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Serfs want Kosova, like Ukronazis want Crimea = exact same case. All the rest is blablabla sheeple-level shittery, like this ignoramus style shitty clip...
Every one of your videos includes this message: a bunch of woke liberals with no actual history are ruining foreign policy. I actually agree with that, roughly speaking. But the way you present that message gets in the way of what I am actually here for: learning history or tactical insights. I don't actually think I have much tactical to learn from you, which is the proof I must be wrong, since that's just hubris, albeit grounded on experience. That just leaves history. Ok, so a 5-15 minute history of Kosovo/Serbia would be brilliant! I would love it! Instead I have to put up with fan service gym bromance. To tell me stuff I've mostly already figured out myself. Oh, but what if I am wrong? So I feel chained to watch at least in the background. But the Kosovo conflict is a small winnable one and is still on warm, not boiled over. I guess what I mean is: this game isn't worth the candle. Maybe 3 videos 1 on actual history 1 on implication of history for current tactical problems and 1 on bromance with gymbros so I wouldn't have to hear the grating fan service? I mean, if you hate liberal internationalists for ruining foreign policy I agree, but then you have to actually change their minds. Servicing your fanbase won't do that. Now make a 5 minute video about NATO and Kosovo which can be credibly presented at a NATO general staff meeting attended by politicians of all views. That would be useful. Something objective, factual, and stable enough that people you fundamentally disagree with will be nonetheless compelld to take up your views. And that is exactly what Sun Tzu meant by SUPREME EXCELLENCE IN THE ART OF WAR IS TO SUBDUE THE ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING. Now go do it.
2 seriously important facts missed in the video that came to my mind straight away: 1. NATO bombed Serbia with depleted uranium which causes the worst health conditions and cancer, irony is it affects also Albanians and even foreign soldiers, google about Italian soldiers who sued NATO for getting cancer in Kosovo 2. Wikileaks showed that CIA and obviously America considered KLA (Kosovo liberation army) as terrorists, and still they armed them, trained them and helped them fight against Serbia
As a Serb I agree with you, I would gladly give away Kosovo to Albanians as its Radioactive wasteland right now.....they bombed the shit out of the Kosovo
If I had to pick sides I'd pick Albania simply b/c the Serbs were so maniacal in the 90's that they shouldn't have been trusted w/ Kosovo. That being said I think the US & Europe also secretly aided the Croats against Serbia (maybe for the same reasons). My source is a 2nd hand account in an article or history book (can't remember) where the Bosniaks were complaining about Croatia stealing 70% of the military aid earmarked for them in the UN arms embargo NATO was allowing be selectively enforced.
and you for sure believe that UFOS landed on Serbia?? stay positive and look at the future and get your facts right. There was shit done on both sides , but we as people have to look forward and need to get solutions on both sides and not to mentioned negative actions done in the past which are not 100 % straight. May the GODS be with you and enlightened you with the truth of Kosovo People!
Every time I talk to a pro Ukrainian friend and bring up NATO’s aggressive wars they always say “but the people there wanted our help!!” And then completely write off everything Donbas civilians say as Russian propaganda
@@vrrooooommmm123 No one is saying that Ukraine should not exist. Moreover, Ukraine had the Minsk agreements signed on its hands, in which the entire Donbass was Ukraine (Except Crimea, which is historically Russian and has great strategic importance for Russia). But Ukraine did not fulfill the agreement, for which Russia recognized the independence of the LPR and the DPR in 2022(Yes, yes, in 2022, and not in 2014, everything began to shine only from Ukraine) and then Russia came to the aid of the republicans.
The autonomous province "Kosovo" is properly called "Kosovo and Metohija". Kosovo in Serbian means field of blackbirds and Metohija in Greek means holy land (because of the thousands of monasteries and churches in that area. Many of them from the Middle Ages and on the UNESCO list of protected monuments, many of them destroyed by Albanian separatists). It is no wonder that the Albanians removed the name Metohija, since they secretly know whose country it is.
Metohi (Metohia plural) in Greek means the plot of land belonging to a monastery. During the medieval times the church owned the fields around the monasteries and they had a special tax status and some times some sort of autonomy.
@@Sola678 I did not forget. Even today, Albanians invent new names for toponyms in Kosovo and Metohija and give them Albanian names that have never existed in history.
This is the first time that I heard such detailed and truthful explanation of Kosovo conflict. A short reflection, you forgot to talk about the UN resolution 1244 and how the west "forgot" about it. Also, Serbia stayed more then 80 years independent after Battle of Kosovo 1389.
Yes, random RU-vid author and commenter are more suited than the ICJ/World Court to interpret UN Resolution 1244, which was judged not to be conclusive resolution on the status of Kosovo. Serbia has brought cases before the ICJ, meaning it recognizes its authority. Serbs always fail!
@@haroldbell213The president of Kosovo wants war, I remember when he said that a few months ago, of course the president of Serbia does not want war because he wants to politically return Kosovo to show the truth and not bloodshed.
if serbia doesnt want war then they should change theyre stance on republika srpska and kosovo and stop supporting dodik as example and stop crying to putin for help.
I am Uzbek I read that Timur during a war saw Serbs fighting fearlessly and said "who are those Christians who fight lions?" Much respect to both my Muslim brothers and the Serbs. We are not in medieval times anymore. lets learn to resolve conflicts without blood.
That's true, he let all Serbs go including Stefan Lazarević himself because of how amazed he was with their fighting. Lazarević was one of the best knights in Europe at the time and his force "oklopnici" among best equipped ones.
What Timur did helped Serbia out in the end because it threw whole Asian part of Ottoman empire into complete chaos witch led to Serbia being able to get independent from Turks again so I would say that it all turned out well in the end. Do you know Russian by any chance? If so can you tell me if this add about Timur is historically accurate? And if so in what war did he do this? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AgJBKWryu0g.html In case you don't understand Russian it it is saying that he ordered his soldiers to throw rocks next to the road when they went to war and then when they came back whoever survived picked up their rock so the rocks that where left there would represent the ones that died. And Timur would then go to these rocks and talk with them remembering soldiers that died. Is it something that he did every time he went to war or is this from some specific war that he fought? I know about Mongol tradition of making Kurgans out of of rocks but I don't know if Timur or anyone else would go to these rocks and talk to them as we in Europe would do when we go to tombstone of a friend or a family member.
@@branilavvasic9727 Aha, that coincide well with making piramides of skulls of the enemies. Another nice tukic tradition exercised here. We have an object called the "Chiele Kula" in Nish to remind us of that.
Serbians do not hate Islam, that’s a big lie, our problem with Albanians is ethnic. In serbia we have big muslim population, and we live together as friends.
