Why Are The Balkans Europe's Powder Keg?
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2020
- In this video I talk about the region of the Balkans!
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Do video about history of region Sandzak from the ancient times till modern days with special explanations what happened with Sandzak at Berlin Congress and why Sandzak didn't became federal unit in communist Yugoslavia altough it was planned initially during the war at communist congress in 1943.
Do a history of the name of Greece 🇬🇷 (hellenic republic)
Albanian history!
Romania got It's independence in 1878,in 1881 we become The Kingdom of Romania,until then we where Independent but we where a Principality.
Do a video about similiarties between poland's and armenia's history
Just do something easier like quantum physics
Hhhhh excellent
Quantum physics is so interesting.... I was just liking physics before, but since I uncovered quantum part of it I love physics.
Фора толико јака да си добио суб
LOL
Lmfao
There are 5 seasons in the Balkans: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring and War
Nice one
Actually the season are: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring and Fuck you. Fuck you appears randomly and surprise us all during all other seasons.
And Catholicism and Islam
@@mihailchehlarov2720 when is fuck you now and always
War is a random exp event.
It's more "divide and conquer" than a "powder kegg", and considering what Western Europeans did to each other since medieval times until WWII, Balkans is pretty much civilised.
yugoslavia was also sabotaged partially by CIA, documents were declassified a year or two ago. Nothing has changed in balkans with regards to great powers. Serbia is china's bitch so balkans are once again a field for power struggle between EU and China. Russia and US are also probably not far.
@@jozejerse6777 Romania likes the US ...so yeah , alot of diferent thinking .
@@TheCostimen that's the relationship between the governments. It's political. Most of Romanians don't give two shits about americans
Don't act like the Balkans didn't have tons of rebellions, unrest during the medieval times and the Renaissance.
@@jozejerse6777 yugoslavia fell apart by border not by paper
" even if we hate eachother , we hate more turkey "
You weren't talking like that while we all attacked Bulgaria🤣🤣
But but... Turkey is delicious!
Bosniaks don’t hate turkey and most albanians also don’t.
@@arjan5071 You are right mate and it is because they don't learn a fake and biased history like others as if you read a completely neutral history you would see european empires weren't any better than Ottoman at all!! Such as some Balkan nations often consider Janissaries and their forceful recruitment as slavery somehow while in reality they were paid extremely well, could buy property, marry and retire!! On the other hand ''free'' Villeins (Medieval era european peasants) who were vast majority of European population couldn't buy property, couldn't retire and couldn't even leave their lords' farm without their permission and the most importantly european rulers kept forcefully recruiting them for centuries!! So i would rather being a Janissary than being a Villein without any question that i think it is same for everybody who is in their right mind...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 stfu, the Ottoman rule was horrible. If you were Christian and rode a horse without permission they would cut off your head. Look up the massacre at Chios. You support mass genocide if you think the Ottomans weren't that bad. Sure the other Europeans were horrible too, but that doesn't erase the Ottoman monstrosities.
Balkan people after watching this video: "I haven't been this angry since yesterday"
Ma nek ide u picku materinu. Ko je taj mamojebac i zašto dira ime svetinje.
@@Josip9888 Your profanity isn't helping you guys
You don't see beauty in it.
@@Josip9888 Explain the beauty please
Ajvar e makedonsko jadenje(let the battle begin 🤣)
Anyone: Makes a video about the Balkans
Every Balkan viewer: So you have chosen... Death.
omg so gut
So you have chosen......... death
Im balkan lol
@@JJ-ro4fo im also balkan
Nah not really
All Balkan country: yelling at each other. Slovenia: Leave the chat.
the snob being the dark sheep of the group
@@antonioj700 we kicked the jna out the country and gained our independence, the rest of the balkans owes us
pyromaster86 54321 you didn’t kick the full night of JNA, you fought them while Croatia and Bosnia were protesting to leave, Macedonia sent no forces there so you only fought Serbia ( and Montenegro which is not much)
@@markopetrov6670 when did I say we kicked out the full jna?? And if you know history you'd know Serbia was basically the JNA under milosevic. Slovenia helped spark the protest to leave Yugoslavia by having it's delegation walk out of the meeting followed by croatia etc. They were simultaneously sending troops into croatia as they were moving into Slovenia. We mobilized much quicker and took key cities/roads entering Slovenia which prompted the JNA to say it's not worth it and withdraw
pyromaster86 54321 JNA means jugoslovenska Narodna armija which before the breakup was one of the mightiest armies in Europe, because its strength was contributed by 6 countries. When the Yugoslav wars started only then the JNA “ was basically Serbia under Milošević” so you beat that weak JNA that was basically the Serbian army, not the original JNA.
Pozdrav from a Bulgarian, to all my Balkan Brothers!
@zxc zxcv first time hearing that. I've heard serbs claiming kosovo to be serb and albanians claiming its albania but now this... LMAO
@zxc zxcv no ksosvo is clearly Swedish
@@andihoti8573 I do not and will not accept Kosovo as an independent state but I don't hate anyone. It is our soil and was for hundreds of years. Nobody wants you out of there and you can still live there and coexist. I don't know where the problem is. You guys, either way, consider yourself as Albanians so why fight for an artificial state called Kosovo...
