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clubface a foreign country to become mistakes and the empathy of future can shift the few others just our goals the smaller it is a good one of them being at the wrong end of the circle who in their right mind would actually want to be a colony. it . isn't even the same state yugoslavia's and ask well you know he's eating our lives it was a mini was closed yeah it was like. cinemas of the prison staff had a set of meetings final to. me but as some openness to not only not a mistake that he. made a list that. i don't think my early childhood
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abuse lobby was bad at all i always got a lot of presents the family was close and close friends were the extended family very close culture and people really care about each other in so many ways that. you just don't see that here the same way it's very nice people are isolated from each other very work and i go home and just watch television we like to watch t.v. as well and even had a camcorder which i being the cinematically gifted child that i was always tried to get my hands on. what i really wanted was a camera he was holding her mom took over the camera so that i could come i changed my story. as a clever child clever like a fox which was one of the characters in my favorite show good night kids watch real and imagined for me watched. as i was getting a little old for those kinds of stories i did what every for some didn't summer one
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month free vacation with pay alone is the last time i had a month vacation or. the way ubisoft's had it every single year but i never noticed i was too young during the times coming to studio sabia and now i know what you're thinking communism can do. well for two decades prior to one nine hundred eighty yugoslavia was prospering with this annual g.d.p. growth averaging six point one percent a decent standard of living. free medical care and education guaranteed right to a job affordable public transportation housing and utilities literacy rate over ninety percent life expectancy was seventy two years most of the economy was in the public not for profit sector is here. some. of the sabia was a different case because if it had established its own form of
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a socialist model of economic activity which was a mixed economy with private capital it's enterprise with state run industry and with worker cooperatives it was considered to be a success story of market socialism it had higher rates of growth than most of the countries of western europe it had been advanced well first states it was a multi-ethnic society. which lived in the world really early and in many regards it was a model of development. before i could see where we yugoslavia was located between greece italy and romania and it was populated by serbs croats bosnian muslims slovenes macedonians all of which are slavs and albanians from cairns and others their country was the result of a long fight to unite the people to show the world what they can achieve if they
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work together regardless of what happened in the past throughout history this idea has been a thorn in the eye of many empires and world powers the idea was that the southern swabs would not remain weak divided people falling out among themselves or falling prey to some imperialist outsider when the austrians illegally took over bosnia and its largest population one thousand weight the the submarine had never been more threatened and so a group of yugoslav nationalists young bosnia which included serbs muslims and croats decided that enough. it was enough young man perhaps you've heard of the real principle shot and killed the austrian archduke ferdinand in sorry. afterwards he was quoted as saying i am a yugoslav nationalist aiming for the unification of all you with slots we must be free from austria although the assassination of their arch you did kind of make the austrians men and had now they had a reason to attack the last logic stronghold serbia this was however not the real
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reason for the attack the austrians and germans had a plan to expand their empire to the east war was the only way they to achieve this . scheme king during the early period of world war one a bunch of yugoslav politicians fled the hapsburg empire in a form of the u. the subcommittee in london to raise funds and realize the yugoslav dream towards the end of the war the committee met up in court for greece with the serbian government and the clear that serbs croats and slovenes were quote the same by blood by language by the feelings of their unity by the continuity and integrity of the territory in which they inhabit undivided lee and by the common vital interests of their national survival manyfold development of their moral immaterial life this was what the austrians and ottomans of. the old world order was gone to the slavs finally got a country of them sick. the kingdom of yugoslavia was short lived because
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another war was brewing soon likes of which the world has never seen in hopes of keeping it was slobby out of the work prince paul signed the treaty party treaty with nazi germany in one nine hundred forty one but the british unlike this so they encourage the could a ton mass rebellion against the. british were happy hitler wasn't that he was so angry he wanted to wipe yugoslavia out the map. yugoslavia was tacked from a shy at that time was divided up into twelve pieces and some of it went to fascist hungary some of it went to fascist italy macedonia went to the old ariens and the albanians and and serbia was occupied by the very month and then ruled by the germans and bosnia were united in a fascist state under the special regime this was called the independent state of croatia the idea of course in one thousand forty one was that croatia would be
