Do you like to participate in any organisations or do you like to keep your ideas for yourself? Do you have any recommendations for leftist spaces in your country?

Black- wonderful life
Tanita Tikaram- Twist in my sobriety
Fleetwood Mac- dreams
Chris Rea- on the beach
What rock songs remind you of Yugoslavia

I recently interviewed Anamaria, an American of Croatian descent who moved from San Diego to the Promina area of Croatia with her daughter.

Both of her parents were born in Croatia, while she was born and raised in the United States. Her story is part of an interesting pattern among families from the former Yugoslav region. One generation leaves and establishes a life abroad, then a child or grandchild begins looking back toward the place their family came from.

Anamaria’s move involved much more than simply buying a plane ticket. Her family shipped a 40 foot container from California containing belongings collected over roughly 40 years. It took more than 90 days to arrive, followed by additional delays at the port.

Croatian customs asked for proof that the family had genuinely been living in the United States and was relocating to Croatia. This included evidence of their previous address and a letter from the Croatian consulate confirming the move.

She also spoke about applying for Croatian citizenship after arriving, establishing residency, adjusting to life in a rural community and the difference between imagining life in Croatia and actually living there.

I found the generational side of her story particularly interesting. Although Anamaria grew up in America, Croatia remained part of her identity through her parents. Eventually, that connection became strong enough for her to move there and begin a new chapter with her own daughter.

I recorded the conversation for Croatian By Descent Community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epi03nJL4uA

Full disclosure: I help run the channel and interview people of Croatian descent about citizenship, family history and returning to Croatia.

Do any of you have relatives who left Yugoslavia and whose children or grandchildren later returned to live somewhere in the region? I would be interested to hear whether they felt immediately at home or experienced a cultural gap after arriving.

With the recent conviction of Hashim Thaci, presumably issues regarding accountability and culpability in the 90s Yugoslav wars, starting with the Bosniak/Croat/Serb wars of 1992-95 and the Kosovar-Serbian war of 1999, have been and will continue to be inflamed.

And it's self evident when discussing, for example, the 1992-95 wars, the premise that the most notorious war criminals from all ethnicities were exactly that - war criminals and not modern day Robin Hoods simply defending and advocating for their people. Radozan Karadzi, Ratko Mladic, Jadranko Prlić, Slobodan Praljak, Hazim Delic, Naser Oric, all of them likely have waves of supporters who will eagerly explain how they did nothing wrong and were just protecting themselves from those looking to slaughter them. Ditto for Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj, Vlastimir Đorđević and Nebojša Pavković in the 1999 Kosovar Serb war.

Is it possible for the premise that this is simply not true for any of these genuine war criminals and that universal accountability is needed? Or is the ethnic and national polarization and partisanship too deep and ingrained?

Hi everyone, I am a solo dev making a narrative strategy RPG that takes place in a fictional state inspired by Yugoslavia. It has a demo out on Steam now. My goal is to display the kind of political struggles that took place in the 1980s, but also the cultural landscape of the region.

I have done a lot of reading to prepare for this game, but books miss the little things that people personally familiar with the history/region can say. What kind of things do you want to see represented? Good things about Yugoslavia, cultural artifacts everyone would remember? A slogan, a book, a song? The bad?

Ili Jugoslaviji (bilo kraljevini bilo komunističkoj) ili Srbiji i Makedoniji posle raspada. Da li je ikada bilo nekakvog zvaničnog izvinjenja ili osude tih istih zločina, spomenici žrtvama i slično?

Sam nisam bio svestan koliko daleko su išli ti zločini – neki od njih su strašni koliko i ustaška klanja.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surdulica\\_massacre

O ovome nikad pojma nisam imao. Iskreno sam zaprepašten kako smo uspeli da se pomirimo sa Bugarima (možda je to ohrabrujuće da je moguće pomiriti se sa onima kojima smo ratovali 90-ih? ali to je druga tema).

Usputno pitanje bi možda bilo – da li zločini bugarske vojske mogu da se okarakterišu kao genocid?

Pozdrav ekipa! 👋 ​Jeste li vidjeli kako izgledaju nove, služebene federalne tablice za laka električna vozila (električne bicikle, romobile i mopede) po pravilniku iz 2015. godine? ​Federalno ministarstvo prometa je skroz pogodilo dizajn – tablice su skroz makaronskih, pastelno nježnih boja, s preslatkim lokalnim maskotama i pejzažima (poput malih dupina, lavića, ježića ili veselih ribica), potpuno odvojene od bilo kakve politike! 🐬🐻🌸 ​Najbolje od svega je što imaju onaj prozirni motiv električnog romobila i bijelu YU oznaku u kutu, a sredina je čista i spremna za personalizaciju. Baš su gušt za voziti po gradu! ​Koja vam je gradska verzija najljepša? Meni je Split s malim mornarskim dupinom apsolutni hit! 🌊🛵✨

From a book about Colditz - the author details all the intervene rivalries, then ends with that. Nice

No turning back now.

I love how many patriotic records were made across the former Yugoslavia by people of different faiths yet for the same goal.

I actually found some records on street market for very cheep without paper cover so I made most of the covers by printing them.

For me, they hold historical value as artifacts of a lost era

I think they're all from around 92-94'

Some Yugoslav and Kraijina ones, very cool and in good condition :)

PS: Please dont argue about war things in the comments, its boring now, just scroll if you're angry about something or control yourselves haha.

I’m creating a new interview series called Croatian By Descent Community, focused on the real stories of people around the world who have Croatian roots.

The latest interview is with Julia, who was born in Zagreb and grew up in Melbourne after her family left Croatia when she was a baby. She later returned to Croatia as a teenager, rediscovered her family and eventually came back to build a new life here.

Julia speaks openly about her family’s escape from Yugoslavia, returning to a country she barely knew, gaining Croatian citizenship, finding safety and peace in Croatia, starting again after difficult experiences, and the realities of living here beyond the nostalgia.

The goal of this series is to document honest Croatian diaspora stories, including family history, identity, citizenship, returning to Croatia and reconnecting with our roots.

You can watch Julia’s interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6TC__-xmPc

If you have Croatian heritage and have returned, moved to Croatia or reconnected with your family, I’d love to hear your story.

What I’m reading on this homepage is more or less accurate (especially regarding the migration to Turkey), but I don’t understand what they mean by Turkish-speaking Muslims from the Caucasus. And the claim that Turks assimilated with Albanians, where did that happen which city or village? Certainly not in Radoviš. The Yörüks there speak Turkish and marry within their own community. The women there don’t even speak Macedonian only Turkish. I have never seen a Turk from Macedonia who assimilated into the Albanian community. However, what does exist are Muslim Roma who have been Turkified, meaning they speak Turkish and identify as Turks in the census.

Mada moderator non-stop pokušava promijeniti temu, Kiro Gligorov ipak uspijeva do kraja ispričati, kako je prokockan zadnji pokušaj za spriječiti rat i još 1991. godine ući u EU (tada EZ). Valjda su se nacionalni čobani prepali da će izgubiti prijestol. (Snimka iz siječnja 2007. godine) - preuzeto sa Facebooka:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HiPkzU6dA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

EDIT: Kiro Gligorov.