@@thehumbleone7989 you guys named it itself Kosovo why then complain about it being "artificial" if you want it lmao, i've lived in Kosovo for 16 years and met 1-2 serbians in my entire lifetime. It was your soil for about 30 years, most of them were from the Ottoman Empire.
@@leart6531 In the end, every country is "artificial" if you see it that way. If you can prove to me (with sources) that it was longer your territory than ours we can talk. Talking about artificial, why have you guys established a country called Kosovo if every Kosovan see himself as an Albanien. why don't you guys hoist the flag of Kosovo? I still think the main problem is that people don't respect and don't understand the feelings of each other. Both sides committed bad cruelties and if we don't find a way to solve it the spiral of death is infinite
Foreign empires- occupy the Balkans
Balkan people- resist
Foreign Empires- Yo these guys are so irrational this is a powder keg lol
@Neverlandia Serbia actually had empire for few decades in middle ages across half Greece and Albania, half Dalmatia, all Herzegovina, Bosnia. So its like those South Park 'member berries. 'Member when we were great, then Kosovo happens!?
@@jhonnex3338 you had, it was called otoman empire, dude all u named was croatia before ottomans ur great serb allies...
@grafvonstauffenburg Yeah, damn those Serbs for attacking austria..
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Thank you for that well-researched comment, nice to see some common sense
@@serniko3393 Dude, have you ever passed by any history book? It was Serbian empire (1346-1371), ruled by Tzar Stefan Dusan, it stretched from Danube to the Gulf of Corinth.
General Knowledge: *Talks about the balkans*
Balkan people: Want to start a fight?!
Wanna punch ha ha pffff
The situation is already hot in Romania!!!
Just kidding, only the temperature and me are hot around here =))
Joe Blow: How about them Yankees?
Balkan people: Want to start a fight?!
@@VoidlessOne lol here in serbia is very warm prb. cause of my gf hehe
It's getting hot in Serbia! Spring is coming~
Me: 100% expecting to see a sh*t storm about the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Everyone: Being nice and talking about how they want rakija!
Me: 😊😭
Rachiu brings all balkans toghether, love from Romania !
@Steven Tsakiris nah.
RAKIA connecting people... :D :D
Me: hating Croatia because they repeatedly beat us at football. Greetings from Germany.
Martin N. Lmao. I’d love to visit Germany.
Balkans ita like a free for all deathmatch
Except when turkey joins the war then its a team deathmatch!
these memes are getting cringe and overused, we get it balkans always fight with turkey.
@@trashposs3849 clap clap
@@trashposs3849 didn't know thanks for the knowledge
PvE encounter
@@trashposs3849 cry about it, we hate yall
Balkan: The real Game of thrones
The idea of game of thrones was actually based of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
@@milandjuric9368 Bullshit. It was based on War of the roses in England during the 15th century.
@@bogomildimov6360 The war of the roses was based off of the breakup of Yugoslavia - change my mind.
@@savapavlovic3956 ahhaahhaha
Trust me it's even worse
the balkans also known as battle royale
Great comment, excellent definition 🤣
And I am speaking as a 'Native' - Greek/Serbian
Balknite Battle Royale
Like Fortine , but better
Yup
Balkan royale
@@Porphyrogen kako to nativ Greek/Serbian?
Balkans: We hate Turkey
Also balkans after trading with Turkey: I was a business man doing business
Technically you can hate Turkey.But you can't change the truth that the majority of Turks particularly live in the western coast of Turkey are the descendants of whole balkan nations.Some of them know where their ancestry come from, some don't but researchers say millions are settled since the ottoman time. Even the founder of the turkish republic Ataturk himself from balkans. So someone from balkan state can say i hate Turkey but it also means he hates his own people too.
@@galacticreform6288 "Turkey Is desdencant of balkans" where did you learn history? Majority of the people here are Turks, kurds and zazas (as we call it here) and when Atatürk was born Ottoman empire was the owner of thessaloniki.
@@trashposs3849 do you speak english? do you know what does it mean "Turks particularly live in the western coast of Turkey are the descendants of whole balkan nations". Kurds are from east and south eastern part of Turkey.
Maybe the Greeks and the Bulgarians hate the Turks, but I am not sure about the other nations. Nevertheless, we, the Macedonians, really love the Turks remembering the fact that we were under their occupation for V centuries.
@@galacticreform6288 ataturk was a turkmen whose ancestors got expolled from anatolia to balkans because they wanted to turkify balkans.Hes saying that by himself and theres ottoman archives about that.So dont talk so sure about something you dont know very well
Actually, Romania became independent also in 1878, through the same Berlin treaty. In 1881 only the form of state was changed, from Principality to Kingdom.
What is romania?
@@humanelemon115 are you bumb?
@@humanelemon115 An ice-cream topping with rum.
Talking about the Balkans. I see you are suicidal. You have my respect.
Barbs of Geography Now: hold my triple shot of espresso
I'm from the Balkans and I agree
@@ghostrider.49 So am I
Nobody cares
I’m from Croatia, we try to disassociate with them now
A fun fact.
In WW1 Bulgaria allied with the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman empire - after that they all collapsed.