I am an American descendant of Orthodox Christian ethnic Bulgarians from Macedonia. Sadly, my Bulgarian relatives have fought their Slavic Serb brothers on several occasions, but I do hold the Serbian people in high regard, and wish them all the best!
You can choose to be feel brotherhood with them but just remember they not only committed war crimes against my people (Albanians) but also against their fellow Slavs like Bosnians and Croatians. Serbian government doesn’t care about brotherhood they care about power. The war crimes committed by Albanians against Serbs was way lower than the war crimes and massacres they committed against us. If you don’t believe me just search for “list of massacres in Kosovo war” on google.
@@THELORDVODKA what are you talking about even buddy, Slovenes stolen their culture and land, what? Also dude has a point, NATO intervention was a precursor to what Serbs did to virtually every neighbor they had inside Yugoslavia. Just because you were most numerous (and not even by that much more) that doesn't give you right to just claim every piece of land for your country just on basis of "but but our people live there".
@@VigilantGuardian6750 Dont forget what Croats did to Serbs during WW2 700.000 serbs perished in croat and bosnian lands. NATO bombing was illegal didnt even talk to UN about it.
As a Serb, thank you for unbiased take on Kosovo 99 war and ongoing conflict. Serbs are not saints in any regard, but when it comes to homeland defence, we tried our best, even against all odds.
As an American i have long disagreed with my governments foreign policy. The more i learn just how diabolical they've been, i can only hang my head in shame.
There's a lot more to this story. Milosivich was tried as a war criminal, and convicted. The US involvement was more due to the attrocities commited by Serbian forces. Not picking sides, but trying to limit actions.
This issue has dragged on for too long. The UN established a very dangerous precedent by uniterally declaring a part of a sovereign country an independent territory. Kosovo wasn't a colony. Also, ethnic Serbians were indigenous to the territory. Removing Milosevic from power for his crimes was the right thing to do. Creating a failed state from thin aire(A UN specialty: Look at Rwanda and Burundi) was a huge mistake that is going to reignite a war any day now. Just so you know: UCK crimes were tolerated by NATO. Today, that organization is a franchise of ISIS in Europe. Well fucking done, UN! 👏👏👏
As a Serb who sees both sides of the argument, i am really surprised by impartiality of this video. You have missed onto 2004 pogrom, but in reality you did cover that with what you said in general what happened after 1999. Thank you for the video - this is actually the first video on this coming from the West, which is not politically motivated. EDIT: you did somewhat skew, or provide wrong casualty and combatant numbers for fighting on the Serbia-Albania border.
@@youareliedtobythemedia videos on what? they are all politically motivated and one sided. as if they were directed by bill clinton and william walker.
@@nikolajelovac1648 pa jesu, nema smisla to sa 2.5k boraca i sa toliko zrtava, kada smo po zvanicnim podacima ukupno izgubili manje od 800 vojnika u celom sukobu.
I agree. Due to Yugoslavia Serbs lost enormously in every aspect, while all others gained equally enormously in every aspect. Ironically, many ppl from former YU republics that were eager to leave it (especially Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia) are now grieving for the beautiful life we all lived in that up-side-down country.
Hey, it is easy to say that now. But think about Yugoslavia, and what Balkans could have been if during the whole of Cold war, you didn't have unity between ethnic nationalities present in Yugoslavia.. So instead of 50 years of brotherhood and cooperation, you had Balkans, doing wars between same groups, while having Soviet union and America whispering in their ear, also arming and funding different groups based on their own, daily interests.. It could have been like the 90ies but instead of having violence for 20 years, it could have been half a century.. What the Balkans would have been if Yugoslavia didn't exist, barely is worth thinking about.. Also, anyone old enough to have been an adult while real Yugoslavia existed, before Tito died, would never agree that their whole lives and identity, should have been left "as paper plans and never realized".. Most of those people like to think of themselves as Yugoslavs, not ethnic Serbs, Croats or Albanians, or Macedonians, Slovenians etc.. You catch my drift.
@@relight6931If most of them were "Yugoslavs" then how did all the wars happen? P.S. Brotherhood and cooperation - give me a break - everyone knows that the richest and most developed countries like Slovenia and Croatia were sucked dry by Belgrade to redistribute wealth to poorer Republics like Crna Gora or Macedonia. Not to mention that Serbs were given the most prestigious roles in most institutions; simply because the Serbs were the majority (and all Croats were Nazis) - we all know how that ended up.
@@filipkoric5360 I was using slightly hyperbolic dictionary. The OP idea was that Yugoslavia shouldn't have ever existed. My claim is that if it didn't exist, Balkans history during WW2 to today would be even worse. Do you disagree? I am not interested into debating positions, qualities and other attributes that are given to large swaths of people, forgetting they might have actual personal identity and everything being dictated by their ethnic origins. If you believe that ethnicity is everything, then we got nothing to talk about. Also, if you never heard of people in former Yugoslavia proclaiming themselfs as Yugoslavs, then you can't be from around here..
@@filipkoric5360 According to what? To NATO, right? Because we've seen how that ended... instead of NATO supporting peace, they supported one terrorist organization, over another.
I'm from Bulgaria and I remember how we accepted the family of my father's friend for a month during the bombardment. Ah also I remember how the NATO rocket fell on our territory and we found that it was containing uranium (my father was a military and got that info from the team that recovered it and showed him the measurements)!
@@Fractured_Unity no, depleted uranium is exclusively used in anti-armors weapons, due to his high density. « NATO uranium rockets » are nothing, but a vatnik fantasy.
@@Fractured_Unity It's common but not commonly used. It isn't nuclear bombs but it is radioactive and leaves lasting consequences on the population. Birth defects, higher risk of cancer etc. This lasts for generations so I don't know why you're trying to downplay that
As a french i always mistrusted the anglos. But more you learn about history, more you understand why people from all over the world see them as hypocrite and perfidious.
Legit makes no sense what you said. France has always been a rival in history to England but in the past 120 years, the two countries have become close allies and both nations have done the exact same shit to other people across the world.
@@z0h33y Which is ironic since this is a western channel basically. He mentions 100 different things and people will only fixate on whatever is hot in politics right now instead of historical research.
I've been watching this channel since shortly after the current Russo-Ukraine conflict. I absolutely appreciate your historical approach and that you don't bombarde with a politicized ideology (AKA propaganda). Knowing the historical context so helps to clarify current events. Thank you.
His videos are indeed very profound. Still, every video on such a sensitive topic needs to be treated with caution. Despite his effort to consider both sides, it is not hard to tell that this video was to a certain extent biased towards the serbian point of view.
