.

[@jefferyd.rodriguez638]

would you rather if this didn't happen and Yugoslav stayed the country of all and become better?

[@maregondrako]

@@jefferyd.rodriguez638 Serbia continuing to embezzle from Croatia within Yugoslavia would've made Croatia much much worse, not better

[@tonijelecevic9238]

Yes not bad but gotovina got his own movie lol

[@benjaminfranusic90]

Ma nista posebno, nije duboko ušao u temu

[@benjaminfranusic90]

​@@jefferyd.rodriguez638That would be really awfull, yugoslavia was a state with a stupid ideology mixed with mixed with a lot of countries wich really should not have been together

[@CoconutsWithDrag]

As someone who is interested in history, the Yugoslav wars can be described by two words “cluster f*ck”

[@HT-gv1be]

What the hell is going on I don’t and can’t understand

[@someone-wh2rb]

War is horrifying. Im a Bosnian Croat and my father fought in the war. He died in a car crash when I was 4 years old but my mother told me stories about him. I remember a story where he and his regiment were blockading a street, and he was in charge of stopping vehicles passing through. A Bosniak Muslim family came through with their car, hoping to escape the genocide happening in a nearby town. Though his orders stated he shouldve sent them back, he allowed them to go through. Eventually the family was able to escape to Germany, and they visited our town recently. They were shocked to hear he passed away, and frequently commented how good of a man he was and how he helped them escape

[@redhidinghood9337]

Wow that's a amazing story. Your father was a great man. I'm a bosniak from krajina and we collaborated a lot with the croat oluja operation to free the region from serb forces. What happened in places like Srebrenica or Vukovar should never repeat.

[@Mukation]

I met a bosniak once who told me about how he fleed during the war, he ran into a Croatian unit while trying to flee to northern europe and the only reason he survived the encounter was because one of the soldiers was a childhood friend from School.... Like imagine how fucked up that is. The 90s were really fucked up. Your father was obviously a great man. May he rest in peace.

[@natenae8635]

@@MukationWow that’s sad and crazy. Here in the west the 90s is seen a good/prosperous era. Although in the here in the Caribbean we aren’t really exposed to war.

[@NguyenTran-mf9gj]

If you guys knew war was horrifying then you guys shouldn't have declared independent from Yugoslavia. And after gaining independence, your country is still poor as f*ck. What's the point of the bloodshed in the 90s?

[@orangecat504]

@@natenae8635anywhere but africa, middle east, post soviet states and yugoslavia

[@yugoslaviaist]

As a Croat that lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina it hurts me what we have done to ourselves. Before this war, there was another (WW2) where Yugoslavia lost 10% of it’s population and was razed to the ground. Our grandfathers joined together and rebuilt the country, so much hard work had been put in to that idea of brotherhood and unity only to be burned to the ground just 50 years later. We are just like tribal people, bloodthirsty of our neighbour’s blood just because he prays to a different god or has a different name. We deserve no better, while in the 90’s Europe was uniting, tearing down borders, we were building walls with bodies of our brothers in their foundations. I am disgusted by us. My heart goes out to anyone no matter the side who has lost someone in these pointless wars ❤️

[@Justin-pe9cl]

They all have the same god.

[@jbarral6509]

​@@Justin-pe9clyeah but a different belief

[@jonhall2274]

Yeah, its a shame how detrimental those paedophile riddled skydaddy cult organizations (religions) have been to humanity for literally thousands of years, to even this day. So embarrassingly stupid, that the belief in an literal *multithousand years old, bronze aged mythological, fictional, fairytale books, that is about an LITERAL paedophile loving, and genocidal psychopathic skydaddy, and yet that psychopath is the "good guy" of the fictional fairytale, and did more atrocities than the supposed "bad guy" (satan) of the fictional fairytale, and then to be so indoctrinated into the skydaddy CULT, that people actually kill(& a LOT of other horrible, disgusting things) for it is some of the most scary delusional, and abso-fuckin-lutely stupid thing humanity has ever invented. Smh! I will say, atleast the belief in those bronze aged, paedophile riddled skydaddy cult organizations is slowly dying out, and people are FINALLY seeing it for the con/scam that it is!* 😂😊

[@stefandusan9629]

​@@jonhall2274The brains of people are naturally geared towards worship. You will find that people now just worship different things.

[@arthunterns]

Tito did something nobody managed before him. He managed to unite multitribal into one federation.

[@hilmust6278]

I went to Zadar for a vacation back in May/June this year. Met a former Croat soldier at an abandoned tank just outside town. He told me about his Serb friends who just disappeared one day once the war broke out. He also said that it broke his heart since he didn’t know if he could have killed his former friends.

[@reeeeeeeeee430]

He probably has ptsd from the fighting, he probably also fought in operation storm

[@hilmust6278]

@ He did not say anything about trauma or stuff like that. However, he did not participate in Storm as he was too young for the army

[@reeeeeeeeee430]

@@hilmust6278 thanks for the response!

[@oceanman3804]

Can I just say. The animation and uniforms in this video are on point

[@FilipJankovic05]

The rifles aren't

[@OrthodoxPriest69]

@@FilipJankovic05 they are

[@tonijelecevic9238]

His pronunciation isn't

[@thatoneprussian20]

​@@tonijelecevic9238he is american as an american who is learning serbian it is very hard

[@OrthodoxPriest69]

@@tonijelecevic9238 It isn't bad for someone who doesn't know Serbian fluently

[@christopherjustice6411]

I had a friend in elementary school. Her grandpa was a Serb, who married a Croat. The two ended up moving to America. When Yugoslavia collapsed, his Serbian friends asked him when he was going to kill his wife. The ethnic hatred was truly insane.

[@frankieseward8667]

Ethnic nationalism, by far the worst kind of nationalism.

[@tigerabraham5582]

Kosovo belongs to the philipiness!

