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Mallory Toth

Yugoslavia page - 0 views

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      state was created at the end of World War I 
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      Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia were all part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
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    Yugoslavia means the state of the South Slavs. There were the following linguistic and religious groups within its borders: Serbs; Croats; Slovenes; Macedonians (these are all Slavs); Albanians; Hungarians, Romanians. The area owes its ethnic diversity to migrations of Slavs into territory formerly part of the Roman Empire, at that time occupied by the Illyrians (whose descendants are believed to be the Albanians).
Cole Blum

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/GSW2/Brkljacic.PDF - 1 views

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      This is something that I found very interesting about Tito and it is something that is unique to Tito that got him a lot of respect and support. He did not distance himself and tried to like an ordinary guy.
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      This shows the ultimate sign of respect for a ruler that is saying that the people are Tito and he is one of them.
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    This is an artticle about how most of the people in Yugoslavia liked Josip Tito's rule and how he helped Yugoslavia prosper. It goes into great detail about how Tito was basically the entire country, and his death was a huge deal. His funeral is also a key point in this article.
Cole Blum

Thirty Years After Tito's Death, Yugoslav Nostalgia Abounds - 0 views

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      The fact that there were still so many active sympthizers in Yugoslavia and so many people who respected and supported his shows how big of an influence he was on their lives and it shows the huge support there was for him, which respect goes hand in hand with.
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      This shows how much better Tito was for the country than almost any other leader and how beloved he was there.
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    This article talks about how much the people of Yugoslavia supported and loved Tito and how much he influenced them and made their lives better. It says a lot about how people were very upset after his death.
Ellen Mischinski

Ethnic nationalism: the tragic death ... - Bogdan Denis Denitch - Google Books - 0 views

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      Since 1985 the Serbian popular press had unleashed relentless propaganda about Croatian war crimes in WWII, and that had created hostility where it had not existed before.  176
Ellen Mischinski

Balkan holocausts?: Serbian and ... - David Bruce MacDonald - Google Books - 0 views

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      Croatian propagandists focused most of their attacks on Serbia, which was in the process of invading and occupying one quarter of their new independent country
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      ther important myths include the Antemurale Christianitatis, the belief that Croatia represented the easternmost outpost of European civilization. Across the divide were the Serbs, often presented as being on a lower level of civilization, with an 'Asiatic' mentality, and distinct racial and psychological features, as well as different linguistic and cultural forms of identity. Such forms of differentiation would buttress Croatian arguments that, at all levels, Serbs were more backward, barbarous, and warlike.
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      An interesting aspect of Croatian propaganda was how the focus of attack shifted after 1991. Before Serbia became a threat to Croatian autonomy, Croatian nationalists had little interest in Serbian leaders or Serbian history. Their only true enemies were the Communists, who were solidly in control of the SFRY....A long tradition of attacking Communism and Tito as the worst possible enemies of Croatia changed after 1991, when the Serbs, not the Communists generally, became the new source of evil...myths of Croatian history before WWII is the historical evolution of Serbian hatred against the Croats. What begins as a general condemnation of eastern barbarity, due to the Great Schism, becomes more politicised in the 19th century. p125
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      mostly spread propaganda through internet
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      p.125
Mallory Toth

Croatian Americans - History, Modern era, The first croatians in america, Missionaries - 0 views

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    The newly independent republic of Croatia is located on the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Throughout much of the twentieth century, Croatia was one of five republics within Yugoslavia, an amalgam of ethnicities and religions tenuously held together by dictatorship and economic feasibility.
Mallory Toth

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      Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Dalmatia, parts of Syria, Carniola, etc. 
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      Yugoslavia=Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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Cole Blum

Josip Broz Tito (president of Yugoslavia) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia - 0 views

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    This article is about the major accomplishments of Josip Titio in his lifetime, a lot of which he earned a lot of respect for.
Duncan Flippo

Commentary: Nasty Nationalism | The National Interest - 0 views

  • Unfortunately, Gamsakhurdia's commitment to democracy and rule of law was not as strong as his romantic Georgian nationalism, which encouraged chauvinist and intolerant tendencies among his fellow Georgians. Not only did he favor ethnic-Georgian dominance in a population composed of nearly one-third non-Georgians, he dreamed of Georgia as a regional great power, a kind of Caucasian fulcrum between Russia, Turkey and Iran.
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      shows how Gamsakhurdia favored the Georgian race and encouraged discrimination
  • Tensions increased with all the country's minorities (including Armenians, Mengrelians and Azeris), but with real ferocity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. There had been serious interethnic violence in both regions starting in 1989, which led to South Ossetia's secession in 1990.
  • Gamsakhurdia was deposed in early 1992 in favor of an unelected Shevardnadze.
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      Georgians quickly put an end to Gamsakhurdia's nationalist ideas
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  • Gamsakhurdia went into exile but repeatedly tried to return to power. In response, Shevardnadze sent forces into Abkhazia in September 1992 to root out support for his rival, leading to the brutal Georgian-Abkhaz war of the following year
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      So the need to get rid of this guy leads to a "brutal" war. sounds like a bad outcome
  • Although ignored in the West, the first instances of what later was called "ethnic cleansing" did not take place in Yugoslavia, but in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and were perpetrated by radical Georgian nationalists under the slogan "Georgia for the Georgians.
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      Sounds a lot like the reading. Georgis seems no different thatn tha balkan region when it comes to nationalist ideas
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      This is the best resource I have found so far with respect to nationalism in Georgia. It has more info with less clutter than anything I have come across so far.
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      I found this
  • Many observers believed that with patience, time and wisdom, Tbilisi might have restored its authority in South Ossetia by peaceful means. Now we shall never know. President Saakashvili's almost-inexplicable decision to unleash a massive artillery bombardment of Ossetian civilians and then attempt a swift reconquest of the region has permanently altered the political landscape.
  • The key period for both South Ossetia and Abkhazia was during the Soviet breakup and subsequent emergence of an independent Georgia under the leadership of an extreme romantic nationalist, Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Gamsakhurdia was a distinguished Georgian writer and a noteworthy anti-Soviet dissident. A genuine human-rights figure, he was imprisoned by then-Georgian Communist Party boss Eduard Shevardnadze. Gamsakhurdia led nationalist forces in a drive for independence during the Gorbachev years. He became Georgian-parliament chairman in 1990 and was overwhelmingly elected president in May 1991, before the Soviet collapse.
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    talks about Georgian nationalism under Gamsakhurdia
Austin Buben