In WW2 Bulgaria allied with Nazi Germany - after the war it collapsed.
In the cold war Bulgaria allied with the USSR - later it also collapsed.
Now Bulgaria has allied with NATO the consequences are yet to be revealed.
забрави Римската империя и Византия
Fun fact:
Every union collapses sooner or later and this can be applied for every country in the world.
Conclusion:
This 'joke' needs to die as it was never funny or clever to begin with.
You: wrote this comment
Bulgarians: so you have chosen Death.
@En ki и ти си от същото племе
Hungary is the same
''There is no expectance of war in the Balkans right now''
Montenegro: _Did somebody say something?_
Montenegro is basically the weakst country in ballkan together with north macedonia
@@cortocroato11 ‡
11:59 a united Balkans would not have been to the liking of the great powers (NATO and Rusia, both)
They didn't want Bulgaria to be together let alone the whole Balkans
yeah, maybe the split of the balkans was orchestrated by them with agents
so yeah wat gonna happen yugoslavia is gonna take the small countries first like montenegro bulgaria macedonia kosovo and nato is gonna stop them then idk what the fuck is gonna happen but we are fucked if a war starts
It would not have been to the liking of Balkan people aswell like Greeks Romanians Albanians or croatians
I really doubt USA and China would sleep peacefully if Balkans united.
And why are we problematic? Because someone was always making us fight (The “Great“ countries). And who blames us? They.
Yes!!
i couldnt follow up, what wanted the weimarer republic from the balkans before getting drgged there by austria ?
That's such a good remark. All this videos never put this region into the perspective of large powers influencing events.
TeodorK06 Bulgaria dobro si rekao šefe
@@leonardoglavan2975 hvala
The Balkans in a nutshell.
Then it formed again.
Then it broke again.
An empire once divided must unite.
An empire once united must divide.
@@alexandrub8786 United states of Macedonia
@@janeza382 since when did that happened?
Why are here American that comment on this video and make Balkan jokes, but they don't know anything about Balkans?
Cuz they are Americans. They stick their noses in everything lol
Stephen Jenkins Hello I’m Serbian America sucks
...because , it is in english,....kužiš?
Wondering the same thing
@@xeonome1 I live in America and, most don't. They mostly don't care at all about places that have nothing to do with America. You know, like most countries.
An unknown power: Invades the balkans.
Balkan people: so you have chosen....... revolt
and death
Balkans the place where you eat like there's no tomorrow, pitty yourself, laugh from the top of your lungs, drink, cry, quarell out of spite, cheer for your sports team, help a tourist or a stranger but trick your friend, fall in love 5 times and all this in a day. That's why it's a powder keg, cause we wear emotions on our sleaves.
Yeah, 1 moment you're getting drunk, the next you're fighting a war
You're right at least we're not boring like you know who
true hahahah
@@raulmocan5014 We Germans are not boring! (why did I know you mean us lol)
was planning a trip there for this July, then the pandemic happened =/ I wish so much to visit the region, such rich history. cheers from Brazil
To understand the Balkans you have to be a Balkan
Nope
Nah, we don't understand it either.
To be Balkan you have to drink rakija
the more i study history the more i get whats the problem. its mostly religion. first when croatians fell under Frankish influence and became catholic and serbs were under Eastern roman influence and became orthodox. thats the first split and it only became worse from that point with turks bringing islam and deviding serbs into muslim serbs (bosniaks) and christian serbs. yeah i know that bosnia was a country before the turks but it was a serbian kingdom. its similar to the situation with austria and germany , same people, same lenguage but two countries because of history and religion, just like serbia and bosnia and herzegovina same people , same lenguage, same alphabet but two countries because of religion and history.
@@saladbruh2625 you haven't read that much then, mostly the conflict arrives from the way theritories were divided in late 19th century, dividing large groups of ethnicities in countries they never belong to. One prime example is the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.
6:10 1st Bulgarian country was created at 681. You watch the 3rd Bulgarian country and say - it's created at 1908. But at 1908 Bulgaria was recogniteted. 3rd Bulgarian country was created at 1878.
@Jotaro97 Yeah, but you are wrong. Bulgaria lost to the Byzantine empire but a century after regained its independence and created a 2nd Bulgarian Empire. So, it is a continuation of the 1st Bulgarian state. The only real gap is the Ottoman Empire, but the Bulgarian identity never ceased to exist. However, the borders are not the same as before the Ottomans. It is like saying that Poland was created in 1918 and forgetting the ancient state of Mieszko I (966AD).
@@gingrin6289 All the countries appeared much more earlier and disappeared then appeared again in various times in history, it's about the independence of the countries not the creation of them, stop getting butthurt over nothing like a child, seriously you sound ridiculous, no one is shaming your great civilization maker Bulgaria
@@notyourdaddude1957 Look, I just don't agree with the 1st comment, if you don't like people having different opinions I advice you to not read CZcams comment section. For me, no matter if a country was a dominion of an other, if that country regained its independence and kept its identity, it is a continuation of the original country.
Balkan countries normally : 😡😡😡🤬🤬
Balkan countries when ottomans invade : 🤝
Rick Astley Probably the other way around
Doubt
@@eternal_riftz8801 Rick Astley is right as in the Balkans essentially had one common enemy.