[@krasnamerah1926]

And this is why Civil Nationalism fared better

[@DJ-iu5bb]

My dad had a friend that was Serbian he said during WW2 or probably Yugoslav Wars the Croats had this thing where they would bury you in the sand like Major Pain style and turn on a Lawn Mower for fun if you was Serbian your ass was Grass quite literally take on a whole different meaning

[@eduardogutierrez4698]

Croatia, Serbia , Kosovo , Albania.....are the same thing for most people not interested in the history of Yugoslavia.....I mean ...until recently I thought Nokav Jocovik was Croatian....

[@kladarian]

I am a Serb from Bosnia. While it is incredibly hard to cover Yugoslav wars with all its details into 18 minutes, have to say you have managed to give one of the best and most unbiased videos about it. I was subscribed to your channel before this but I'm glad I did. Keep up the great work!

[@hatsuhioki9361]

Unbiased? All i hear is nationalism, nationalist Serbs, and nationalist Milosevic that was most Yugoslav and least nationalist of all others lol

[@crypt1c_865]

It's not exactly unbiased, it's kinda okay compared to most others but it still is kinda biased

[@skitotrachia3361]

​​@@hatsuhioki9361 what he is trying to say is, that this video is one of the few thats not made by the sole intend to criminelize serbs as the only monsters in this horror.

[@NyPk92]

Unbiased for sure... there is no such thing that is unbiased in this world, especially on the internet. A pošto razumeš srpski ili nisi odgledao ceo klip ili nisi razumeo deo kad kaže da je istorijski Kosovo Albansko i da je UČK predstavio herojima umesto teroristima i trgovcima organima.

[@crnivrag191]

​@@skitotrachia3361pa srbi i jesu bili okupatori i čudovišta

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

Tito was that one store manager who leaves for 1 day and the whole place becomes a mess.

[@nemanjadjuric8723]

My god has this man nailed it lmao.

[@DD-qw4fz]

The issue was Tito made such a dysfunctional system ON PURPOSE, he made himself irreplaceable, while forcing nations to live in the same country with no one bothering to ask anyone if they actually want it. Yugoslavia was always a fake country and a doomed utopia. What Tito was doing was the equivalent of beating a woman into becoming your girlfriend...an then acting surprised when she flees the moment you arent looking.

[@tomhenry897]

Because used force to keep,it together

[@filip4393]

He was the one who brought Albanians to Kosovo and he made Yugoslaviu with Croatians after the thing they did in WW2 so he was responsible for it

[@ironiron-nf3oc]

Because of guys like you there will never be peace !

[@I.Kinda.Exist.]

My father told me a story about the bombings in Slovenia. When he was still a child some fighter planes flew over him to bomb a radio station next to his city, but they missed. Some people have said that the pilots were Slovenian and they intentionaly missed

[@tarikbasevic4529]

Most Pilots in JNA were Slovenian, they did not want to bomb their homes

[@intel386DX]

The interesting fact is that the pilot of the destroyed F-117 during 1999 Belgrade bombing was Slovenian as well ...

[@RokKadoic]

My home town is 5km away of bombing side in Slovenia. We had a bit of luck and a lot of quick actions with this war.

[@hyperboreanschizo]

@@intel386DX Nah u just lying. The pilot was American and his name was Darrell Patrick Zelko. Not very slovenian sounding name to me.

[@intel386DX]

@@hyperboreanschizo Zelko is sloven name . actually the man who shot down F-117 is Hungarian from the Yugoslav army , his name is Zoltán Dani

[@AndrewPonti]

My great grandfather and great grandmother came to the US in the early 1900s from Croatia through Ellis Island and ended up in PA. I'm 1/4 Croatian and it was a sizable part of my childhood growing up with the traditions. This was a good telling of a very confusing conflict.

[@overlord165]

Hope one day you'll return!

[@JukSon-go4xf]

Where from Croatia did they come?

[@AndrewPonti]

@@JukSon-go4xf Baska on the island of Krk near Istria.

[@marijanblazevic6905]

​Baška na otoku Krku je prelijepa ,živio sam tamo blizu Baške u Dragi Baš..Vratite se doma ,Hrvatska vas rado ima🙏💖🤍💙🇭🇷​@@AndrewPonti

[@seanpoore2428]

Grenade launcher man at 6:14 is extremely well animated

[@thegeneral2982]

I actually did get the chance to visit Vukovar this summer to meet some family from there that I never met before. It is miracilous how much of it has been rebuilt and how much beautiful the city has gotten. Apart from memeorial sites there were barely any visable damages to buildings. The family members I met are fantastic people full of positivity and happiness and I was over joyed to meet them. During the war they got extremely lucky and escaped Vukovar 4 days prior to the siege. One of them became an army nurse later on during the war. I hold no ill will towards my slavic brothers and sister and I hope we never again have to witness such barbarism from anyone. May peace reign eternal

[@thejosh3855]

The effects of the war are still present though. The population has halved, all the young people are leaving to other parts of Croatia or abroad. Vukovar has gone from being one of the most prosperous towns in Croatia, to one of the poorest.

[@EzEcro]

the serbs arent your brothers, they would still like nothing more than to destroy croatia, occupy it and kill every single non serb

[@jovanjovanovic7721]

As a Serb that has family in Vukovar, I must say that I was visiting the town every year for past 23 years, it was rebuilt but still has ways to go, a lot of houses are still damaged, including mine, it has bullet holes on the front of the house, and the money that was supposed to fix the Vodotoranj ( Vukovar's iconic building ) was still not used to repair the tower. I have many Croat friends and Serb friends, but my family there was always telling me to be careful what to say, since I grew up in Belgrade, to not draw unwanted attention from Croats that hate Serbs, there are Serbs that hate Croats as well there. But growing up I had met a Croat family that changed my mind and has invited me to their restaurant and they were asking a lot of questions about our life in Serbia and how they're glad their son could meet with Serbs to show him that the two nations could still be friends despite the differences, and that we're all humans, and this is part of my childhood, that made me stop hating the others based on their past etc. This is an important thing, because in schools both Serbs and Croats have a big history lessons, on what the both countries did to each other (Jasenovac, 91's for Croats etc.) We're different, but we can come together!