@@honras2029 I'm Serbian and I also see the bias. Yugoslavia took back the autonomy rights that were previously given, not only of Kosovo&Metohija but also for the northern province Vojvodina where I come from. The Albanian people had every right to start their protests during the 1980's. The fact is they were the majority ever since the 1930's and we know this due to the Serbian king that ordered a census to be made but the question is very simple, why should most money go to Belgrade? I also know the stories of how the Albanian people had been treated, if an Albanian family had a weapon the police would automaticlly seize it and they literally went door to door. We're talking about multiple decades of treating them unfairly, despite them taking hard jobs and having large families. It's all just sad but let's talk honestly, it didn't need to come down to a civil war if people had been nicer to each other.
1- I like how you just said snowball effect at the end and refused to elaborate. 2- I see this video as a great representation of the centuries-long conflict between us Serbs and Albanians. Neither side is clean nor saint, we all committed crimes against each other throughout centuries despite the propaganda of both sides trying to claim otherwise. GREAT VIDEO!
@@rincontibio7664 of course it is. But how can you solve unnatural Yugoslavia experiment if not by force? Ussr brake up still going on in ukraine, moldova, caucasian states and all the "stans"
If you take away one thing from this video is that Albanian-Kosovo has always been driven by external countries for their own ambitions while Serbians have always been alone. No outside country has ever fought with Serbia over the Kosovo issue, while Albanians have always been supported by European Great Powers; Ottoman Empire, A-H Empire, AXIS, NATO.
Correct!! Great thing how you noticed it! Always same thing happen and when you check through history for any region where Serbs where majority same thing happen, like he missed the thing when on 1912 Serbian army made all the way to Skadar (today's north Albania) it was a majority of Serbs living there and then Austro-Hungarian gave ultimatum that if Serbian army doesn't leave north Albania they will attack Belgrade capital of Serbia and all of Serbian army was south from capital so by that ultimatum they returned back and of course Serbian people left with army,same thing happen in Bosnia in 19th century Serbs were majority there but after Austro-Hungary occupied Bosnia they made all laws against Serbs living there,from day one they made really tough to them to even stay living in Bosnia,bottom line Serbs for centuries didn't had any allies because always some great power wanted to occupy them and at the end they been left alone.One small correction is that Russia was always Serbian ally.Specially in WW1.
@accordingtothesokovian7645 Well not always and here is couple of things Russia did not back Serbs,when Serbia had war with Ottomans in 1876-1878 Russia provided weapons but not the one we asked for but some old ones actually we needed to buy weapons from France,and Russia supported Bulgaria also,and then on 1878 it was a Berlin's peace conference so Serbia won significant land but Russia's plan was different they had a plan of great Bulgaria with a lot of Serbian land where majority Serbs lived but at Berlin's peace conf other great power countries didn't allow for great Bulgaria to happen and they gave independence to Serbia,Bulgaria,Greece and Montenegro that year but Serbia got only 4 new municipalities so Russia had a different plan back then they wanted great Bulgaria who they could control with access to Black Sea.Also Russia didn't do anything to support Serbia in Yugoslav wars in 90's pretty much she only watched what happen also in 19th century in Serbia had 2 dynasty Obrenovic and Karadjordjevic whenever Obrenovic dynasty was in charge Russia didn't do anything to help Serbia because Obrenovic dynasty was more western oriented.
@@AK-dd9od Genocide is really strong word specially in Balkans,there where a lot of war crimes from all countries during history it all depends what country had power at specific moment and was backed with some great country,there is no deny in some facts and that is that Austro-Hungary wanted to expand down south Serbia was on the way as most powerful nation at that time so she decided to occupy Bosnia from Ottoman's and then to make Albania as independent state so she can control them and it was also couple of other things A-H did to weaken down Serbia like economic war when she ban export of agricultural products and a lot of cattle and pigs which was main products of Serbia then.
I know the history of the region. I'm also quite aware of the destructive role of the german, british and us forces that eventually created the path for the US / NATO invasion of Serbia. So - thanks a lot for the objective review! Unfortunately such objective coverage is rarely seen in our media.
US and NATO was justified, stop the d riding of Serbs nationalist who would’ve massacre the Muslims population in Kosovo like they did / tried in Bosnia. Time to stop being anti-American and grow up.
Bombing a country isn't invading. The US is great at destroying things, it sucks hard at occupation. From 1975 to 2001 they were aware of this. Then, their braincells died.
If u know the history u would know that Serbs started the war with overwhelming military might and committed the overwhelming majority of atrocities and ethnic cleansing. They also have the distinction of running rape and murder camps in Bosnia. Serbs did this NOT NATO !
Yes. It was Nato that massacred 8K Bosniak civillians in the pace of 1 week in Srebrenica. It was NATO that completely levelled the town of Vukovar, and massacred 300 Croat Civilians there in 1 day (including elderly and many wounded people they dragged out of hospitals). It was NATO that killed some 380 Albanian catholic civllians in the village of Meja. It was NATO that set up rape camps in Bosnia It was NATO that had concentration camps like Omarska etc where you see vidoes of Croat and Bosniak men looking completely malnourished. Its always NATO. The poor Serbs are always innocent. But you got some medicine with Oluja in 95 🚜🚜
Great video, there were some important things that were left unmentioned such as "Pogrom of 2004", but all around it is a great analysis. Greetings from Republic of Srpska ❤🇷🇸
but who cares tho ? You guys tried to create a fascist greater serbia , re opened concentration camps ( my father was in one of them ) , you failed and we are supposed to cry for you ?
You forgot another "ah s*t here we go again" event that happened on March 17, 2004. It's nice of you that the world community has opportunity to learn about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija. When you take all the historical facts as well as the facts about the war and bombing in 1998-1999, it is clear why the Serbian people are with Russia! Another point of interest, during the great migration of Serbs in the 18th century, a part of the Serbs settled in a couple of provinces in Ukraine, research near which city they lived 😁 Greetings from Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian land! You are doing a good job!
@@butragenjo007 And what is he wrong about? Donbass is Russia. These lands belonged to the Russian world for centuries, and by chance fell into the dirty Ukrainian paws during the catastrophe of the collapse of the USSR.
Should we talk about the Serbian ethnic cleansing and massacre of Albanians that was only stopped by the intervention of NATO ? The bombing killed 500 people that were mostly military, this is very bad but not comparable to what Russia is doing in Ukraine.
@@butragenjo007it's not because circumstances are completely different. In Kosovo and Metohija we had illegal immigrants form a terrorist organization, harvest organs and involve themselves in any crime you can imagine. In do bas we had natives who didn't want to accept a coup, which is why they were attacked.
