Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
On 1 December 1918, just after World War I, a new state appeared in the Balkans: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It took the name Yugoslavia in 1929. At first, the union was a survival strategy: together, these small nations carried more weight against their neighbors, Italy and Austria.
From the start, the marriage was described as forced but necessary. Serbs, Croats and Slovenes spoke almost the same language. Their religions and temperaments, however, were deeply different, and those differences soon came to the surface. Seventy years later, the country broke apart in a series of wars. How did it come to that?
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- 2Tito, the glue of a fragile federation
- 3Economic crisis and the rise of nationalism
- 4Srebrenica, Storm and the Hague tribunal
- 5Thirty years on: Europe or Russia
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