[@asteriX7487]

Vukovar water tower was fixed with the money they gathered for that purpose, on the other hand life in Vukovar will never be same as it was before the war mostly due to unprosecuted war criminals living there. As you have friends there you can ask them about this ( Croatian friends) and you ll hear stories. Also one like this is doctor in Vukovar city hospital still working she was showing which of the wounded Croats was fighting and they god killed, up to this day she is working. So Vukovar is really really complicated situation for everybody to understand, @@jovanjovanovic7721

[@andrejdusic6744]

Props to whoever did the animation and graphics!

[@henex1296]

My own father served there as a UN peacekeeper. He has told me many stories about the war. How the airfields were being watched by snipers, how people had to runaway, how his friend got killed by a serb while building a hospital, that same serb was hanged (not by the UN people tho), he saw people getting killed, he saw civilians laying dead with none being alive in a restaurant when he opened the doors to it. He spent his last years of the war in Sarajevo. He told me about granades falling down into the city every day, snipers watching over their base looking for anyone to shoot. He almost got shot by a sniper and the bullet flew in front of his eyes and hit the ground between him and his friend. He has showed me pictures of his friends funerals. I've seen his badges and things he took for a memory. He has sometimes told me about these. He bought himself a Jurassic park T-shirt. And later he gave it to me. Or well... It had the picture of a Jurassic park. But instead of it reading "Jurassic park" it read "Sarajevo". (And) he has told me and asked me to never go to a war, it's a terrible business. (Edit: Added that he later gave me the T-shirt)

[@sejozwak]

my father fought that all

[@henex1296]

​@@sejozwakDidn't expect seeing you here. I've been watching your videos. :D

[@kiryllshynharow9058]

civil war is the most terrible war of all, when neighbor kills neighbor, and people have personal reasons to hate each other even if a peacekeeper experienced such horror, it’s scary to even imagine what unarmed people felt in the middle of the waves of this brutal massacre

[@henex1296]

​@@kiryllshynharow9058Civil war tears people and families apart. Friends, sisters, brothers, family members and relatives. All fighting against each other (Not in every family tho but happens a lot).

[@kiryllshynharow9058]

@@henex1296 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGPad2mBadymrJI&lc=Ugy6rTG2GpSQOTM5RUh4AaABAg yes you are right and one guy already wrote his own story about this

[@compatriot852]

Who knew that such a brutal war would result in so many memes. Balkan people really know how to make jokes

[@ShadowStrikerTheLoneWolf]

Dark humour is common among us all, so that comes as no surprise.

[@worldeater1498]

This war was especially brutal because it was a brother war. There is no difference between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks besides religion. They are the same people who are simply divided by religion and which empire they’ve sided with in the past(Romans, Ottomans, Byzantines). My father fought for the Serbians in Croatia and the stories he tells me are mind boggling. He said so many young men go to die against men who they once called their brothers. Terribly sad reality to the war.

[@lagjescuni5482]

Romans and Byzantines are the same thing in reality there never existed an empire or a people called Byzantines it has always been the Eastern Roman Empire..and Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks have never been brothers in history never....

[@krasnamerah1926]

​@@lagjescuni5482lol, found the far-right Orthodox Byzantines brought the Serbs and Macedons into their religion, same as the Catholic Romans with Croatia, Ottomans with Bosnia and Kosovars, and Austrians with the Slovenes. Tito's mistake is that he is not doing enough to eliminate the ethno-religious supremacists there and making a federalist state instead of a unitary state like Indonesia.

[@someone-wh2rb]

Its stupid to try to unite a people which clearly do not want to be together. Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks are not the same, and convincing them otherwise can lead to horrendous consequences.

[@egyptianhibiscus9203]

@@someone-wh2rb Language, food, mentality is quite the same. Only the religion not. And the fact that some were with the ocupators (Nazis, Turks), while others not

[@rnelson1415]

I don't remember much of this conflict being covered by the media when I was growing up. Looking at the current map of Eastern Europe compared to what used to be Yugoslavia, along with videos like this does a lot to shed light on the history. Thanks for covering this.

[@rnelson1415]

As an American, I get nationalism. I've had enough of it shoved down my throat over the years, but honestly I wish we could all stop being so f*cking racist.

[@greendalf123]

Great video, very well done. My father fought for the Croatian forces in Bosnia, and we emigrated to Canada after the war. I'm friends with a lot of Bosnian and Serbian people here, which makes all the hatred and war crimes even more pointless and horrendous. I don't know how it escalated, but I'm sure the politicians and low-lives are to blame.

[@Mukation]

Same here in Sweden. My local town has a Serbian community, with a great office building for barbeque parties etc and like only half of the usual suspects at the parties are serbs, the rest are croatians and bosniaks. I have a bosnian-croat as a co-worker and like half our conversations are about when we're going to balkan and what towns we are visiting etc :D

[@hello7522]

@@MukationNazi sympathizer.

[@pumapandora1310]

⁠@@hello7522my brother in Christ you cannot think that anyone is going to take your pro-serbian stuff seriously if you just attack random people who speak about peace and do not say anything negative

[@hello7522]

@@pumapandora1310 The writer is glorifying his father, who fought for the neo-Nazis that commited genocide against Serbs. How would you react if Hitler had a son, that constantly glorified the holocaust and other actions of his father? Would you support him too?

