Tag: yugoslavia

  • WHY DID THE BALKAN WARS HAPPEN?

    WHY DID THE BALKAN WARS HAPPEN?

    Final word on Yugoslavia’s disintegration WHY DID THE BALKAN WARS HAPPEN? In conclusion to the excerpts from my wartime diaries, I will try to answer a question some of you have been asking: Why did the Balkan wars happen in the 1990s that led to disintegration of Yugoslavia, a country cobbled together after the Treaty…

  • “AMERICAN SNIPER” SARAJEVO VERSION: “SERBIAN CHRIS KYLE” WAS A YOUNG WOMAN

    “AMERICAN SNIPER” SARAJEVO VERSION: “SERBIAN CHRIS KYLE” WAS A YOUNG WOMAN

    TOP THIS PLOT, CLINT EASTWOOD: TOP SARAJEVO SNIPER WAS A SERB WOMAN WHO KILLED SERBS The latest Clint Eastwood movie, “American Sniper,” has already grossed over $257 million in less than two weeks, and is setting box office records worldwide. It has also been nominated for a plethora of Academy Awards including the Best Picture. So you can…

  • ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: “BOLJE RAT NEGO PAKT” (Better war than pact)

    ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: “BOLJE RAT NEGO PAKT” (Better war than pact)

    ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: “BOLJE RAT NEGO PAKT” (Better war than pact) BELGRADE CITIZENS REJECT YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT’S PACT WITH HITLER MARCH 27, 1941   On this day in 1941, massive demonstrations in Belgrade against the government’s neutrality pact with Hitler’s Germany overthrew the government and forced the Yugoslav king and his entourage into exile from…

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