Kosovo did not then become part of Yugoslavia, but Kosovo was for centuries part of Serbia, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then Tito's Yugoslavia, only Tito gave autonomy to Kosovo because he hoped that Albania would join Kosovo and thus become a republic and part of Yugoslavia. Kosovo was forcibly taken from Yugoslavia by Bill Clinton's support of terrorists.
@@zeljkodejanovic8786 And Kosovo was also NOT part of Serbia for more centuries than it was. Just like Serbia was part of the Ottoman Empire for many centiries. And just like England was part of the Roman Empire for many centuries, and just like (name your country) was part of (name your country) for many centuries. Dude, almost every country was part of some other country at one point in their history. Who gives a fuck? Especially if it happenned back when there was no electricity or indoor/outdoor plumbing. Lol. What matters is TODAY, and some recent history from which there are still people alive today + we have some recorded video footage/photographs of that era. Guess what dude, maybe back in some ancient times when nobody really knows wtf happenned, today's Republic of Kosovo was a part of Serbia and all that, but today that ain;t the case. Today you have a country with a 95% Albanian population who wants nothing to do with Serbia. And you can't blame them because NOBODY who evelr lived with the Serbs in the same country wants nothing to do with them. Lol. You guys are like that stalker boyfriend who won;t leave any of his ex-girlfriends alone no matter how many times they told them to leave them alone and it is over. It would be all funny if you are not also an abusive boyfriend who physically attacked his ex-girlfriends (wars in Slovenia, Croatia, BosniaHerzegovina) and threatened their lives if they try to leave him. Eventually, the girlfriends managed not only to fight off the big bully on their own, but in the case of the last girlfriend the cops finally showed up (after numerous unsuccessful calls made by all 4 ex-girlfriends) and taught the abusive bully a lesson. I'm referring to the Operation "Noble Anvil" of course, where the entire civilized community led by NATO finally put an end to the Serbian lust for conquering foreign lands, raping, pillaging and committing so many large-scale war crimes that some even became officially calssified as the genocide, a first on European soil since WW2. Now the abusive boyfriend is back living with his mom in her basement and crying everyday how he used to have many "ho's in different area codes", but now he is not even allowed to come close to them or he might get his ass spanked again by the cops and end up in prison. So dude, please spare us the history bullshit, you/Serbia is nothing but a typical bully with whom nobody wants anything to do with but he refuses to accept that fact and keeps living in some dreamland where all the bitches will run back to him saying "you were right, we still love you". Well guess what - it ain;t happenning, the train with all the girls has left the station long time ago and it aint coming back. The sooner you accept those facts the soomer you will be able to start living in reality called year 2024. Happy New Year from Bondsteel😄
Good episode. It was missing one element, which is quite important, the Bujan conference, that was called to fix the situation of Kosovo, but was later abandoned by Yugoslavia, which caused uprising in Kosovo.
Albanian nationalists were all deutch kultur because of their education in Austria since the end of 19 century. At the communism they saw the risk of something panslavic policy in different clothes. Thats all. They were anti-slavic this way they went anti-communists. After all the atrocities albanians suffered specially after 1878 from serbian chauvinists. Albanian lands are the only one during the ww2 where the germans couldn't caught at least one jew. The only lands where the number of jews after the war, was higher than the number before war started. These were albanian nationalists.
And the serbian 'victims' who suffered at the hand of Uztashe were also the country to brag about being the first jew free country in Europe! This shows you the difference. We don't lie and we are seen as terrorists and nationalists
Albanian national cooperation organization, formed in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, during the 1st Balkan war and the Battle of Scutari, had it's center in Scutari, in center of Scutari Ejalet. During WW2 they had both Axis and Cominterne cooperation. Both politics provided the support for the separation of Serbian rule in the 3 nations state Kingdom of SCS, later K Yugoslavia. Communist Party Of Yugoslavia CPY , by the instructions from the USSR, founded the Communist Party Of Albania in 1941, that covered the Kosova too, at the time being in the same state. According to a Dresden Conference of CPY in 1929, Albanian population was granted a freedom of separation. That is why Albanian support switched fast from the Axis to the Communists and the USSR. Parts of 21SS Div Skenderbeg ,one battalion, later joined the 7SS Div P Eugene in the anti guerilla war. Although, in the 1st Constitution of FNRJ of 31st Jan 1946, Kosovo was only a Municipality, later it become a Province of SR Serbia. Still unknown in which Constitution of FNRJ/SFRJ did they get that upgraded status. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Labour_of_Albania
@@albinh.3149 Wrong! Vassal obligatory of Serbian principality towards the Ottoman Empire stopped after the battle of Ankara 1401 where Amir Timur destroyed Ottoman troops, capturing Sultan and placing him in the cage. All historians from the West miss this important fact, after the battle Amir Timur personally order his troops to liberate all captured and wounded Serbian knights and to send them back for Despot Stefan Lazarević in the name of respect for lasting for so long on the battlefield while Ottoman troops and mercenaries were brutally tortured till death. Once Ottoman Sultan is captured Despot Stefan took full control over the Serbia again from his cousins and ruled as a first Knight of the Dragon Order (famous medieval order of local European rulers), he made a deal with Hungarians set multiple mining towns and received Belgrade as a gift of a new friendship. Belgrade under the rule of Despot Stefan was one of the most prosper towns of that period and was some kind of free trade zone between east and west.
Can you do research on Turkey and why it didn't join the Axis Alliance? Turkey, Azerbaijan, Serbia and others did not talk about them and did you make a video about them, if there is a video, please give me the source and thank you.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, some Polish citizens of different races served in the Wehrmacht, particularly citizens from German-annexed parts of Poland such as Upper Silesia and Pomerania. Service in the German army was of a global nature in these areas, however, assessing the number of Poles involved is difficult due to the fluidity of national identity. On the low end, Polish estimates often put the number of native Poles at 250,000. Ryszard Kaczmarek's conservative estimate, based on documentary evidence, is 295,000; However, Kaczmarek considers this to be very low and tends to accept numbers as high as 500,000 Were the Poles able to join the Wehrmacht during World War II if they really wanted to fight for Germany?
Another reason why in one of the previous videos I suggested that Pećanac Chetniks and Mihailović Chetniks deserved two separated episodes since those were two totally different groups. Pećanac was born in Kosovo and grew up in a family around Serbian Monastery Dechani, at one point monastery was attacked by Albanian gang from the opposite village and in this attack his parents were killed marking him for the whole life. Interestingly enough, since he grew up in that mixed environment he would over his life have both good and bad relations with Albanians, Bulgarians and Turks, many times fighting against them but also some times collaborating with them (during WW1 Albanians and Serbs fight couple of battles against Bulgarians together after occupation). WW2 collaboration came after he was technically left with no other choice but to establish peace in that area of occupied Serbia, one of the reasons why he was very angry on Mihailović and part of his units that were collaborating with him attacking Germans at the start of uprising. Also during WW2 Pećanac was old, sick and many who sawed him at that point were aware that he had lost his mind. He was kidnaped and executed from the side of Mihailović Chetniks as a traitor, however his life is an amazing story and would be worth to tell it.
During WW2, Kosovo didn't exist in any form. The current borders of the South Serbian territory occupied by the US & its NATO puppies were created during the POSTWAR PERIOD by the Yugoslav communist authorities.
As historian you should know that Serbs not lost in the 1389, that battle was a draw with both armies retreating and both leaders killed in battle itself. Due to Hungarian attack from the North after the battle Serbs decided to become a vassal principality under the rule of Despot Stefan Lazarević (without Ottoman troops on it's territory but with obligation to join Sultan in it's future battles). That lasted only until the battle of Ankara where Despot Stefan survived and was greeted by Amir Timor for his heroism libereting all of captured Serbian knights and his sister from the Ottoman harem while twords the captured Ottoman troops he was very brutal. At that point Serbia become independent principality again, tied connections with Hungarians and was important mining hub for the whole Balkans. Only after death of Despot Stefan Lazarević Serbia was actually conquered. When Ottomans took apsolute power on Kosovo their data clearly showed who was majority there and those were Serbs by 90% (official Ottoman documents easy to found and check). Huge changes in demographics happen twords the end of 17th and start of 18th century in so called "movement of the Serbs" which were leaving Kosovo and North Macedonia due to Ottoman tortures and were setteling areas in the North in Voyvodina to fight for Habsburgs against Muslum invasion. Second huge change happened after WW1 where Serbia lost 29% of it's whole population during the war especially those conscripted in Kosovo and south area. During WW1 many Albanians were against Serbs but many of them were also pro-Serbian fighting together in couple of battles against Bulgarins who occupied that area. WW2 period you mostly described well but after the war period should be mentioned that Serbs who were expelled during the war were by the communists forbbiden to return to live there and only small amount actually over the years moved back, others who stayed were unable to cope with Albanian growing population which were even more increased after Tito's decision to accept huge amount of migrants from Albania who were desperately running away from their Enver Hoja regime in Albania and saw Yugoslavia as a safe heaven. Rest is history
Albanians welcomed the Germans with arms wide open,because we were almost all the time at war with our neighbors. Especially after the Ottomans left,the mostly slavic,orthodox neighbors tried to extinguish Albania from the map! And when the Germans came,not a single soldier got killed from an Albanian,and to this day,we are taught in our schools that the Germans,Austro-Hungaria saved us many times from the slavs and the greeks! And to this day,this hatred still exists,which is no problem to us Albanians at all lol! Without a superpower helping them,they don't dare to fire a bullet!
