Questions tagged [yugoslavia]
Yugoslavia was a country in the Southeastern Europe with a three separate incarnations: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Kingdom of Yugoslavia; and, after the WW2, a federal republic. The country flourished during the governance of the supreme leader Tito. It fell apart in a civil war in the early 90s, into the legacy countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
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How did 300,000 people survive the 3 1/2 year siege of Sarajevo?
How did the inhabitants of Sarajevo survive a 3 1/2-year siege from 1992 to 1996? Specifically, how did they deal with water, food, and heating?
Background: In 2018, Sweden sent out a leaflet "If ...
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What was the reason for Soviet troops to withdraw from Yugoslavia in World War II?
For all these countries that the Red Army entered (Poland, Romania, part of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary), the procedure was straightforward. Once the Soviets beat the Germans they become de facto ...
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Why did the rest of the Eastern Bloc not invade Yugoslavia?
When Tito was resisting Stalin/Soviet rule, according to the Wikipedia article on Tito:
An invasion of Yugoslavia was planned to be carried out in 1949 via the combined forces of neighbouring ...
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Why do land mines seem to be a more serious problem in the Balkans than the Alps?
The last war in the Balkans finished around 2000. Until today, land mines are a big problem, especially in Bosnia. There are huge regions where you shouldn't leave paved terrain.
Since I love hiking, ...
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Why didn't Stalin use force to bring Tito into line?
In 1956 and 1968, the Soviets invaded Eastern European countries because they had deviated from Moscow's model.
Why didn't they do this to Tito? His independent inclinations are usually explained by ...
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Tito's partisans loyalty
Why was Tito able to rally the loyalty of so much of the young people in ex-Yugoslavia, and the royalist Draza Michailovich (Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић) was not? The so-called chetnicks, loyal to the ...
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Was there a Roman city in the Plain of Sarajevo?
The established modern historical/archaeological opinion seems to be that the Plain of Sarajevo in Roman times contained mainly an intersection of roads and a bath installation (e.g. Wikipedia).
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Did Tito back the Bulgarian anti Communist Goryani resistance movement?
I was doing Wikipedia based (mixed quality source) research on the Goryani anti communist resistance movement in Bulgaria and found the following interesting statement:
“During the same period, some ...
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Why were Austria-Hungary's Slavic minorities put into multinational states?
From the perspective of the post-Cold War generation that saw Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia break up over ethnic squabbles (peacefully in the case of the former, acrimoniously in the case of the ...
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Was Operation Kugelblitz really a success for the partisans?
Every source that I have looked at says that the Germans practically accomplished nothing during this offensive. Yet at the same time it is claimed that the Partisans suffered a staggering 9,000-11,...
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Were some Yugoslav "nationalities" more pro-Axis/Allied than others during World War II
"Yugo" (South) slavia, is actually a motley collection (mixed bag in the American idiom) of groups such as the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Dalmatians, Macedonians, Bosnians, and others.
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What was Yugoslavia doing in the Angolan Civil War?
I was looking through Wikipedia (a mixed quality source) about the military history of Yugoslavia, when I noticed this odd listing of Yugoslavia as one of the combatants in the Angolan Civil War (1975-...
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What is this lapel pin logo?
I got this lapel pin in the mid-1980s from a retired communist partisan in Hungary. He had more pins, mostly of communist/socialist organisations, trade fairs, and combines.[1]
cold-war era Eastern ...
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What do citizens of countries that partition do about new anthems? [closed]
I am fascinated with creation and adoption of national anthems. I find it especially intriguing with such countries that were once a union and then broke apart.
My interest/question deals with two ...
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Was the Bosnian Crisis the trigger to WWI and not the assassination?
I've read that Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908, much to the dismay of the Serbs. Russia backed this action and was promised to have access to the Straits but were later denied. The ...
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Is it true that Serbia was offered "Great Serbia" instead of Yugoslavia at the end of the WWI by Allies?