@@smartplus50 but i created the balkans ;-;
@@smartplus50 i miss read wot he wrote ;-; damn
French: We hate Germans.
Germans: We hate the French.
People from the Balkans: Hold my beer!
Stupid Rooomans!
@Triggered Lord bruh.....
romania has biggest brown bear population in europe after russia
In the ballkans everyone hates everyone
I'm french you're not.. And we don't hate each other but we hate slqv and eastern. This is our common point.
@TryndaToChallenger "Germans>French" if you're a Slav you should be ashamed of yourself, only one of those thought of you as "untermenschen" and that's coming from a Croatian 👀
The Balkans : Peace was never an option
"Peace"
Such a word doesn't exist in the balkanic region exit,only temporary truces.
Turkish people made this rule
Fun fact: the mist recent war in Europe didn’t happen on Balkan peninsula.
the western europe: World was never an option
not in this life at least
Someone: talking about Balkans
Romania: that ain't us!
I like how Romania is just a latin country in the middle of this chaos xD
But you do have similar mentality like all of us here .Salut friend
@@dragandragovic3106 Culturally we are completely Balkans, except for the language. Geographically, only southern-Romania is. I live in the south 😁😁 zdravo brate!
I can hardly agree Romania is part of the Balkans .... We have been a unique region throughout history
Geopolitically speaking we are hella Balkans, geographically, just Dobrogea is part of the Balkans if I am not mistaken
@@latze74 culturally just southern Romania is balkanic. Moldova is 100% Eastern European and Transylvania is Central European culturally.
Respect to all the Balkan peoples, we may have had our problems but when we meet in a foreign country we are usually great friends! I'm Bulgarian and I have ho hate for any country!
You dare to enter the gates of hell
My fellow serbian brother, we shall not let him pass.
May a Bosnian homie join in?
I hope Belgrade burns to the ground
@@gjonejlli1755 I hope i meet you someday
It won't be fun
There’s always that one smh 🤦♂️
Balkan war |: Everybody! Team up against Turks!
Balkan war ||: New Game mode: *BATTLE ROYALE*
xd
Actually not battle royal more like:
Serbia:HEY GREECE WANNA TAKE MACEDONIA ,IT DOESN'T MATTER IT IS FULL OF BULGARIAN POPULATION
Greece:Ok why not
Bulgaria:wtf this territory is mine by right bulgarians live here
All of them:SO WE START A WAR
Romania:I will join ya let's fuck Bulgaria 3 to 1 lol
@@nikolaystefanov2189 Maybe if Bulgaria tried to solve it academically instead of attacking Serbia in the middle of the night without ever declaring war, we wouldn't have this problem
@@milicacrvenica2081 Maybe if "Братска Србиja" didn't backstab us in 1885 when they attacked Bulgaria without declaring war while we fought the Turks in the opposite border. Also you wanned to get the north macedonian territory which was bulgarian since 700AD.
@@istinata8694 Albania:i will take that so you guys fight for Slovenia and make it official part of Balkan.
EU: I fear no man bu that *thing*
*points at far right balkan politics*
EU: it scares me
Eu right now is much more far right than the balkans countries.
With the exception of montenegro nationalism has been on decline in the balkans.
i like ur communist (chanel) logo bro
@@arjan5071 It gets worse in Montenegro, but Dritan Abazovic somewhat manages the coalition he has with the Serbs not to escalate it
I wish my country was far right, unfortunately we are lead by EU bureacrates with pedigree of the former Yugoslavian communist party
@@arjan5071 Is it libertarian or authoritarian right you're talking about, because there's a rather big difference
Summary: region in Europe too angry to be conquered
they are conquered now. EU turned them into colonies so we can sleep peacefuly now. The only problem is Bosnia shit can go South any time there.
@Jotaro97 and still we remain the coolest region ever. Based af
General Knowledge: its 2020 and the region is peacefull
Turkey: Im gonna storm the greeks using refugees
Balkans: Ah sht, here we go again...
I was looking for this
Balkens:Welp I guess well just start ww3
That's why I hate The Ottoman gays
And trust me, the alliances for the upcoming war are already decided!!
Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, cyprus and possibly Croatia and Montenegro
Vs
Turkey, Albania, FYROM and Bosnia and possibly Kosovo
Indigay Citizen Christianity vs Islam
Most comments: Balkan jokes
Me: Why was the swedish national anthem playing at the start of the video?
Best comment so far
Greetings from Balkan
Good question.
Haha! Good one 👍🏻
Because Sweden is part of the Balkans silly !
If you were from balkans you would get it
Foreign empire:captures the Balkans
The Balkans:YOU DARE OPPOSE ME MORTAL?
“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.”
Quote by Otto von Bismarck
WW1 and WW2: ''You are joking right?''
To be fair, WW1 did start because of a conflict in the Balkans, the shooting of Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist.
and WW2 was caused because Germans were not happy how first one ended. So these people actualy caused both(indirectly). Third is likely to come from there as well... looking at Bosnia...
@@bg1052 The war was already in the air, but it needed something to fall down on Europe.