1. NATO bomb independent state without a reason. Serbia never attack any member of NATO pact. 2.What about UN resolution 1244 3. Everything starts in Kosovo,everything will be finished in Kosovo.
we bombed serbia due to their massive genocide of the albanians , kosovians , and montonegrans and due to them attacking designated un safezones and slaughtering the civilians in said safezones and taking peacekeepers hostage. their are a shit ton more things on this list but i bet its all lies to you because putin and his lackeys didnt say its the truth
1.It was for humanitarian reasons 2.read the resolution 1244 3.Everything started with the dream of a "great serbia",everything will be finished with the "destruction" of that delusion.
@@shqipemalesore2620 1. Nato caused a larger humanitarian crisis that FRY did. The depleted uranium they had thrown affects the people of Kosovo to this very day, and will continue to do so for centuries. Also don't foget the Albanian refugees that nato bombed before swiftly putting the blame on FRY. 2. Annex 2 point 8: "A political process towards the establishment of an interim political framework agreement providing for substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of UCK." 3. "Great Serbia" is Šešelj's project whose goal is to annex shtokavian parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia into Serbia. Kosovo was a part of Serbia for almost a century up until that point, and Serbs' defensiveness over Kosovo has nothing to do with Great Serbia. It would be as if, for example, Greece took south Albania and the Albanians not recognizing the annexation and wanting south Albania back getting accused of propagating "great Albania".
@@shqipemalesore2620 Humanitarian reasons? The balls you got to comment that below a video that clearly states both sides did bad things, so now tell me, are the Bondsteel and the Trepca mine that humanitarian reason? You are delusional, and you got so deep in your own lies that you actually believe in them.
@@shqipemalesore2620which part in the NATO treaty mentions that the alliance is allowed to bomb a sovereign country for 'humanitarian reasons' ? 😂😂😂 I assume that the bombing of the Serbian TV or the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were also for 'humanitarian reasons' ?
My stepdad was over there in Kosovo and Bosnia. It’s definitely forgotten for the majority but I think about that from time to time. It’s a huge part of the modern history of the area.
@@_Devil NM (FYROM) is not the ancient Macedonia, so there won't be any wars there ... Only 1/3 of the people in NM are Albanians, and if they decide to go with Kosovo or Albania, that means trouble. The Slavic majority in NM should consider the Albanian factor when they push discriminating agenda against Albanians in their republic. 1/3 of the population is a constitutional minority, not just any minority. NM Skopje can't have a government without participation of Albanians.
you have just brought conflicts into our region, as in all places all over the world - the Kosovo case has not been finished, the same as Bosnia - we are waiting you to leave.
Eh. It's just a bunch of serbs saying Kosovo is Serbia because they only watch historys channel to have more reasons to meatride Putin. Kosovo is not Serbia. Kosovo is Albania.
@@djape1977 no the one with the 2 seas Adriatik and Jon, and breathtaking mountains, a lot of rivers and lakes.The Albania with 3 religions, Albania with the most beautiful language in the wod, splendid cuisine, friendly people. You are welcomed to visit, you will not regreat it.
@@myslimgjebre9564 sure, after we get an official apologies for attack on Serbia in 1999. I happen to be a veteran of a unit that defended the border at Pashtrik mountain and I remember excellent how artillery of albanian army fired at our position which was half of kilometer inside Serbia. We would also need an apology for what happened at a certain house in Burel in Albania where people abducted from Kosovo were taken to be killed and their organs taken out and transported to Tirana ...
@@djape1977 the myth of the yellow house continues. Ok if you justify a war against a defensles population, without rights and without an army, forced deportation of half of the population of Kosovo, burning endles villages mass killing and raping with a myth about a small house in Albania is your choise. What about mass graves of albanians discoverd in Serbia, can you explain since you are well informed about the crimes of the war?
25:50 Just a correction. Wars were fought in areas where Serbs were majority after those countries declared independence and were recognized by Yugoslavia. The reason why war in Slovenian didn't last long and nothing happened in Montenegro is because there wasn't a local Serbian minority that wanted to stay with Serbia. Basically Bosnian situation is reverse Kosovo situation. What frustrates many Serbs is how some countries want Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia) to stay as part of Bosnian and even potentially integrated and dissolve ideally but when it comes to Kosvo they want it to be independent and integrated with Albania. 33:50 Disarmament was only done for cameras both in Kosovo and Macedonia. 34:20 This was a bully move from NATO forcing Serbia to sign under a treat of economic isolation.
I agree with what you just exposed, with one caveat : the US has, like Rome, one basic principle : " divide et impera". ( Divide and conquer). So they are not so keen either for an union between Kosovo and Albania, and it's the same for Moldavia/Romania. They pushed the " velvet revolution"( separation of Czechia and Slowakia in 1993). They encouraged Djukanovic to separate Montenegro from Serbia ( 2004). They want many tiny helpless states with US bases, they have no actual ethnic preferences.
@@EntryLevelLuxury " Greater Albania", like " Greater Serbia" or " Greater Romania" would still be a fairly small country. But the Western powers of course are very happy to have Eastern Europe divided in tiny weeny statelets they can manipulate at wish.
One of the reasons why Serbia and China share such a good relation is because NATO deliberately bombed China Embassy in the Yugoslav War. It was a direct provocation and a act of war towards China. China was no where near as strong as it is today we bide our time and got stronger. As Serbia and China went through that together, we hold a special kind of respect and understanding towards each other. Kosovo is Serbia !!! 💪💪
one of the theory I read, that the Chinese approach serbs to get wreckage of Downed F-117 Nighthawk that shoot down thats why NATO "mistakenly" bomb Chinese embasy its unknown if they get Wreckage parts for analysis though ( i belive they prob did)
At the Battle of Kosovo, the Ottoman army was the one to retreat in order, and the churches around Europe rang their bells for the Christian victory, but the Serbian manpower was depleted, while the Ottomans had many armies in reserve. Serbia remained free for a few decades but succumbed to vassalisation without much battle.
The great battle of Kosovo was way too costly for both sides . It was a draw indeed , both sides lost their leaders and many thousands of warriors in one single day. Only the Ottoman army had the man power and the resources to recover and eventually go on the offensive again. In the longterm, the battle of Kosovo sealed the fate of the Serbs for almost 500 years . We Turks respect Serbs as brave warriors and knights , Stefan Lazarevic’s Serbian knights fought bravely and held the line against Timur when every Turkic Beylik and Tatars betrayed Sultan Beyazid in the battle of Ankara . That speaks volumes about their bravery and commitment.
@@parallax9084 ratio and *if* nobody will care anyway, only us two and NATO with other criminals will steal your money because Kosovo is poorer than an African tribe
Love those long, girthy raw explanations of geopolitical issues. Your knowledge penetrated deeply into all of our brains. I can still feel the learning
@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и maybe I belive on god but not on fxk religions and priests who use god and religions there they can be criminals who became priests Same thing with history books, the truth can be used on different ways W
I love how you share history in a very true manner. Also the humor. I learned history taught in Catholic school. It was very detailed. I must say that it is much more interesting learning from you and I can say in all honesty that you give a very integral account. Thank you so much.
