The Breakup of Yugoslavia Explained 

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

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 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.

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

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 RU-vid 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

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.

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.

She must have have been the smartest girl everyone ever met

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

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 🇲🇽❤️🇷🇸

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)👍

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

In hindsight, it was some freaky foreshadowing.

😂 i wanted to comment the very same.

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.

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

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

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.

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

@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.

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

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

Bro These Are pretty normal and well known songs. And there is shazam

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???????????"?? ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

"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

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 .

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

What can i read to get those insights?

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

Except nothing is true there

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.

Far away from truth Bad history view Lies lies He talks lot of shits

@@milosjovicevic6083, history is always subjective my friend. From your last name (I'm guessing), you reside/have ancestry in some part of what was once Yugoslavia and understand that some of the information presented in the video might misrepresent or contradict a view you hold. That being said, I truly am interested in knowing what key information you really disagree with.

@@prithviprakash1110 I believe that the narrator may be a good man, but he left out many crucial things. One could say even the most important thing. The main problem with Yugoslavia was the influence of the Vatican. The Vatican has long wanted to turn Orthodox Serbs into Catholics. Serbs did not give up their Orthodox Christian faith. The Vatican turned entire continents into Catholics, but failed to penetrate through Serbia to the East. In 1914, Serbs defended themselves against Germans, Austrians, Croats, Muslims, etc. Serbia heroically liberated the whole of Yugoslavia in 1914-1918. We paid 1.3 million victims. However, in 1941 the ungrateful Croats reunited with Hitler's Germany and set up concentration camps for the Serbs. They killed over 300,000 Serbs, they even had camps for children. We Serbs forgive them again (we naively believed in the Slavic brotherhood) and in fact the Croats have always tended more towards the Vatican. Somehow Yugoslavia survived until the end of the eighties. Then again, Croatian and Muslim extremists began to hate. The West (the Vatican of course) sided with its Catholics and through the world media (CNN etc) revised history. They created a problem for Serbs because Serbs are pro-Russian and the West has a pathological fear of Russia. The break-up of Yugoslavia has most to do with the Vatican, Western intelligence and the Americans' desire for dominance in the Balkans. They wanted to remove Russian influence from the Balkans after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR.

@@milosjovicevic6083, thank you for that very detailed explanation, it was very informative. I have to say, the politicisation of history is a global pandemic atm, where facts are deliberately or accidentally left out, and as a result portrays certain groups in an unfavourable light. This is a common problem in my country, India as well, which is over 6000 years old. That being said, I had no idea that there was even involvement of the Catholic Church in the breakup of the Slavic State. That's incredible how Serbia has survived multiple attacks and still has a nation standing to this day.

@@prithviprakash1110 Unfortunately, the territory of Yugoslavia is a turning point in the "worlds". The crossroads of Europe and Asia, the road to the Mediterranean, to Africa. For centuries, all empires wanted to control it. Especially the West and the Vatican. What bothered them the most was that there were pro-Russian Serbs of the Orthodox Christian religion only 800 km from the Vatican. It was a thorn in their side. They did everything against the unification of the Slavs in that part of Europe. In the end, American imperialism continued the same policy. I like India so much :) The former Yugoslavia and India were the leaders of non-aligned countries. Western imperialism was annoyed that there were states that did not want to be their servants. I likes your information, didn' t know all that :) Very nice of you, i love to learn new stuff :) Serbia lost literrary 28% of population in WW1 Than we lost also 10% population in WW2 Yes bro, we somehow survived Even today we refused to go in NATO All Europe is NATO pact We don' t want to be with NATO imperialist Because of that we have our honor Serbia is only state in Europe who doesn' t have american troops on own land :)