Allegedly, the king Alexander Karadjordjevic, the unifier, was offered to choose between Yugoslavia (called the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) or greater Serbia which would have been smaller ...
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What caused Yugoslavia to switch sides early in World War II?
In 1940,-41 Germany was able to enlist the support of Roumania, Hungary (the latter at the expense of the former), and Bulgaria, in the Balkans. Yugoslavia initially signed on with Germany, then soon ...
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What was the standard pistol used in Yugoslavia during WWII?
I've looked into the firearms used during WWII, but I can't find what pistol was used by Yugoslavian infantry men at the time. What did they use?
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Why did former Yugoslav republics dispute the legal successor of Yugoslavia?
In Wikipedia's article for Yugoslavia:
One of the seven successor states was also known as the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) until 2003. The FRY aspired to be a sole
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German - Yugoslav partisan negotiations 1943 and Churchill? [closed]
Negotiations between Tito's partisans and Germans in 1943 are well known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Yugoslav_Partisan_negotiations
"Đilas and Velebit were passed through the ...
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Did Serb nationalism play an outsized role in the breakup of Yugoslavia?
Every few years, I rewatch a five hour BBC documentary about the breakup of Yugoslavia. The documentary begins with Milosevic's rise to power and his assertion of Serb rights in Kosovo. The video ...
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How did Yugoslavia economically survive the Cold War
During the time of Cold War, both USA and USSR have a program to help their allied country economically.
For USA, they have a policy called "Marshal Plan" which is aimed to support democratic country ...
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Why did the Nazis collaborate with the Ustaše?
The Croats are linguistically, ethnically and culturally a Slavic people. While the Ustaše did not see themselves as such, why did the Nazis choose to collaborate with what was essentially a ...
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Did Joseph Stalin ever attempt to assassinate or launch a coup against Josip Broz Tito?
Did Joseph Stalin ever attempt to assassinate or launch a coup against Josip Broz Tito? If so, which of these coup or assassination attempts almost succeeded? How did Tito respond to Stalin's ...
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After the split with Stalin, what was Yugoslavia's official attitude towards Soviet history before Stalin's takeover?
In 1939, Tito published a pamphlet attacking Trotsky and Trotskyism. Unsurprising since he was still no different to any other Communist at that time, and was a supporter of Stalin.
Josip Broz Tito: ...
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Did contemporaries refer to the liberation of Yugoslavia in 1945 as a liberation?
Tito of Yugoslavia, with help from the Russians, expelled Wehrmacht troops from Belgrade in 1944, establishing himself as sole dictator with virtually no political opposition that wasn't in prison or ...
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How was the UK involved in Yugoslavia during WW2? [closed]
What was the role and the level of involvement of the United Kingdom in Yugoslavia during World War II?
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What paramilitary group was Nikola Jorgić in?
"Nikola Jorgić (1946 – 8 June 2014) was a Bosnian Serb from the Doboj region who was a soldier of a paramilitary group located in his native area.1 On 26 September 1997, he was convicted of ...
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What percentage of refugees from Yugoslavia returned home after the war had ended?
I'm trying to understand the process of how Yugoslav refugees returned to their home countries after the end of the Yugoslav wars, 1991-2001. How many refugees returned to their home countries ...
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Who exactly were the Slovene White Guard?
In World War II, there was a group in Yugoslavia called the Slovene White Guard. Concerning this group, the book If The Allies Had Fallen states that:
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Why was there a fierce resistance to Axis occupation in Yugoslavia during World War II? [closed]
First of all the resistance against Germans and Italians erupts straight after the conquering of the country, whereas per example at nearby Greece the guerrilla groups become numerous only at 1943.
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Croatia's reparations to Serbia after WWII [closed]
How Croatia avoid to pay reparations to Serbia after the WWII for something like this?
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Why don't/can't the different ethnolinguistic groups of people in erstwhile Yugoslavia get along with each other?
Why haven't they been able to live together as one country? What are the reasons for their bitter and bloody feuds? Since when did these divisions exist?
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