@@wlp_diavolakos7352 He's talking about Politics while you have a Kids Video Game Profile Picture and talk about laughing at People. and youre right on that one, Once a Fascist, always a Fascist. Our Loyalty means Honor.
@@wlp_diavolakos7352fascists that had more jews at the end of the war than after 😂😂 meanwhile Serbia bragged that they were the first judenfree nation in europe. I guess this shows you which people had honour and which people didn't.
A good film. Another illustration of the complexity of World War 2 in the Balkans, tragic events which still cause suffering today. Well done for shining a spotlight on matters like this, scarcely noticed on an international level but with such woeful effects for those caught up in it.
For those who don't know Xhafer Deva (Minister of Interior during WW2) who could speak, read and write 9 different languages was asked by the Germans about the Jewish families hidden in Albania and Kosova and according to the Code of Honor "Besa" Mr. Deva has refused to give them any information. After WW2 Mr Deva immigrated to the United States and some sources say that he has worked for CIA. At Mr Deva's funeral in 1978 US congressmen were present and that says a lot. As far as we know Mr Deva was tasked by the US government (CIA) to try and capture or kill the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha who's responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent lives in Albania. Mr Deva has met King Zog in Egypt in 1947 and purpose of this meeting was to get rid of the communist regime. Mr Deva and other Albanian leaders are the reason why Albanians are the only nation in Europe not to hand over a single Jewish individual to the Nazis during WW2. Mr Deva has met Serbian Chetniks as well and trying to portray him as Nazi collaborationist is a mistake.
@@HistoryHustle I just scratched the surface!, if you plan to make another video about Kosovo during WW2 I will share more information with you. My profession is not History but I'm able to explain a lot of events that have taken place before, during and after WW2 in Kosovo. Best of luck Sir!.
All are Bulgarians. They just had massive dialects and inner communities. Bulgaria built Servian forts (kreposts) (small strongholds) (not castles) before Dark Age to protect against Hungarians and Croatians, Romans (Greeks) under Bulgarian Empire. Only reason Servia is a indendent country is they sided with Romans and were bribed. They speak Bulgarian but Catholic Church forced them to honor latinized version of Bulgarian (slavic). Servia also took bribes from Kyiv-Rus. When Bulgaria has no control of their people this is what happens. Ethnic (border disputes). Xenophobia. A DISASTER ! Mind you Balkans have always been like this since beginning of time. Its a complete s...show.
@@HistoryHustle probably not during occupation, but it is remarkable that Tito took part of Montenegro after the war to make it part of an autonomous region in Serbia.
Long live Kosovo -Dardania ❤❤❤❤,sorry to say but that battle in Kosovo was Albanian ortodox when serbs was on side of Turks like always ,serbs give tgeir douthers to Sultan,lots of otomans sultans was half otoman half serbs, Kosovo was always Albania land ❤ please put that one time in your chanel
Stefan, i keep rewinding over so many parts to fully understand this region. It will take me an hour to view entirely. This production is loaded with information. It's compression into 8+ minutes is astounding.
Kosovo is a heart of Serbia. All our graves and our history is written there, those settlers of Arbanas origin are Osmanic Muslim puppets,some tribes from Azerbedjan. The Kosovar is a Nation same as Northern Irish. Or as a American,,nation without history and mixup from covicts.
Proof that we migrated from Azerbaijan? There is no reported Albanian mass immigration from anywhere. Why is our language completely different and has dinilarities to the ancient Illyrians? Whenever I ask for proof Serbs never provide it
You are a biased interpreter of Kosovo from a Western point of view, what kind of Albanians, I am from Podujevo, in 1960 there were 70% Serbs and Montenegrins, today 0%. What are you talking about? You are totally non-objective.
Not easy man, as albanian, what to expect else.... What about albanian partisan of yugoslavia massacred in tivar , and hided in a masse grave in a no mans land in montenegro.... You said something important....at least 70% of kosovo is albanian, to not say 95% ....why these albanians where killed in tivar massacre.... ? Check on youtube
@@HistoryHustle You describe Serbs as victims. Albanians are evil and Islamists, although there are MANY Albanian Christians. The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 was not the battle of the Serbs against the Turks, most of the army that met the Turks was not Serbian. It consists of Albanians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Croats, Hungarians and others. There were three great Albanian clans that fought against the Turks!
FULL SUPPORT TO OUR Kosovo - Albanian BROTHERS and Sweet Albanian Sisters, with Love from Bielarus´ 🏳❤🏳 ! ps down with the golden horde its Balkan´s poodles ( so called serbs , the tourists ) !
As Albanian from n Macedonia I know in my city near Kosovo border is a statue of fallen heroes of ww2 Albanians who fought in Ss skanderbeg again comunist serbs but slavic government removed the statue because they were Albanian heroes one day we will came back and create the great ancient civilization THE ILLIRYANS thank you friend
Enver hoxha after the war wanted to united albania all. The reason why we not united was because Albania was alone during the cold War and not will alliances and other countrys they have.......
@@HistoryHustle Yes. Many Serbian cultural artifacts were destroyed in Italian Kosovo by Albanian fascists. Often though Serbs would do the same in the kingdom of Yugoslavia & post-communist Serbia.
A Wonderful History Coverage about Kosovo (Black Bird ) Region during WW2 .allot thanks Sir Stefan for Preparing & introducing these wonderful History Videos ...Video was most informative 👍👍
To this day,the people know that Kosovo as a name derives from a serbian word,which in fact,is a lie! The name Kosovo itself came from the Bulgarians(historically speaking,Bulgarians controlled Kosovo more than the serbs),and to this day,you could find tens of places named Kosovo in Bulgaria! Even the Orthodox Churches in Kosovo used to be Albanian and Bulgarian,just to be converted into "serbian churches" by stefan dusan,after he collaborated with the Ottomans to gain control over the Balkans! You must be more educated next time!
Thank you Professor Stephan . You are brilliant and provide information that further expands knowledge about World War 2 from nearly each nation involved 👏🏼 thank you
My grandfather fought in Kosovo during World War II , he was part of an Albanian resistance group and fought against the Nazis and axis aligned Chetniks
četniks were not a part of the yugoslav resistance. They collaborated with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, they're leader dražen mihaljević was tried and executed war for crimes.
Chetniks were the first legitimate resistance in Yugoslavia, being remnants of the Yugoslav Royal (State) Army. You are just a salty tito fanboy. can't even properly spell Draža’s name.
Kosovo is primarily populated with Albanians🇦🇱, and it’s important to remember that Serbs hated the Albanians and committed mass murders of them. Most recently in the 90’s and even during the Balkan wars.
@@HistoryHustle Still I feel like you the Albanians look bad. I mean many Albanians helped the Jews and fought amongst themselves as well as the Axis. There’s the Balli Kombëtar, Hoxha’s partisans, the Vulnetari and even joined the German forces. Albania is a small country with a big history.
I just need to add something, on the 1931 Census, today Kosovo was around 60% Albanian and 30% Serbian, so it was 10ish% more than you stated. Also, one of the most interesting fact is that after communist roses to power after WWII, they brought a state act that is literally FORBIDEN for Serbs (and Montenegrins) to come back to their homes on the Kosovo/Metohia region and border between Yugoslavia and Albania in the Kosovo region was opened for couple of years. That was the way how they changed the demographic structure of the Kosovo Metohia region, due to politic reasons. Maybe, if you like to, you could made a small video about that act and demographic "engineering" on Kosovo and Metohia. Everything best Stefan, you are doing great work with displaying the truth, thanks for that!
