The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
... in favor of Kosovo secession was understood as alluding to Vojvodina. Here is a 1990 ethnic map of Yugoslavia : It would appear there are (were...) plenty of Croats in the Vojvodina, which is what Zgombic is alluding to, I would think . The most recent census has it at 2.5% . Note, however, the green patches in Slavonia and Dalmatia where Serbs were a majority, these roughly equating to...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... governments who, according to Lord Peter Carrington, chairman of the Geneva-based conference on Yugoslavia, "made it sure there was going to be a conflict" in that region. Following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, Germany viewed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as standing in the way of the establishment of free-market economies across the whole of...
Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... governments who, according to Lord Peter Carrington, chairman of the Geneva-based conference on Yugoslavia, "made it sure there was going to be a conflict" in that region. You can read the whole of Marcus Papadopolous’s brilliant Morning Star article on how the west deliberately destroyed socialist Yugoslavia, here. With the Iraq war widely discredited and the Afghanistan...
Croatia Country Guide (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Product DescriptionIn this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today’s tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence and drama of Croatia’s past and–drawing on his own [...]
The Public Record (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lately there is a loud chorus among pundits, proclaiming Afghanistan to be the new Viet Nam. Well, it’s not. While the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan is certainly unique, it bears a great deal of resemblance to the former Yugoslavia. It is oh so easy to chant “Troops Out!” But the chanters have no clue the devastating consequences which would result if their wish were...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... v. American Export Lines, 83 N.Y.S.2d 297 (1948). Plaintiff was a seaman who was on shore leave in Yugoslavia. At a bar, he “met a woman whose blandishments, prevailing over his better sense, lured him to her room for purposes not entirely platonic; while there ‘consideration like an angel came and whipped the offending Adam out of him’; the woman scorned was unappeased...
The Flat Back Four (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... first finals since 1958, Northern Ireland started their campaign with a goalless encounter with Yugoslavia and a 1-1 draw with Honduras. Only a win in their final game would ensure qualification to the second round for the first time in their history. Ominously they were up against the host nation, Spain, and few were forecasting a victory for Northern Ireland. Yet Billy Bingham's side nullified...
Mig's Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
See in the EP that Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia is having an affair with Richard Burton, the notorious profligate and actor. The princess is a first cousin of the Kents, being a niece of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent; and thus is a second cousin of the Prince of Wales, Duke of Edinburgh, &c. A remarkable coincidence arises from this romance which the Press doesn't seem to have caught...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Or even just against Islamist terrorism? Not when the Islamist terrorists seek the neocon-backed dismemberment of Russia (or China), as previously of Yugoslavia and then of Serbia. The area between Moscow and Saint Petersburg is in every sense as European as anywhere else on earth, and an integral part of Western civilisation. But the forces of militant Islam can blow up a train there and continue...
WellMetOnline New and Featured Listings (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
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War Through the Generations (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tracey from A Book Sanctuary selected Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean for the WWII reading challenge. Here’s an excerpt from her review: Was there anything this man couldn’t do?! It would seem not… Reporting directly to Winston Churchill, he was then parachuted into Yugoslavia to check out the situation with the rival Partisan groups. His brief was [...]
Continuing Counter Reformation (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... less then 20 miles from Croatia, Pope John Paul II stated that Croatian actions to break away from Yugoslavia were "legitimate aspirations" . The Pope's comments were eagerly welcomed by Cardinal Franjo Kuharac of Zagreb and thousands of Croatians who cheered and waved Craotian national flags throughout the Pope's speech. http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2009/01/croatia-wins-expulsions-ok-for-roman.html...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The U.N. criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia Monday rejected a motion by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic challenging the legitimacy of the court to try him for war crimes.
Continuing Counter Reformation (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... by the more powerful, Serb dominated Yugoslav army. All of the Serb's ethnic contenders in Yugoslavia described Serbs as Communitsts in their effort to make friends n the West, who in turn would help them achieve independence. When a coup was averted in Russia in August 1991, Slovenia's president Kucan, Croatia's president Tudjman, and Bosnian Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, claimed that...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Mark and I left the kolej at around eight caught a bus to the airport and checked in an hour early. As we sat waiting for our flight to board I realized I had no idea of what to expect n Sarajevo Bosnia. It's one of those places you hear about on the news Yugoslavia war 19921995 and learn about in school but to actually be there It would be like being in Bagdad 15 years from now. Or s