[@sansenoy]

Don't forget the churches, catholic and serb orthodox, still spreading filth to this day, but we're slowly choking them out

[@strawberrysena]

my parents grew up in yugoslavia and they only had fond memories of their childhoods, they went to school, played outside, were friends with different ethnic groups and didn't think much about politics. everything changed

[@Ar1AnX1x]

every time I hear about this it reminds me of Niko Belic from GTA IV its crazy how a video game can kinda emotionally connect you to a random war from a country you don't know anything about

[@QuentinofVirginia]

IIRC Niko Bellic was a Serb who served in the Yugoslav Wars. With that in mind it's understandable the motivation behind Darko Brevic betraying his comrades

[@Ar1AnX1x]

@@QuentinofVirginia and dude was heavily traumatized by what the Serbs did to the Kosovars, and I think Roman's mother was also killed in the war, I still have no idea how people know he's a Serb and not the other ethnicities involved since they didn't really make it clear in the story

[@OperatorMax1993]

​@@Ar1AnX1x he's a Serb raised in Bosnia, so perhaps Republika Srpska

[@NguyenTran-mf9gj]

@@Ar1AnX1x Because Roman said this quote: "You'll be fine. Better than my SERBIAN" when Niko asked if Roman had forgot their own language. So yeah, Niko is 100% Serbian.

[@Ar1AnX1x]

@@NguyenTran-mf9gj so when he was talking about horrible war crimes, he was talking about Serbian war crimes or probably both sides? so in reality Kosovars also killed a lot of Serb civilians? I thought Serbs did almost all the damage

[@anonimni1288]

Im a Bosniak and the memories of this war still lives on. Everywhere from ruined buildings, to holes on the ground literly everywhere. But despite this we moved on. Trying to rebuild ourselfs from our horrible past and while some would say we are a second world nation i think we are doing just fine. Make peace not war 🇧🇦❤️🇭🇷❤️🇷🇸❤🇲🇰❤🇲🇪❤🇸🇮

[@HawkThunder907]

No, Bosnia is not, just like any other former Yugoslav country. We are plagued by rampant corruption and organised crime.

[@hello7032]

Love and peace to you all

[@bamaramify]

Was it better when it was Yugoslavia

[@anonimni1288]

@@bamaramify i was born a few years after the war but i have heard many stories about it

[@unknownname6519]

​@@HawkThunder907thats how it ever was.. The reason why the young people leave the countries..

[@WhattaFook]

I was border patrol soldier in Hungary on the border with Croatia in 1992. We were watching closely what's goin' on.

[@MatIsBad]

Even tho the Slovenian war lasted for only 10 day, my mom keeps telling me this were the scariest days of her life..

[@temistogen]

Shooting 4 teen yugoslav soldiers that surrendered?

[@midnightvibes5485]

​@@temistogen Shouldnt have signed up to cleanse and invade their neighbors because they wanted to secede from a rotten government.

[@MatIsBad]

@@temistogen Where'd you get that? Twitter?

[@dosenbrenner6386]

​@@MatIsBad Austrian Television called ÖRF at that time showed how slovenian killing yugoslav solders Whith White flag in Hands. Till this day NOONE from slovenian who Commited this war crime DIDNT answered and convicted.

[@hatsuhioki9361]

@@MatIsBad lol they done far worse than 4

[@Sirius1914]

Thank you armchair history for everything. I've subscribed to this channel for a good 3 years I believe adn It's been horrible to see what KZbin is doing to you and many other channels. I hope you and the team pull through. Thanks for the video.

[@DavefromCA2023]

I was born in 1983 and have always had a passion for current events and history. Trying to read about what was going on in this part of the world as a boy was basically impossible. This is by far the most concise explanation of exactly what happened....and I am still confused, guess I'll put this video on repeat.

[@DJ-iu5bb]

" War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."

[@familygash7500]

"Let's go bowling!" 🎳

[@LowFlyer]

Far from applicable here

[@mizoreyoroizuka4178]

@@LowFlyer What distance? Please tell me the number of km or meters.

[@novo121]

I think my grandfather was in Bosnia during this time for about 3 months. I'm not sure and I don't wanna ask him. I don't want him to revisit such bad memories

[@tombombadil9123]

1:50 did NOT disarm them at all. not the territorials, nor the police force, which in fact turned into para-military, especially in Croatia. In 3:58 you said it yourself - territorials and police blockaded... and so on

[@WaybackHistoryChannel]

Thanks for taking your usual tempered look at sometimes unsavory events. We actually just covered the 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik a few weeks ago, and also did a feature on the 1995 Dayton Accords last year. The Yugoslav Wars are an incredibly tragic, yet overlooked, chapter of recent European history. Wishing peace to Griffin and the whole team, keep up the groundbreaking work

[@stefanzo501]

My father when he was still living in Italy and just started dating my mother abroad in Canada during the 90s did a total of 3 supply runs into Sarajevo driving supply ambulances full of aid provisions. Two with the Red Cross and one with the Turkish Red Crescent. He has a Medal from the Order of Malta for this and has many stories from each trip!

[@justhari1487]

Your father is a hero may he be granted Jannah 🙏

[@hellfruit5612]

Great video man. I love how you covered every aspect and historical background of this conflict but also some lesser known facts like the military aspect of some conflicts (the Bosniak operation, the level of international/NATO involvement) and you didn't just stick to the usual ''atrocity driven'' narration which is usually covered, but mainly I enjoyed how you mentioned Macedonia as the final battleground of the Yugoslav wars, which (although not anymore a part of the coutnry) was stabbed in the back by the Kosovo crisis' refugees and rebels and had to face them too, leaving a 20-25% of them till to this day. Great job, I'm impressed ❤❤

[@mr.normalguy69]

At this point, Armchair Historian is asking to get demonitised 💀

[@Eke1335]

And its imporantnat to resiste

[@aquilaFUN]

Tito never wanted to be reliant on either the West nor the USSR, so he created a completely independent Arms Industry and armed Yugoslavia to the Teeth. (ruining the Economy in the process) This is one reason why these Conflicts went on for so long: When all those ethnic tensions escalated, thousands of warehouses full of small arms, tanks, explosives and so on, supervised by corrupt officials, became literal shopping marts, fueling not only these Wars, but basically anyone who would pay, including terrorists worldwide. You will have a hard time finding a War around the 2000s where weapons from Yugoslavia were not present.