This is probably the best explaination of this conflict on RU-vid. No fairy tales and myths, no unsourced assumptions, narrative pushing etc. overall very informative video. Greetings from Serbia, my family was heavy subject of Albanian violence during WW2 and 90s. A lot died, other part has been scattered through entire Serbia, from Kosovo to Vojvodina and even Europe thanks to Nazi Germany. This is far from being over.
@@M.vukasinovic-x4r only looking a yourself, Serbs killed nearly 100,000 Muslims just 30 years alone and expelled appx 2.5/3.5 million people. Plus why are you Serbs obsessed with things 100+ years ago. Stop your victim mentality.
I’m curious do you know any Albanian or is the divide still strong? All my Albanian friends in kosov do not know a word of Serbian. I know it used to be the people of kosovo would know each other’s languages (look at the singer Jana she understands Albanian).
That same Serbian Police officer lived and worked in Kosovo for The Kosovo Govrement, he got a medal for his service from them and worked for 15 years full. A day after he left he was arrested, and nearly a year by now he is still in custody not Jail nor Prison.
Great respect for processing a difficult topic. Excellent coverage of many aspects and a balanced approach. I am already a big fan of this channel. Now I can proclaim (History)legend is born! A big greeting from Serbia!
And just to add something. Not forget a resolution 12/44 in wich Kosovo and Metohija is still part of the Serbia by 🇺🇳 United Nations. To add something more, it’s not allowed to Goverment in KIM to build a police force or a Army, but still they have do that wir the Support of NATO. On the last month you can read about Jawelins from Turkey for the Kosovo Army etc.. you can also read every day about new bombs on the Serbian Haus, the shooting on a Serbian Children etc.. they are starting to spreading words that the Ortodox Churches and Monasteries in Kosovo are built from Albanians on 12,13th century. So you are great and keep going well!
First off all in KiM everyone was free to talk whatever language they wanted, had their own radio, tv, schools, etc etc unlike russian majority parts in ukraine. Lugansk, Donets, Crimea had a referendum with 99% to separate from Ukraine, Kosovo didnot. Next NATO went and bombed Serbia helping KiM to get an independance going against all rules, laws, etc etc even their own NATO law of force to be used only to defend someones border and not the cut and severe it. Story goes on, not to mention that US politicians and generals are now owners of mobile networks, mines, coal refineries and such in Kosovo region. But its hard to explain all this to brainwashed west that are thought nothing in schools aside of their own country.
Lol, in every part of Ukraine where the Russian army is standing behind voters somehow 99% wants to join Russia, but few steps further where Russian army is not in control it's the completely opposite. 😂 This should make someone think....
What referendum? You mean that one 6 months ago in the middle of war when Russia didn't controll 100% of all the provinces in question? And with all those displaced refugees?
Yes, it is hard to explain facts to the brainwashed but here it goes. You mean the 2014 referendum that was held with less than a month after Russia occupied Crimea. When exactly did Lugansk and Donetsk hold a referendum? Ohh immediately after Russia occupation, Hmm. Can you show a law before 2022 that said all people in Ukraine must stop speaking Russian? No, the law was that Ukrainian language would be the preferred language of the government and taught in schools. While not mention in the video NATO air attacks on Serbia occurred while Serbia was supporting action of genocide in Bosnia.
Daca ai avea habar de modul cum sarbii ii trateaza pe Romanii din Timoc, n-ai mai manca kkt despre "prietenia" cu Serbia Singura tara care este prietena cu Romania, din toti balcanii, este Albania.
I wasn't aware of a lot of the history, this was very thorough and interesting. I was a teenager in the 90s living in Portugal and remember watching the news about the Balkan wars and the intervention of NATO and the US. Even back then I felt things weren't exactly as they were telling us.
for us its not balkan wars, for us ( Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Monte Negro, BiH(where Bosnians, Serbs and Croats living) Kosovo,Albania) it is war for independece from Serbian power
@@nikolanikic2045 bcs Serbian,Croatian and Bosnian leaders in that time have difrent intres than people ,, and where did i wrote that they didnt fight.. also why serbs fight slovenians in Slovenia, why serbs fight croats in Croatia, why serbs in BiH fight with croats and bosnian, in Monte Negro also, for Macedonia i didnt shure but Macedonians also vote to leave jugoslavia,, why serbs leader from serbia fuck of serbian fighters in BiH and denied serbian civilian to enter Beograd,, al that bcs of POLITICS ...
Peace is more precious than triumph. As an albanian I wish to have peace with my serbian neighbors. Let's make that happen and stop centuries of suffering.
I dont know why Albanians and Serbs can’t seem to bury the hatchet. As a serb living in North America i have a lot of albanian friends, and we all agree that the fighting is a waste of life and causes suffering for no reason. We need more ppl with this mindset.
@@danek2417 Diaspora mindset is different. As a Serb also in diaspora and with Albanian friends, I completely understand why people back home continue with tensions. Albania feels the West is an ally, while Serbia has historically been Third Way with a colder approach for western predatory capitalism. While I do hope some version of peace can be achieved, with the way things currently stand it seems that things will not improve until Serbia decides to give in or the West somehow crumbles thanks to its own aggression.
@@danek2417 It's a racket. We are being thrown into the fire for the eastern and wester powers. Now the ukrainians are being thrown into the fire as well. This must stop.
@@danek2417 Da bi ti udobno ziveo u amerikama ,USA mora da proizvodi bratoubilacke ratove po svetu i crpi resurse,da bi ti mogao da kupis treci auto...
Actually, i learned something new about our conflict, to be more precise, statistic part. I can't be more grateful for this video. I was expecting new video about bakhmut but this is waaayy better! Greetings from Serbia.
It's not accurate for the period between WWI and WWII. Pecentage of the population was given for the period when colonization begins in early 1920s, but in 1940 it was 50-50 situation.
My grandparents had a holiday home near the border on the Austrian side and I remember as a kid the pretty nervous atmosphere with the adults (it was 91). Everyday we could hear explosions. Even as a kid I found it strange, the concept of "war" pretty near around us with me sitting at the lake having ice-cream and enjoying the holidays.
This is how people in Odesa live rn. My colleague brother is in Odesa and he says that everything is normal, apart from occasional explosion here and there lol. He says that after a while you get used to it and eventually ignore it.
