The Breakup of Yugoslavia Explained
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- www.britannica.com/place/King...
- www.britannica.com/place/Yugo...
- www.yuhistorija.com/doc/LP%20-...
- www.infoplease.com/history/wo... (very short and simple timeline of events)
- data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=gdp+pe...
- doc-research.org/2018/03/rise... [BEST ONE]
- www.imf.org/external/np/loi/2... [HAS LOTS OF DETAILED FIGURES]
- www.icty.org
- www.imf.org/external/np/loi/2...
This was Avery from History Scope, thank you for watching!
(I forgot to say that this time)
Why did you use the communist flag of Yugoslavia in the beginning
@@duckly5362 Because that's the country I'm talking about in this video.
History Scope well before it went communist didn’t it have the regular blue white and red without the star in center
Completely bias and borderline racist!
You clearly lay all blame to the Serbs and portray the other Republics as freedom loving victims!
Utter BS!!
Cross Blood the video is about the breakup of Yugoslavia, which from the Second World War had that flag, including during the breakup
The breakup of Czechoslovakia:
Slovaks: "Hey bros, we think it would be just better to part our ways now."
Czechs: "Ye, sure buddy. Good luck!"
End.
Did Czechoslovakia receive foreign aid like Yugoslavia did?
Did Czechoslovakia have a century of ethnic tension between Slovak and Czechs like Serb and Croats did?
Even if the country was called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia it was ruled by a Serbian King, so Croats didn't want to replace Austro-Hungarian rule with another one, they wanted independence. There were so many little things when combined on a big pile it spelled disaster for the future
I always like seeing your comments. Also nice profile picture.
@@HistoryScope Now go away or I'll taunt you a second time.
thats how yugoslavs thought it would be. We were surprised and caught with our pants down when serbs got aggressive
And then the czechs took most of the industry and alegedly the majority of the gold reserve, kept the czechoslovak flag, didnt change many Company names like the bus transits shortcut is CSAD when they should have droped the S, but you know, whe, as good brothers overlook these things, we still like em
I'm glad that someone recognizes that Yugoslavia had the strongest resistance movement in WW2 and managed to liberate itself.
I agree.
The polish resistance was by far much more organized, though
@@Jancias which makes it even more Impressive since they were fighting them selfs and the enemy and still won
@@Jancias how so i am genuenly interested cause the yugos had entire corps divisions brigades and such?
The fact that Germans were getting clobbered by Russia probably helped a lot.
Great video. It is very difficult to be objective when you live in time and space in which all this happened and it still is, but it seems that you touched all the important bits.
One of the saddest things is that Tito always talked about preserving the brotherhood and unity of all ethnic groups and being prepared for the enemy that never sleeps as they fought nazis just few decades earlier, but then Yugoslavia broke apart inside out because of the incompetence, nationalism and mythomania.
My grandma came from Yugoslavia and told me a ton of stories of her journey before passing. Thanks for the vid.
When you hear the words "The country turned to the IMF" you KNOW shit is going to go down.
The IMF: If you shake the jar continuously and dump the ants on the ground, they will fight until they kill each other. The black ants think the red ants are the enemy and the red ants think the black ants are the enemy when in reality the actual enemy is the guy who continously shock the jar
"""Who""" else could it possibly be?
Many socialist republics in Eastern Europe went to loan from the IMF (voluntarily) in the 1970s, thinking those loans they could invest would pay for themselves. Spoiler: having a top-down socialist planned economy, doesn't make for good investments. Especially when you made the loan yourself. It was their own fault.
@@mellofello2537 Too easy to blame IMF for Yugoslavia's own troubles. besides that, Yugoslavia made their own decicion to loan from IMF. Easy to blame external forces when it's your own fault.
@@marnixmaximus3053 people always talk of the IMF like the world should give them money without any demands and when they stop giving them money because the country didn't comply with those demans, the IMF is "the bad guy" for the mismanagement of the countries that voluntarily took those loans and promised to comply with the demands of the loan
>not German, Hungarian or Ottoman
>but instead Slavic
>plays Brahms Hungarian Dance
yes
The music starts when I talk about Austria Hungary.
I couldn't find fitting royal free Yugoslav music
@@backtothefront9696 He meant royalty free. As in "wont get copyright strike".
@@backtothefront9696 Look for Muzika Kraljeve Garde on youtube.
@@backtothefront9696 There is a youtube channel
named *SerbianComposers*
There are a lot of works from the mid 19th century composers onwards, including from the time of K. of Serbia and K. of Yugoslavia
@@HistoryScope Actually there is a good one called "March on the Drina" (I think) "Marsu na drinu" which is a royal Serbian march from Ww1.
This topic is dear to my heart. One of my closest friends is from Kosova. I have heard horror stories first hand about the break up of Yugoslavia.