[@brandonlyon730]

Considering what happened to Hungary and later Czechoslovakia it wasn’t unfound fear, especially when Stalin himself sent out multiple assassins after Tito.

[@joseaca1010]

a sensible policy until it met ultranationalist politicians

[@birb_404]

As a croat, this is a very impressive documentary, good job!! Plus i'm glad there is no bias to any side, nor an opinion, just a documentary

[@redjaypictures4528]

Im genuinely impressed that griffin and his team chose to tackle this war, from what i understand, its SUPER tough to put all the pieces together when it comes to retrospecting the yugoslav wars

[@unclev7075]

History is written by the victors

[@tomaravlic5730]

@@unclev7075just there were no victors in the Yugoslav wars

[@unclev7075]

@@tomaravlic5730 oh there was. Someone always profits/wins in war.

[@Aleksa208]

That's because he choose to leave out a lot of important topics. For example, how USA publicly funded everyone who wanted separation from Yugoslavia since before the war even started.

[@DanielKolbin]

@unclev7075 History is written by multiple people, not just the victors.

[@stefanolujic9999]

I’m a Serb and honestly what saddens me the most is that even 30 years after the wars we are still stuck in the past unable to move on like the rest of the world… I think that once we start respecting each other instead of putting salt on each other’s wounds this region will prosper more than any other. But I can only hope…

[@Aleksa208]

Instead of respecting each other, we should just stop interacting with oneanother and focus on ourselves. There cannot be unity in the Balkans. The whole 'Yugoslavia' project was a huge mistake made by Serbian leaders. Who could instead just make a greater Serbia.

[@dlibreman]

Well, this video shows exactly why they couldn't make greater serbia

[@bosanski_Cevap]

Well if your people stopped wanting a greater ethno Serbian state then peace could be a thing. Your Mr. Dodik still talks about war and genocide every three seconds

[@Nista357]

​@@bosanski_CevapWhy don't Bosnia just get peacefully dissolved and all three peoples go their sepparate way?

[@GearedGaming76899]

@@Nista357 Because that much of the land that is now in eastern Bosnia that is dominated by Serbs were majority Bosniak before. Imagine if Russia took Ukraine than cleansed it of Ukrainians and than they wait for 30 years. Would it suddenly be fair to say it now belongs to Russia, ofc not. The victims family of that genocide still live until this day and to give away their land wouldn't be justice. Next to that, eastern Bosnia still has about 10% Bosniaks living there and you would be crazy to believe if they would save if that land was given to Serbia, the same people that tried to kill all those Bosniaks before.

[@khalidalali186]

Yugoslavia sounds like it was one big mono-town. As soon as the glue that held it together passed away (Tito), it collapsed into the smithereens of oblivion.

[@brunoalbano616]

Yugoslavia post Tito was Dallas (the tv series) with everybody in the family shooting each other.

[@triggermantommy]

4 of my family members fought in Yugoslav Wars, and I have to say, all 4 of them said the same thing: war is hell, and it makes people mad. Truth be told, I feel sorry for all those who were victims. This is a painful part of those who lived in Former Yugo. I have to say this was painful, I am a post war person, but this war was madness for everyone

[@CofekDaGod]

my both grandpas fought in the Yugo wars, they both told me and my other relatives that the war was pretty brutal. Thankfuly both survived the war

[@gigachad6787]

I was 5 years old during the Yugoslav wars, i remember hearing "srbe na vrbe" being chanted in the streets of Celje, i didn't even know what was going on.

[@NguyenTran-mf9gj]

LOL. You Slovenians barely knew the taste of war since you guys only experienced a brief 10 days war against the JNA 🤣🤣

[@jurajcvjetko3474]

10 day war😂😂😂

[@gigachad6787]

@@NguyenTran-mf9gj Unlike Croatia and Bosnia, Slovenia didn't have a large Serb minority, wich is why our conflict only lasted for 10 days. Macedonia also doesn't have Serbs, wich if why they left so easily. I'm not racist against Serbs, i have some good Serbian friends here in Slovenia, but Serbian nationalits were the scum of Yugoslavia. And i'm glad we didn't have many Serbs here in Slovenia to start conflict.

[@CofekDaGod]

@@NguyenTran-mf9gj one of my grandparents is Bosnian who fought troughout the Bosnian war

[@nducation8039]

The reason Slovenia and Macedonia managed to separate relatively peacefully is because there wasn't much bad blood between them and Serbia. Croats, on the other hand committed terrible crimes against Serbian civilians during WW2, and this was never forgotten.

[@UltrasKorcula]

They separated relatively peacefully because they were not a part of teritorial wishes for Greater Serbia because there was barely any Serbians living there. During the WW2 all the sides commited horrible atrocities, the only difference is, Croatian are ashamed of Ustashe and have condemned the whole movement while Serbians are still celebrating Chetniks. Just like they are now celebrating fascist terrorists who tried to start an uprising in Kosovo.

[@user-tk3cb6im5o]

so thats why serbs have the right to kill croatian children and women who have no response for this? classical serbian genocidal barbaric logic... and what about albanians btw. what did they to serbs?

[@CommanderVK]

Thank you for providing well wrote, factual, and non biased history. I wish more people could watch you and learn more about what has happened in the world around them.

[@NyPk92]

Not biased lol....

[@BlitzkriegRap]

My uncle was a young Croatian volunteer fighter all throughout the war. He saw very intense fighting in eastern Croatia in the early years of the war when our forces were outgunned- but in ‘95s Croatia’s operation “Storm” (which should’ve been, and actually was, a relatively easy offensive) - he witnessed the worst day of his 4 year campaign: during a radio communication breakdown two Croatian platoons got into short but deadly friendly fire skirmish. A young boy from the other Croatian platoon died. My uncle was a platoon leader by then and it was a devastating experience for him. Ofc he has PTSD now. To end on a “high” note, one of the random funny things he told me was the trench warfare in ‘91 in eastern Croatia where there is little of terrain protection as it is an open valley. He was stuck with his fellow soldier in a small trench for 2 days, and in the evening of day 2 his partner asked him if he could take a sh*t in the trench - which he was holding in for almost two days, and my uncle said “Are you serious? Do you think I care about the smell? I got bullets flying over my head.” 😅

[@call_me_yegor]

What are you writing my brother, read more about history and then come back to edit this comment 😊

[@fromhelltocell]

@@call_me_yegor what did he wrote wrong?