9:59 As strange as it sounds, this period has profound influence to Ukraine. While most Serbian refugees settled north of river Danube in contemporary Hungary/ Austria, good score of them felt unhappy with life in Catholic country and decided to go further to Orthodox one, which was Russian Empire, in borderland areas which was situated in today's eastern Ukraine. Among others, Bakhmut city is founded by those Serbs. One far fetched standing claims that those Serbs even gave Ukraine it's name, from rehoming from one military borderland (in Hungary) to another one in Ukraine, since "Ukraine" translated to English basicaly means "military borderland".
Thank you for saying the truth evry other historian when thay talk about Kosovo war thay always started saying that the Serbs are war criminals and monsters but no one talks about the old history of that topic. Greetings from serbia brother and thank you🍻🍻🍻👍
@@MineFullStop No doubt if Spanish government was Russian or China leaning they would promote that. BTW I am Catalan. And Kosovo case is even much worse, because Albanians arent from there plus Kosovo is Serbs motherland. But dont go much far away, USA pressured Spain during transition from Franco to "democracy" to let Western Sahara in favour of Morocco (close US ally). Now Western Sahara is basically an Israel/Palestine like territory with sharawis kicked out of their land. Not talking about how US stole Puerto Rico, Guam, Marianas, Philippines and Cuba from Spain 120 years ago. Puerto Rico is still a colony, and in Puerto Rico, unlike Cuba, they were always pro Spain (no independence movement). US people has donde great things to world, but US government and elites, are morally rotten to the bone. Specially the ones right now ruling. Imagine being Germany, Nord Stream bombing no one talks about.
@@sterijastanojevic8002 Catalonia is one of the founders of Spain. You cant understand Spain without Catalonia and otherwise. As you cant understand Germany without Baviera.
I know almost nothing of European history but isn't Eastern Europe a place where war is almost "normal" They are kind of between Europe the middle east and Asia
21:07 this part is the story of my family. In 1922 my granpa was an albanian children from Babin Most (kosovo, north of Prishtina), a mixed albanian/serb village. One day some serb kačaks from Belgrade raided the village and stole goods from serbs and tried to kill albanians. The serbs from my granpa village decided to hide my grandpa and another albanian teenage who by chance was out on the fields with his livestock and got shot at his arm from long distance and found shelter in this serbian house. The serb patron of the house did not let anyone inside his house and kept hidden my granpa and the other albanian teenage farmer for one month until the situation turned safe again. After that, my granpa moved to Turkey, Izmir with the population exchange just like it's explained in the video. After 100 years, this story is known in our family, my granpa returned from Izmir to Albania and had 10 children and told to everyone about this serb man who saved his life. Today Babin Most is 99% serb village, the relatives of my granpa still live there in peace. I would not let anyone to harm those people who saved my granpa and i don't give a shit about ideologism, the merciful deverves merci [Matthew]
When the Powers created Albania, at least half of "Albania " were Greek people. 100 years later and mostly all Greeks have disappeared. The Greeks at the area wanted an independence from Albania but they were pursuated to remain part of Albania. Little did they know that rhey would soon be extinct.
There where ethinc serbs in Albania as well, some 10 to 15%. Now after 100 years of opresion they are virtualy all gone. Albanians are extremly agresive, in couple of decades there whil be a part of England trying to join Albania...
Same with Serbia elbasan was one of the capitals of medieval Serbia northern parts of Albania were heavily populated by Serbs, Skadar is one of the most important cities in our folklore, but through oppression of ottomans process of albanization made this small tribes of people suddenly take over whole albania, we have names of serbian families that became albanized and now no longer exist
The Greeks living today have nothing to do with the ancient Greeks. According to DNA tests, DNA tests on ancient-Greek skeletons reveal less than 10% ancient Greek genes in people who call themselves Greek today, while Greeks in Cyprus have almost 0% ancient-Greek genes. The Greeks living today are an artificial nation and were created to cause trouble in the Balkans and to be puppets of foreign powers. Albanians are the oldest nation in Europe and have lived in these geographies for tens of thousands of years, they aren't Indo-European origin didn't come from the east, they are the indigenous people of this region, their language is very unique. Although the Celts were massacred and destroyed, Albanians are still alive and are the oldest indigenous people in Europe today. It is unreasonable to compare today's fake Greek nation with Albanians. There was no Greek nation in Ottoman times, they called them Rum(Roman People), but there was always people called Albanians, you can see this from the archive records.
Kosovo is leagally in the property not only of Serbia but serb civilians,serbian church and serb companies. All of them had their property stolen. Where is the protection of private property? 65 percent of that land is under Serb ownership.
Dude your HQ is the best place to listen to stuff i already knew but your way of delivering it is refreshing funny yet serious and factual ..... keep on going Legend😎
I visited Kosovo last summer. Very friendly people and great atmosphere for me as a tourist. Let's hope peace remains. Interesting video! Not much is on YT about this.
Next time tell those friendly albanians that you are a Serb and that you came to solve the problem of your property in Kosovo&Metohia and you will have even greater atmosphere.
@@daimend211 you ever heard of the pax romanum? The romans lay waste to their enemies and turn their land into deserts, ans they call it peace. This is exactly the same thing
albania was demiliitarized because of their previous rebellions they couldnt fight the ottomans or the serbs , greeks etc all they could do is watch and hope the others dont take all of their territories
As a serb I sincerely thank you for even attempting to remain objective and impartial even though you are french canadian and couldn't be further away from the region in question. 😊What bugges me tho, is that at the start of the video, you asked the questions why is Kosovo so relevant to Ukraine why is Putin mentioning it every chance he gets and what are the actual implications of the Kosovo precedent etc. And then you barely adressed it afterwards😂 I think that instead of dedicating a large section of the video to the 17 - 19th century period (where btw you skipped how a big chunk of the serbian refugees actualy settled to Donbass in modern day Ukraine of all places😅), you should have delved deeper into the more recent geopolitical trends (last 10 - 20 years) and movements that lead to where we stand at the moment in relation to the current crisis between east and west. Otherwise love your content, keep it up! Tu es génial, merci mon frère!
What bugges me tho, is that someone doesn't understand what the similarities between the situation in Kosovo and Donbass in Ukraine are. After all, the same legal grounds were used - recognition of independence, then invasion on the basis of the collective defense treaty. One can argue about how right this is, but one cannot recognize the same rules as legal and illegal at the same time.
@@DartXL Well don't get me wrong I do get the basics of the arguement but if you really think about the whole comparison for more than 2 mins, it makes NO sense. Russia itself doesn't support Kosovo independence but wholeheartedly approved Donbass separatism and accepted them into the federation (talking about double standards). The legal grounds you speak of are non-existent, Kosovo was invaded despite the wishes of the UN security council and most european countries are very much against the invasion of Ukraine. So if anything, all both Putin and US/NATO are doing is juggling excuses for their imperialistic tendencies, which makes arguing over the role of Kosovo conflict pointless. Imo Putin invaded because of economic + geopolitical and strategic reasons. Kosovo was at best just a convenient Casus belli.