There was a girl in my school from Yugoslavia. She was very quiet and focused on her school work. She always got the best grades. ❤
She must have have been the smartest girl everyone ever met
Finally, a CZcamsr that included San Marino on their map. You've made San Marino's day
If you use a magnifying glass you will see that the City of Vatican is also there!
Its avery the Cuban American
You know you've made it on CZcams when Avery comments on your videos
Yeah me too. But hey, I'll take Avery's comments as a sign of success :D
I find you in many videos comment sections avery the cuban american greetings from bosnia steay strong socialist brother
“They gave their flag a 1 star review”
best sentence describing their flag
1 Yugoslav Star Review is like 5 American xD
Good point, absolutely worst flag ever
@@vanjat2850 One of the best looking ones, dont mix your stupid politics into it.
@@arianmartic7965 it's not lmao, holy shit even if I like the country flag is retarded
@Angel Comrade što? Pogledaj zastavu, boje zvezda, bože sačuvaj Belgija ima lepšu zastavu
That was brilliant thanks. I have tried several times to get a rough overview of the situation but struggled. I'm sure there are are many who will say much missed as you can only cover so much in a 40 min or so video and it felt like a good job of providing an overview without getting bogged down into he said she said details. I really felt like I got a rough idea of what was happened. Thanks again.
Thank you for a clear explanation of what happened back then.
I couldn't understand it then and struggled to get any clear information afterwards. Complexities, indeed but not impossible to understand as you've just proved.
When the economy was good, and leadership was strong, people tend to set aside their differences in order to enjoy the benefit of stability and wealth.
According to my Mom things was Great until 1980 ans that when imf reforms was taking place
@@TheJerico246 Basicly everything went to shit after Tito died
@@baki4341 yep
@@baki4341 The main reason why it was like that was because tito was ACTUALLY honest, unlike most communist leaders, and respected all ethnicities within yougoslavia.
A main point that I like referring to is the fact that Macedonians are different from Bulgarians, like how Montenegrans are different from Serbians, they have a different narrative and different viewpoints of how things should be and it would be silly to assume Montenegro would still get along with Serbia if they United as would Macedonia if it ever united with Bulgaria, Tito was the only person that had the balls to say "Yes, these people ARE different and I truly believe in them" for that he is a hero to many.
@@S_-- Montenegrin is a geographical term for Serbs in montenegro originally. Due to Montenegro’s status and independence due to the kingdom, principality before separate to Serbia it’s also a nationality today technically. However they aren’t different. Montenegrins are Serbs and always have been… I’m saying this as a Montenegrin. All our ancestors identified themselves as Serbs as well, kings, queens, nobles, warriors, priests, everyone.
Most of Montenegro would be alrigjt with it since it’s a unified Serb state and they are same people. As long as they have some form of autonomy which is purely because of economy and avoiding centralization. However at the moment people would not be interested in that kind of change due to the already ongoing changes, and switching from independence to union federation so quick would be really messy as you’d have to make even more changes and dismantling.
I love how most of the comments are "get ready for war in the comment section" and there is none.
Greetings from Serbia, love ya all.
Love you too from kuwait
I hop in expecting it every time but I only have to argue once every three videos.
Welcome from Bosnia!
Поздрав и љубав из Мексика!! Учим српски :)
Волим историју Србије и Југославије
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Here in Central Iowa, I have 2 Serbian, 3 Croat, 1 Bosnian (Muslim, don’t know ethnic), and 1 Kosovan friends.
Trust me, the convos are 🍿
Arizona ❤❤❤(Jesus saves)👍
Love your videos, I am from Ireland, when I was at school we only learned what the landmass was of European countries, a few mountain ranges and what their biggest export was. Your videos need to be taught at schools, they are very informative, I lived through many of these events but really did not understand what was happening. Thank you
One of the few channels that covered the break-up decently. Some channels omitted the pre-WWI history of the Balkans region. It is important to include this aspect of the formation of Yugoslavia to understand the deep underlying current of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, etc. There are aspects that your video hadn't dealt with was that certain parties in Yugoslavia had aligned themself with Nazi Germany and conflict exist between those factions and those that fought the Germans. There were even competing partisans factions. It has a complicated history of conflict within its various ethnicity. When I was in junior high school in mid-80s, one of my hobby then was to collect stamps. Yugoslavia is one of the few countries that I never did get any stamps of.
The beginning of the video reminded me of a joke of sorts that we used to tell in Yugoslavia. We used to joke that "Jugoslavia je okružena BRIGAMA" ("Yugoslavia is surrounded by troubles"). The acronym "BRIGAMA" (by troubles) is formed from the first letters of the names of countries that did then surround Yugoslavia -- Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Greece, Austria, Mađarska (Hungary), and Albania.