American leftist: “Diversity is our strength”
Balkan region: “hold my beer”
hold my rakija and beer*
pavle kaucki whahahahahaha.
It is.. If you just subtract the nationalistic or communistic daemons. The cultural richness and bewareness in the balcans are extraordinary in the western world. You could call it the 'conscience' of the west. It is a different Europe.
@@LordHugorion diversity is not possible if there is cultural difference as it is the case in USA. Mexicans refusing to learn and speak English, Muslim immigrants refusing to accept Western culture and laws and the list goes on. Diversity is strength, only if people are willing to accept where they came to.
ХОЛД МАЈ РАКИЈА БИЧ
Donesite pive, rakije, i meze ovo će biti interesantan comment section
*Balkan intesifies*
This is the true balkan feeling, love you man .
Slažem se
long live rakija
pravis se pametan sto znas dve reci engleskog?
My son is dating a Serbian girl, and after meeting her family I thought I would just do quick history of the area.... 2 months, three books, tons of articles and documentaries later... damn. I love the area and will visit, but there is nothing easy about the history.
Lol, nice try
I'm dating Albanian girl. I thought it was going to be fun meeting theirarents but they hate me and her because i'm Serbian. That tells a lot about them and their complexes.
@@sranmirkov4458 lažeš??? samo albanci dejtuju albanke haha
@@sranmirkov4458 (X) Doubt
The Balkans - The original Suicide Squad
ballan is more like hell on earth but whit nice ppl
WHAT ARE THOSE BORDERS ON THUMBNAIL?ITS HORRIBLE.
Fedora Lord just realised. Eeeeegggghhhh
Fedora Lord lol
Bosnia is eating his neighbours
Bosnia looking kinda thicc 😳🥴
hahah nice serbian map :D
Ottomans in the first Balkans war: Why do I hear boss music?
Balkans: Because we let Russia mix vodka and rakija
Ottomans: ;-; shit
Mixed vodka with rakija once, plus some beer. Friendly advice: don't do it.
+pálinka, and you out :)
As a proud Balkan i can say with a hand on my heart that the only reason for conflict in this region is geopolitical interests from abroad. The Balkans have been a multicultural region for thousands of years and we as people are used to this living style and have learned to overcome our differences, one way or the other. Conflicts are created by the ones that are hungry for power. War is the last thing that Balkans wish for. The Balkans know the cost of war and we will never let such a disaster happen again. Hopefuly someday we will create a true symbol of peace - a Balkan Union. A land united not by an ideology or religion, but by Faith - faith in the human heart, that can overcome every difference, and can not be bound by hatred.
jugoslavia 2.0
Bro this is the first time i actually agree with someone from a Balkans lol but this is a great idea! I am from Kosovo and we should make a whole as a whole and be a family, how many languages it doesn't matter just peace, *and yes no wars again*.
@@leart6531 and imagine how powerful and strong we would be, sadly big powers will never allow us to do so, they have their greed and dirty agendas
We don't like wars,we just get bored with peace easily.
Upravu si
Good thing we are in pandemic to have something to complain about.
@@ValtenBG Yes and the government gets the wrat of the people, instead of a other naightbor country, so we don't get bored, and warm up for the war after the pandemic.
Why is the Swedish national anthem in the video?
You can personally ask him on his discord you will definitely get a reply on there link in the description
If he would play for example the serbian athem he would possible start a war
PWL no its the national anthem.
Armin 13 haha
I used a Swedish-Norwegian military marches compilation as the background music
anything happens:
balkans: you have started a gang war
*provocated*
Well presented and well written. Great video.
15:29 "descendesnt of the ottomans" bold words for someone within a stabing range
Yeah, well, he may be kinda right. There are groups of people around Razgrad and in the Rhodope mountains (Bulgaria) who claim to be of Ottoman descend. Yet, they are on the Balkans, so this makes them Balkan people.
@@baginatora well but most balkans hate otomans and their legacy
@@gasnamax3317 Just like latinoanerica(but instend of turkey its spain)
@@baginatora they're bulgaro-muhamedans. Basically, 100% Bulgarian ancestry, but their ancestors were forced to become Muslim.
This guy is so annoying i swear he is like 45% wrong ! And says bullshit like 15:29 descendents of the ottomans 👹👹👹👹😈
Any time a war starts in the Balkans, the balkan people: "HEH Geneva convention, more like Geneva suggestion"
NATO ignored the geneva convention by bombing Serbia in 1999
more like Geneva shit
@@veljkozindovic7105 not only that but they nombed serbia with depleted uranium which still has effect on serbian shilder today
@@cyberspino6277 thats why i said it ignored the geneva
@@veljkozindovic7105 yes i just probided detail for anyone wondering
Great review! Thank you.
I love reading comments from ppl that have no idea about our history, but think they know the best. Great video btw, I really enjoy it.
Most of the conflicts you listed were set up by foreign powers. We just want to be left alone, but global powers have other ideas for this region
Truth!
exactly...
Don't forget our politicians! They're a lot more to blame
Well, I mean you guys are basically the main path into asia and africa so, the great powers naturally wished to occupy that area.
@İl Grande ARTHAS ok, cool. You do you then, I guess.