I feel like you didn't provide enough context on why the Italians and Nazis were seen as liberators in Kosovo. Also, Albanian teachers were brought to Kosovo by Albania, not by Italy. Albania generally followed its own policies during these times, and from 1943 it was fully independent and not under German administration at all. However, its formal government was weak and subject to blackmail by Balli Kombetar, as explained in detail in the "1945 Final Report of the German Wehrmacht in Albania". Also, Balli Kombetar never formally supported the Germans, never persecuted the Jews, it accepted German soldiers being present in Albania but at the same time it tried to bring the British to Albania/Kosovo, because Balli Kombetar's only goal was to side with the party that could support Kosovo remaining part of Albania. It didn't care if that side was Germany, the UK, or the US. They even tried to do a coup with US and UK support in 1946 in Albania, but were betrayed by Kim Philby, a British-Soviet double agent. Now back to the context that led to Italians and Germans being seen as liberators. Firstly, after Serbia first took Kosovo in 1912, it committed massacres against Albanians, with 25-50k Albanians being killed in Kosovo (Leon Trotsky and Leo Freundlich figures). Trotsky (an important political figure in post-October revolution Russia) provides some accounts on how some of the murders happened, with soldiers tying up women to stacks of hay and setting them on fire, or making young boys dance under the threat of shooting them (and one of the soldiers told Trotsky look at those idiots thinking they will leave alive if they follow our orders to humiliate themselves, we have no intention to let them go; Trotsky couldn't watch and just walked away). These events featured in New York Times, with the title "Servian army left a trail of blood". These massacres were not forgotten by the people of Kosovo. Even in the 1999 war, these massacres and the "Kaçak resistance" that followed inspired members of the KLA. Secondly, after taking control of Kosovo, the "Yugoslav colonization of Kosovo" began. It was a deliberate policy to depopulate Albanian-majority areas and repopulate them with Serbs. About 600k Albanians were deported to Turkey during this program and about 100k Serbs were brought into Kosovo before WW2. The goal of the project was to eventually make Kosovo a majority-Serbian territory, but it was stopped when the Italians came to Kosovo during WW2. After Kosovo came under Albanian control, the Serbian colonists were expelled back to Serbia. In 1946, Serbia wanted to bring them back to Kosovo, but was stopped by Josip Broz Tito (which is why you often see Serbs claiming that Tito made Albanians a majority in Kosovo). In this context, the arrival of Italians (and subsequently of Germans), who did not target the Albanian population, was a significant improvement for life quality of the Albanians in Kosovo. This is why they were seen as liberators. They ended a period of persecution and curfews every night that did not stop from 1912 until 1941 and led to the deaths and beating of tens of thousands of people. They stopped the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people (though that resumed again in 1946 and only stopped in the 1960s). Albanian schools were opened for the first time in Kosovo in 1941 (until then education in Albanian was illegal; that's why teachers were brought from Albania, there were very few educated teachers in Kosovo). There were no more curfews. There was no more expropriation. No more arrests for speaking Albanian. From this perspective, the arrival of Axis powers was a positive event for Kosovo and an improvement relative to life before the Axis for the Albanians. That's why the Axis were welcomed as liberators. A similar thing happened in parts of Ukraine when the Germans arrived there, again for similar reasons (Russian oppression was far worse for Ukrainians than German one).
Lots of alb propaganda! If Serbs wanted to clean Albs from Kosovo they would do it. Many Serbs remembered Alb genocide 1878-1912, mass rape, killing, destruction of Serbs in Kosovo.
Thanks Mr Teacher again for covering yet another very obscured part of WW2 history. Can hardly wait to watch the coverage of Albania before and during WW2.
Thanks. I'm sorry, but Albania WW2 has to wait. Didn't visit Tirana. And won't go there anytime soon since I really disliked the country. Perhaps I'll do an at home episode about Albanian WW2 collaboration.
Cause regardless of how you fought for "your land" you slavs are immigrants and got nothing to do with balkan as a whole and kosovo itself wasn't foundes by you as we know bulgarians had occupied it before you then the romans before them
And even if you come at me with "No majority in this or that year weren't albanians and u have no right for it"..well actually as a paleo balkan people group we have every right for it as well as the other balkan lands that were occupied by you slavs and the romans and most belong to the rightful owners the paleo balkans albanians and greeks
@wrecked8746 assuming that you are descendants of Illyrians. Greeks are the more favourable choice, albanians aren't that old. You can't stay pure for over 900 or more years, especially after the slavs arrived. You are a mixture of slavs , gypsies, greeks and maybe Illyrians. But not direct descendants.
@@wrecked8746Albanians come on Balkan like a Turkish slaves ho have task to serve Turkish masters same like today serve Nato masters! Kosovo is Serbia more then 3000 thousand monostery and churches are prof for that!
A few important things to note is how the settler policy was justified with a psudohistory crafted by 19th century writers and was built upon dispossessing Albanians from their lands and homes, with the ultimate goal of ethnically cleansing Kosovo. Albanians were excluded from the civil service despite their population and their own long and often neglected history in the region.
Another superb video. Unlike almost every online historian, you continue to make the effort to film ‘ on location ‘, so to speak ! For some background information on the incredible degrees of degradation and genocidal violence Albanians in both Kosovo and Macedonia ( and elsewhere ! ) suffered at the hands of both Serbian state and irregular forces, I’d point viewers to the incredible findings of the International Carnegie Commission Report on the pre - WW1 Balkan Wars, as well as the journalism of none other than Leon Trotsky, working as a reporter at the time.
Well instead of focusing on victimisation of Albanians, my personal opinion is that he should show origins of conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Both sides suffered a lot during these wars and also both sides have blood on their hands. Focusing on just one side of the story can lead into biased look on history of this region. Also I will not use term "genocide" so easily. Nowadays on Balkan every single war crime or massacre has been called "genocide" and that can also lead into relativisation of real genocides that happened in history, especially during WW2.
@@FilipPetrovic999 No. atrocities and outrages invariably committed by Albanians against Serbs do not, I’m afraid to have to inform you, minutely begin to even begin to seriously ‘ compete ‘ with the avalanche ( all very well documented, and attested to, I’m sorry to have to inform you ) of Serb venom and fascination with the inflicting of agony and death upon ‘ Arnauts ‘, or ‘ Turks ‘, as they referred to hapless Albanians. Alike to white Australian, American, or South African examples of appalling behaviour, there are historical facts that one has to be both mature enough, and sensible enough to accept as ‘ belonging ‘ to one’s history. Sadly, on the whole, Serbs are STILL notoriously averse to be being mature enough to incorporate the grave ownership their state and it’s associated agencies has of a phenomenal degree of criminality and abuse.
@@matthewwhitton5720 I dont know of what specific war crime you talk about, but I can guarantee that there is similar acts done by Albanians against Serbs. During period of Ottomans, Albanians have privileged status, and they fought for Ottomans against local orthodox population, and we all know how brutal were Ottomans when they tortured their enemies. They were experts at torturing (impaling for example). We can also use example of Albanian SS division "Skanderbeg" which also showed brutality, or some islamic extremists during Kosovo War. So I think you just want to exaggerate Serbian crimes, so we can look more evil than you, while I believe we are both good guys and we should not fight like our ancestors did. Peace is something that is crucial for Balkans, peace and unity. Without that we will continue to kill eachother until no one left.
@@FilipPetrovic999 No. The admittedly dreadful circumstances and associations of a few thousand Bosnian, Kosovan , Macedonian , etc., Muslims with Himmler’s Waffen SS cannot reasonably be mentioned without paying attention to both Nedic’s utterly collaborationist puppet state. And, in particular, it’s noticeable that you pay no attention at all to two infamous facts. From approximately 1918 to 1939 the Yugoslav Kingdom did its utmost to ‘ encourage ‘ the emigration of numerous Muslims to Turkey. How many Serbs were pressured and harassed into departing from their own country in that period ? None. Secondly, you fail to mention the infamously anti-Muslim bigotry of the Serbian Chetniks throughout World War Two ( not to mention their infamous descent into open collaboration with Nazi and Fascist forces against Tito’s Partisans ), which led to numerous well-documented dreadful atrocities and horrific crimes visited upon Muslim communities.
There was no genocide on Serbs in Kosovo. According to Yugoslav government figures only 8,000 people died in Kosovo through whole war. So it simply impossible that 10,000 Serbs were killed. But Serbs are experts at just making things up. Anyways after what Serbs did to Albanians in 1912-1913 we had every right to retaliate during WW2, when were the ones in charge.
1:52: I always note how the nowadays balkans borders are close to those drawn by Germany in the WW2. It seems Yugoslavia was not a voluntary state. Obrigado, Stefan! 🇧🇷
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Not fascism won in the end, but the national thought. Humanity is divided in thousands of nations, each with their own character and language.
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Serbien hat die Batschka und das Banat einverleibt und den Osteil Slavoniens. Kroatien hat Bosnien-Herzeg verloren. Bulgarien hat (Nord-)Mazedonien und die Dobrudscha verloren. Kroatien sollte Istrien und Fiume an Italien zurückgeben.
@@HistoryHustle I don't want to be another complaining greek but the maps used in the beginning are referring to Greece's northern neighbour as Republic of Macedonia (the 1st map) and as Macedonia the (2nd map). You made already in another exceptional previous video of yours,some remarks about this subject.I am not o.k. with the official name given to this state but still some years now this country is called Republic of Northern Macedonia. Still another very interesting video in a subject not very well known.
