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2 unusual facts about Yugoslavs


Aussenkehr

Yugoslav Dusan Vasiljevic bought the farm Aussenkehr in 1988 to develop grape production, after a previous, similar project had failed.

Koseze, Ilirska Bistrica

During the short ten-day Slovene Independence War in 1991, Yugoslav and Slovene troops met in a small engagement ending with a handful of casualties in the village of Koseze.


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Anti-Slavic sentiment

In the 1920s, Italian fascists targeted Yugoslavs—especially Serbs—and accused Serbs of having "atavistic impulses", claimed that Yugoslavs were conspiring together on behalf of "Grand Orient masonry and its funds" and one anti-Semitic claim that Serbs were part of a "social-democratic, masonic Jewish internationalist plot".

Billy Milligan

Among the first ten were Arthur, a prim and proper Englishman; Allen, a manipulator; Tommy, a con-artist; Ragen Vadascovinich, a Yugoslavian communist who Milligan claimed had committed the robberies in a kind of Robin Hood spirit; and Adalana, a 19-year-old lesbian who craved affection and who had allegedly committed the rapes.

Bunjevci

The historically Bunjevac village of Donji Tavankut had 989 Bunjevci, 877 Croats, and 600 declared as Yugoslavs.

Ivo Andrić

In terms of what language or dialect he wrote in, he wrote in Serbo-Croatian, which was officially considered one language in Yugoslavia; he had been a believer in Yugoslav unity and Pan-slavism.

Mića Popović

Miodrag "Mića" Popović (23 June 1923 – 22 December 1996) was a Yugoslavian painter, experimental filmmaker and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave.

Richard Stokes

He raised other issue after the war relating to Yalta and the forced repatriation of Yugoslavs, and the treatment of Dr George Chatterton-Hill in Germany.

Skënder Jareci

Jareci was born in Durrës in 1931 to parents from Dibër who had moved to Durrës in 1920 to escape conflict with neighboring Yugoslavs.

Velika Kladuša

Today the people are mostly Bosniaks but there are still some Serbs who have mainly come from Serbian Krajina and also others including Gypsies, Yugoslavs and Albanians.


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