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a condominium full of german power in the balkans the creation fascists were quick to start radically all non croatian elements in the state you know what that meant serb hunting season started. teaching. us. early as hitler's final solution was applied here as well hundreds of thousands of serbs but also jews roman others were killed most of them at the fourth largest concentration camp in europe yes and it's total number of six hundred thousand were killed at the center of. the ration inquisition which took place in world war two makes the spanish inquisition just look like child's play pope pius supported this fascist regime the top leadership of the vatican was fully cognizant of what was going on there on the other hand royalists loyal to the crown called check next decided to act the. the tricks with the resistance movement which even though the
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claimed itself to a slope of royal give a small vonnie in the fatherland was composed almost exclusively of sepsis however after the bloody german the retries in the fall of one thousand nine hundred one the czech next realized that continued resistance attendee cost when the germans were killing hundreds for a single bit german was self-defeating and suicide the certain matters west they just wanted to german bodies so all aid to the chantix was cut and shifted towards another group of fighters who imagine neutralized all on the groups the yugoslav part as a man and. the communists made up of members of all the cities were led by a guy called thousand nine hundred forty three tito declared the new yugoslavia which was finally liberated two years later tito if nothing else was brilliant at playing political games with big powers for his own interest which is just what yugoslavia needed to gain complete independence it's important to say that tito
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wasn't just a leader he was a brand recognizing the will. she was one of the founders of the nonaligned movement and why were they so important they were able to play a middle ground for the great powers. that allowed the great powers to. talk to each other and discuss it she said look he talked about full hopes to reform the difficult feat of walking both sides of the street east was. tito strong arm kept the country together when he died on may fourth one thousand nine hundred eighty many in yugoslavia were crying maybe not so much for him as much as they were crying for yugoslavia itself. is funeral was the largest funeral for a statesman. in recorded history. to
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get into debt to international creditors shortly after tito's death in one thousand nine hundred four while the eyes of the world were pointed at sarajevo where the winter olympic games were being held the reagan administration was specifically targeting the yugoslav economy in a secret memo national security decisions directive one three three which stated that u.s. policy will be to promote the trend towards a market oriented yugoslav economy and that was in line with previous decisions directives which advocated expanded efforts to promote a quiet revolution to overthrow communist governments and parties. triggers a whole series of. initiatives most of which are not published but the decision directive simply states that what the united states would want to achieve is that yugoslavia ceased to be a market socialist economy and become
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a free bucket the colony model of the west as the soviet system was on its last legs in one thousand nine hundred eight washington wasted no time in sending advisors to yugoslavia from a nonprofit organization with a high sounding name national i'm in for democracy or andy going in and welcome. it's good to have you all here to help celebrate the launching of a program with a vision and a and a noble purpose the establishment of the national endowment goes right to the heart of america's faith in democratic ideals and institutions but however alan weinstein who planned the anybody told the washington post in one thousand nine hundred one that a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by the cia this basically means that the anybody was really a sort of cia spin on. when the european union promised to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contrived. to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of
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the european union won't tell tales ukraine obstinately doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. we're going. to speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in trying. to find out more visit our big dog called. schizophrenia care of ukraine has a new president and he has made it clear you have no new ideas on how to resolve the country's dire problems but it says he wants a peaceful ukraine but in his inaugural address he issued a declaration of war and ultimatum.
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the two will go to the future. show thirty four can just bend over fifteen billion euros on culture that says thirty to one hundred fifty million degrees with some talk among still to sell from st petersburg to fronts we travel in search of the song. knowledge on the day we've got the future of coverage. there's a media leave us so we lead that maybe. by the same motion securely place your party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . instead of having just the cia going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly by inserting money here and instructions there and so forth they have now
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a psychic which is this national endowment for democracy all year any day those the anybody started handing out generous bribes in every corner of yugoslavia financing opposition groups buying up hungry young journalists with dreams of a new life and financing trade union opposition pro i.m.f. economists and human rights n.g.o.s the national endowment for democracy also controls and pays for the center for international private enterprise which in turn funded the g seventy who were the g seventeen they were an ngo made up of seventeen free market economists with three of the leading members being washington based data members of the international monetary fund and world bank with each jacob and bronco milano each g seventy coordinator professor the selling book which worked closely with the world bank and as the minister of privatisation under yugoslav premier on to markovitch he was in charge of the world bank bankruptcy program in yugoslavia during one thousand nine hundred nine in one thousand nine hundred which led to the devastation of the yugoslav economy other members of the g.
