The Real Reason Yugoslavia Died | Prof. Susan L. Woodward

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  @Dennisyoung-u2y · 1 year ago

  I was a military intelligence operator in Bosnia in 1995/96. The beginning of the end of Yugoslavia was in 1986 when Reagan gave a speech demanding that Yugoslavia join the western banking system. I won't go into the mechanics of the downfall that followed, but as Smedley Butler said "All wars are banker wars,"

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  @obradpetrovic6401 · 1 year ago

  As Serbian I was born in Slovenia in time of Yugoslavia. Till my 14th birthday I visited with my school, without my parents, all the other schools with the same name in other parts of Yugoslavia. It was time without internet, without mobile phones, so there was no way for my parents to keep in touch with me for few days. They were not worried or afraid for my safety. As kids we were very kindly welcomed in each town of Yugoslavia. Not in hotels, but in homes of kids that we were visiting. It was very peaceful and safe country. Knowing that it was very difficult for me, in 90's, to understand how did we manage to come into the stage of hate and revenge. Later my business brought me to Belgium. I couldn't believe how deeply divided is this country, but yet, no war. Am I any closer to the answer? Answers, or explanations that I heard here feel wrong. Maybe today, when kids will sell their parents for likes it would make sense, but in that time we were not consumers, surrounded with needs and eager to get more and more money, almost like slaves. No, we lived for good time with family and friends. I remember now, we had one shampoo in bathroom, grandparents used stubbornly only soup, today my dog has 3 types, each more expensive than monthly expense for bread in that time.

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  @Dzanarika1 · 1 year ago

  Well, now Yugoslavia is happening everywhere, Yugoslavia was just a practice for a bigger scale.

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  @pyrosun01 · 1 year ago

  That case when comments have more intersting information then video

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  @malibufunnyfarmpumpkinpatc2758 · 1 year ago

  We were not considering ourselves neutral I Yugoslavia, but non aligned.  There is a philosophical difference.

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  @fifi23o5 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m from Slovenia and for a long time I thought the breakup of Yugoslavia was entirely homegrown, but with years I realized there were also influences &nbsp;from abroad. Direct and indirect.<br>A friend of mine was the runner for an ultra nationalist party, he started in late 1990 before Slovenian independence. He was 16 at the time, but he had almost three times higher wage than me at the time. They &nbsp;wanted to buy him a car, but he was too young, so they bought him a scooter. In his name. Later, after some ten years kater we talked about it and I asked him if he knew where they were financed from. He said he only knew it was from abroad. <br>At that time I became curious how was it possible for so many parties emerged from nowhere and they were mostly financed very well. I did some digging and the name George Soros popped out quite often.

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  @knightalexius593 · 1 year ago

  Prof. Woodward should be asked about <br>&quot;The Foreign Operations Appropriations Act is a U.S. law that provides appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30. The 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act provided that any part of Yugoslavia failing to declare independence within six months would lose U.S. financial support.&quot;

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  @ardasarkaya6276 · 4 months ago

  It was a very informative video on a topic I am immensely interested in. <br>Thank you!

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  @goranvujasinovic2888 · 1 year ago

  History of Yugoslavia didn&apos;t start in 1945 with Tito, it started in 1918. In years before the break up of Yugoslavia, &nbsp;peoples of Yugoslavia were successfully convinced that Srbs, Croats and Muslims can&apos;t live together in Yugoslavia but they can in Bosnia. That tells you how sincere was the &quot;international community&quot; and still is about what happened in Yugoslavia and now is happening in Bosnia.

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  @moonlight-kh6uz · 1 year ago

  By the 1980, the 40 billion DM Willie Brant gave to Yugoslavia after the WWII in the name of war reparations were all spent. I lived in Yugoslavia from the end of 50s till 1994 when I emigrated. The period of the 60s to 80s in Yugoslavia was a golden age of human life compared to anywhere on the planet. For one, yes, there are many places of incredible wealth on Earth, but at each such place there is a lot of accompanying suffering as well. Those who have, they are always under a tremendous pressure, fighting other sharks etc. &nbsp;Those who do not have, they are in extreme poverty and poor health. Both of these groups are in a constant survival mode. Not so in Yugoslavia. First, one would never struggle to find a job in Yugoslavia. You complete your degree and then decide where you want to work. You go there and - no pressure. In Yugoslavia, being at work was like being on vacation. You work by inspiration. The very best ideas I ever implemented were those I did in Yugoslavia. No deadlines, what&apos;s that. No project management, what&apos;s that. All prices were in pfennigs so who cares about the salary. You go to a bar and you order rounds and rounds of drinks. 1kg of prime grade veal strip-loin, the kind that US ambassador Ingleberger (or something like that) cherished so much and ate it at Writer&apos;s club in Belgrade regularly, was a mere 5DM. Basically, for my salary of 150DM I could buy 30kg of the very best beef/veal anywhere in the world, or 1kg per day. I would stay at job late afternoon intentionally so I could have an early supper comprised of the tenderloin (in Yugoslavia nobody cared about different cuts of meat. They would mix everything in the canteen, so it was your choice to pick your fancy. These were like home cooked meals, very healthy). <br>But I forgot to say the most important thing: as soon as you get your university degree, you pick your company, and then, very soon, you get your apartment (condo) free of charge (probably from that money Willie Brant paid after the WWII). You are in your 20s, you go to Yugoslav Peoples Army for a year, then get married and live happily after. Though free apartments stopped immediately after Tito&apos;s death. Still the life was rosy. You rent for 30DM and you still have 120DM to spend.<br> <br>The period of 60s to 80s in Yugoslavia was so golden that I, after spending a year in US in the 80s, and having a financial offer to stay there indefinitely, I decided to buy a one-way ticket to Yugoslavia. I think I was the only such traveller that ever did such thing. Yugoslavia was a country of happy people. You feel good inside when everybody around you is in good standing, happy and smiling. Salaries were all pretty much the same across the board, whether you are a blue worker or white collar. Now I have millions but I have nothing. I would return to that same Yugoslavia I remember in a split second and gave up millions. Nope, after working on two continents in 6 countries, I can say with full certainty: there is not an &apos;e&apos; of efficiency on the west, compared to Yugoslavia. West simply accumulated capital during 360 years of colonization followed by Neo-colonization that lasts to this very day. Once collective west dismantled Yugoslavia, the very first thing they did was to remove and obstacle called SDK or Yugoslav Public Accounting Service. Of course, with SDK in place, they would not be able to steal money easily like they were accustomed in their countries. SDK was an inter enterprise double entry accounting service, a pearl of Yugoslav economic system.

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  @t95mwp · 1 year ago

  During 1993 I was in the room with CIA operative in southern Bosnia where he stated that war was planned in Pentagon 25 years ago.

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  @foteini3919 · 1 year ago

  Thank you very much for the interesting &nbsp;discussion!