I remember that! 👍👍👍
Yet she (Yugoslavia) become biggest trouble of them all
@Jo yes of course that is truth and reality of sick minded person as you are.
Troubles? I'm genuinely curious, how could Romania be a trouble for Yougoslavia?
@@andresduques2013 R (romania) is one of letter in word BRIGAMA (worries or toubles) B bulgaria, R romania, I italy, G greece, A austria, M magyars, A albania... yugoslavia was non alied country surrounded by either NATO or Eastern block which Socialist Rep Romania with Ceausescu was member. hungary, romania and bulgaria were behing the Iron curtain when SFRYugoslavia existed... but it is just silly word play
This was a massive hole in my knowledge-set that I didn’t even know existed. Thank you History Scope.
For me personally it's the Middle East, I wish more schools touched on that region and western Asia.
Don't worry, this is oversimplified like most history.
Hi you must be American.
Europeans largely know about this due to the brutal wars of the 1990's on our doorstep.
@@noahbowie5985 Mhm, unfortunately our scope of modern history is only really kept to World War 2 and doesn't expand until say.. 10th or 11th grade.
Born and lived in the YU long enough to approve video it is quite accurate although
He did some fundamental mistakes like rising the payment 12:35 not accurate at all as the bankruptcy of the firm's he mismatched yugoslavia and post yugoslavia time in fact the salary was fixed on the rate 1:4 as max difference in every company between max payment and the lowest payment ( worker-manager)
Diffewrence was too low and management could not pay a good worker enough versus bad worker not to forgot it wasnt easy to fire a bad worker because of socialist mentality you were forced to deal with some really lazy worker remember my dad (manager in one company) complained about that.
The rising of prices was because of inflation ( up to 100% per year) which was driven from other reasons and was actually beneficial to the ordinary worker because thanks to the bank loans for ordinary workers they could build their own houses, buy a car.... but because of inflation they payed back to the bank only a fraction of the real price namely the loans had only fix interests aprox 10% per year.
14:30 USSR never send any money to Yugoslavia in fact USSR owed Yugoslavia +1 bilon $ in 1990 for goods imported from yugoslavia
Fast forward Yugoslavia didn't fell apart because of socialism or even multitnical tensions (they were present of course but not as main reason) but because of greed and ill ambitions by some individuals which wanted to be another Josip Broz Tito.
Excellent job. 👏👏
This is a very complicated war and I had never managed to find out detailed information that i could easily comprehend.
This video is what I needed because of the details about the country from its creation until the breakup, the details about the way it functioned and on why it stop functioning later on, the speed on the narrator's tone, the music, the comical pictures where needed and much more.
Keep up the good work.
Very informative. Thanks for all your work.
Sadly, as an American, I wasn’t even aware that Yugoslavia had broken up until about 25 years later!!! I’m telling you, schools and the media in the US all too often fail to acknowledge that there is a whole world out there beyond our borders. Now, here I sit at 40 years old, watching CZcams so I can learn all the things that I should have been taught in school and/or seen on the news.
What a twit. Stop lying to get attention.
Ah kkkkkk hooo
Dw I didn’t even know what Yugoslavia was - Australian schools didn’t teach us anything about it either.
That's a pity. We were closest to the perfect political system (at the time, of course). Being so well respected, one of the founder country of the Non-Aligned Movement (consisting mainly of ex colonies which parts of ex YU could also be considered) in a bipolar world, balancing perfectly between two forces. I don't think that kind of country will ever exist in Europe again. When Tito died, so many countries sent their presidents, PMs and other representatives making it one of the biggest funerals in history. Now divided, no country by itself will ever be even close to that status. Nobody cares anymore, I feel like we are colonized again (but by different methods).
@@cammiixx This video misses some large points, the Kosovo war, the Crotian War, The Bosnian War and Srebrenica massacre (europes worst massacre after WW2), the NATO 1999 bombing campain, the albanian ethnic clensing attempt, its almost out of context
Plays a song called Hungarian Dance while talking about slavs. Call it unfortunate timing.
Written by a German who lived in Austria no less
Well we were in a personal union with hungary (Croatia)
@@bruhstasa6784 lol you were occupied so Serbs liberated you
@@rellshisui811 Not true.
@@Pajdas610 it's clearly is
I watched a lot of videos on this topic, talked to a few first hand accounts, read a lot on the topic as well. This is one of the best informed videos I’ve seen.
Very good explanation of breakup. I have just missed other influenced things - oil crise in 70-ies, debt crisis in 80-ies (not just in Yugoslaviy, but also in south America). And one interesting data - Slovenia today has more debt as whole Yugoslavia in 80-ies. IMF wasn`t and isn`t agency for help, but it is political agency to gain USA`s claimes around the world.
