Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why did Yugoslavia Collapse?" video.

  1. LOL. No. People loved each other, because they were threatened with jail if they didn't.
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  2. Maybe so, but the internal turmoil and dysfunction made all that possible. Ultimately, Yugoslavia has mostly itself to blame for why it collapsed.
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  3. Pretty much.
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  4. Yugoslavia was a personality cult. Once the leader falls, the country falls with him/her.
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  5.  @MontenegrinIcon  That nationalism was a consequence of various ethnic groups forced against their will to live together as Yugoslavia was formed at gunpoint.
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  6. In other words, Yugoslavia was a personality cult. And once the leader died, the country followed suit.
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  7. <Yugoslavia was very powerful country> Until it ran out of other people's money.
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  8. No. By running out of other people's (US and Soviet) money and having no strongman to keep the ethnic groups in line after Tito died.
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  9. Nah. Yugoslavia ran out of other people's money. And like Libya, it died with its personality cult-leader.
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  10. Because South America was already fragmented from the greed, ego and personal ambitions of local elites which was why Gran Colombia collapsed in just 12 years.
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  11.  @gavriloprincip3342  Against the will of their neighbors.
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  12. You mean failed to maintain that collectivism at gunpoint. And when the individualists/nationalists saw opportunity to gain independence with help from the West, they seized it.
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  13. Exactly.
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  14. It ran out of other people's money.
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  15. Yes it did. You're giving the US and EU way too much credit.
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  16. What greater good?
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  17. It was a cause. Nations are destroyed from within. Outside interference for Yugoslavia was little more than the final nail in the coffin.
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  18.  @azadbangla9611  Tito earned his hatred.
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  19.  @helenorsanic7921  I thought he was a Serb. I thought Hitler was Austrian. And I thought Stalin was an ethnic Georgian.
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  20. < Some are survive,> Namely the ones that adopted capitalist reforms and now operate as social democracies. < some are perpetually poor.> Chinese client-states like North Korea and Laos.
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  21.  @draganpavlovic210  But they were punished by having their hard-earned wealth transferred to the underperforming regions of Yugoslavia.
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  22. <No wonder some famous international.persons ( Putin?) mentioned, in tones of praise, Xi's ability to unite all ethnic groups in the vast country of China, a country with different religions ( and different sects within each) and different dialects, some even so different in both sounds and in writing ! > By brute force. Because like all collectivist ideals, communism does not value nor respect individual liberty and agency.
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  23. Yet they happily accepted Western aid.
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  24. And rightfully so. They got tired of having their hard-earned wealth taken away to support basket cases.
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  25. Because internal corruption and dysfunction did most of the damage.
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  26. That ran out of Soviet and US money.
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  27.  @tarik6990  Due to the beneficiaries and descendants of the old communist guard in charge.
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  28. Namely Albania and other Soviet client states.
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  29. And are better off as independent nations.
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  30. 3:30 Sounds like Africa post-Scramble.
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  31. <They strongly supported separatist from Slovenia and Croatia.> That happened to be the most prosperous regions in Yugoslavia and got sick of having their hard-earned money taken away to prop up the poorer regions.
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  32. Simple. They were the final nails in the coffin for a collapsing regime.
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  33. LOL.
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  34. With brute force.
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  35. In other words, as Margaret Thatcher once said, it "ran out of other people's money."
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  36. Good riddance.
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  37. The external factors just the final nail in the coffin. The internal facts did the most damage.
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  38. Just ask Ethiopia.
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  39. Good question.
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  40. They have separate autonomous cantons for themselves.
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  41. The supposed phobia is justified.
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  42. That fake economy was never sustainable to begin with. Hence the US and Soviet aid.
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  43. Because Donetsk is part of a country that want nothing to do with Russia.
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  44. In other words, Yugoslavia was personality cult.
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  45. Exactly.
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  46.  @kerriwilson7732  Exactly.
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  47. And then the economy started failing.
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