#rip Yugoslavia

[stimpyandren]

Since Yugoslavia no longer exists, I would think Ren and Stimpy live in either Slovenia or Slovakia. What do you guys think?

[freakxwannaxbe]

Countriesgame blog missed the opportunity to be the funniest guy on this website by putting Tesla as an option on both the "what do you associate with Croatia" and "what do you associate with Serbia" polls

[exyusimp]

Maybe it’s because I’m chronically Australian but these are literally the same cover right?

[retro-vintage-time]

[just-antithings]

JAT: I saw someone trying to explain why you can portray murder much more casually compared to rape, because I paraphrase 'the victims of murder suffer less and are much less common'

Like having a person suddenly prematurely ripped away from you in any way not traumatic. How the hell can you claim that murder is not common when there is what, currently atleast 3 seperate genocides going on at the moment? The whole Ukraine-Russo war? The Rwandan genocide was a mere decade ago. The bloody disolution of Yugoslavia 3 decades ago, with still lingering tensions. My dad's friend got murdered 6 years ago or so.

Murder is a very real reality for a lot of people right now, how the hell can you claim otherwise?

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[eccentrickleptomaniac]

do you have headcanons for croatia?

yes i do!

croatia is a very upfront and blunt person. she doesn't tend to get sarcasm and will tell you how she feels without sugarcoating a word of it. around people she doesn't like she tends to be very passive aggressive among other things. although it's pretty rare to see her actually get riled up, when she does its a sight to behold. she will put everything on the line just to prove herself right and come out on top.

around her friends it comes to show that she's actually rather lighthearted. she tends to not take things seriously unless she thinks its an issue, and likes to point out holes in people's psyche. she finds it fun. despite that though, she's a very caring person. she'd let you stay at her house for as long as you wanted if you felt down.

croatia, like serbia, isn't actually related (atleast parent-child related) to yugoslavia. her mother was the independent state of croatia, the nazi puppet state instilled after yugoslavia was invaded. the state herself was older than that but ykno. anyways independent croatia treated her like the chetniks did serbia. well, i suppose, she also took croatia out occassionally on the battlefield. but then she died so lol rip bozo

in her childhood she was rather good friends with east germany. a while ago i think i wrote something about it in my notes app? like, east germany was like family to the yugoslav kids since she came over so much to their house. it got to a point where she didn't even have to ask she just had her own set of keys. croatia was like eg's only friend so the two were very very close LOL

i could talk more in detail about her relationship with serbia but i already did that on his post.. i'll just reiterate then. the two are basically frenemies: while normally they hate eachothers guts and oppose eachother on every issue, if one is actually in distress the other will help. serbias stayed at croatias too many times to count on both hands.

she enjoys strategic games.. like chess... and connect 4... like most of her siblings she doesn't enjoy slovenias prescence much but she tolerates him more than the others. shes a lesbian probably. her """"govt assigned"""" username is heroesRebirth

hope this suffices!

[limetameta]

I gotta say the dcu us is absolutely insane to just have a city be ripped apart by an earthquake and say oh lit let's just cut it off from the world. There isn't even a virus ravaging it so it's not like they can say oh we need to keep it contained to Gotham. It's just an earthquake. It's legit just an earth quake wtf my dudes this is so cringe of them fr. When an earth quake ravaged my country back when we were all yugoslavia tito didn't say oh let's just cut off the damaged cities from the rest of the world and no thanks Italy but u can't send any aid. Like lmaooo I went into no man's land thinking it was some sort of plague or a virus that had emerged on top of the earth quake and so the US government was like no we need to lock them up and not help them because the rest of the world might get infecte. This is so fucking funny though. Like of all the things!! Ha!!! Like I'm trying here for that suspension of disbelief like I am but my buds my dudes they could've done this better.

[burntoutclutch]

The Belgrade Phantom: Yugoslavia’s Ghost 911.

In the 1979, during Yugoslavia’s Socialist Dictatorship, a man by the name of Vladimir Vasiljevic gained notoriety for stealing cars. He earned the nicknames “Vlada Opel” for his love of stealing Opels and “Vlada Kljuc” which roughly translates to “Vlad the key” for his ability to hotwire almost any car.

At one point in his boosting career, Vlad came across a white Porsche 911 Targa owned by Serbian tennis player Ivko Plecevic, a car that was a particularly rare sight in Yugoslavia. Being an almost professional car thief, Vlad was up for the challenge of stealing the 911.

It’s unknown how long he actually had the car days but for about a week to 10 days, Vlad would take out this phantom 911 after 10pm and rip through the city streets. Local police gave him the name of the Belgrade Phantom because he would taunt and tease them in chases until late hours of the night before disappearing. He would call in to local radio stations and tell people where to stand for the best view of his driving “performance.”