In that way will be more adequate and interesting video.
Loved how it covered the economy stuff more indepth. While others might shine a light on the ethnic tensions, you really took a unique approach!
Try to watch "Weight of Chains" 1,2,3, gives a different perspective on IMF and foreign interests, and you can see in a couple of sections what people of different ethnicity thought about their neighbor that had different nationality, religion.
@@RapTilian2911 the imf is evil incarnate
@@GuinessOriginal They certainly don't care what happens to people or countries as long as the money keeps churning and spinning..
24:28 While the Bosnians and Croats did fight together most of the time , It should be noted that the Croat - bosniak war occurred, a conflict which took place between 1992 to 1994, mainly in the Herzegovina region.
Another pointless war because of religion.
Not really Croat-Bosniak War, rather Hercegs-Bosniak War.
@@soos3811 herzegovians fought for croatia therefore they are croatian
Central Bosnia these two sides fought pretty hard as well.. Travnik comes to mind.. All of Lašva Valley in fact.. Etc..
it was 1 Year ... 1993-1994
Excellent! I finally understand the many complexities involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars related to it.
This is an incredible video. I was a child when my relatives brought me back a souvenir from their holiday in Yugoslavia (probably now Croatia) in the early 90’s. Then in my teens, I watched the “war in the Balkans” (as the UK news called it) on the TV. You’ve really helped me made sense of what I saw and heard back then. Thank you. ❤
“They gave Their flag a 1 star review...” haha, lol, that was brilliant!!
In hindsight, it was some freaky foreshadowing.
😂 i wanted to comment the very same.
The comments are more civil than I expected
thats cuz serbs don't understand english
@@peropero2307 lol
@@peropero2307 It would be funny if it was even slightly true, but it's not. Serbia is in top 15 in the world alongside Croatia when it comes to English language understanding. Just search EF English Proficiency Index and you'll see.
@@juicersLULE press X to doubt
@@peropero2307 oh we don't? What a suprise that I saw a Croat spitting his bile again. You cannot live a day without thinking about Serbs.
Great video! Very simple explanation of a very complex situation/event. The visuals were very helpful too ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My godfather is from Serbia and he explained what it was like to work during the period of hyperinflation in the early 90s. Prices changed so fast that he started out getting paid every 2 weeks, then once a week, and eventually he got paid after every single workday because inflation rates reached 313,563,558 percent. I never thought about that aspect of hyperinflation before he mentioned it.
I’m not sure if someone already said this but the Kingdom of Yugoslavia did not have the star on its flag until the communist took power after the war
Yea he himself said that too. Probably edited that vid at 4 am
I specifically state that in the video. So yeah, somebody already said that :D
@@YugoslavGamer chill bro
ja it had an upside down dutch flag
@@YugoslavGamer chill out lol
I got to know people from former Yugoslavia. I also have Bosnian Serb relatives, I worked in a company in Milan whose owner was Croatian. All very good people of a unique correctness. As an Italian I can only say that this tragedy struck me a lot and I never thought it would happen.
Milan. What Milan? I'm Milan!
@@milan51259 Milan is also a City in Northern Italy
@The Caliphate Bosnia is for serbs croats and Bosniaks. What are you on about?
Tragedy? It was a blessing for us Croats, we dont want anything to do with the balkans, we are moving our beautiful country forward
@@powderskier5547 zajedno sa svim delovima koje Srbi naseljavaju vekovima
Your longform content is perfect as I sit here and crochet a scarf, lol! It's the first thing I've ever made and looks to be coming along well! Thanks for keeping me entertained and informed as I work.
Love your channel. Keep up the good work!
As a man living in ex-yu country, many problems revealed after Tito’s death which only Tito could manage properly. Power vacuum after his death basically crumbled Yugoslavia beyond imagination.
@RadTheLad LMAO
@JRodgesevant You are right, he is fascist. I read his other comments above and it is clear as a day that behind those comments hide some postwar looser who compensates for his low self-esteem with narrow-minded thinking. Kind of like Qanons members do in the US.
@RadTheLad What Smallpox Outbreak ?!? What you are referring to?
@RadTheLad Oo that one! Thanks!
Except forceful redistribution is practised in almost every western country, with the wealthiest of them (such as the nordic countries) doing to most redistribution.
Always blows my mind when I get reminded that Yugoslavia was neither part of the west nor the east.
I mean half of the world was Non-Aligned. China was also non aligned after sino-soviet split along with India and Indonesia
@@melchid8448 Yeah I'm probably kinda biased that 'the world was split in two sides' with growing up in central Europe.
@@txm100 Oo which side?
@@melchid8448 I believe that people in other parts of the world didn't feel how intense that splitting was as we in Europe. Yugoslavia managed to survive right in the middle between the two biggest military alliances in the world.