As a proud Bulgarian, I can still see that our region finds itself in a huge and unstable world, and unless we Balkan people start treating each other as brothers, we are lost.
@Nick O just dot say Macedonians cuz we all know who they are buuut yep we must create better relations and do more business together
It's not just problem in our nations the problem is Europeam Union MMF and NATO jumping in all the time becouse they want conflict so that they can destroy our economy and destroy everything. That's just what happend when NATO bombed Serbia.
@Nick O yeah Macedonia is made from Bulgarian people living in this region and brainwashed by serbians and greek to hate Bulgaria and their true nation...
@Nick O Montenegro is Historically Croatian and its name in its own language "Crna Gora" IS CROATIAN. The Serbian way of calling the region was "Zeta".
Guys, chill the hell out about your orthodox brotherhood. The orthodox church is the reason for separation in the balkans. You group up as „orthodox brothers“ while we all should simply Call each other brothers. I know so many orthodox serbs, christian or muslim albanians and culturally we are ALL more or less the same
*"DIVIDE ET IMPERA"*
Balkans : okeey chilling today
*this video get uplouded*
Balkans : oh its all coming together
11:50 That was actually a plan between Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Those 3 countries thought about this union. But the soviets stop their plans
ah not really,well kinda, but also all those three states leader's wanted to become the ruler of the unified region
No, the Soviets liked the plans bcs they didn't like Yugoslavia. Tito stopped the plans. By uniting Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania would bring more instability because even more nationalities that later disolved Yugoslavia. That would lead to more Soviet influence in the region.
@@crypt1c_865 Really? I understood, that the 3 Countries, did the plan in secret, and after soviets found out, that they were doing stuff behind the soviets back, they stpped their plans and that tension, lead to the yougoslavian- soviet break,
@@crypt1c_865
The Soviets liked the plans, but eventually they didn't happen due to a misunderstanding between the Yugoslav leader Tito, Bulgarian PM George Dimitrov and the "almighty" Stalin. In the end Stalin simply came to the conclusion he couldn't control that big of an area, that's why he decided to handle them separately. I don't understand this logic, which also led to Stalin poisoning George Dimitrov (this thesis earns more and more supporters), but who would even try to understand Stalin at all?
@@spd-kv6sd U didnt even mention the Albanian leader lol
The Balkans are like women. No one understands them, not even themselves.
Not gonna lie, that’s probably one of the best comments I’ve ever seen on a video 🤣🤣🤣
its kinda true, im from balkan and i confirm it xd
No
No.
woman bad
We were all caught between 3 powers: Ottomans-Russia-Habsburgic empire/Italy...
So how many wars do you want,Balkans?
Balkans: Yes
All of them
15:43 Asking for opinions about the balkans. Brave.
That's so ironic
No one:
Making a video about Balkans:
Comment section: *40 replies in a comment with 15 likes*
😂😂😂
"Not funny, didn't laugh"
These types of video usually piss me off, but you have done your homework, presented information in convincing manner without forcing your opinion. Good video. Maps are also for the most part pretty accurate, which is not that common.
I'll check out more of this channel
Most other people beg to differ. I guess he just oresented your country in a good light
He said Slavs are Illyrians, which is historically inaccurate.
Video: *talks about the Balkan geopolitical situation*
Me: *Vibes to the Swedish military marches*
wtf in name of god u did
We can define the situation in Europe in 1914 as a relatively small room filled with flammable gas. The Balkans were the match that set the room on fire.
Agreed!
Yeah , Serbia was the lighter , Bosnia and Croatia were the matches , the world was the room
Bulgaria just sitting there like
Im with Russia so Im fighting
@@vikicha1232 you are not a very big fan of history , are you? Bulgaria was from the central powers , so an enemy of Russia's
@@PlamThePlam serbia is the Chosen Oldest country which will estabilish peace in the world
Very good and on point video. Just a little clarification: the nation state of Bulgaria was established in 1878, then in 1885 there was the serbo-bulgarian war provoked by the unification of Bulgaria with ,,Eastern Rumelia" (a purely artificial country with mainly Bulgarian ethnicity) and in 1908 is the full independence from the Ottomans.
and serbia was established in 1815, greece got it's full independence following the greek uprising 1821-29 and montenegro was semi independent from the 18th century.
Just a small mistake war was in 1885 actually
@@sonofperun8135 corrected
@fot geo :D :D :D wow you're funny
Amazing video!
Someone in the Balkans: *Farts*
All the Balkan states: *Cocks shotgun* You know the rules and so do i
No its more like "fuj dečki koj ga tubekno"
@@romit5681 istina
The arrival of the Slavs into Illyria, the split of Catholicism and the Orthodoxy (The Great Schism) in 1054 and the arrival of the Ottomans is what made Balkans the powder keg of Europe!
No the real problem is that others don't obey orthodox slavs :)
@@beadsman13 You are kidding !!
Lol.. 😂
After 50 ad. thracians, dacians, yllirians, vllachys and other populations who lived there and was part of Roman Empire (eastern and western part) had christian appartenance.
Central asian barbaric tribes like avars, huns, bvlgars, hrvats, sorabs and others mixed tribes arrives wave after wave, beginning from VI, VII-XI ad. and they had zoroastrian, bogomil or other appartenance.