[@call_me_yegor]

@@fromhelltocell I will not comment, his comment is enough 🙂

[@BlitzkriegRap]

@@fromhelltocell He’s weird and plays mincraft. Why bother

[@banano24]

I love that the one thing that conects us all be it serb, croat or bosniak are the funny stories from the war. Of course our parents and grandparents did not want to talk about the serious stuff mostly.

[@koljarzg]

As a man from this region who lived through this wars, I must say it is very concise and factually accurate depiction of what happened in exYugoslavia. The brute facts are there but I'm interested if you are going to give answers to many questions remaining after watching this video - not just what, but why it happened? Why the Yugoslavia disintegrated? Why the Serbs in Croatia started rebellion? Why Croatians wanted independence? Why Bosnia was not ignited right away? Why Bosnia and Croatia did not stay allied. Why they did ally in the end? What happened to refugees from all over the country? What happened from refugees from RSK and how they fled? What Serbia has done after the war to resettle them in Croatia? And the greatest questions of all: What is a role of Serbia in all of this? Should we blame the Greater Serbia nationalist ideology for all of this and does it still exist today?

[@rifqihatta]

The 90's was the best decade : 🎉 Meanwhile in Yugoslavia : 💀

[@houby1632]

90s was like the worst for most of the non western world

[@K3ntucky123]

Some Non european GTA protagonist: 😎🥃☀️ European GTA protagonist: 💀

[@pranidhanaabhiyoga6485]

Growing up as 90s kid in Indonesia, most of our Tv channels at that time had a mandatory news at night "Dunia Dalam Berita" (The World In News) most of the news was about the war in former Yugoslavian states, and for sure the visit of our 2nd President Soeharto to Bosnia, where we also sent indonesian peacekeepers as part of UN troops there.

[@lilyanafasyamufarrida1184]

Saat itu sering banget muncul berita soal Yugoslavia ya bang? Ada yang paling abang ingat salahsatunya?

[@baystatejive6134]

as a Croat, and child of this war, seeing how it affected my parents from very early on, thank you for making this video. I am curious about my history and heritage but seeing the pain on their faces when I ask about this dark part, and the PTSD that still lingers 30 years later, it makes me seek out other resources. You did an excellent job; your videos have always been top notch. Keep it up fellow history lover. When people ask me why I love being an American, why my family came here and embraced it.... I just point them to the alternative we could have faced. 100k + dead, millions displaced. Middle of Europe in the 90s, and the world just watched. May everyone rest in peace and never allow this hatred to rear its ugly head again. Remember this can happen anywhere, to anyone, anytime.

[@Mixer2904]

As someone who was born in Yugoslavia from a mixed Serbian-Croatian parents and who had family members fighting on different sides and had lived through the worst of it, I thank you for this video, it was a very sad and brutal war, in which all sides did terrible things to each other, and even though tensions are still high in Bosnia, I hope we don't ever have to be part of this conflict again, we just want to live in peace and enjoy our lives with our families without the fear of another war breaking out, even though our disgusting politicians use threat of war often to get right wing votes I hope we never see it again.

[@matejaradivojevic3473]

Some people still crave for violence, they still live in 90s and as how unstable whole Balkan region is, it will happen again but it's just the matter of time when..

[@Mixer2904]

@@matejaradivojevic3473 I hope you are wrong about that and that cooler heads will prevail we had enough war it never brings anything good

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

This is why mixed marriages are a bad idea. Once the war comes family and relatives get torn apart.

[@matejaradivojevic3473]

@@Mixer2904 I hope I am too but you know yourself that some of our elders are still sour about the war. Politicians will use our nationality again just how they used it before to kill us

[@EzEcro]

the tensions are still high in Croatia too, serbian fascism is still on the move and they got hope from the russian invasion on ukraine, they hope the russians will help them or ocuppy the balkans for them so they can finish what was started in Vukovar and Srebrenica

[@alonelylokimain3710]

A very underreported war, very important considering how much tensions between the balkan states still resides

[@invisibleman4827]

I remember as a kid in the UK when ny parents watched the news, Bosnia was always a word for war and violence. It was such a relief when it ended.

[@nicinat0r]

The quality of the animations on this channel have steadily improved, its great!

[@HenriqueSilva-nu3fw]

Portugal loves you guys, please keep up the amazing work 🇵🇹🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@juremustac3063]

What do you mean by "the amazing work", killing each other, or making videos about it? 😜

[@HenriqueSilva-nu3fw]

@@juremustac3063 making the videos of course 🤣

[@tagair211]

Reading through the comments, I read so many personal stories. It's quite emotional. All kinds of people were touched by this war, not just the locals, but foreign aid volunteers, peacekeepers, journalists... So many stories that ought to be known.

[@therealBosnianBallPlayz]

As a resident of one of these republics, I can definitely say that this video was very accurate. Thank you for this video Griffin.

[@miladeskandari7]

It was arguably your most interesting video topic in a while

[@FarmerSlav]

No mention of the 200k Croats exiled from Krajina at the start of the war by the Serbs, making Krajina go from 40% Croat to 0% Croat, that were expelled by force and at threat of death? But of course, a heartwrenching mention of those poor Serb refugees who fled in the aftermath of Operation Storm without threat of death and without being forced. Typical.