@@GK-cb3vc Despite the fact that the UN would not have approved the operation in Kosovo (the Russian Federation and China would have vetoed it), the United States prepared documents in support of the Operation Allied Force and submitted them to the UN, otherwise the rest of the world would consider them aggressors and violators UN Charter. The US circumvented some articles of this Charter by recognizing the independence of Kosovo and then defending Kosovo with preventive measures also in accordance with the Charter. Russia, according to its plan, did the same, recognized the independence of the LPR and DPR and launched a preventive operation to protect them, within the framework of the agreements concluded with them, based on the same paragraphs of the UN Charter. The set of documents and references to articles of the Charter is easy to compare. That is, the Russians developed a completely equivalent plan, and also limited the military contingent involved in the operation. But I understand why the Western media is silent about this. As a result, the United States, declaring Russia's actions illegal, would first have to punish itself for unprovoked aggression and war crimes against a sovereign European country Yugoslavia. Recognition of Russia's actions as legal would make sanctions against Russia illegal. And even if the US insists that according to the documents these operations are different, this will only prove their falsity. Thus, the Kosovo precedent proves that the United States is in any case an aggressor and a violator of international law. Regardless of what you think the Russians and Putin want, the law is the law and all sides must obey it.
South Sudan would be a good topic as well. Showing how elective West is in it "rules-based order", where two very similar situations can yield completely different results, depending on how it fits Washington.
In the same region of East Africa, it's telling that the West refuses to recognize the independence of the stable, functioning country of Somaliland whilst it recognizes the failed state of Somalia.
@@lioneldemun6033Really feel bad for Somaliland joined Somalia then turnout Somalia is really fu up. Now they make border, government currency and many things to make a good country but they never regonized.
Congrats on the video, it is a valiant effort and will be remembered online. One important thing I would mention at the end is the ultimatum of NATO to grant Albanians the referendum of independence before the bombing campaign started and the UN 1244 resolution after it cementing Kosovo is Serbia in legal terms, thus defeating NATO's initial goal. They broke their word tho and backed the independence unilaterally. This is an important point as it explains the snowball effect. Also you should have given a shoutout to Kocayine and mention more of the Yugoslav war song scene, but, maybe next time.
Ратни је вихор носио све пред собом И последњу наду да ћу се видјети с тобом Ова је стварност срушила ми снове Потекле ми горке сузе ноћи ове Срушила се моја кула од камена Остао сам као птица рањена
It's fair to say, the intervention was a really bad idea for NATO powers. When albania entered anarchy in 1997, a significant portion of the gun was sold, or simply used by locals. By 1999, the albanian kosovars were armed, had supplies and were ready to enter a long guerilla warfare. Having Serbia face a 5-10 years long guerilla war would have been far better for us on the long term than this intervention. Except in the case of the mass deportation of albanian kosovars. Because let's face it, they would not have settled in Albania back, and having 2 million refugees in Austria, Germany, Italy and Greece by 2000 would not have been the best situation.
@@SirJamieLannister так назывался канал, выкладывавший патриотические песни на сербском языке и другие видео. Канал этот блокировали и удаляли, так что не знаю, существует ли он сейчас. Но можете поискать канал NSA - Naša Srpska Arhiva, а также Rodoljub Roki Vulović Official
Cleansing Kosovo of Albanians, the reality stands at over 92% Albanians and 5-6% Serbs. I'm no math whiz, but one would assume that cleansing and killing would tilt the scales in favor of the perpetrators, right? I might be mistaken, but I'm sure the Albanians who believe they are Illyrians and claim ownership of millennia-old Serbian churches can enlighten us on the math behind these figures.
Yeah, that's quite interesting how after Serbs commited "genocide" in Kosovo their number dropped from 17% of the Kosovo's population in 1991. to just 4% of the population in 2011. At the same time, percentage of Albanians increased from 80% in 1991. to 94% in 2011. Either Serbs are the most incompetent perpetrators of a genocide out there, or Albanians and NATO bots are full of sh*t when they're trying to justify NATO aggression on Serbia by this so called "genocide".
Awesome job. A lot of history, and US and UK intervention that we will never hear about from our own media. This is why we keep making the same mistakes; our military misadventures are swept under the rug, and no one is ever punished. As has been said before, a private losing a rifle is punished harsher than a general who loses a war.
And this is one of the main reasons why so many people support what Russia is doing today in Ukraine, because nobody trust west and NATO because they always did shit like this than play dumb and innocent. Now people dont fall for that stuff anymore and now we have ...well this. And yes if you ask me ...they more than likely are doing same again in Ukraine and trying to act like they are just helping people of Ukraine, people around the world are getting sick of this playing dumb formula honestly. Everything in history has cause and effect and must be put into context. Otherwise you end up with people believing Putin just woke up in bad mood one day and decided its a good day to start a war in Ukraine.
@@DJ-kr5zx you just told lots of BS, nato helped people , but not ones who atack 4 difrent states, it help people who fought with hunting rifles and improvised weapons againts serbian army who had tenks and airplanes
@@kinglizard3406 it helped a terrorist group (yes KLA was registered as a terrorist group in US at that time) and it faked an event to get involved into a local conflict. Imagine US having issue with Mexican cartels in one of states that want to make that state independent, and then they start curbing them and Russia decides to join in on side of Mexicans into local conflict. Would that sit ok with them ? Ofc it wouldn't. So what gives right for US to do what others wouldn't be allowed to do to them ?