@@HistoryHustle Alright but man I really hope the Government make more jobs for the citizens of Kosovo 🇽🇰 and the Serbian 🇷🇸 Communities living there too.
@@bogdanjovanovic5067 I didnt say that. All humans are said to have migrated from africa. Hahahahaha In the end, Albanians migrated to the balkans a long time before ur slavic ancestors knew their the balkans are before they migrated here in the 7th century.
@@albinh.3149 Indeed that is true to some extent. When they came they mixed with local people, which is visible even today. Southern Slavs have different look than other Slavs, also genetics proves significant Balkan ancestry. The point is that we do have right to be here as much as you.
Another sensitive topic on site, great work Stefan! A quick note regarding the demographics of Kosovo and Metohija is that the population changes did not begin to occur with the end of the first world war, but were initiated couple of centuries earlier with the massive exodus of the Serbian Christian population under Arsenije Crnojević after a failed rebellion against the Ottoman Turks, who in turn settled many Muslim Albanians in the region. Also, an interesting info regarding the SS Skenderbeg from the point of view of a German officer, SS Commander August Schmidhuber, states the following: "[w]ith a light mortar you can basically chase him [the Albanian] around the world. During the attack he goes only as far as he finds something to steal or sack. For him, the war is over when he captures a goat, a ploughshare or the wheel of a sewing machine." Obviously, he deemed the division a military failure and not one of its members was awarded an Iron Cross while serving. Furthermore, professor Paul Mojzes writes that the division was better known for committing atrocities against Serbs than it was for contributing to the German war effort, as well as its role in deporting Jews from Kosovo. David Patterson, a historian specializing in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, writes that the division "played a major role in rendering the Balkans Judenrein in the winter of 1943-1944." During the Kosovo War of 1998-1999, the American journalist Chris Hedges alleged that some Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were directly descended from members of the division and were ideologically influenced by it.
Reasons for this were the poor amount of Armor and Weapons given to the Albanian SS Division, they weren't disciplined, they were trained for to 4 months (at its max). No Training, No Weapons and the High Ranks wonder why the Division was a Failure. Albanian Axis Collaborators make up for it tho such as; Balli Kombetar, Albanian Wehrmacht Volunteers, Albanian Fascist Army and the Vulnetari. these Groups in cooperation with the Axis helped in a great Effort against Communist and Hostile Uprisings in the Albanian Regions.
The Kosovans should have been consulted whether they wanted to be part of Yugoslavia. Instead, Belgrade oppressed the Kosovo Albanians, and Kosovo was under a state of emergency until the mid-1960s.
Although it was a messy situation I doubt the Albanian Kosovars had a better life under Milosevic who permitted terrible crimes against them. On the flipside, the UCK also committed crimes against Serbs. It was a mess.
@M4R1 Uçk soldiers killed Pro Serb Albanians who cooperated with çetniks, menawhile Hoxha is a way better leader that Tito for Albanians because he himself is an Albanian
Thanks for your video Stefan, I hope you enjoyed yout time in Kosovo. Not a rich place sure, but we try to welcome those who come. I can say that after what the Serbs did to us from 1912-1913 (search Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars and detailed information composed by the Carnegie Commission). I completely understand why many Albanians used this time to get back at the Serbs.
@@dusancville When U say U guys I don't know who are you talking about. 1. 1912 Serbia Grece and Bulgaria attacked Ottoman Empire (NO ROMANIA) 1913. Bulgaria Attacked Serbia and then. 2. DRUZE JA SAM SRBIN IZ PANCEVA! ZIVELA SRBIJA!
@@lesa0132 massacre of Albanians by Serbs during this time. I know they don't teach you in your Chetnik schools, but its well detailed by all international observes of the Balkans wars from 1912-1913. Like I said, we paid some of it back to you 30 years later. What comes around goes around.
You wrong again to tell history you have to live there and you have to study different sources ,anyway next time if you don't mind can you tell us about Serbia there history and when did they arrive to Balkan
Northern Kosovo was not apart of Italian Albania not to "deny" Italy of the resources of Mitrovica but because northern Kosovo is made up of Serbs and thus it was only natural that it go to the Serbian Government of National Salvation
Actually no. Mitrovica was Albanian majority. What was above Mitrovica (leposaviq...) was indeed serb majority. Germans occupying Trepça mines was of importants due to the ressources to build more weapons, which the germans lacked. Additionally the area in and around Mitrovica was given under control of Albanian chieftains due to the Albanian majority.
You dont know nothing abouth Serbia history as I can see! You speak about our territory like it is some other country...Serba is born on Kosovo and Metohija we live there almost 1000 years before albanians come with turks from today Azerbeijan! And they was invented like country in 19-th Century by our enemies taking Serbian and Greek land for that! Kosovo was,is and will be Serbia!
@@HistoryHustle Do you want to beat on that? Various enemies take Kosovo from us many times in past and guess what we always took it back! So I hope soon you will see our flag in Prizren old Serbian town!
@@HistoryHustle And yes because I can see that you are our enemy..I would realy like that you come to help your albanian friends when we came to take our Holy land back!
Croatia during WWII:
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North Macedonia during WWII:
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Kosovo did not then become part of Yugoslavia, but Kosovo was for centuries part of Serbia, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then Tito's Yugoslavia, only Tito gave autonomy to Kosovo because he hoped that Albania would join Kosovo and thus become a republic and part of Yugoslavia. Kosovo was forcibly taken from Yugoslavia by Bill Clinton's support of terrorists.
@@zeljkodejanovic8786 And Kosovo was also NOT part of Serbia for more centuries than it was. Just like Serbia was part of the Ottoman Empire for many centiries. And just like England was part of the Roman Empire for many centuries, and just like (name your country) was part of (name your country) for many centuries. Dude, almost every country was part of some other country at one point in their history. Who gives a fuck? Especially if it happenned back when there was no electricity or indoor/outdoor plumbing. Lol. What matters is TODAY, and some recent history from which there are still people alive today + we have some recorded video footage/photographs of that era. Guess what dude, maybe back in some ancient times when nobody really knows wtf happenned, today's Republic of Kosovo was a part of Serbia and all that, but today that ain;t the case. Today you have a country with a 95% Albanian population who wants nothing to do with Serbia. And you can't blame them because NOBODY who evelr lived with the Serbs in the same country wants nothing to do with them. Lol. You guys are like that stalker boyfriend who won;t leave any of his ex-girlfriends alone no matter how many times they told them to leave them alone and it is over. It would be all funny if you are not also an abusive boyfriend who physically attacked his ex-girlfriends (wars in Slovenia, Croatia, BosniaHerzegovina) and threatened their lives if they try to leave him. Eventually, the girlfriends managed not only to fight off the big bully on their own, but in the case of the last girlfriend the cops finally showed up (after numerous unsuccessful calls made by all 4 ex-girlfriends) and taught the abusive bully a lesson. I'm referring to the Operation "Noble Anvil" of course, where the entire civilized community led by NATO finally put an end to the Serbian lust for conquering foreign lands, raping, pillaging and committing so many large-scale war crimes that some even became officially calssified as the genocide, a first on European soil since WW2. Now the abusive boyfriend is back living with his mom in her basement and crying everyday how he used to have many "ho's in different area codes", but now he is not even allowed to come close to them or he might get his ass spanked again by the cops and end up in prison. So dude, please spare us the history bullshit, you/Serbia is nothing but a typical bully with whom nobody wants anything to do with but he refuses to accept that fact and keeps living in some dreamland where all the bitches will run back to him saying "you were right, we still love you". Well guess what - it ain;t happenning, the train with all the girls has left the station long time ago and it aint coming back. The sooner you accept those facts the soomer you will be able to start living in reality called year 2024. Happy New Year from Bondsteel😄
Ive never heard anything about Kosovo in World War 2
Lets see what I will learn today😄
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Good episode. It was missing one element, which is quite important, the Bujan conference, that was called to fix the situation of Kosovo, but was later abandoned by Yugoslavia, which caused uprising in Kosovo.
Many thanks for your reply!
Albanian nationalists were all deutch kultur because of their education in Austria since the end of 19 century. At the communism they saw the risk of something panslavic policy in different clothes. Thats all. They were anti-slavic this way they went anti-communists. After all the atrocities albanians suffered specially after 1878 from serbian chauvinists. Albanian lands are the only one during the ww2 where the germans couldn't caught at least one jew. The only lands where the number of jews after the war, was higher than the number before war started. These were albanian nationalists.
And the serbian 'victims' who suffered at the hand of Uztashe were also the country to brag about being the first jew free country in Europe! This shows you the difference. We don't lie and we are seen as terrorists and nationalists
Albanian national cooperation organization, formed in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, during the 1st Balkan war and the Battle of Scutari, had it's center in Scutari, in center of Scutari Ejalet.
During WW2 they had both Axis and Cominterne cooperation.