[@CarmenPilar-m4q]

OLUJA 💪🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 GENERAL ANTE GOTOVINA 🗿🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 POZDRAV IZ POLJSKE 🇵🇱❤️🇭🇷

[@StarlordStavanger]

I’ll take an entire series on the 90s Balkan wars from your team. It’s such a frightening yet fascinating war to learn history of that region. I wish more people were familiar with it

[@KraljStefan-345]

"Serb-dominated Yugoslavia" In reality: Presidents of Yugoslavia: Ivan Ribar (1945-1953)-Croat Josip Broz Tito(1953-80)-Croat Since 1980. until 1991. there is no one president. Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia: Josip Broz Tito(1945-63)-Croat. Petar Stambolić(1963-67)-Serb. Mika Špiljak (1967-69)-Croat. Mitja Ribičič(1969-71)-Slovene. Džemal Bijedić(1971-77)-Bosnian Muslim. Veselin Đuranović(1977-82)-Montenegrin. Milka Planinc(1982-86)-Croat. Branko Mikulić(1986-89)-Croat. Ante Marković(1989-91)-Croat. In time of Ante Markovic's government, Croatian and Slovenian separatists attacked Yugoslavia ( member of UN) and Yugoslavian army.

[@coryrohrbaugh1208]

I second that series on the 90s Balkan wars

[@leonardblazevic9440]

As a croat, this is unbiased at the heavy cost of generalizing the war crimes, and oversimplification of the political and military factors. Maybe you should do separate videos. Theres much more than you said, you touched just the tip of the iceberg

[@BTSRB]

6:50 territories in red were inhabited by a serb majority even before the war, this anmation leds you to believe it was inhabited by croats and then occupied by the serbs during the war. 13:54 serbs were also a majority on kosovo before the 19th century, even today there are hundreds of toponyms with serbian ethymological origin scattered around kosovo and albania.

[@nderimramadani1465]

Nanen ta qift kosova

[@Lonelywolf1312.]

Serbian propaganda still awake i see 😂

[@np4653]

​@@Lonelywolf1312. There were 700k Serbs living in Croatia. When Croatia seeeded from Yugoslavia, Serbs from Croatia seceded from Croatia. That's not propaganda these are facts

[@darkomilojkovic594]

bravo majstore

[@andrijasaviccsavic1124]

1:52 while croats did import weapons from ex WarPact countries, bakelite mags were never made in Yugoslavia, and JNA forces in that time would not have time to capture those, and even them they were so much rare, especially at the beginning, that there would be almost 0 chance encountering them.

[@Nuk_Duckem]

I know a guy who was an APC driver for Croatia during this, he told me about how before Tito died people who spoke out against him would always disappear. The handful of war stories I heard I could tell he had seen hell itself.

[@RomanianReaver]

Tito was a monster but he was a monster who loved his country. You can kinda see it by the fact he didn't sell it to the soviets even after multiple assassination attempts. Shame now that you're all running to join a Union with even less fucks to give about their independence and national identity.

[@MrHacker561]

i've been wating for this video for years Thank you so much

[@fikovele]

You actually did a research before making this video. Definitely the best "in a nutshell" Yugoslav wars movie. Be praised.

[@KraljStefan-345]

"Serb-dominated Yugoslavia" In reality: Presidents of Yugoslavia: Ivan Ribar (1945-1953)-Croat Josip Broz Tito(1953-80)-Croat Since 1980. until 1991. there is no one president. Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia: Josip Broz Tito(1945-63)-Croat. Petar Stambolić(1963-67)-Serb. Mika Špiljak (1967-69)-Croat. Mitja Ribičič(1969-71)-Slovene. Džemal Bijedić(1971-77)-Bosnian Muslim. Veselin Đuranović(1977-82)-Montenegrin. Milka Planinc(1982-86)-Croat. Branko Mikulić(1986-89)-Croat. Ante Marković(1989-91)-Croat. In time of Ante Markovic's government, Croatian and Slovenian separatists attacked Yugoslavia ( member of UN) and Yugoslavian army.

[@jamiegray6931]

​@@KraljStefan-345The president of Yugoslavia was nothing more than a figurehead. The real power was held by the joint presidency which was designed to check the nationalist tendencies of the different ethnic groups, but came to be Serbian dominated. The Serbs held the majority of the votes and thus controlled the presidency and as a result the country.

[@KraljStefan-345]

@@jamiegray6931 President Tito figurehead ? 😂😂 Lies, lies, lies... There is no joint presidency before the 1980s. The Serbs did not dominate the joint presidency and the joint presidency has no real power and was politically paralyzed. The republics of Yugoslavia (Slovenia and Croatia) did what they wanted. Every proposal of the Serbs in the joint presidency was stopped by the Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Bosnian member.

[@jamiegray6931]

@@KraljStefan-345 Apologies, the Yugoslav president became nothing more than a figurehead after the death of Tito, they had little power to develop policy as a result of the 1974 constitution which decided how the country would be run after Tito died. The separate republics were able to do what they wanted regarding internal policy but had no control over the states foreign policy ambitions. However, it is important to note that Vojvodina and Kosovo also voted in the joint presidency and were slowly losing their autonomy in the late 1980s. With Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina under effective Serbian control via political tampering it is no wonder the other republics were fearful that they would be next. Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia were ever fearful of Serb nationalism being used to take over their republics as Milosevic had done in the others. With this it is little wonder that the country broke apart.

[@KraljStefan-345]

@@jamiegray6931 That is not true ! Serbia did not control anything and we see that here: Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia: Milka Planinc (1982-86) - Croat. Branko Mikulić (1986-89)-Croat. Ante Marković (1989-91)-Croat. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia: Josip Vrhovec (1978-82)-Croat Lazar Mojsov (1982-84)-Macedonian Raif Dizdarević (1984-87) - Bosnian Muslim Budimir Lončar (1987-91)-Croat Vojvodina - part of Serbia Kosovo - part of Serbia Montenegro was under the control of Montenegrins (not Serbia) Why was Serbia divided and why did Serbia had 2 autonomous provinces ? The other 5 republics did not have autonomous provinces.

