The Yugoslav Wars

[A Former User]

everyone used to be friends

we were never friends lmfao, we all hated eachother in yugoslavia even the day after it was established, it’s just that Tito kept the ethnic tensions under control, but when he died in 1980 tensions flared

[A Former User]

Ah, I always thought there was a sense of unity in Yugoslavia during Tito’s time, but it’s interesting to hear your take on it.

I guess the breakup was inevitable lmao

[A Former User]

It turned into a big THICK fight

in slovenia, the war only lasted 10 days.
there weren’t many serbs in slovenia so belgrade didn’t care that much that they left

[Wubbrle the Wubble]

@OVERLORD did you try to teach us abt yugoslavia?

[A Former User]

Not exactly, I made this for people to lay their point of views

[Wubbrle the Wubble]

@OVERLORD Oh, so that explains why you posted it :)

[A Former User]

I didn’t heard that Slovenia had a relatively short conflict during the breakup. It’s interesting that the ethnic composition may have influenced the dynamics…

[Wubbrle the Wubble]

I feel like this topic will reach alot of posts, i got a slight feeling of that.

[A Former User]

@OVERLORD yeah, i’m from a former yugoslav country so i know a lot

ordinary people didn’t hate each other, it’s just the governments and nationalists that did.
but, there was a lot of nationalism after tito died, and plus tensions also flared because serbia wanted more unity and centralism while others like slovenia croatia etc wanted more autonomy and wanted to rule over their respective territories, much like countries in EU do today

[A Former User]

That makes sense, it often seems like political leaders and nationalists drive a lot of the conflicts.

[A Former User]

@OVERLORD yugoslavia’s collapse was more attributed because neither side could get what they wanted
ones wanted one thing while another side wanted a totally different thing that was partially or fully against the thing the first group proposed