Yeah Tito was one of the few people who was willing to stand up against Joseph Stalin.
As a person of Croatian descent, I thank you for helping me understand this chapter of history.
Fascinating!! Explained so well from all sides 👏
Yougoslavia: 5 languages, 4 religions and 7 minorities
India: that's cute
P.S. very well made video!
So, why the hell was India even unified in the first place? And how in God's name did they manage to stay that way?
It kind of didn‘t. Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India once before they broke up.
The reason why such a diverse region even got formed into one country is the same reason for African destability. Colonialism.
If you are asking about why modern day India keeps it together. No clue. Clima i guess?
Your comment is brilliant😎
@@ivanbalvan1619 Essentially the Independence movement and the idea of a unified Indian identity and general geography since...we all live on the same subcontinent roughly?
@@zeldamage001 The independence movement emphasised the idea of 'India' as a whole. Even before there was always an idea of a the land of India as a whole. This idea was already created on the foundation set by the British Raj treating the entire place as a single country for a 100 years.
Why does it stay together now? Because all the stafes recognize that they're better off in the Union and most citizens see themselves as part of India. There were independence movements in the North-East but that's reduced over time and then there's J&K which as we all know is complicated
The only major aspect not covered in the video is the influence of various external centers of power who treated Yugoslavia as a playground for pursuing their own interests and saw the future of former Yugoslavia in different, often conflicting, ways.
As early as 1970s or 80s, a W Euro (W Germany?) MP revealed NATO s 1st Yugoslavia breakup plan, while others followed. There
is a more recent video ( sorry?, forgot title. but perhaps on youtube claimed to show that
at least 1 of ex Yugoslavia wars was cynical joint!!! covert action
by Slobodam Milosevic, F. Tudjman, and ??--leaders of those 3 new countries staged that war for some benefits, Video even shows the 3 leaders at a party--
during the war!! If time line is true
a Machiavellian self serving twisted plot? That would exceed
any Euro opera, film, or novels
wildest imaginations!!
Do you have more info on this?
But he did. See 13:50. On one will give someone else money in exchange for nothing. Ofc that push of foreign was implied. He just did not go deep into details, or video would last 2 hours.
Everyone always had their players on this Balkans of ours. That's why Yu was created in the first place, to be able to resist outside influences. The moment we forgot that, it cost us 150k souls, half a M disabled and ~3M displaced. Congrats to us, yayyyy!! ;D
Very well done! I love thorough documentaries. 😁
Definitely most comprehensive analysis of this topic. Congrats!
Fun fact:
The last one indicted committed suicide in the court.
Yes, he didnt want to be accused of war crimes and treated like a criminal because he (according to him) didnt do them
How's that fun?
@@bornadomacinovic4247 strange things happen…..
@@bornadomacinovic4247 so you want to say he knew that he was going to be,, unfairly “ convinced,strange….
@@overthetip could be , leaving bitter taste in the mouth,with 1000???????????"?? ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
Thanks for the lecture😅
This is the best video I've seen on Yugoslavia - very well done. If you've made
one on North and South Korea, I'll be sure to watch it. Thanks for your work,
it was very well done.
You really did an enormous effort for the video! Everything is explained from the scratch . Couldn't get my head around random information but your work did it . Thankyou so much for making a comprehensive video you definitely deserve a suscriber!
I found this channel this week by accident and now I've been watching all the videos. Such good content! Particularly as a South American, we don't have deep education history pos-WWII outside our region (we were too busy dealing with out own insane dictators! So that's our main focus on modern history) so this has been a great learning experience for me. Thank you for the quality content.
Im guessing you are brazilian by your name (sry if the assumption is wrong). South american countries arent the only ones lacking a deeper post ww2 education on its school system, having moved to europe at a young age, its clear the problem isnt merely reserved to south america (people tend to be interested in learning their own history it seems). A second note, what dictators are you reffering to? the only one coming to mind would be Maduro.
@@carolinabazani4292 I'm not Brazilian and my name is not Portuguese at all lol, it's Spanish (most names in South America are, we were colonized by Spain after all). And every South American country had dictators in the past century, Maduro is the only one right now but Argentina had many dictators including Videla who was a monster, Perú had Fujimori, Chile had Pinochet, Venezuela also had Pérez Jiménez back in the day and so on... now there's democracies but the levels of corruption are rampant, so I'm not sure how democratic that actually is
@@claudiadelgadom where are you from? I would like to visit Mexico, Cuba and Andean countries from Equador to Argentina. Btw, I am from Croatia.
@@carolinabazani4292 What a arogant person. Maduro is nothing comparing with Pinochet and others.