The fun and games all ended when police setup a trap using empty busses that Vlad ultimately crashed in to. Even after the crash it wasn’t until 2 days later that police caught him after an anonymous tip was called in. Hardly any images or video exist of this phantom except for his final joyride and crash which ran in the newspaper. I’m 2009 a documentary film was made and many of the stories were recreated.

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

Tito was based and it’s too bad Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore :(

RIP Mr. President

[balapann-blog]

Day 5 - 10 September - Zagreb > Sarajevo

Started the day with a run which was very stop start due to the traffic lights. We then had a coffee and breakfast and went back to the flat and showered and checked out. We have stored our bags in the station and are now in another cafe.

Zagreb is interesting, it feels a bit more rough and ready, compared to the alpine sleepiness of Ljubljana. The Habsburg era buildings are in a bit more disrepair and there is a lot more building work going on. It also feels a bigger city and less set up for tourists, meaning it is quite hard to know what to look for. Lots of the museums appear to be closed for renovation, hopefully taking advantage of that sweet sweet EU structural fund cash.

We then went to a restaurant called Pithos which was really cheap and absolutely delicious. I had a schnitzel and Nin had a bean and sausage soup and we had a little beer with it. It seemed to be a place that people came for lunch from the civil service offices nearby. I really can’t recommend it enough!

After that we went to the museum of illusions which was fun, there was one illusion at the start that and you feel like you were seasick walking along a gangway when you were walking a straight line as well as lots of your classic illusions with mirrors and perspective.

We then went up the worlds shortest funicular railway and had a small craft beer from Croatia, as well as a few other small beer stops as we wandered around. Zagreb really grew on me over the day as we found little neighbourhoods away from the strip of mainly tourist bars. I think going for a run was really helpful in that as we passed places we went back to. I read (on Wikipedia) that Croatia lost 20-25% of its gdp in the war of independence that it fought with (a Serb dominated) Yugoslavia and although Zagreb did not have as much fighting as other places, a shock of something like that must be felt on the capital, particularly when it does not have he tourist money that other parts got subsequently. The little museums that were quite offbeat and the relaxed vibe meant that I was happy we stayed a second day and we saw a bit more of it than the last time we went when I was interrailing and we just went to a bar on the strip for 5 hours waiting for a train.

We had quite an expensive and forgettable meal at a vegan restaurant, got our bags and then went to the bus stop for our bus to Sarajevo. When we got there the bus company were very stressful in that they made you pay extra for baggage and then nearly didn’t accept our tickets because they weren’t printed.

We actually managed to get two seats to ourselves each which was nice, although I am still working out how to sleep on busses. The border crossing was largely fine, the Bosnian border guard just took everyone’s passports and then stamped it, without needing to look at us. The driver seemed to blow the busses clutch out so there was a slight burning smell in the bus for a bit, but it seemed to sort itself out.

We did arrive in Sarajevo an hour early at 5am! Which, considering we had no where to go and neither of us had really slept properly led to us taking what I call the ‘Chandigarh rip chord’ and booking into a Novotel for 6 hours at quite a cost (where I am writing this currently). This is named after what Ben and I did when we got into Chandigarh from Simla at 4am after a very hairy night bus and when all the other rooms were taken, went to a very nice hotel with a 24hr desk and checked in for 6 hours. I think we have learned rom this; 1. Night busses always get in early so don’t count on anything being open, 2. Night busses are probably not worth unless completely necessary and you always pay for it in the end. That being said my 6 hours in the Novotel have been bliss. We are now going to meet my friend from university, Alex who is travelling with his sister in the area!

Where we ate - Coffee - Cafe bar Botanicar, Korica 1, Pithos

What we liked - Quiche in Korica, our food at Pithos was great and really cheap

[rewiredthethirdblog]

Comment by bitch_thot on Reddit

Quite frankly I'm not sure how well known this is outside the region, but I've never seen a foreigner talk about it so thought I'd mention it.

The Serbian genocide during WW2.

Information on the event varies greatly from source to source as documentation from the time is very scarce, the Serbian people had enough on their plate and didn't bother documenting everything in detail. The independent state of Croatia, run by Ante Pavelić at the time, worked closely with Nazis. The Ustashe regime brutally murdered tens of thousands of Roma and Jewish people in the region by the instructions from German officials, however it is less known that they killed possibly up to a million Serbs from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro (most estimates for the Jasenovac concentration camp alone are between 400 000 and 700 000, however massacres outside of the camp should also be taken into account). They had one of the biggest concentration camp complexes in Europe, Jasenovac, as well as the only concentration camp dedicated solely to children, Gradiška. Survivors of the camp tell horrific stories about the treatment of the prisoners, some common methods being for example, cutting open a pregnant woman's abdomen, ripping the fetus out and sewing a live animal such as a cat or a rat back inside, burning and boiling prisoners alive and using their bodily fluids to make soap for other prisoners to use, cutting out eyes, tongues, cutting off ears and limbs all while the prisoner is still alive, gutting them alive etc... They even had a special knife called Srbosjek (serb-cutter).