Judging History: The Historical Record of the International Criminal Tribunal for the F... - 0 views

  • The Judgment then turns to Bosnia and deals with the rise of ethnically-constituted parties in 1990 and the efforts of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) to achieve a Greater Serbia by annexing parts of Bosnia and Croatia where there were Serb populations.97 There is a thorough discussion of how the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), which up to that point had been multi-ethnic, became 90 percent Serb. In 1991 it had become an army without a state to defend, and thus turned into an instrument of a militaristic Serb nationalism.98 War raged between the newly independent Croatia and Serb forces in late 1991, and this greatly increased tensions in Bosnia. The JNA withdrew from Croatia in early 1992 and brought 100,000 troops, airplanes, helicopters, and heavy weapons into Bosnia which further exacerbated anxiety and hostility among the population.99
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  • The Judgment dedicates a great deal of space to the propaganda campaign in Bosnia. By the spring of 1992, all of the media in Bosnia was Serb controlled, and was pounding out the same unrelenting message that Serbs were about to be overwhelmed by Ustasha Croats and fundamentalist Muslims, and had no choice but to join with the JNA in an all-out war to save the Serbs from genocide. Broadcasts from Belgrade featured Serb politicians such as Zeljko
  • Raznatovic who declared that the Second World War was not over and "news" reports with fictitious stories about a Croat doctor sterilizing Serb women and castrating Serb boys.100The SDS in Bosnia capitalized on the fear created by such propaganda, and began proclaiming Serb Autonomous Regions as part of creating a Greater Serbia. Crisis staffs set up in these regions carried out local government and military functions. Combining elements of the JNA, paramilitary organizations, and police units, the SDS established physical control over these areas. Since the JNA had expelled non-Serbs and was short of manpower, it relied increasingly on paramilitaries such as
  • 101 Even though the JNA was withdrawn from Bosnia in May 1992, apparently in compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 752 calling for an end to outside interference,102 the Bosnian Serb army (VRS) inherited personnel and weapons from the JNA and could still count on air support from the JNA.103 Both of the last two points were essential for connecting the actions of Dusko Tadic, one small cog in the Bosnian Serb security apparatus, to the wider policies of ethnic cleansing.
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      Interesting how Arkan is Aelijko Raznatovic's middle name. Also, how the serbs took over the media in bosnia and spread their propaganda.
Austin Buben

A reappraisal of the abandoned Nuremberg concept of criminal organisations in the conte... - 0 views

  • The principle of individual criminal responsibility set out in article 6 of the Statute of the ICTR18 does not include the notion of responsibility based on membership in a criminal organisation. The notion was considered in the context of the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)19 as there had been reports of atrocities committed by paramilitary groups such as the "Tigers" (a Serb group commanded by Zaljko Raznjatovic (aka Arkan)), the "Cetniks" (a Serb group commanded by Vojislav Seselj), the "White Eagles" (a Serb group commanded by Mirko Jovic) and the "Fire Horses" (a Bosnian Croat paramilitary group).
Cole Blum

Georgia Genocide | Russian claims appear inflated - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

  • Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, sustained heavy damage in a five-day barrage of rockets and missiles as Russian troops and their local allies battled Georgian forces, and dozens of deaths have been documented.
  • Georgia launched a military operation in South Ossetia, to bring the pro-Russian rebel region under the control of the central government.
  • Kremlin has come out heavily in support of independence for Georgia's breakaway republics, a move that would redraw the borders of the post-Soviet Caucasus region.
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    • Cole Blum
       
      It is strange for me to hear about thousands of corpses and all of the casualties in the genocide in Georgia. I have heard of the genocide in Yugoslavia, but I have never heard of the genocide in Georgia. This leads me to believe that genocide is so common in the world today that even extreme cases sometimes go a tad under the radar.
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      This quote really stood out to me when I read this article because it shows the selfishness of countries around the world. Everyone looks out for themselves, and this genocide is a perfect example of how people will turn on their own alies just because they are only looking out for themselves. This is probably why a lot of genocide occurs.
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    details about genocide; conspiracy theories.  look up Kremlin*
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    Shana actually shared this.
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