Hey fellow south american yeah we were to busy dealing with whatever tf of a mess we created this time
Great video!!!
Love all your docs.
Fantastic that your focus lies on economic aspects of these events. I've read and watched a lot about yugoslavia, but this video made me aware a lot of new aspects. Thank you
Economics are probably the main driving force in conflict
If the economy is stable people tend to be more level headed and rational
Yes, economy was one of the main reasons...20 yeras before break up, in 1971 was so called Croatian spring...when Croatian communist party was looking for more independence against central goverment in Belgrade...than Tito stops it...around 70 000 Croats who was involved , most of them intelectuals was fired from jobs, some of them go to prison...one of most known parol of demonstration was "Croatian wallet in Croatian pocket", and "Croatia rifle on Croatian shoulder"...That was a little bit too much for Tito and communist party of Yugoslavia, so they stopped it...the next 20 years is known as "Croatian silence" because everybody was afraid to talk about that issues. It is interesting that communist party of Serbia was not against that Croatian leadership in 1971
Thank you for making this video! Its good giving more insight of the break-up of Yugoslavia more knowledgeable and in-depth how it happened and why. Thank you 😊
great education. being from the USA it is hard for me to recognize your cartoon maps and what they are depicting. it would be very helpful if you named the countries or regions on your pictures verses coloring them with the flags. a lot of times I don't understand where you are talking about because I don't necessarily recognize the outline of your cartoon maps. but GREAT coverage of the topic. I look forward to more content.
At 9:03 you have all countries and their deseires explained there you can also see which country is which with the flags
See ey Yu rock music .
Great video. Really well done
Well explained, considering the complexity of the Western Balkans. Although you missed explaining real agendas behind many actions, because this conflict originates way before any Yugoslavia was ever created.
What can i read to get those insights?
Some things were missed in the explanation like:IMF gave the loan under a condition that economy has to be transformed and the companies have to make profit without the support of the state , otherwise company has to declare bankruptcy. The major issue and problem with that condition was very short time for that transformation, one year. Most companies went bankrupt and more than 50% of working population become unemployed without hope that situation would improve. In such situation of social despair ethnic tension started to rise.
This is one of the best videos on the topic of breakup of Yugoslavia. Short and very clear. As a Croat, I can say it is very difficult to explain to a foreigner what actualy happened and not lose their interest half way down the timelane which has to cover atleast all what happened in the region in thru the 20th century, not to mention that also the historical conditions since the middle ages also had to do with how it all ended in the 1990s. Very good job!
This was extremely helpful! Until now, I never really understood the wars occurring in the 1990s. This makes it much clearer.
I can tell you like someone who was and still, is a first-hand witness of all of this starting from the 70is to today, you make a really good explanation in a video only 30 min long ... an excellent job ... for me the best part is about the economic problems ... one more time good job thx on it ... sub from me ...
Excellent explanation!! Thank you for explaining this complicated issue at a slow pace so I can actually understand what is being said
Nice presentation and pretty accurate too. Could have spent a bit more time explaining the WW2 situation (3 separate movements, one of which was radically pro Nazi), which would have given a bit more historical context but overall really well done. I of Croatian ethnicity, visited Jugoslavija in late 1988. Whilst in Serbia very much all good, business as usual but when in Croatia it was easy to see there was a bit of feeling and trouble brewing. I never imagined it would go the way it did and that it would happen so quickly. Well, Jugoslavija might seem to have been a good idea at the time it was formed but I guess it was always an artificial country doomed to eventual failure.
That would make sense. 1988 Serbia didnt felt the tension the other repulblic or autonomy regions did because Slobodan's goverment in Serbia was couse of tension and tension wouldnt be naturally felt from the source as would in the affected areas
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is also an artificially created country. It will probably break up in the end.
@@tetrahedron1000 You are correct and you could add the same about Scotland and maybe even Wales.
Very informative video. Thanks
When it’s History Scope then it’s an insta-click.
While most of the facts in the video are true, or close enough to truth, the video manages to create a false narrative by omitting crucial facts. It hardly ever mentions the ethnic tensions and violence which accompanied Yugoslavia even as it was still "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes". The renaming to "Yugoslavia" has nothing to do with "branding", and everything with covering up the ethnic tensions: murder of leading Croat politicians by Serb nationalist in the national parliament in 1928, the assassination of the (ethnically Serb) king by Croat nationalist in 1934, etc. These ethnic tensions got much worse during the WW2, had never been resolved, and eventually caused the country to disintegrate. Economic inequalities were just a symptom, a result of different ethnicities having different levels of education, work mentality, and social organisation.
Good point, but one thing still needs correction: king Alexander was killed by the Macedonian nationalist (they were in league with the Croats, all right).