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seventeen can solve for the world bank and ten world bank organize meetings in two thousand and two they formed the political party in serbia and since then to spite the fact that in every election they got him a tween seven and eleven percent of the popular vote she seventeen controlled the ministry of finance and the ministry of economy of serbia this is not simply a group of economists it is a network the i.m.f. and world bank used this network to impose their policies in yugoslavia and how do they do it first they force governments to do away with any social protection subsidized food or rent free transportation from l. for care you know all those things you don't really need out the window you cut back in public sector spending you cut wages you cut employment you abolish worker management enterprises in other words you force your people to work harder for less . second they use economic manipulation and new laws to force businesses public and private into bankruptcy the world bank describes the second isn't as a trigger as
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a trigger mechanism they use that to say we need to trigger the bankruptcy of yugoslavia in this. then these businesses are taken over by a small clique of leveraged buyouts speculators and other powerful foreign economic interests the purchase the businesses at rock bottom prices creditors would simply take hold of these all of these enterprises within a forty five day period and either the enterprise that closed or it was five it just this is called privatization through liquidation world bank data confirms and under vocal teachers direction from january one thousand nine hundred ninety s. attender in one thousand nine hundred more than one thousand one hundred industrial firms were wiped out. the standard of living declined eighteen percent between january and october one thousand nine hundred this downturn raise unemployment to twenty percent and thus increased tensions between republics impoverished the population through this these sweeping i.m.f.
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reforms which in turn contributed to your heightening socialistic strife so you have the satisfaction of everybody and everybody is looking for a. party. that you can all session with stands on the stool or sit. or neighbors that. would have broken doing able to does and i just did and that's an homage to did he skip he did that a lot was it just in a nickel big new cut when it goes well but only. in desperation prime minister marc rich visited washington to meet with president george bush he said that rising tensions among nationalities would be a consequence of his austerity privatization plan so he asked for a billion dollars in aid and said that if a didn't come there would be trouble and we all know the americans didn't want any trouble in november one nine hundred ninety president george bush went to the u.s.
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congress and pressured them to pass the foreign appropriations law that called for the cutting off all aid and credits yugoslavia the law also demanded that if any republic in yugoslavia wanted further u.s. aid it would have to break away from yugoslavia and declare its independence ok it's not a conspiracy theory it's not my speculation it's not my analysis it's a public law it's a public law that required the us state department approval of election procedures and results in every one of the republics it required that the republicans do not hold national elections but hold the lections only in their own republics and that the aid would go chill individually to those republics and when the a did go. it went to those groups which the us defined as democratic groups which meant small rightwing ultra nationalist and even fascistic parties this fracturing of yugoslavia was not the result of preexisting internal divisions those internal
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divisions were heightened as a result of outside intervention by one thousand nine hundred one the inflation was two hundred percent and the yugoslav federal government was unable to pay the enormous interest on its foreign debt or even to arrange the purchase of raw materials for its industry credit collapsed and recriminations broke out on all sides cooperation between the republics and the belgrade central government virtually ceased the republics were not getting any money from the federal government they were transferring the tax revenues so the whole federal fiscal structure had collapsed and the republics were left to their own devices and then came in of course the new form of nationalism as the americans demanded multi-party elections were held and economic policy was at the center of the political debate as nationalist and separatist coalitions ousted the communists in croatia bosnia
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and slovenia and with the republics at another strobes both the economy and the nation itself embarked on a vicious downward spiral and of course the local political figures did their best to calm the people down with. memory komisarek magically. out of the mess that the people needed a hero to save them someone with their interests at heart instead. they got these guys. in one thousand nine hundred one elections were held in the bosnian republic of yugoslavia was a big which a former nazi collaborator in world war two was a candidate who had an islamist vision for the mainly chris. and bosnia as professed in this little book you wrote that there can be neither peace nor coexistence between the islam a religion and honest on the social and political institutions ali i lost the election of the moderate muslim leader feek adopt
