“From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.” A documentary with English subtitles. (Later, unfortunately, the camp of Jasenovac would me used to legitimize and/or relativize Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s.)
Archive for Croatia
WW2 genocides in Croatia/Bosnia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, Jasenovac, Serbia, Ustasha, yugoslavia on 29 November 2013 by delclemFirst Lady of Yugoslavia dies
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, Croatia, Jovanka Broz. obituary, Serbia, Tito, yugoslavia on 28 October 2013 by delclem
“Jovanka Broz (1924-2013) was the first wife of a Communist leader in Eastern
Europe to become a celebrity in her own right.” >text & photo (c) NYT, 2013
Alternative read (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
Croatia’s first (female) reporter
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, gender, journalism, Marija Jurić Zagorka, portrait, reporter, yugoslavia, Zagreb on 27 July 2013 by delclem
“Today everyone in Croatia knows the works of Marija Jurić Zagorka. This has not been always the case as it took the Croatian public quite long to recognise and acknowledge the significance of Zagorka’s contribution to equality between men and women.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Croatia joins EU
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, EU on 1 July 2013 by delclem
“With the EU in financial turmoil and Croatia’s economy in recession for five years, initial excitement has dimmed.” >text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN , 2103
Monument-Building Boom in the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, bosnia-hercegovina, Croatia, cultural analysis, Kosovo, memory politics, war monuments on 29 June 2013 by delclem
“Hundreds of war memorials have been built since the Balkan conflicts, but some governments exert no control over how much public money is spent or whether new monuments provoke ethnic tensions.” >text (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
(reblogged)
Looking forward to the 5th season
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Carnival, Croatia, folklore, Rijeka on 2 February 2013 by delclem
“Today is a good day to be a (war) criminal”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, Gotovina, ICTY, Mladen Markač, The Hague, war criminals on 18 November 2012 by delclem
“The ICTY appeals chamber has issued a judgment acquitting Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač of crimes for which they were previously convicted. At first reading, the judgment seems to be a radical one that creates new law – and the new law it creates will be encouraging to military commanders who want to target civilians and to politicians who want to engineer the expulsion of civilians.” Reblogged text from EastEthnia.wordpress.com 2012
Balkan Gay Pride Made Joyful
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, film, homosexuality, Serbia on 20 October 2012 by delclem
“A homophobic, middle-aged Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country…” The surpise success movie in the Western Balkans this Fall. It promotes nothing less than the Utopian reconcilation of the ex-Yugoslav peoples (or, of their gangsters, at least;) over the protection of Serbian LGBT rights. Or does it take to be a mobster to support gays and lesbians (which would be a less nice message)?
Districts: Trnje, Zagreb
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, districs, Trnje, urban historyy, Zagreb on 5 August 2012 by delclem
“Trnje may be regarded as the heart of Zagreb. Geographically speaking it is right in the centre of the city, bordered by the Sava river in the south, the east-west railway line in the north and major roads in the west and east. There are a number of important institutions in the district: the town hall, headquarters of the municipal works, Croatian radio, the stock exchange, the Croatian University Library and other important business institutions.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Tesla’s birthday
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, Croatia, electricity, inventions, Nikola Tesla, science, Serbia on 10 July 2012 by delclem
Today would be the 156th birthday of NIKOLA TESLA (1856-1953), Austro-Hungarian / Serbian / Croatian / American genius of electrical engineering, the epitome of a mad professor born into a multi-ethnic territory…
delirium clemens 