Alexandar was not killed by a croat
@Natan multinational effort with ultra facists
Excellent explained of Separation( Dividing) of Yugoslavia by excellent historical channel thanks for sharing
As a person living in one of the former Yu states,I can tell that you did good job with this presentation
This is such a informative video explained in such a easy manner. Really well done. I will keep coming for more
Great to see this go from poll to full fledged content
Excellent overview!
I liked this, but I do find it strange and very lacking to not include Kosovos struggle and especially regarding the conflict of 1998-99 wich eventually led to the decleration of independence in 2008.
I love history with a passion, and I just stumbled on this video. I loved it!! Your presentation was clear, well thought out and well delivered. It provided a lot of fascinating detail - but not so much that it could only be understood by history professors. The graphics were excellent, the script well written, and the narrator was excellent (and as the cherry top was his Eastern European accent!). As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description.
In short... great job..! I’m glad I found you! As of this moment I shall like, comment, and subscribe. 🙏
And eagerly await your next videos.
"As a history buff who grew up in Canada it seemed your treatment of all the various and sundry multi-dimensional ethnic groups attempted to be fair and balanced... although I’m sure there are many on all sides who might dispute that description. "
What? He flat out blamed the Serbs for everything lol
@@zmajooov No, not really, he only really "blamed" the Serbs for the Yugoslav wars, which I think is appropriate? Correct me if I'm wrong
Thanks for leaving the music titles in the captions, History Scope. Finally found these iconic songs.
Bro These Are pretty normal and well known songs. And there is shazam
Great video! TY
Grew up with many people from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia etc. 1 who told me about the wars. No wonder there were so many at my school, all refugees. This happened when I was a only a few years old but never realized until recently what really happened.
Brilliant comprehensive video on a country that fascinated me (for some reason) when I was a kid. Instant subscribe.
it's been a while Comrade but boy oh boy am I glad to see this video.
Love your channel Greetings from Finland
Great job!!!
informative and entertaining presentation. Thank you!.
thank you so much for this, this is so accurate, and thank you for including all the details
Excellent and in-depth video explaining in details the economy shortcomings in the late 80s. The only remark I'd have is that the ethnic tensions existed throughout Tito's rule. Many so-called nationalists were either imprisoned or eliminated, while some managed to survive in exile. There were numerous attempts to overthrow the Yugoslavian government, but to no avail. Things started to fall apart right after Tito's demise. The bad management and corruption just sped up the process of its collapse.
❤ thanks for a good historical review
I've been waiting for this video Comrade
Thanks for making this video! I really enjoyed it! I can’t stop rewinding to 21:15 when you talk about the breakup of the states while Dvorak’s 9th symphony plays in the background. It makes it really more intense and dramatic. Once again, thx for making this and can’t what for future episodes!
I would love to see the trials to. Thank you for the good work.
There was a Canadian comic song about Yugoslavia … the chorus went: I go, we go, you go slavia .
Finally! I been waiting so long for it! 😣❤️
Easily the most underrated channel on CZcams. These videos are so good at explaining history and you deserve more than 135K subs.
This one was pretty bad in many aspects tbh...
Don't base your knowledge on this video, it's filled with holes, badly explained, and it sound like he just read it off wikipedia, skipping over details that are important in later on... I suggest Feature History's videos on the same topic, not too long, and get's the message across in a detailed manner...
ScrewT4pe *smokes cigar* sorry, but I’ve already watched FH’s videos, and my opinion is that this one is better. FH isn’t bad, but I like this channel better
I knew a lot of this because I grew up with many Yugoslavians in NYC. I know people who fought in the war. This is a well made documentary.
great work.. thx alot.
The War tribunal of the former Yugoslavia sounds interesting. Its no Nuremberg but sounds interesting.
It is confusing and one sided but still interesting.
It is a tribunal founded and financed by USA with sole purpose to justify their illegal attack on Yugoslavia without the mandate of UNSC. Its absolutely biased to the point of being comical. It freed all prominent US puppets, even those who actually murdered civilians with their own hands, such as Albanian criminal Haradinai (who also killed 19 witnesses in his Hague trial case), muslim Oric who cut out babies from pregnant women and was video recorded in burnt Serbian villages where they played football with cut off civilian heads, and Croatian general Gotovina who was recorded in Brioni tapes planning largest ethnic cleansing of Serbs in post ww2 Europe with their president Tudjman. On the other hand, all the Serbs got life sentences even if they did no crime, didnt ordered any crime, or even knew about crime, just for being prominent Serb leaders. This tribunal was chance to put an end to this war if it sentenced all war criminals on all sides. Instead it just deepened hatred and bitterness and fuels the seed of another war.
@@cibetka76 Your comment is what happens when you are fed one sided propaganda based around self-victimization. Maybe you should actually look into the court cases before you make such comments.