But they didn't just stop at killing the campers, oh no, they massacred plenty of villages. I recommend looking into the Prebilovci massacre if you can stomach it. Basically, the men of Prebilovci knew the Ustashe were coming, and left to hide in the woods thinking the Ustashe wouldn't murder their women and children. Let's just say they were very wrong, and by the time they came back to the village all they found were the bodies of their loved ones completely mutilated. Another common practice of the Ustashe was raping underage girls while forcing their mothers to hold them up while they get raped, or even forcing family members to rape each other at gunpoint.

Another thing I'd like to mention is that a lot of people involved in all this got away with it completely. For example, Nada Šakić was in charge of the Gradiška camp and was well known among the prisoners as a devil, she frequently killed women and children for no reason and gladly tortured them at any opportunity she had. Once the war was over, she and many other Ustashe ran away to Argentina. In 1998, the Yugoslav government requested Nada Šakić to be brought to Yugoslavia so she could be tried for her crimes, however the Croatian government stepped in and asked for her themselves. Everyone assumed Croatia will try her for her crimes as well, but they essentially got rid of all evidence against her and gave her a home in an elite home for pensioners in Zagreb. Later in 2011 the government of Serbia and interpol once again asked for Nada Šakić, at which point the Croatian government had revealed that she died peacefully earlier that year. She never faced any punishment and lived and died in peace.

Another horrific thing is that this is all allowed to be forgotten. I saw a video where they asked Croatians about the victims of the camp, and most of them said something akin to "About 20,000 people were killed I'm the camp, mostly communist croatians but also jews and roma people", one man who claims to be a historian even said that no one was killed in the camp and that it was an "education camp" where the prisoners simply watched plays that were put on for them. The Jasenovac museum in Croatia has no images of victims, or even weapons used against them, only a few letters written for their families, mainly croatian ones. Also, a tomb-church which was built for the Orthodox Christian Serb victims of the Prebilovci massacre was blown up by Croatians some time in the 90's and was turned into a garbage dump, all on top of their mutilated bodies.

Apologies for the long post and odd formatting, I'm on mobile. I also hope I used the correct terminology as english isn't my first language.

Edit: misspelled a word

This is why i need to hecome a history buff. This all really happened and many more. How the fuck do i sign up to be a historian or some shit

[yugoslavia-official]

*Turns you into a god*

I- Huh

What just happened

...

*A halo of red five-pointed stars assemble above Yugoslavia's head*

Interesting...

*A tear in the void is ripped in front of Yugo, it leads to outside the void. Yugo steps through it.*

Woah, that's trippy

[exyusimp]

(Another extremely Aussie reference here)

I’m sorry but she looks like she hopped out of the Sons & Daughters intro here

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ENGLISH NUKE WAVE RIPPING THE IRON CURTAIN WIDE OPEN -- HARDCORE '81.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on bassist Roy "Rainy" Wainwright of English hardcore punk DISCHARGE, performing live behind the Iron Curtain in the former Yugoslavia, on December 26, 1981. 📸: unknown.

"Back in day, one had a good chance of being seriously detained just for being there."

-- RAINY WAINWRIGHT (@wainwright.roy), c. 2022

Dis nightmare still @#©*!%$& continues!!

Source: www.picuki.com/media/2771008279244719199.

[world-literatures]

just read: Bolla by Pajtim Statovci (Kosovo)

it's really very well written I can say that - in the sense that some of the things felt super visceral and I had a genuine gut reaction. But because of that, I'm not sure I enjoyed it.

And I don't think you necessarily have to *enjoy* every book - but at times I found this hard to pick up.

I think his rendering of the Kosovo war was haunting. He was able to make the main character so unpleasant and sympathetic at the same time. Like he's a great Writer!! But it felt almost like I was appreciating the craft and not the story.

Next time I read from this author (I do plan to at least read My Cat Yugoslavia) I will actually read it instead of listening to the audiobook. I think his writing is the kind you need to see with your eyes. And that might improve my experience.

Anyways, I don't exactly know how to rate this because of the time I had reading it

genres: historical fiction, LGBTQ

translator:  David Hackston (from Finnish to English)

rating: didn't rate

themes: Kosovo war, queer issues

It is April, 1995.

Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret.

Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide - when a relationship, already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by nations and fate.

What happens when you are forced to live a life that is not yours, so far from your desires?

Can the human remain?

[mesecevaratnica]