Both politics provided the support for the separation of Serbian rule in the 3 nations state Kingdom of SCS, later K Yugoslavia.
Communist Party Of Yugoslavia CPY , by the instructions from the USSR, founded the Communist Party Of Albania in 1941, that covered the Kosova too, at the time being in the same state.
According to a Dresden Conference of CPY in 1929, Albanian population was granted a freedom of separation.
That is why Albanian support switched fast from the Axis to the Communists and the USSR.
Parts of 21SS Div Skenderbeg ,one battalion, later joined the 7SS Div P Eugene in the anti guerilla war.
Although, in the 1st Constitution of FNRJ of 31st Jan 1946,
Kosovo was only a Municipality, later it become a Province of SR Serbia.
Still unknown in which Constitution of FNRJ/SFRJ did they get that upgraded status.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Labour_of_Albania
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Excellent programme Stefan, knew nothing about this part of the world in the Second World War, I have been pleasantly educated , thanks
Thanks for your reply.
Serbia didn't fell in 1389.
It fell in 1527.
From 1527-1875.Serbia was Part of Turkey.
Serbia in 1835 Had the most FREE constitution at that time.
Wrong. serbia became a ottoman vassal after 1389. It effectivly was annexed around ~1459.
@@albinh.3149 Yet after 1389 it Had battle for Belgrade, Smederevo and even Banat uprising in 1594.
@@albinh.3149 thats what I meant.
@@albinh.3149 Wrong! Vassal obligatory of Serbian principality towards the Ottoman Empire stopped after the battle of Ankara 1401 where Amir Timur destroyed Ottoman troops, capturing Sultan and placing him in the cage. All historians from the West miss this important fact, after the battle Amir Timur personally order his troops to liberate all captured and wounded Serbian knights and to send them back for Despot Stefan Lazarević in the name of respect for lasting for so long on the battlefield while Ottoman troops and mercenaries were brutally tortured till death. Once Ottoman Sultan is captured Despot Stefan took full control over the Serbia again from his cousins and ruled as a first Knight of the Dragon Order (famous medieval order of local European rulers), he made a deal with Hungarians set multiple mining towns and received Belgrade as a gift of a new friendship. Belgrade under the rule of Despot Stefan was one of the most prosper towns of that period and was some kind of free trade zone between east and west.
@@rogyn8484 brankoviq was a ottoman dog. He sabotaged the Hungarians and later even the Albanians in their fights against the turks.
Can you do research on Turkey and why it didn't join the Axis Alliance?
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Serbia and others did not talk about them and did you make a video about them, if there is a video, please give me the source and thank you.
One day for sure.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, some Polish citizens of different races served in the Wehrmacht, particularly citizens from German-annexed parts of Poland such as Upper Silesia and Pomerania. Service in the German army was of a global nature in these areas, however, assessing the number of Poles involved is difficult due to the fluidity of national identity. On the low end, Polish estimates often put the number of native Poles at 250,000. Ryszard Kaczmarek's conservative estimate, based on documentary evidence, is 295,000; However, Kaczmarek considers this to be very low and tends to accept numbers as high as 500,000
Were the Poles able to join the Wehrmacht during World War II if they really wanted to fight for Germany?
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I've been to Albania twice.
Ok.
late reaction but as always good video. i like that you cover lesser known fronts of ww2
Glad you liked it, thanks!
There was a picture of Xhaver Deva (thumbnail guy) with Pecanac Chetniks lol
I see.
Another reason why in one of the previous videos I suggested that Pećanac Chetniks and Mihailović Chetniks deserved two separated episodes since those were two totally different groups. Pećanac was born in Kosovo and grew up in a family around Serbian Monastery Dechani, at one point monastery was attacked by Albanian gang from the opposite village and in this attack his parents were killed marking him for the whole life. Interestingly enough, since he grew up in that mixed environment he would over his life have both good and bad relations with Albanians, Bulgarians and Turks, many times fighting against them but also some times collaborating with them (during WW1 Albanians and Serbs fight couple of battles against Bulgarians together after occupation). WW2 collaboration came after he was technically left with no other choice but to establish peace in that area of occupied Serbia, one of the reasons why he was very angry on Mihailović and part of his units that were collaborating with him attacking Germans at the start of uprising. Also during WW2 Pećanac was old, sick and many who sawed him at that point were aware that he had lost his mind. He was kidnaped and executed from the side of Mihailović Chetniks as a traitor, however his life is an amazing story and would be worth to tell it.
You explained it very well… but from a Serb perspective, so not that good of a video.!!
Please explain.
Fascinating piece of history “Stefan” thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 💪❤️ have a great weekend ✌️
Many thanks as always Jesse.
During WW2, Kosovo didn't exist in any form. The current borders of the South Serbian territory occupied by the US & its NATO puppies were created during the POSTWAR PERIOD by the Yugoslav communist authorities.
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Phahahaha SON OF A QETNIK
As historian you should know that Serbs not lost in the 1389, that battle was a draw with both armies retreating and both leaders killed in battle itself. Due to Hungarian attack from the North after the battle Serbs decided to become a vassal principality under the rule of Despot Stefan Lazarević (without Ottoman troops on it's territory but with obligation to join Sultan in it's future battles). That lasted only until the battle of Ankara where Despot Stefan survived and was greeted by Amir Timor for his heroism libereting all of captured Serbian knights and his sister from the Ottoman harem while twords the captured Ottoman troops he was very brutal. At that point Serbia become independent principality again, tied connections with Hungarians and was important mining hub for the whole Balkans. Only after death of Despot Stefan Lazarević Serbia was actually conquered. When Ottomans took apsolute power on Kosovo their data clearly showed who was majority there and those were Serbs by 90% (official Ottoman documents easy to found and check). Huge changes in demographics happen twords the end of 17th and start of 18th century in so called "movement of the Serbs" which were leaving Kosovo and North Macedonia due to Ottoman tortures and were setteling areas in the North in Voyvodina to fight for Habsburgs against Muslum invasion. Second huge change happened after WW1 where Serbia lost 29% of it's whole population during the war especially those conscripted in Kosovo and south area. During WW1 many Albanians were against Serbs but many of them were also pro-Serbian fighting together in couple of battles against Bulgarins who occupied that area. WW2 period you mostly described well but after the war period should be mentioned that Serbs who were expelled during the war were by the communists forbbiden to return to live there and only small amount actually over the years moved back, others who stayed were unable to cope with Albanian growing population which were even more increased after Tito's decision to accept huge amount of migrants from Albania who were desperately running away from their Enver Hoja regime in Albania and saw Yugoslavia as a safe heaven. Rest is history
Thanks for sharing. I refer to my sources.
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The rest is history serbs stole easier than to make your own
@@warrior6803 Give exact example and straightforward facts so that we can see what we stole.
@@rogyn8484 every ting
Albanians welcomed the Germans with arms wide open,because we were almost all the time at war with our neighbors.
Especially after the Ottomans left,the mostly slavic,orthodox neighbors tried to extinguish Albania from the map!
And when the Germans came,not a single soldier got killed from an Albanian,and to this day,we are taught in our schools that the Germans,Austro-Hungaria saved us many times from the slavs and the greeks!
And to this day,this hatred still exists,which is no problem to us Albanians at all lol!
Without a superpower helping them,they don't dare to fire a bullet!
once a fascist always a fascist
did albania ever fight before 1940? don't you understand that the whole world reads this nonsense you albanians write and laughs at you
@@wlp_diavolakos7352 He's talking about Politics while you have a Kids Video Game Profile Picture and talk about laughing at People.
and youre right on that one, Once a Fascist, always a Fascist. Our Loyalty means Honor.
@@wlp_diavolakos7352fascists that had more jews at the end of the war than after 😂😂 meanwhile Serbia bragged that they were the first judenfree nation in europe. I guess this shows you which people had honour and which people didn't.
A good film. Another illustration of the complexity of World War 2 in the Balkans, tragic events which still cause suffering today. Well done for shining a spotlight on matters like this, scarcely noticed on an international level but with such woeful effects for those caught up in it.
Thanks for your reply.
Kosovo is part of Serbia!🇷🇸
Not anymore my friend.
it is incorrect that in 1389 there were 70% Albanians, where did you get that from?
See sources below the video.
For those who don't know Xhafer Deva (Minister of Interior during WW2) who could speak, read and write 9 different languages was asked by the Germans about the Jewish families hidden in Albania and Kosova and according to the Code of Honor "Besa" Mr. Deva has refused to give them any information. After WW2 Mr Deva immigrated to the United States and some sources say that he has worked for CIA. At Mr Deva's funeral in 1978 US congressmen were present and that says a lot. As far as we know Mr Deva was tasked by the US government (CIA) to try and capture or kill the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha who's responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent lives in Albania. Mr Deva has met King Zog in Egypt in 1947 and purpose of this meeting was to get rid of the communist regime. Mr Deva and other Albanian leaders are the reason why Albanians are the only nation in Europe not to hand over a single Jewish individual to the Nazis during WW2. Mr Deva has met Serbian Chetniks as well and trying to portray him as Nazi collaborationist is a mistake.