@@KaSousek58 I read all the court cases on NGO site Fund for humanitarian rights. Entire transcripts, not just indictions and sentences. Its precisely what happened. There is no concrete crime there for Serbian leaders, all the fake incidents like Racak, Mrkale and the others were removed from indictions after witnesses and documents started refuting it and making it very embarassing for USA. Those people were never linked to any crime. Not by doing, not by ordering, nor planning. Only by presumed (by USA) participation in presumed joint criminal venture, which is complete rubbish, putting people who were mortal political enemies, hated each others etc all together in this venture, and without any proof such venture ever existed. While such venture on Croatian side which was tape recorded and whole public saw transcripts in Croatia and world wide was ignored.
You can take example of Kosovo. Each and every serbian soldier was issued the written geneva convention rules, and briefed by officers, and strict orders were given at all times to not harm any civilian. And its a common sense, because we all knew USA is waiting for any wrong move to justify bombing our country, and we were aware how they use fake propaganda on example of Bosnia and Croatia. Not a single civilian was deliberately harmed in Kosovo by our forces, excluding very few cases of notorious terrorists who locked in their fort-houses and wouldnt let women and children out when called to do so. In such cases, for example Jasari, police besieged house for several days, negotiating and trying to save civilians, but was shot at constantly, and in finally eliminating these terrorists there was several civilians killed too. In all the actions Serbian forces in Kosovo acted with much more prudence, care and tact certainly then US forces do around the world.
When USA couldnt find any crime by Serbian forces, frustrated for not having excuse to bomb, they staged Racak, C.Walker and his helpers collecting 40-something terrorists killed in combat from trenches and bunkers and lining them up in one place to seem like execution, proclaiming its civilians, even though they were all UCK. This was trumpeted by whole orchestra of western media who are part of NATO war machine, and used as excuse to bomb. Along they used alleged exodus of Albanians, that was actually organized, even enforced by UCK. Again common sense, exodus never happened from areas controlled by Serbian forces, only those held by UCK. Albanians were very afraid of UCK who killed more albanians then Serbs did, and they even today dont dare talk because criminals and drug dealers and murderers who were in UCK are now politicians, president, prime minister etc. Later on, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta withdrew that report on Racak, saying it was US envoy Christopher walker who forced her to write it, and this fake report was dropped from Milosevic indiction. Everyone in the Balkans knows its fake, there was several days of fighting for Racak, it was a nest of UCK, and no civilian was killed there or anywhere. Also everyone in Balkans on both sides knows people like Taci, Haradinaj, Ceku etc. who were well known pre war criminals, personally killed in gruesome way many dozen of people, and were behind the organ extracting from kidnapped serbian civilians, which was confirmed both in book of Karla del Ponte and investigation by EU prosecutors Dick Marty and Jonathan Ratel.
The whole story about Kosovo is dark page of US cynism, corruption and pure evilness in starting conflict, completely twisting reality through media, comitting war crime of aggression, and softly colonizing a country, working with terrorists and criminals as they often do, covering crimes its own and of its puppets, and laughing at victims through the fake and corrupt war crimes tribunal. You guys have literally no idea about the scale of deception and dark truth behind all this. Its similar in Croatia where whole Serbian population was killed or expelled, Bosnia, where only in Sarajevo alone more Serbs were killed then in all alleged Serbian crimes put together around ex Yugoslavia, or Kosovo where also whole Serbian population was ethnically cleansed, more then 100 monasteries and churches were destroyed etc. No one was convicted for any of those crimes, for simple reason they are US puppets and its US court. There is nothing more to it.
@@cibetka76 can you provide a link to this NGO. I cant find anything about it on internet and it seems your main source is information by NGO site, not actual court cases. Also, you do realize that there are people who admitted their crimes like for example Martić.
Your statements do not correspond to any publicly available data so you will have to provide a link for your statements. Idea that more Serbs were killed in Sarajevo than all other people in all other locations combined is especially dubious. So yeah, sry but your statements shows you have not actually read court cases but rather base your opinion on NGO site that can't be found on google.
If your source is Fond za humanitarno pravo, then your statements are even more odd considering that NGO constantly talks about serbian war crimes and I have never seen any of their publications that would confirm your statements
The music is so good and perfect for this video!
Finally an actual reliable and entertaining video for this
Oh Wow. Wow. Amazing. Everything covered incl backdrop, economy & ethnicity factors and so well elucidated. Subscribed now. Thank you!
By far the best explanation and easy to follow video of the breakup of this country. I know its very complicated lol.
This video helped me understand this topic alot better.
Well done!!
Except nothing is true there
Excellent video! Thanks for filling all the gaps in my knowledge!
nice documentary, thank you!
Excellent and helpful analysis.