After a referendum for independence the previous month that crossed the required 55% threshold, Montenegro became independent of Serbia on this day in 2006.
Courtesy of the #Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples of #Yugoslavia, inventory numbers: 6331, 6339, 6343, 6359 and 6360. The #photos were bought from Vojin Đorđević from #Belgrade on 26.01.1965.
After the capture of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the #medieval#Smederevo#Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the USSR. 🔽
40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be once again broadcast over FM radio! 📻 Anyone who still has a working Spectrum ZX will then be able to test the game. 🎮 Those who do not have one can do so at the museum or online. 💻
The US, UK, and Germany have deliberately destroyed the single vehicle that averts war globally, open and protected diplomatic channels, by NOT condemning the Israeli strike of the Iranian embassy in #syria
That is a green light to any parties exercising the same war crime as being OK, unless they want to go on record for double standards.
Which reminds me with Chinese diplomats being executed in #Yugoslavia by NATO forces.
....law committed in the territory of the former #Yugoslavia defined ethnic cleansing in its interim report S/25274 as "… 👉rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area.👈" In its final report S/1994/674, the same Commission described ethnic cleansing as “… 👉a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by...
🎙 Anita Buhin was invited by the Transformative Podcast (RECET) to talk about so-called #galebovi ('seagulls') in socialist #Yugoslavia and various economic, cultural and social aspects of this phenomenon, typical for the broader #Mediterranean region and the development of mass #tourism.
The galebovi were local young men who engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with foreign tourists.
https://www.europesays.com/1003920/ On this day in 1992 the European Community, along with its members, recognised the Republic of Slovenia as a sovereign and an independent state. #slovenia
It's been 30 years since the demise of dictator #Tito's Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), commonly referred to as SFR #Yugoslavia.
31 years since the end of the #ColdWar, the #WarsawPact, and the #USSR.
By invading #Ukraine since 2014, #Putler wants to turn back time and even twist history
More recently #ethniccleansing seems to have been regarded as less acceptable - advocates and practitioners in the former #yugoslavia in the 1990swtended to end up in the dock at #thehague !
Gaza is Sarajevo, is Podujevo, is Oluja, is Batajnica, is Srebrenica. It is Vukovar and the Tvrđavska market and Markale. It is the horror of the bomb dropping from above, of “all men are combatants”, of the refugee column.
Read this if you are from #Yugoslavia and remember. And then let’s do something.
Interesting set of documents from the U.S Govt just dropped. Potentially useful for historians of Eastern Europe and the Balkans during the tumultuous 80s. Excited to check it out.
In print today in Traveller in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald, I write about a great tour of Belgrade in a Yugo car, visiting relics of the vanished Yugoslavia.
“Pucaju oni, pucamo i mi.” Safeta Biševac poredi napade na kosovsku policiju od strane srpskih paramilitaraca sa početkom rata u SFRJ. Štejngartov Absurdistan u balkanskoj izvedbi, Vučić i Kurti se igraju “došli smo da poginete”.
Srbi na Kosovu moraju ostati, na svojoj domovini. Ali instrumentima nasilja države Srbije na Kosovu nikad ne sme biti mesta. To su pravo izgubili ubilačkom 1912.
Aleksandar Vučić, President of the Republic of Serbia, has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the same narratives and explanations for his attack on Ukraine as NATO countries did when they launched their military operation against Yugoslavia.
🟥⬛ Within our collection, we proudly house three rare household computers, the Oric Nova 64, specifically adapted for the Yugoslavian market from the Oric Atmos (Tangerine Computer Systems, 1984). One of these units is particularly fascinating due to its inclusion of engraved Yugoslav (YU) characters. 😍
Serbian President compares Russia's attack on Ukraine to bombing of Yugoslavia (www.pravda.com.ua)
Aleksandar Vučić, President of the Republic of Serbia, has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the same narratives and explanations for his attack on Ukraine as NATO countries did when they launched their military operation against Yugoslavia.