Thanks for sharing this.
@@HistoryHustle I just scratched the surface!, if you plan to make another video about Kosovo during WW2 I will share more information with you. My profession is not History but I'm able to explain a lot of events that have taken place before, during and after WW2 in Kosovo. Best of luck Sir!.
All we need to know is that he was a Nazi fascist collaborator. That's how history will remember him. Let us not be German apologists.
All are Bulgarians. They just had massive dialects and inner communities. Bulgaria built Servian forts (kreposts) (small strongholds) (not castles) before Dark Age to protect against Hungarians and Croatians, Romans (Greeks) under Bulgarian Empire. Only reason Servia is a indendent country is they sided with Romans and were bribed. They speak Bulgarian but Catholic Church forced them to honor latinized version of Bulgarian (slavic). Servia also took bribes from Kyiv-Rus. When Bulgaria has no control of their people this is what happens. Ethnic (border disputes). Xenophobia. A DISASTER ! Mind you Balkans have always been like this since beginning of time. Its a complete s...show.
I agree on your last sentence.
The History Hustle speciality - lots of interesting information perfectly crafted into a nice short watch for a Saturday afternoon⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Enjoy your weekend 👍
Please do a video about the regions in poland which germany annext ( westprussia,posen....)
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The noprtwestern part of Kosovo was part of Montenegro. I don't see that in the maps in this video.
Have to check that
@@HistoryHustle probably not during occupation, but it is remarkable that Tito took part of Montenegro after the war to make it part of an autonomous region in Serbia.
Great video on a topic the rest of the World knows little about. 👍
Many thanks!
Interesting and informative 👍
I was a NATO soldier in Kosovo in 2002
Thank you for your service sir
I salute you
i hope you’re suffering for what you’ve done. god doesn’t forget you’ll get what’s coming to you in the next life
Thanks for replying Niels.
Thank you friend, Albanians love you
Great colored footage which says a lot about Kosovo ! Thanks again, always a pleasure!
Thanks for your reply, Jean!
So it goes to show you that Kosovo was never part of Serbia
It was once.
For a short time… less then 300 years
Austrália 🇭🇲 during Vietnam war my sugestion of next episode
Perhaps in the future, but not anytime soon.
ah bro I live very nearby that place where you were standing ... too bad I didnt meet you haha :)
Haha, I was there in the summer of 2022.
Long live Kosovo -Dardania ❤❤❤❤,sorry to say but that battle in Kosovo was Albanian ortodox when serbs was on side of Turks like always ,serbs give tgeir douthers to Sultan,lots of otomans sultans was half otoman half serbs, Kosovo was always Albania land ❤ please put that one time in your chanel
Hello Stefan,weeks ago i post a note about the Portuguese who fought with the Germans in the Eastern front in the Divisão Azul.
Okay, cool!
Maybe you find some informations useful for a future vídeo (and some photos of the portuguese soldiers)
@@ricardogaspar8545 ché héroes.
Stefan, i keep rewinding over so many parts to fully understand this region. It will take me an hour to view entirely. This production is loaded with information. It's compression into 8+ minutes is astounding.
Thanks Rudolph.
awesome video mate keep it up can't wait for the history of the Chetniks wish i had you as my history teacher when i was still in school
One day, cant tell when: complicated topic so much research time and other projects I planned first.
Albanian and serbians are cousins , IS a familiar War.
Do they see that also?
Kosovo is a heart of Serbia. All our graves and our history is written there, those settlers of Arbanas origin are Osmanic Muslim puppets,some tribes from Azerbedjan. The Kosovar is a Nation same as Northern Irish. Or as a American,,nation without history and mixup from covicts.
Proof that we migrated from Azerbaijan? There is no reported Albanian mass immigration from anywhere. Why is our language completely different and has dinilarities to the ancient Illyrians? Whenever I ask for proof Serbs never provide it
Can't wait for the episode about Texas in WW2.
Stefan would need to travel to Texas and I don't think he could afford the body armor nessesary. LoL. Greetings from Tennessee USA.
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It isn't Chicago. Lol
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You are a biased interpreter of Kosovo from a Western point of view, what kind of Albanians, I am from Podujevo, in 1960 there were 70% Serbs and Montenegrins, today 0%. What are you talking about? You are totally non-objective.
Source?
That is a lie. Serbs were 5% of Podujevo.
Serbs are delusional
70% 😂😂 so the population completely switched in 100 years? Yeah right
Thank you again for proving great insight into little know facts and events. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‼️👏
Thanks Charles.
Just a disclaimer the photo shown on 01:41 is actually Macedonian deserters from the Yugoslav royal army in Bitola in 1941. greeting the Germans.
Thanks for sharing.
Another great piece.BZ.
All sides using the conflict to further their own programme.
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Another excellent video, Stefan.
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A lot of the hatred’s from ww2 came back in the Bosnian conflict in the early 1990’s they have long memories
Not easy man, as albanian, what to expect else....
What about albanian partisan of yugoslavia massacred in tivar , and hided in a masse grave in a no mans land in montenegro....
You said something important....at least 70% of kosovo is albanian, to not say 95% ....why these albanians where killed in tivar massacre.... ? Check on youtube
The cycle of violence did not end with WW2 being over.
Great film. Thank you.
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Have you studied history at the Serbien Univeristy in Belgrade?
Nope.
@@HistoryHustle Then why do you only take the Serbs' version of history?
Please explain.
@@HistoryHustle You describe Serbs as victims. Albanians are evil and Islamists, although there are MANY Albanian Christians. The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 was not the battle of the Serbs against the Turks, most of the army that met the Turks was not Serbian. It consists of Albanians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Croats, Hungarians and others. There were three great Albanian clans that fought against the Turks!
My grand father fought during the 2nd WW in Kosova against Montenegrins and serbians
Can you tell us about his experiences?
FULL SUPPORT TO OUR Kosovo - Albanian BROTHERS and Sweet Albanian Sisters, with Love from Bielarus´ 🏳❤🏳 ! ps down with the golden horde its Balkan´s poodles ( so called serbs , the tourists ) !
Meaning your grandfather was a Nazi.
@@adamradziwillthank you friend. We hope Belarus gets freed from their tyrannical dictator
You are suprising me even I didnt know for Stojan Gavrilovic statement.My ancestors are from Kosovo thought I know everything.Great job man.
My god i love some forgotten history stuff very fun.
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Cool bro and good job
This is very helpful informative
Great, thanks for replying.
As Albanian from n Macedonia I know in my city near Kosovo border is a statue of fallen heroes of ww2 Albanians who fought in Ss skanderbeg again comunist serbs but slavic government removed the statue because they were Albanian heroes one day we will came back and create the great ancient civilization THE ILLIRYANS thank you friend
Thanks for sharing this.
Albanians in Macedonia must stay proud of being Arber. We love you brothers from Kosova
Serbia in ww2, UK, Norway, France ? Can we hear story of ww2 without censorship?
Please explain.
Good documentary, you should also look at the years of 1878, Serbian and Bulgarian Exodus
And first world, for sure, that’s why Albanian took revenge, because of Kanun ( He said this )
Interesting
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Very good,thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Enver hoxha after the war wanted to united albania all. The reason why we not united was because Albania was alone during the cold War and not will alliances and other countrys they have.......
Interesting story I hope to cover one day.
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Can't wait for the episode about West Virginia during WW2
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Noted.
@avaaa R*tardness in its finest form.
A lot goin' on there. Again learned new things thanks to you 👍
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷🇳🇱, T.
Thanks as always, T. 👍
RIP is the original Gazimestan monument in Priština, destroyed by Albanian fascists during WW2. 🇷🇸
I see. Didn't know about this.
@@HistoryHustle Yes. Many Serbian cultural artifacts were destroyed in Italian Kosovo by Albanian fascists. Often though Serbs would do the same in the kingdom of Yugoslavia & post-communist Serbia.
Simply great podcast.
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A Wonderful History Coverage about Kosovo (Black Bird ) Region during WW2 .allot thanks Sir Stefan for Preparing & introducing these wonderful History Videos ...Video was most informative 👍👍
Many thanks as always!
To this day,the people know that Kosovo as a name derives from a serbian word,which in fact,is a lie!
The name Kosovo itself came from the Bulgarians(historically speaking,Bulgarians controlled Kosovo more than the serbs),and to this day,you could find tens of places named Kosovo in Bulgaria!
Even the Orthodox Churches in Kosovo used to be Albanian and Bulgarian,just to be converted into "serbian churches" by stefan dusan,after he collaborated with the Ottomans to gain control over the Balkans!
You must be more educated next time!
great video
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Can you make a video covering the legendairy white death
Finland's sniper? No sorry. There is plenty about him on this platform.
