The Yugoslav Wars

[A Former User]

Alright, so imagine this big country called “Yugoslavia”, kinda like a bunch of different places hanging out together. It was made up of six republics, like Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Serbia. They were all living together, sharing stuff, but then things got messy.

In the early '90s, Yugoslavia started falling apart because some people in different republics wanted to do their own thing. Imagine you’re playing a game with your friends, and suddenly some of them decide they want to play a different game. That’s sort of what happened here.

So, the first republics to say “peace out” were Slovenia and Croatia. They declared independence, but Serbia wasn’t cool with that. They wanted to keep everyone together. It turned into a big THICK fight, like when people argue over the last slice of pizza, but way more serious.

Then Bosnia and Herzegovina wanted to leave too, but it wasn’t as simple. See, in Bosnia, there were different ethnic groups like Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs, and they all had their own ideas about what to do. It got super confusing and kinda scary because people started fighting each other.

There were a lot of bad things happening, like really unfair fights and people getting hurt. The international community tried to step in and help, but it was tough to stop the fighting. Eventually, after a lot of fighting and negotiations, they managed to work out peace agreements, and the different republics became independent countries.

So, in a nutshell, the Yugoslav Wars were like a big breakup where everyone used to be friends, but then they wanted to go their separate ways, and it caused a lot of problems and fights. It was a tough time for the people in those countries, and they had to rebuild and try to get along again.

[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