Many century's later they was forced to adopt cristianity, orthodox or catholic appartenance.
@Lu Pa illyrians live here before slavs so its our lands
@@arijanitrexhepi2215 You are not even Illyrians, i dont know what you are mad about?
@@sumax-nz1je There is no proofs except some assumptions based on language correlation
The most tragic thing to happen to Balkans is the Ottoman Empire. If the Balkans stayed united the Ottomans would’ve never set foot in Balkans.
The "Balkans" were never united before the Ottomans.
Yes you are absolutely correct, just to do that you need to change Slavs entirely. If Slavs were not so distracted fighting each other, the Mongols would've had hard time invading eastern europe or the Turks invading the Balkans. But because they were not united against the common enemy, the Turks ruled over the Balkans for some 500 years with little or no difficulties. Few insurrections (mainly by one group of people) which of course didn't succeed really, only worked with the help of the great powers and when the ottoman empire went into decline. Today the Balkans would've been much more developed and economically successful, if we made a stand against the Turks, not spending 500 years getting exploited in every way. Sadly we didn't and now we are back to what we were doing before the Turks came, hating each other and projecting each others' nationalistic fantasies instead of collaborating with each other. Left economically depended on bigger powers, making our people leave to work abroad or stay and be lied to by corrupt politicians.
The worst thing happened to Illyrian peninsula (balkans) it’s the arrival of the fucking slavs
That's true af. The Balkans and mainly the Byzantine Empire were the most advanced area in Europe before the Turks set foot and brought illiteracy , Islam and absolutely nothing of value with them.
But the Balkans were also the worst thing to happen in the Ottoman Empire. They lost a lot of money and millions of soldiers fighting mainly the Greeks , the Bulgarians and the Serbs. Money and soldiers they could use to defend their territories in the Middle East and Africa.
They tried so hard to keep the Christian lands in their Empire that they forgot to defend the Muslim lands.
Imagine if these Turk dumbasses had Saudi Arabia and the other oil rich countries of the Middle East today. They would have been richer than the U.S.A.
Instead of trying to transform the Arabs into Turks , they tried to interfere more with the Christians , who would rather stick the sun in their own assholes than call themselves " Turks ".
1821 and the Greek War of Independence is the beginning of their end. After that everything goes down like a tower made of paper. Within the next century this evil monstrosity , which brought pure misery to the Balkans stood no more.
They tried uniting it caused war and genocide
Thank you. This is a pretty objective review, which is not often when Balkan is involved.
Great documentary and congrats for your hard work! :) Anyway, after reading many of the comments, guess what?! You have just lit the powder keg AGAIN rofl :P
In montenegro they say : with Tito and Yugoslavia, we were forced to shut our mouth but we had everything we needed. Now, without Tito we dont have to shut up and talk, but we have not what we need.
Exactly as Croatian I can confirm this
I would rather shut up and be fed and happy than have some "political freedoms"(=pointless) and be stuck in a rut. I mean, both choices are actually "lose" variety, but I don't mind the former.
6:12 That's not true. Romania gained independence also in 1878. In 1881 became a kingdom, but it was already independent
Ye, same for Bulgaria, the years are tricky in the video...
True. Serbia slowly gained more and more Independence since the revolution 1804-1817, but only got finally recognized internationally as a kingdom in 1878.
Very interesting, thanks! Subbed,.
As Balkaner, I can say that you have succeded to give somewhat unbiased view of the region. Of course that is easier in broader overview that you gave, but really it insults nobody and doesn't come into politics or different interpretations more than necessary.
Like who is from Balkan and comment which country are you.
Kosova 🇽🇰
Srbija
Kosova 🇦🇱
Greece
A lot of Serbs and one men from CROATIA(me)
Greece did not become independent in 1821. This is when the revolution started. The actual declaration of independence was signed in the treaty of Constadinopole in 1832. Anyway, interesting video nonetheless.
Name some greeks from the revolution... bwahahaha
Key Board shut up albanian boy go get me my souvlaki
@@panospanagiotopoulos5759 he is right though? the albanians of greece started the revolution to give greece independence but then you just slaughtered them with a genocide in reward and then called them greeks...
Wakanda Foreva you are obviously referring to the arvanites but because you are a brainwashed idiot you call them albanians. Albania was not even a thing until the 20th century. Arvanites migrated to greece in the late middleages from modern albania. Of course arvanites and albanians have the same roots but one is albanian and the other is greek. They have lived with the greeks for many centuries, almost a millenium. And since they fought as greeks in the greek independence then they are greeks end of story. Also you should be aware of the hatred between arvanites and turk-albanians in 1821. They have nothing in common besides the language and that’s also gone now so now you have completely nothing in common. The arvanites themselves have greek religion and obsiously consider themselves greeks. You don’t want to call them albanians. You might get your ass kicked. And also for you information, you uninformed brainwashed moron, the revolution started in Morea (peloponese) by Mavromihalis and the maniots. I’ll give you a month time to google everything I just told you. I’ll give you some years extra time to finish elementary school. Then you can answer to me.
1830 not 32
your videos are wonderful.
Did he really describe southslavs as illyrians....
