#former Yugoslavia

[phoenixyfriend]

Hey hi hello I have a QUESTION (please don't google the answer before you vote)

Based on a video I just saw where someone pronounced it uhhhh wrong

(Read all the options to make sure you choose correctly)

To clarify, I understand not knowing how to pronounce foreign place names. That's a problem every person on earth has at one point or another.

In this case, the utter shock that tossed me out of my viewing experience was that this is a professional who lives in Europe and was doing a section of the video on this city. I would expect someone in that position to look up the pronunciation for the video, and I would also... not be surprised if this is the default pronunciation among anglophone speakers, even though it's Wrong.

[pattern-53-enfield]

Another one for the collection: home-made vest from Bosnia, another example of taking old Yugoslav Army M77 parkas and cutting them up. Magazine pouches are weirdly deep, most likely intended for either Thompson/PPsh or RPK magazines. Comfy and snug to wear though!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HARDCORE PUNK BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN -- WELCOME TO 1984.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an Eastern Bloc gig poster with headliner B.G.K. (from Amsterdam). Supporting bands the were U.B.R., DISTRESS, SOLUNSKI FRONT, DVA MINUTA MRŽNJE, DIKTATURA SISTEMA, & YDY DANCE BAND, Yugoslavia, on December 14, 1984.

I know the venue is listed somewhere on this poster, but I cannot find it on account of my ignorance of Yugoslav. Anyway, let's just say it happened somewhere in the former Yugoslavia. Deep Eastern Bloc indeed.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/2645987696116203405.

[emperornorton47]

Retired Peace Activist

That phrase appears on my Twitter page. People ask me what this means. I marched against the War in Iraq, posted news from Al Jazeera. In 1992, I visited former Yugoslavia and wrote about what I saw in an online publication called Miracles. I spoke about what I saw all over the country until I dropped from exhaustion. The attack on the World Trade Center and the war in Afghanistan caused me to pause: there was no stopping that war, so I kept silent.

I call myself a pacifist which means that I will not prepare for war or own weapons. I had a gun nut insist he was a pacifist because his guns deterred violence. He was unhappy when I told him he wasn't.

But it is not people like him who caused me to retire. I speak now of my fellow activists. They declared their opposition to war, but very few of them were pacifists. For example, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they decidedly took the side of Palestine and called for the abolition of Israel. In the Yugoslavia War, they called for the west to join Bosnia and Croatia in attacking Serbia. They were peace activists of convenience. People like me had no place in their movement.

So driven out by these, I no longer had a place. They did not seek to make peace by nonviolent means: they sought to oppose the United States or whatever major power waged the latest war. Their stand was based on politics rather than conscience.

The kind of action in war that I endorsed was similar to that performed by a Quaker Hospital in Vietnam. All wounded people - - regardless of side - - were welcome. A sign on the door told visitors to leave their guns outside because many of the people inside had been hurt by guns.

Another example was the Quaker Ambulance Corps in World War I. The medics picked up people on both sides and delivered them to the appropriate hospitals. In the Second World War, conservative politicians outlawed Americans from engaging in this kind of activity. It took many years for Quaker lobbyists to reverse the rider.

Peace activists rarely participate in this kind of action.

Pacifists help all victims of war. As I matured, I felt contempt for the leaders who used war as diplomacy. Then I started feeling contempt for the invaders and sympathy for the citizens and soldiers in their path.

Regarding the Ukraine war, I sympathize with Ukraine. I see Russian soldiers who are often picked up off the street as victims of Putin's bellicosity.

Pacifism is for the people. When I went to Yugoslavia, I began with a hatred for soldiers. This was a strange war. Soldiers fought all week and came home to rest. I could see darkness in their eyes, the exhaustion. That is when I began to see that they were also victims of wars.

So I have a broad sense of who I should be defending. But I can't stand the politics of peace activism which forgets the cost being paid by people. I ain't gonna suffer them no more.

[dlyarchitecture]

[abwwia]

Sanja Iveković, Paper Women, 1976-77, via MACBA, Barcelona Sanja Iveković (born 1949 in Zagreb) is a Croatian photographer, performer, sculptor and installation artist. Her work is known to tackle such issues as female identity, media, consumerism, and political strife. Considered to be one of the leading artists from the former Yugoslavia, she continues to inspire many young artists. via Wikipedia

[trb752]

Yugoslavia Pavilion, Milan Fair, Italy, 1931

Yugoslavia Pavilion, Milan Dragiša Brašovan, 1931

[victusinveritas]

Aljažev stolp (Aljaž Tower) is a storm shelter on the summit of Mount Triglav, Slovenia. It was first opened in 1895.

photo mrjm_pchlr

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

[drsonnet]

(AWAKE AT NIGHT - with Melissa Fleming)

[daenystheedreamer]

theon has that sadness in his eyes that you only see in ironborn gay porn

[themostpowerfulmagicofall]

This is a 'Mira in the Bunker Palace Hotel' appreciation post

[fakenerdboy]

Yugoslavia-style confederation of ethnic communities in the Caucasus by 2050 tbh

[cipherhunter]

adventures in serbia: cityscapes and monuments (+ a fortress) edition

[caesarsaladinn]

something about the inclusion of the character "j" in the Serbian Cyrillic script is unnerving to me. I think it puts just enough Latin into the alphabet that it crosses into my uncanny valley of how-the-fuck-should-I-read-these-letters

[pietroleopoldo]

I sympathised with all you victims of "men think about the Roman empire" and "girl maths" so I hope you will do the same with me, a girl who has studied a bit about international justice for her thesis, after the last post because I want to burn something