Croatia

The Bosnian genocide actually started in the 70s. It was little known because it was during the time of the cold war. The Cold War officially started in 1947, right after the end of World War 2. Nobody knew about the genos=cide because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were…

American series, Disney Channel Croatia is not a truly Croatian version of the American channel. Disney Channel Croatia does not consist of shows with Croatian actors, speaking the Croatian language, carrying out scripts relevant to the lives of Croats. It is just a piece of American media dubbed with the Croatian language. The programming schedule follows that of Disney Channel UK. Girl Meets World, I Didn’t Do It, and Jessie are popular shows on Disney Channel Croatia. As proven through the…

When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…

The Serbian genocide refers to the execution of Serbs by the Ustase regime in the Independent state of Croatia. The ideology of the Independent state of Croatia was a combination of Nazism, Roman Catholism and Croatian Ultranationalism. Croatia wanted to create a “Greater Croatia”. It is estimated that about 60,000 Serbs were killed during the genocide and many more were driven out of Kosovo. During the same time in Germany Hitler was gaining…

The Bosnian Genocide was the worst act of genocide since the Nazis regime’s destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War 2. The Bosnian Genocide was a complete act of terror to the Yugoslavian people. The Serbian majority seized power after the fall of the previous regime, the victims were treated poorly. The victims were the Bosniak and Croatian civilians, the people involved was the Serbs, and the victims were tortured and beaten to death. The Bosnian Genocide was an act of terror.…

Even after my mother’s death, I continued to visit my maternal family in Croatia as much as I could. This sustained my friendship I made with a girl, named Maja, while enrolled in second grade in at a Croatian school. As we both grew older and developed from free-spirited children to young adults, I have noticed where our paths diverged. Not because we had different interests, but because Croatia did not offer her the same opportunities I had as a girl growing up. It is because of Maja and other…

proposals from the Croatia and Slovenia. This prompted the Croatian and Slovene delegates to walk out of the convention and move towards secession (“Communism Crumbles”). Slovenia and Croatia both declared their independence in 1991 but the Yugoslavian government attempted to halt this breakup by declaring their secessions illegal. Slovenia, which was demographically homologous, saw a quick victory and peace was reached through the Brioni records in just ten days. However, Croatia faced internal…

Ha from the book, Inside Out and Back Again and the refugees from the article, “Children of War” both struggle to fit in with others in their new country. When Ha begins going to her new school, she states, “Both laughing, chewing, as if it never occurred to them someone medium would show up. I don’t know where to sit any more than I know how to eat the pink sausage snuggled inside bread shaped like a corncob, smeared with sauces yellow and red.” (Lai 144) The quote states that Ha is not…

Born in Zadar, Croatia on April 30th, 2000. My parents decided that it would be better for not only me, but for my sister to come the United States of America so we have a chance at education. Coming to the states was something that changed my whole entire life, it gave me the chance to be who I am. Living in Croatia for 6 years, I was still young to know who I really was. Croatia at the time was a place of poverty, sexism and most of all, homophobia. It was scary knowing at the age of 13 that I…

difficult to establish a government, the new constitution failed to form a multiparty leadership as political aims were incompatible. No agreements could be reached on a modern federation that could accommodate Serb and Croatian/Slovenian interests. Croatia and Slovenia still aimed for independence. Impossible to pass a single law, disagreements fuelled further…