Thank you Professor Stephan . You are brilliant and provide information that further expands knowledge about World War 2 from nearly each nation involved 👏🏼 thank you
Thanks for your reply once again 👍
@@HistoryHustle thank you for the excellent content and even on location
Lot of history people don't know
Indeed.
My grandfather fought in Kosovo during World War II , he was part of an Albanian resistance group and fought against the Nazis and axis aligned Chetniks
"Can't we all just get along?"
Rodney King
Fair point.
četniks were not a part of the yugoslav resistance. They collaborated with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, they're leader dražen mihaljević was tried and executed war for crimes.
Tito fan boy.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 If you had any brains you could see by my name that im NOT a fan of his at all.
Chetniks were the first legitimate resistance in Yugoslavia, being remnants of the Yugoslav Royal (State) Army.
You are just a salty tito fanboy. can't even properly spell Draža’s name.
@@rudolphguarnacci197mihailovic and milosevic Fan boy
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Very original. I bet you never asked yourself why Allied Command backed Tito.
Kosovo is Serbia same like Donieck and Lugansk is Ukranian
Different topic.
Dream on *Little Russian Immigrant* lol..
@@HistoryHustle yes but same laws in world for everyone
@Gazi Kosova haha
@@albinh.3149 im not russian
Xhafer Deva and Mustafa Kruja,albanian servant of Italian fascist!
Please refrain from emotionally triggered partisan replies. Its explained in the video and your reply adds next to nothing.
Kosovo is primarily populated with Albanians🇦🇱, and it’s important to remember that Serbs hated the Albanians and committed mass murders of them. Most recently in the 90’s and even during the Balkan wars.
Yes, but it also happened the other way around during WW2. Sad people can't seem to live with another.
@@HistoryHustle Still I feel like you the Albanians look bad. I mean many Albanians helped the Jews and fought amongst themselves as well as the Axis. There’s the Balli Kombëtar, Hoxha’s partisans, the Vulnetari and even joined the German forces. Albania is a small country with a big history.
@@HistoryHustleAlbanians retaliated against serb colonists. Serb natives and civilians that grew up there were not harmed
I just need to add something, on the 1931 Census, today Kosovo was around 60% Albanian and 30% Serbian, so it was 10ish% more than you stated.
Also, one of the most interesting fact is that after communist roses to power after WWII, they brought a state act that is literally FORBIDEN for Serbs (and Montenegrins) to come back to their homes on the Kosovo/Metohia region and border between Yugoslavia and Albania in the Kosovo region was opened for couple of years.
That was the way how they changed the demographic structure of the Kosovo Metohia region, due to politic reasons. Maybe, if you like to, you could made a small video about that act and demographic "engineering" on Kosovo and Metohia.
Everything best Stefan, you are doing great work with displaying the truth, thanks for that!
Any sources for the migration from Albania to Yugoslavia? Enver Hoxha was very strict and he didn't let anyone out the country. This is bullshit
I feel like you didn't provide enough context on why the Italians and Nazis were seen as liberators in Kosovo. Also, Albanian teachers were brought to Kosovo by Albania, not by Italy. Albania generally followed its own policies during these times, and from 1943 it was fully independent and not under German administration at all. However, its formal government was weak and subject to blackmail by Balli Kombetar, as explained in detail in the "1945 Final Report of the German Wehrmacht in Albania". Also, Balli Kombetar never formally supported the Germans, never persecuted the Jews, it accepted German soldiers being present in Albania but at the same time it tried to bring the British to Albania/Kosovo, because Balli Kombetar's only goal was to side with the party that could support Kosovo remaining part of Albania. It didn't care if that side was Germany, the UK, or the US. They even tried to do a coup with US and UK support in 1946 in Albania, but were betrayed by Kim Philby, a British-Soviet double agent.
Now back to the context that led to Italians and Germans being seen as liberators. Firstly, after Serbia first took Kosovo in 1912, it committed massacres against Albanians, with 25-50k Albanians being killed in Kosovo (Leon Trotsky and Leo Freundlich figures). Trotsky (an important political figure in post-October revolution Russia) provides some accounts on how some of the murders happened, with soldiers tying up women to stacks of hay and setting them on fire, or making young boys dance under the threat of shooting them (and one of the soldiers told Trotsky look at those idiots thinking they will leave alive if they follow our orders to humiliate themselves, we have no intention to let them go; Trotsky couldn't watch and just walked away). These events featured in New York Times, with the title "Servian army left a trail of blood". These massacres were not forgotten by the people of Kosovo. Even in the 1999 war, these massacres and the "Kaçak resistance" that followed inspired members of the KLA.
Secondly, after taking control of Kosovo, the "Yugoslav colonization of Kosovo" began. It was a deliberate policy to depopulate Albanian-majority areas and repopulate them with Serbs. About 600k Albanians were deported to Turkey during this program and about 100k Serbs were brought into Kosovo before WW2. The goal of the project was to eventually make Kosovo a majority-Serbian territory, but it was stopped when the Italians came to Kosovo during WW2. After Kosovo came under Albanian control, the Serbian colonists were expelled back to Serbia. In 1946, Serbia wanted to bring them back to Kosovo, but was stopped by Josip Broz Tito (which is why you often see Serbs claiming that Tito made Albanians a majority in Kosovo).
In this context, the arrival of Italians (and subsequently of Germans), who did not target the Albanian population, was a significant improvement for life quality of the Albanians in Kosovo. This is why they were seen as liberators. They ended a period of persecution and curfews every night that did not stop from 1912 until 1941 and led to the deaths and beating of tens of thousands of people. They stopped the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people (though that resumed again in 1946 and only stopped in the 1960s). Albanian schools were opened for the first time in Kosovo in 1941 (until then education in Albanian was illegal; that's why teachers were brought from Albania, there were very few educated teachers in Kosovo). There were no more curfews. There was no more expropriation. No more arrests for speaking Albanian. From this perspective, the arrival of Axis powers was a positive event for Kosovo and an improvement relative to life before the Axis for the Albanians. That's why the Axis were welcomed as liberators. A similar thing happened in parts of Ukraine when the Germans arrived there, again for similar reasons (Russian oppression was far worse for Ukrainians than German one).
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Lots of alb propaganda! If Serbs wanted to clean Albs from Kosovo they would do it. Many Serbs remembered Alb genocide 1878-1912, mass rape, killing, destruction of Serbs in Kosovo.
Thanks Mr Teacher again for covering yet another very obscured part of WW2 history. Can hardly wait to watch the coverage of Albania before and during WW2.
Thanks. I'm sorry, but Albania WW2 has to wait. Didn't visit Tirana. And won't go there anytime soon since I really disliked the country. Perhaps I'll do an at home episode about Albanian WW2 collaboration.
@@HistoryHustle Is there a reason behind your anti-Albanian stain?
@@HistoryHustle Albania is amazing i dont know why u dislike the country
@@HistoryHustle Albania is amazing i dont know why u dislike the country
How could it be albanian if we fought for it for 500 years😂
Cause regardless of how you fought for "your land" you slavs are immigrants and got nothing to do with balkan as a whole and kosovo itself wasn't foundes by you as we know bulgarians had occupied it before you then the romans before them
And even if you come at me with "No majority in this or that year weren't albanians and u have no right for it"..well actually as a paleo balkan people group we have every right for it as well as the other balkan lands that were occupied by you slavs and the romans and most belong to the rightful owners the paleo balkans albanians and greeks
@wrecked8746 assuming that you are descendants of Illyrians. Greeks are the more favourable choice, albanians aren't that old. You can't stay pure for over 900 or more years, especially after the slavs arrived. You are a mixture of slavs , gypsies, greeks and maybe Illyrians. But not direct descendants.
@@wrecked8746SMD😂
@@wrecked8746Albanians come on Balkan like a Turkish slaves ho have task to serve Turkish masters same like today serve Nato masters! Kosovo is Serbia more then 3000 thousand monostery and churches are prof for that!
A few important things to note is how the settler policy was justified with a psudohistory crafted by 19th century writers and was built upon dispossessing Albanians from their lands and homes, with the ultimate goal of ethnically cleansing Kosovo. Albanians were excluded from the civil service despite their population and their own long and often neglected history in the region.
Another superb video. Unlike almost every online historian, you continue to make the effort to film ‘ on location ‘, so to speak ! For some background information on the incredible degrees of degradation and genocidal violence Albanians in both Kosovo and Macedonia ( and elsewhere ! ) suffered at the hands of both Serbian state and irregular forces, I’d point viewers to the incredible findings of the International Carnegie Commission Report on the pre - WW1 Balkan Wars, as well as the journalism of none other than Leon Trotsky, working as a reporter at the time.
Well instead of focusing on victimisation of Albanians, my personal opinion is that he should show origins of conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Both sides suffered a lot during these wars and also both sides have blood on their hands. Focusing on just one side of the story can lead into biased look on history of this region.