To take something so complicated and make it understandable to regular people is a very important skill. And that is exactly what you were able to do here. Great job! I know there are many fine details and nuances missing. However to add creates the complexity. 👍👍
Da niste ratovali u Hrvatskoj i Bosni mogli ste se 1991 koncentrirat na Kosovo i oslobodit ga ali vi ste htjeli sve na kraju ste ostali bez ičega. Slažem se da je Kosovo Srbija
@@ado9255 Even if the entire planet got destroyed and one small asteroid survived and that asteroid was kosovo and there was no serbs left alive that asteroid would still be serbia
@@djuradimitrijevic9570 ottomans become an empire when they seized Constantinopol, that's why they wanted Wienna and Rome as well. Orthodox empire moved to Moscow not to Belgrade
@@djuradimitrijevic9570 orthodox empire is succesor of eastern roman empire just like holy roman empire is to western part. So at that time there could be only 2 emperors in Christian world, 1 catholic and 1 orthodox
We Bulgarians were just looking over the fence like "what the hell are they doing over there? Wonder if they wanna buy guns and supplies?" Drinks rakija
20:45 it was actually around 3 million Greeks that left or died in Anatolia. 1.5 due to the Greek genocide,1.2 million to Greece after the population exchange and hundreds of thousands emigrated to the Soviet union
@@thegreekguy1124 2.3 million greek in 1893 and 2.8 million greek in 1906 according the ottoman archives; tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893_Osmanl%C4%B1_%C4%B0mparatorlu%C4%9Fu_n%C3%BCfus_say%C4%B1m%C4%B1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
@@CruWiT Ottoman archives didn't count many Greeks who were exempt from taxes. Also Ottoman archives are known to buffing up the number of Muslims and reducing the number of Christians and/or not counting Greek Muslims too. They also over generalize the ethnic groups. Historically hundreds of thousands of Greeks had been "covering" to Islam in order to get the benefits but still remained Orthodox Greeks secretly,at any given time and Ottoman archives count them as "muslims". In addition to that 1906 to 1922 is almost a generation difference in early 20th century Ottoman empire. In addition to that the 3 numbers in my original comment are all confirmed by scientific research,Greek sources,sources of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and Soviet sources Edit:also Wikipedia isn't a very good source in general Edit 2:just checked the sources you signed and it's proving my point even more. Ottoman archives claim more Muslim Turks in Macedonia than Greeks and only 5% Greeks in Eastern Romelia. I don't know who made that census but more Turks and more Bulgarians than Greeks in Serres as well as only 22k Greeks in Drama is laughable
As a serb i must say you did such an accurate historical analysis from the Middle Age period,and thank you for mentioning the Ottoman census showing clearly that the population was mostly serbian,this crushes completely the albanian myth of Illyrian descendance,they claim to be autochtonus in kosovo and that serbs colonized it in the 7th century,btw you could mention that after the Kumanovo agreement ,resolution 1244 of the UN security counsil garanteed that Kosovo stays a serbian province under international administration,violated in 2008,all this leads to the famous pandora box about wheter provinces should get indipendence or not,the west condemning the violation of the integrity of Ukraine but recognizing Kosovo...
@gettonderg simply cause the census shows an almost complete serb majority,if albanians are autochtonus that means the would've been there or there would've been sources of some massive expulsion by the slavs,wich do not exist
@gettonderg they were assimilated,jugoslav ppl DNA although we are slavs has nothing to do with the DNA of our northern brothers ,Poles or Russians,in conclusion,albanians are not mentioned in any source before the 10th/11th century,and again,no sources of any massive expulsion,such events are always documented.
@gettonderg Entire Byzantine province of Illyricum was constantly under some sort of famine war or disease. Just before Slavs moved in there was literally huge plague during tome of Justinian that killed lot of people who lived in the Byzantine empire. Also people where just moving out of that region and going to richer parts of the empire. So when Serbs arrived there most of the area was empty of locals that lived there before and the ones that remained lived only in some mountainous areas.
No it doesn’t. Kosovo was known as Dardania back then. Also we never called ourselves Albanians and still don’t. That’s just a international name given to us because it comes from an Illyrian tribe called the Albanoi. Today we call ourselves Shqiptar which means people of the eagle since Skenderbegs flag was a double headed eagle. Before then we called ourselves Arberia. And before then we were Illyrians under the Byzantine and Roman Empire. The natives of Dardania(modern day Kosovo)either mixed with the Serbs or they migrated south into the mountains as we have always been mountain tribes people. Albanians didn’t magically appear out of nowhere. We watched the slavs come into our lands.
18:02 My ancestors were part of the settlment programme: My greatgrandparents, Isidor and Jovanka moved from central Serbia to Kosovo in 1920s in seach for a better life. They had pretty decent relations with their Albanian neighbours. Greatgrandpa was a brush maker and he was respected in the village near Peć. My own grandpa, his son, Miodrag went to school with many albanian children. He told me that the teacher who was a Boshniak used to beat and bully Albanian children for any mistake they would make. All in all, when the WWII came, neighbours advised my faimily to move out asap as Italian and Albanian faschist were arritving and there would be no mercy for Serbs. So they came back to cetral Serbia, hidden in a stack of hay. They settled near town or Rekovac. Later they moved Belgrade, then Kragujeavac and here I am today. Wars always induce migrations, which is biologicaly a good thing, if we are able to look past cultural differences and actually learn, understand and communicate with each other. And make mixed marriages and babies. Unfrotunatelly that is more often not the case.
yeah Saudi arabia really need to start letting their muslim women marry western white men but we all know what would happen to the woman, their families would be doing a lot off talk about honer
Uh, no. I'd rather not be in favour of mixed marriage. Looking at what's happening in Brazil and big cities in Western Europe, I think mixing is a bad idea. Btw, what is the origin of the name Isidor?
Not sure about the origin, but the female version of the name is "Isidora" and it's very common. I believe they are of Greek origin, like Theodor and Theodora.@@Jorvaskrr
Current ethnicity percentage isn't and can't be only measure who does Kosovo & Metohija belong to. There are numerous other factors like religious, cultural, historical background and property rights that affect that 'decision'. You can't be brought by mafia into someone's apartment, take his room by force and with mafias backing, and say it's "the new reality". And even try to make owner sign it on paper by force. And, after owner's years of slaved labor, torture, death and life threats to him and his family, say -" I've been in this apartment for ages, only I'm in it now, with my mafia, nobody can't touch me, even my kids live normally here. " . it's normal Serbs wanted their independence from Turkey and reclaim their sacred monastery land, rich in everything , specially spiritually, culturally, historically etc. then in 1912 - it's also normal today.
Just to point out that this is quite objective channel anyway, i would give full recommendation, but oversimplifying history can be misleading sometimes.
Truth be told, I was expecting another update video on the Bahkmut battle since many things have happened. But still, very surprising that you decided to make Kosovo video. At the end of a day you are really History Legends.
At this point i think he's just waiting for the battle of Bahkmut to finally come to a close so that he can make a complete summary on the entire battle from start to finish
Wow a youtube video that at least acknowledges serbian civilian casualties in any war we fought. This is a pleasant surprise, good job HistoryLegends :)
Your programs are superb. I minored in history in college, although the directors of the department of history wanted me to major and become a history professor. Instead, I went the route of being a philosophy major. . At any rate, you have an incredibly good grasp and you can deliver the lesson in an interesting way. That’s the key to many people unfortunately, history seems dull, but it’s not. We are all here because of what happened in history, your family and my family from the world you talk about we survived the plagues. We survived the wars the hundred years war the 30 years war, it all matters and it really does tell us what’s going on today is all tied back to the history. . That’s why when Putin wanted to explain that detailed history to Tucker he had to do that because he knows a few people in the West have any idea of how complex and deep seated so many of these issues are they have never left and they never will .