This is why some people should be permitted from explaining history.
p.s Roman province of illyricum and the illyrians were inhabitants in balkans but much before the slavs migrated and settled in balkans. By the time slavs arrived, illyria dissapared in thin air, the only illyrians who managed to survive the slavic migration are the Albanians alongside with the Hellen Greeks...these two both have unique languages whilst 350 milion slavs worldwide understand each other (for example a croatian can understand a Bulgarian and a Montenegrin can understand a Ukrainian)
At lease we can all agree we hate the Ottoman empire :) (coming from a Bulgarian)
actually we should have let them just enter into western europe and destroy them together. i hate the west more than i ever had anything against the Muslims, today in 2020.
No
@@MilanaBezbradica-in3ml Your naive Turks are okay until they get together and have a nationalist masturbation party and want to plant their flag on everyone elses land.
Yeah,sure we do
no, Bosnia doesn't hate the ottoman empire :)
Romania also gained independence in 1878 but it became a kingdom in 1881.
✌️✌️✌️🇹🇩🇹🇩
It’s really the leaders of the nations, the citizens are really nice and view each other as brothers and sisters
Nah, we are all very violent
I lold on how you zoomed in on Serbia on the map when you were talking about the history of conflicts in the region at the begining of the clip xD
none balkan person: talks about balkan
balkan people: so you chosen death...
"And many awful things happened." As a European who grew up during the 90s, that's putting it mildly. ;)
oof. that's hard
Minor trolling of the Muslims.
@@MarceMarcus You say this and then cry about taking your organs.
Man...
Watching this about the "Balkans".
The name remembers me "Belka" from Ace Combat.
And Belka has always been in the middle of some war in the game Franchise.
I have to add that both Romania and Bulgaria got their independence in 1878 as well.
Otherwise, great video, I always love your vids. Keep it up!
Me as a Bosnian: *sees some weird borders*
Me: So you have chosen..death
Balkan shit, that is Illyrian penisola, geg from middle albania till Croazia and tosk from middle albania to arta all Epiro sllavs greeks and Bulgaria ottoman has devastate the region
@drained ahahhah you are absolute God
@drained AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
@@michelejuliano9730 Albania is the most fake countries. It was made in 1913 by Austro-Hungary just because to start the war. Albanian alphabet is the closest to German alphabet and Austro-Hungary spoke German and that says it all. Albania will never be great.
(no hate but its true and sorry for my English I am French.
My Friend Ilyrians are Serbs...Read the book of Mauro Orbini "The Kingdom of Slavs....1000 proves
I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina,and yes it's extremely hard to understand us. I'll try to simplify it to you. Here we go:
1. When it comes to regular people no one is hating anyone.
2. We don't just put borders between us in religious or ethnic differences, sports are big reason too.
3. From time to time you will se some sports clubs supporters fighting between each other, that doesn't mean that they necessarily hate each other they just fight because they want to fight. Arrange rules, weapons and number of participants and of you go.
4. Typically when one of ex Yu countries plays against some other non ex Yu country everyone supports that ex Yu country.
5. Most of the people don't know why 1990's wars ever started even ones who participated in them. Because they didn't bring anything good to anyone.
Fun fact: Most of the leaders on opposite sides during 1990's were in fact close friends in 1980's. One example is Alija Izetbegović was close friend to Radovan Karadžić.
oo djes brat bosanac
@@milekiticevsin3290 evo me buraz 😂 😉
No one knows why wars started? What do you mean? Wars started 'cos Serbs wanted great Serbia... it's rather simple... go watch where Krajina was and where RS is today.
@@HladniSjeverniVjetar yes you are correct, I made wrong claim instead of HOW I wrote WHY. Everybody knows why it started but how really it happened is the real question. Why we all turned into sheep and followed few insane people, when we should think with our heads. Now we know that we made colossal mistakes.
@@arminlonic7915 its not correct serbia never did genocide serbia wasnt officialy at war
Bulgaria was always in the middle of the conflicts in the Balkans. We fought the most wars and had the most battles won (fun fact there is no battle in history in which Bulgaria had bigger army than the enemy).
Hey General Knowlage, why is the swedish national a them playing in the background?
As a Bulgarian i can say i love all Balkans counties! :*
Greece and Serbians unite 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷☦️☦️☦️🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
Billinoid 🖕🖕🖕🖕
Sword of Justice why you cry
@@kostas3190 are you greek or a serbian anyway love from greece 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
Πτυχιουχος Εορταζον Έλληνας είμαι μεγάλε αλά έχω πάει Καναδά εδώ και 3 χρόνια λόγο του μαλακα του Τσίπρα
@@kostas3190 κ δεν θα σχολιασω τιποτα σε σχεση με πολιτικά γιατι ειμαι και 14 and shit
"No sign of another one."
*Sweats while staring at Montenegro and Serbia.*
Croatia is already friends with Slovenia and Bosnia and its starting to be friends again with Serbia so everyhitng is getting better, its like it will start bing Yugoslavia again in couple years xD
@@bangi2757
Correct, politically they may be acting friendly but they are definitelly not friends with those two, and even with Slovenia they are having some problems
@@zuraktobambuzi3055 slovenians dont have a problem with croatians, we do hate italy for taking trieste tho