Monday, October 09, 2006
Jugonostalgija on NPR
Jugonostalgija
I know some people hate RealPlayer but there's songs from the era to click on. do check them out, if you just can't handle RealPlayer, go over to my blog roll, click on 'Jugoslavija' and then check out on my friend Seesaw's blog-roll, for the Tito Homepage, there's a marvelous selection of rousing Partizan anthems to select from!
My personal favorite, 'Sharpen the Scythes!' :)
Josip Broz Tito was half Croatian and half Slovenian, so to some extent, I can see some people missing him in Slovenia. They were the best off financially speaking of all the Republics of Former Yugoslavia, but they also had the easiest war of independance. They did not lose so many of their people or their historical monuments as did Croatia or Bosnia-Hercegovina, they did not experience ethnic cleansing, they are the most ethnically homogenous of the Ex-Yu countries, which, not to justify ethnic cleansing, in the least, but it did lead to less ethnicly based tensions. They are not as badly off as the rest of the region. It's odd therefore that anyone there has real full-blown Jugonostalgija!
Still this is by no means a rare viewpoint.
There were some worthy ideals in Tito's program, but unfortunately those did not survive him.
Yugoslavia was something of an artificial construct, like many of the post-colonial African nations, and to me, it's amazing it survived as long as it did.
added later: Is it just me, or is there lately more Balkans coverage on NPR lately?
I know some people hate RealPlayer but there's songs from the era to click on. do check them out, if you just can't handle RealPlayer, go over to my blog roll, click on 'Jugoslavija' and then check out on my friend Seesaw's blog-roll, for the Tito Homepage, there's a marvelous selection of rousing Partizan anthems to select from!
My personal favorite, 'Sharpen the Scythes!' :)
Josip Broz Tito was half Croatian and half Slovenian, so to some extent, I can see some people missing him in Slovenia. They were the best off financially speaking of all the Republics of Former Yugoslavia, but they also had the easiest war of independance. They did not lose so many of their people or their historical monuments as did Croatia or Bosnia-Hercegovina, they did not experience ethnic cleansing, they are the most ethnically homogenous of the Ex-Yu countries, which, not to justify ethnic cleansing, in the least, but it did lead to less ethnicly based tensions. They are not as badly off as the rest of the region. It's odd therefore that anyone there has real full-blown Jugonostalgija!
Still this is by no means a rare viewpoint.
There were some worthy ideals in Tito's program, but unfortunately those did not survive him.
Yugoslavia was something of an artificial construct, like many of the post-colonial African nations, and to me, it's amazing it survived as long as it did.
added later: Is it just me, or is there lately more Balkans coverage on NPR lately?
# posted by Katja R. @ 2:49 PM 
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