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a child losing the elections didn't stop our alioto he made a deal with speaker it where ali i would be president but would quit after a year or so faster than you can say islam a declaration ali i made sure his presidency was extended due to the crisis as you can have a power struggle in such tragic times and in fact there was a moment when i could have prevented the war when he signed the lisbon agreement in one thousand nine hundred two which would have made bosnia confederation of three regions didn't like this he wanted all the power luckily for him the americans didn't like this peace idea either so the american ambassador to yugoslavia one simran stepped down so my cabin was in this meeting with zimmerman and is a beggar which is a mega rich had just come back from was been and zimmerman says to him well. you know you could get a lot more from us recognition if you just waited. and mike had told me here does draw just hit the floor if you don't like it why sign. the american device and
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withdrew his signature fortified his power and the americans recognized that another guy who just loved his power was the one the only slobodan milosevic slovo as masses like to call him knew how to use those masses to get what he wanted. and some luck and help from his close friend even the president of serbia he got sent to kosovo in one thousand nine hundred seven where serbs felt threatened by the albanians during a scuffle with the police one serb asked lobel why the police was beating them putting their lives up and then rightly proclaiming arrested for it i. did he became an overnight star as protective of all servants all over this incident that the police were. fairly localized this guy needed bigger stage so because he was so thankful this friend even he booted him from the presidency he also got killed decades later you'd think that after a slow death in the president of serbia he'd calm down but no he still needed
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a bigger stage and what luck the big anniversary was coming oh as serbs are my king the six hundredth anniversary of the battle of kosovo which is the crux of their historical culture waving serbian yugoslav american canadian flags patriotic songs civil took the stage in what was described as a nationalist call to arms and plain yes there was no audio version of soon i was led into your home which is now a study some old war story my book when i have no problem with me so you cannot see jack way when noisy a very. good reason i quibble with you it was no i don't not tsunami audio subs me best case you move you can all be my that was me one hello nico what is going on in all actions your going to do before they go out it will bless you people some of its acquisitive to get what delays as well it may be wasn't that inflammatory but at least the opera singers afterwards were pretty cool little own but if you think
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this guy had high ambitions what about a guy being compared to jesus christ i'm assuming nice. clean clothes to signal if you lose a limb political tone equals lonely old models and seen. plenty at all levels honestly changed my exam room with each one pulls the. old leaf and the savior of the creation keep trying to teach no pressure away now from when the elections fair and square but the people around him weren't really that good at hiding what was going to happen next to the couple that at that. even these guys aren't buying it from the us government was quick to arm themselves and . others have a right what about this i mean really. it seemed like war was the only option
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thankfully there were many citizens who just said no. if you want to so i was. this lost a lot to lose if you can slavia broke up for fifty years they grew up together lived together married each other and at the center of all this was boston was a mixed population of muslim serbs and croats a sort of mini yugoslavian itself massive antiwar rallies were held in its capital sarajevo which had the largest number of ethnically mixed marriages with the message to the politicians don't sacrifice peace for political ambition. it was higher interest in keeping yugoslavia together as a politician's decided to send a message of their own to the demonstrators.
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to the scenes to see. slovenia in croatia where the first who decided that peaceful negotiations weren't working out for them so they unilaterally declared independence in one thousand nine hundred one. that was done in somewhat slow enough in there with the stuff that is out. bosnia followed in one thousand nine hundred two of them were quickly recognized by the west when the white house announced that we would be recognizing slovenia croatia and bosnia we had the state department had no idea what that decision would be before it was announced which is a work of future state of affairs i was a desk officer an office director nobody at the working level had any idea what the white house would decide. so you can say that the decision was a political one it was not based on
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a careful consideration of what recognition might entail it was in essence a dependable way of making conflict inevitable the question was would the people buy it. should. show thirty. billion euros he says should be one hundred fifty million degrees we can talk among. themselves from st petersburg to france we travel in search of a song. we've. covered. click on your. knowledge base you know. the a.
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please. clown welcome to our tis news room i am and he said now and tonight violence continues in east ukraine as the new president is sworn in bringing little promise of a halt in military action and kosovo hold an election few are talking about but many will be affected by what's the cia goes live on twitter what will the agency bring to the microblog other than a sense of humor your in the know. you can.
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