[@jctubezzz]

Nice job! Yugoslavia has an interesting history, escpecially during ww2 and the 1990's!

[@kurt8238]

You should do a whole video about the insurgencies in Preshevo, Bujanovac & Macedonia. They are the most underrated conflicts / insurgencies in the region

[@Ankyleasauras229]

Your animating is getting really good

[@tompegorinno5141]

I am so glad to finally see this war brought up

[@HawkeyeJoe88]

Another excellent video from one of my favorite channels!

[@Doxxieeee]

credits to the armchair historian and his team, these wars just aren't talked about enough.

[@imsomewhatcertain1024]

The Armchair Historian is still better than the History Channel.

[@nickgooderham2389]

Canada sent a battle group as part of UNPROFOR. Under General Lewis MacKenzie they secured the airport at Sarajevo. Later a second battle group would be involved in a week long battle with Croat forces known as the Battle of Medak Pocket.

[@B1E1N]

As a Croat who studied the war and politics i must say you did a great job with the video. Hopefully it wont happen again.

[@stefangrubesic2708]

Kinda proud of us ex-Yugoslavs for not fighting in the comments, we finally grew up I guess Goes to show tho how good of a video for most part this was If I were to nitpick I guess I'd say the Serbian side was put less light on, as in the backstory of WWII and where from the hated came and all but one video definitely can't cover 100% and this one comes closest to uncovering the whole story

[@NguyenTran-mf9gj]

If you guys were living under the same roof again then I'm 1000% sure you guys will slit each other's throats right away. So no, you guys haven't grew up at all 🤣🤣

[@stefangrubesic2708]

@@NguyenTran-mf9gj Oh well Bosnia-Herzegovina is technically mini-Yugoslavia rn, no throats slit yet

[@GearedGaming76899]

@@stefangrubesic2708 Serbs are trying though where they are threatening to start a war every year in Bosnia

[@stefangrubesic2708]

@@GearedGaming76899 Oh cmon you don't actually believe that bull, it's the standard "me and this other politician head don't see eye to eye, omg there will be war, but fear not, if you vote for me I'll settle the whole thing down and we can live without that scary thing we all still remember called war, oh will you look at that, I'm re-elected for 200697th time"

[@GearedGaming76899]

@@stefangrubesic2708 I mean ill tell you what I do believe. I do believe Serbs to this day still have statues and songs and further praises for war criminals that butchered my people. I mean for goodness sake the current Serb president that is now two times elected got famous by saying "for every Serb we will kill 100 muslims". Are we Bosniaks just supposed to ignore this for the idea of BrOthErhOOd.

[@necko2529]

I'm from Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and was there in the 90s, it was insane to say the least...

[@spottiercamp8183]

My boss was a veteran of this war he was apart of the nato intervention force and told us about how he was on patrol in Sarajevo and heard gunfire so he circled around the corner and came face to face with a Serbian soldier and they practically bumped I to one another and they got into a fist fight until backup arrived and took the Serb prisoner.

[@second2none914]

He’s finally making videos that aren’t about ww2!

[@aleksa11916]

8:13 great attention to detail writing Sarajevo bothi in latinic and cyrilic. All in all a great video

[@caseclosed9342]

You forgot to mention when Slobodan Milošević attended a pool party in Petoria with Peter Griffin.

[@AA-yz7jm]

Yugoslavian conflit was way more complex with significant historical backgrounds for each of the conflicts which haven't even been touched in this video.

[@tomr200199]

Well obviously. Do you think you can fit centuries of complexities and then a decade of war in to an 18 minute video without leaving a few things on the cutting room floor?

[@mijopep8369]

My botu grandpas's fought during the Croatian war. One of them in the 114th brigade & my 2nd grnadoa from Trilj in the 126th Sinjska brigade. My grandpa who fought in the 114th brigade is from Otavice.

[@fathirsyahreza2796]

Bro, can you make a video about the Indonesian Invasion of East Timor (Operation Lotus🇮🇩🇹🇱)? I think that's the most controversial military operation in South East Asia

[@jv3749]

I had family in Vukovar from what I heard when they came back after the war ended they were outcasted by their Serbian friends in which they were very close too before the war.

[@grwth4722]

Because it were the croatians who started the killings, friend on friend, neighbour on neighbour...

[@vitezlucello]

My ukranian friends told me they would never talk or become known to a russian and thats something you must understand

[@LilyVain]

*Hello from Makedonia to all my jugoslavian brothers and sisters, I love you all!* 💞

[@קעז-מענטש]

Love from America 🇺🇸♥️🇬🇷

[@LilyVain]

@@קעז-מענטש 🇲🇰❤️🇺🇸

[@AlberYouTube]

I'm very happy to see so much diversity of historical events being posted lately. World War 2, while very interesting and important, feels way too overdone at this point and it's nice to see a break from it. Thank you for the great content!

[@nisamdesam]

Yugoslavia should've peacefully broken apart like Czechoslovakia and made a Benelux-like economic union. Just so everyone's on the same page, the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia were offered to have their respective countries join the EU via a sped-up process and all of them declined it.

[@brunoalbano616]

Too much "history" and resentment. I get your point, but remember that Tito ruled Yugoslavia with an iron fist, there was a reason and he knew it. Don't get me wrong, not defending Tito but he knew with whom he was dealing.

[@nisamdesam]

@@brunoalbano616 Tito was universally respected by everyone, he was a charismatic partisan leader that fought for the southern slavs. Nobody dared to oppose him, and so Yugoslavia was doomed to fall without him.

[@averageamerican9427]

My dad was in the US Marines during the war in Bosnia. He told me the whole reason he was there was to enforce no fly zones and recover any downed pilots in the region. He worked as a helicopter mechanic/crew chief while over there and took part in the rescue of Scott O'Grady when he was shot down by the Serbs.

[@Mr.Sadist77]

You should be ashamed of your dad!

[@Bepo013Minecraft]

@@Mr.Sadist77and u should be ashamed of ur genocidal relatives