Yes! Did you know that not so long ago Italy tried to colonize Croatia and forcefully italianize names and last names of Croatian people including in Istra to erase any ethnic and cultural differences making them "Italian" therefore claiming the whole land as Italian? Pretty interesting 🤗
@@Kokolo-ze2cp Hello JJ. I did Know very well the crimes that the fascists committed. I know that the revenge of the Croats was very strong in 1943. Do you remember "foibe" or "sinkholes" or vrtača . In Istria during the First World War there were Italians, Croats and Slovenes under the Austrian Crown. But in Istria, especially in the coastal area, the influence of Venice has always been strong over the centuries, in architecture, in art and commerce. When you walk through the streets of Rovinj you feel like you are in a Venetian city. Isn't it so, perhaps? History says that it made the Kingdom of Italy for about twenty years until the end of World War II,; only later it was part of Yugoslavia. Thanks to Slavic terror, the Italians had to flee the land where they were born.History says that totalitarianisms must be fought.
@@IorioOscar oh yes I do, the house of my grandparents was set on fire three times when they were still kids for no reason, without success thankfully, and that wasn't in Istra mind you, but what I love about my family is that they never taught me to hate anyone, and I never heard them talk against other nations, those were always just stories from the past. Croatians were always oppressed and used by other bigger nations with more power throughout the history, what can I say sooner or later the people will fight back in their own way, karma can be a bitch. As for the architecture or influence I don't mind it at all it's gorgeous, just shows what the collaboration between two nations has created to this day, it's a special place and I'm proud to call it a part of my country. I think you can see how well we take care of it, cherish it and continue building on.
@@Kokolo-ze2cp you take care of it because it is convenient for you to do it: the cities of the Istrian coasts are also those that guarantee a large amount of money for tourist reasons. But then what are we talking about? did you resent me because I said that Opatija, like many Istrian cities, was part of Italy? But it is the truth! and then? Think how much pain the Istrian people were spared in those years if both Italy and Yuogoslavia were two liberal states!
@@IorioOscar did I say I resent you? At least now I know the real motive behind your comment, truly disappointed. It's not convenient, we love our country and how diverse it is, I don't think about financial gain and after all do you think that Croatian people that were already there in those times didn't help build the cities under Italy or we just sat on the side and did nothing? You really think that all this land doesn't mean anything to us? Sure some things could've been avoided and I'm absolutely against hurting people in any way I could never do that, but I could say the same thing about things that happened before that, was it really necessary to oppress already poor and weak people not just in Istra but across the whole coast and send them to an empty island to work where the only thing they had to eat was fish bones? You really think Italy gave over Istra to Croatia for no reason? They were aware of what they did and we earned this land with blood, sweat and tears.
