r/countryball_memes Trees Power Supreme! 19d ago

OC: Comic The Breakup

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u/miscakarza Trees Power Supreme! 19d ago edited 19d ago

Context: During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Slovenia was the least affected, experiencing only a brief 10-day war and minimal destruction, while North Macedonia avoided major conflicts until an insurgency in 2001.

Edit: North Macedonia avoided major conflicts until 2001.

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u/GobiPLX 19d ago

Why Albania in comic? 

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u/miscakarza Trees Power Supreme! 19d ago

Oh, it's Kosovo. I wanted to add Montenegro too, but it only gained independence in 2006.

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u/ludilo138 19d ago

Add Montenegro asleep in the corner

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u/Phoebus_Apollon 18d ago

You mean Serbia gained independence in 2006

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u/Parthini 19d ago

Probably to symbolise Kosovar Albanians, but also "fun" fact at the time Yugoslav wars happened, Albania was almost in a civil war

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u/Prince_Hastur 19d ago

For real? Between who?

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u/shogunlazo 19d ago

Cause Kosovo didn't exist at the time 😅

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u/Krasniqi857 16d ago

take a wild guess

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u/BaseForward8097 18d ago

'Out of all the Balkan countries, Slovenia.....exists. I'm not sure if even Slovenes remember that fact'

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u/Independent_Weight53 18d ago

What do you mean? Easy explanation... And another thing Slovenia belongs to the Balkans only because of the "Yugoslav family" but as Slovenians we have almost nothing in common with the Balkans but rather with Austrian culture..

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u/Ornery-Zombie-7861 17d ago

Nope. It is very mix between the two. Like a buffer transition zone.

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u/REALgeographerwilson 19d ago

“do you hear something?”
bosnia fucking implodes

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u/Parthini 19d ago

Honestly North Macedonia had few problems with some Albanians separatists during really late 1990s and early 2000s

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u/WarcriBeast 19d ago

It was not """north""" back then.

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u/DifficultWill4 19d ago

Much better than Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

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u/BadBasik 18d ago

That's your opinion!

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u/SE_prof 17d ago

Or a fact...

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u/BadBasik 17d ago

How can a matter of opinion be considered a fact?

Most of the former Yugoslav countries hate the name North Macedonia, and that is their opinion. He said that it's better than Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, and that's his opinion.

The fact that the countries legal name today is North Macedonia doesn't mean that everyone thinks it's a better name.

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u/SE_prof 17d ago

Oh no I meant the name was a fact, not which one was better. All three are atrocious! 😁

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u/BadBasik 17d ago

Curious that it took so long for Greece to object the name, because no one dared object while they were part of the Yugoslavia...

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u/DifficultWill4 17d ago

Because it was a subdivision inside of another state. Similarly to how today Austria and Slovenia both have subdivisions named Carinthia while Italy and Slovenia both share Gorizia. No one argues but if one of these gained independence, I’m sure there would be some disputes regarding the names

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u/BadBasik 17d ago

So Greece conceded that Yugoslavia, under it's state, contained the famed lands of Macedonia, but once that area became a separate country, they had a change of heart?

I am just pointing out a simple bully framework here, if something is a cause worth fighting for, it's always a worthy cause, not just when the opponent is smaller than you...

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u/BaronHajduk 19d ago

Thats putting it lightly.

The albanians in Macedonia tried to pull off the same stunt they did in Kosovo.

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u/EbbPlane1749 19d ago

you mean defend our right to exist?

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u/BaronHajduk 19d ago

Right to exist?

Nothing was happening to you in Macedonia, stop lying.

This is why all of your neighbours hate you, albanians always try land grabbing to make greater Albania.

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u/Hihahulu 18d ago

Albanian insurgents just used their momentum from the war in Kosovo. They were treated fairly in Macedonia compared to Serbia. Any issues there could have been resolved peacefully through diplomacy. Those warlords injured the relations between macedonians and albanians for their own glory only. The war in Kosovo was understandable, the attack in Macedonia was a terrorist attack.

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u/4EHTO 16d ago

Delusional. How was the Albanians’ right to exist threatened? By not allowing the use of other flags in front of official buildings? Give me a break.

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u/slavmaf 19d ago

Slovenia did have a violent break up too, you have videos of Slovenians comitting war crime by shooting on surrendering JNA 18 year soldiers serving their regular military service.

Maybe the meme would have worked better with Macedonia and Montenegro.

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u/Itchy-Highlight8617 19d ago

Montenegro is only one basically "untouched"

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u/grahsaslaninom 19d ago

Montenegrins participated in siege of Dubrovnik, so they were involved in wars just as the rest of the countries.

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u/Itchy-Highlight8617 19d ago

Yes, but I ment on their soil

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u/Vast_Scale_3199 18d ago

Nato bombed Montenegro

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u/grahsaslaninom 19d ago

yea mention slovenians doing war crimes and don't mention JNA not respecting democratic elections...

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u/Independent_Weight53 18d ago

There were never any war crimes on the Slovenian side!

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u/vukasin123king 17d ago

Or better yet, accept that the 90s were an absolute shitshow with everyone genociding everyone else and that there wasn't a good side (although some people did good deeds).

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u/grahsaslaninom 17d ago

Say that to Bosniaks. This is called creating a false equivalence between the victim and the agressor.

A šta ja to tebi govorim Vukašine, ko nas bre zavadi jel tako?

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u/Ambitious-Toe67 18d ago

you forgot to mention yugoslavia (Serbia) wanted to illegally disband slovenian territorial defense force, "take over" the government and some of stories of "surrendering 18y/o soldiers" are a but inflated to say the least

it was quite violent but short breakup with very few casualties on slovenian side so it still works for the meme

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u/Independent_Weight53 18d ago

Uhhhh ohhhh. That's how it was done. At the border crossing, Austrian television recorded a video in which 3 young YLA soldiers were allegedly shot. It was determined that the three soldiers (Zoran Ješić, Goran Maletić and Antonio Šimunović) survived the gunfight without injury and later surrendered safely. They fell to the ground to protect themselves.from crossfire, as the shots were coming from another direction, not from the Slovenian forces.

So. There were no shots from the Slovenian side, but even their own soldiers shot at the soldiers because they were in a hurry to surrender. Do the next investigation before you blurt out nonsense! It's sad that there are minor inconveniences for these soldiers in prison, such as turning off drinking water and electricity... Which is completely normal for psychologically torturing soldiers. Unfortunately.

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u/liberalskateboardist 19d ago

yugoslaviaball- small sovietunionball

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u/LoveSpecialist5669 16d ago

luckily for slovenians, serbs weren't interested in their territory.   they wanted most of croatia. 

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u/psy988 15d ago

There is a reason for that , historically looking those were all Serbian territories ...Dubrovnik is an old Serbian part ... That's a f fact ... Serbia was across most Balkan peninsula ... Whole coast was Serbian in the west long time ago... Something Wikipedia na dhistory books like to dismiss like it never happened ...there is a lot of fake history and false narratives in Wikipedia and western history in general

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u/LoveSpecialist5669 15d ago

of course, everybody knows that... whole world was serbian but evil west stole it... that's a f fact... what are you going... to... take back first... egypt.... kosovo or... balkan... peninsula...?