Also I will not use term "genocide" so easily. Nowadays on Balkan every single war crime or massacre has been called "genocide" and that can also lead into relativisation of real genocides that happened in history, especially during WW2.
@@FilipPetrovic999 No. atrocities and outrages invariably committed by Albanians against Serbs do not, I’m afraid to have to inform you, minutely begin to even begin to seriously ‘ compete ‘ with the avalanche ( all very well documented, and attested to, I’m sorry to have to inform you ) of Serb venom and fascination with the inflicting of agony and death upon ‘ Arnauts ‘, or ‘ Turks ‘, as they referred to hapless Albanians. Alike to white Australian, American, or South African examples of appalling behaviour, there are historical facts that one has to be both mature enough, and sensible enough to accept as ‘ belonging ‘ to one’s history. Sadly, on the whole, Serbs are STILL notoriously averse to be being mature enough to incorporate the grave ownership their state and it’s associated agencies has of a phenomenal degree of criminality and abuse.
@@matthewwhitton5720 I dont know of what specific war crime you talk about, but I can guarantee that there is similar acts done by Albanians against Serbs. During period of Ottomans, Albanians have privileged status, and they fought for Ottomans against local orthodox population, and we all know how brutal were Ottomans when they tortured their enemies. They were experts at torturing (impaling for example).
We can also use example of Albanian SS division "Skanderbeg" which also showed brutality, or some islamic extremists during Kosovo War.
So I think you just want to exaggerate Serbian crimes, so we can look more evil than you, while I believe we are both good guys and we should not fight like our ancestors did. Peace is something that is crucial for Balkans, peace and unity. Without that we will continue to kill eachother until no one left.
Thanks for sharing this.
@@FilipPetrovic999 No. The admittedly dreadful circumstances and associations of a few thousand Bosnian, Kosovan , Macedonian , etc., Muslims with Himmler’s Waffen SS cannot reasonably be mentioned without paying attention to both Nedic’s utterly collaborationist puppet state. And, in particular, it’s noticeable that you pay no attention at all to two infamous facts. From approximately 1918 to 1939 the Yugoslav Kingdom did its utmost to ‘ encourage ‘ the emigration of numerous Muslims to Turkey. How many Serbs were pressured and harassed into departing from their own country in that period ? None. Secondly, you fail to mention the infamously anti-Muslim bigotry of the Serbian Chetniks throughout World War Two ( not to mention their infamous descent into open collaboration with Nazi and Fascist forces against Tito’s Partisans ), which led to numerous well-documented dreadful atrocities and horrific crimes visited upon Muslim communities.
you missed to talk about alb genocide on Serbs in ww2. 10000 Serbs killed, 100 000 cleansed.
You missed the point I mention that.
Only colonists were cleaned. Native serbs were left mostly untouched
You missed to mention mad haters
There was no genocide on Serbs in Kosovo. According to Yugoslav government figures only 8,000 people died in Kosovo through whole war. So it simply impossible that 10,000 Serbs were killed. But Serbs are experts at just making things up. Anyways after what Serbs did to Albanians in 1912-1913 we had every right to retaliate during WW2, when were the ones in charge.
@@jonizymberi6787You are right. It was Ethnic cleansing of Serbs
1:52: I always note how the nowadays balkans borders are close to those drawn by Germany in the WW2. It seems Yugoslavia was not a voluntary state.
Obrigado, Stefan! 🇧🇷
Thanks for your reply Marcos!
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Not fascism won in the end, but the national thought. Humanity is divided in thousands of nations, each with their own character and language.
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Serbien hat die Batschka und das Banat einverleibt und den Osteil Slavoniens. Kroatien hat Bosnien-Herzeg verloren. Bulgarien hat (Nord-)Mazedonien und die Dobrudscha verloren. Kroatien sollte Istrien und Fiume an Italien zurückgeben.
kosovo during ww2 is Serbia..
Nope. You should watch the video.
@@HistoryHustle it’s serbia
Kosovo is Serbian 🇷🇸!
Not relevant regarding this video.
@@HistoryHustle moze biti relavatno ako obradis u cjelosti srpsko albanske odnose kroz istoriju.
Great feature again Stefan! 👍
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On the maps in the beginning of this video, the name of the northern neighbour of Greece needs some fixing.
Please explain.
@@HistoryHustle I don't want to be another complaining greek but the maps used in the beginning are referring to Greece's northern neighbour as Republic of Macedonia (the 1st map) and as Macedonia the (2nd map).
You made already in another exceptional previous video of yours,some remarks about this subject.I am not o.k. with the official name given to this state but still some years now this country is called Republic of Northern Macedonia.
Still another very interesting video in a subject not very well known.
@@Kimmerios-l5u _"I don't want to be another complaining greek...."_ loooooool
@@mellake7052 better a complaining Greek than rather a complete ignorant.loooooool🤪
Wow that's crazy. I hope Kosovo 🇽🇰 is doing well today.
Me too. I hope the whole region is doing well today.
Its safe there now 👍
@@HistoryHustle Alright but man I really hope the Government make more jobs for the citizens of Kosovo 🇽🇰 and the Serbian 🇷🇸 Communities living there too.
Thank you brother for this video. Albanians never forget America help 🇦🇱🇽🇰🤝🇺🇲
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Very interesting. Once worked with someone from Kosovo.
Didn’t know much about the WW2 years though. Good video.
Thanks for sharing this.
Kosovo je Srbija 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
Another triggered reply.
Dream on *little russian migrant* lol..
@@albinh.3149 Lmao and Albanians are not migrants?
@@bogdanjovanovic5067 I didnt say that. All humans are said to have migrated from africa. Hahahahaha
In the end, Albanians migrated to the balkans a long time before ur slavic ancestors knew their the balkans are before they migrated here in the 7th century.
@@albinh.3149 Indeed that is true to some extent. When they came they mixed with local people, which is visible even today. Southern Slavs have different look than other Slavs, also genetics proves significant Balkan ancestry. The point is that we do have right to be here as much as you.
Another sensitive topic on site, great work Stefan!
A quick note regarding the demographics of Kosovo and Metohija is that the population changes did not begin to occur with the end of the first world war, but were initiated couple of centuries earlier with the massive exodus of the Serbian Christian population under Arsenije Crnojević after a failed rebellion against the Ottoman Turks, who in turn settled many Muslim Albanians in the region.
Also, an interesting info regarding the SS Skenderbeg from the point of view of a German officer, SS Commander August Schmidhuber, states the following: "[w]ith a light mortar you can basically chase him [the Albanian] around the world. During the attack he goes only as far as he finds something to steal or sack. For him, the war is over when he captures a goat, a ploughshare or the wheel of a sewing machine." Obviously, he deemed the division a military failure and not one of its members was awarded an Iron Cross while serving. Furthermore, professor Paul Mojzes writes that the division was better known for committing atrocities against Serbs than it was for contributing to the German war effort, as well as its role in deporting Jews from Kosovo. David Patterson, a historian specializing in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, writes that the division "played a major role in rendering the Balkans Judenrein in the winter of 1943-1944."
During the Kosovo War of 1998-1999, the American journalist Chris Hedges alleged that some Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were directly descended from members of the division and were ideologically influenced by it.
Thanks for sharing this.
Reasons for this were the poor amount of Armor and Weapons given to the Albanian SS Division, they weren't disciplined, they were trained for to 4 months (at its max).
No Training, No Weapons and the High Ranks wonder why the Division was a Failure. Albanian Axis Collaborators make up for it tho such as; Balli Kombetar, Albanian Wehrmacht Volunteers, Albanian Fascist Army and the Vulnetari. these Groups in cooperation with the Axis helped in a great Effort against Communist and Hostile Uprisings in the Albanian Regions.
The Kosovans should have been consulted whether they wanted to be part of Yugoslavia. Instead, Belgrade oppressed the Kosovo Albanians, and Kosovo was under a state of emergency until the mid-1960s.
Although it was a messy situation I doubt the Albanian Kosovars had a better life under Milosevic who permitted terrible crimes against them. On the flipside, the UCK also committed crimes against Serbs. It was a mess.
@M4R1 Uçk soldiers killed Pro Serb Albanians who cooperated with çetniks, menawhile Hoxha is a way better leader that Tito for Albanians because he himself is an Albanian
@@MR-sd6eyMilosevic an angel? Are you sure that you're ok? He killed so many people, how he is an angel?
Great video!
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Thanks for your video Stefan, I hope you enjoyed yout time in Kosovo. Not a rich place sure, but we try to welcome those who come. I can say that after what the Serbs did to us from 1912-1913 (search Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars and detailed information composed by the Carnegie Commission). I completely understand why many Albanians used this time to get back at the Serbs.
Thanks for replying.
How did the Serbs did massacres in Kosovo 1912 when in that year Kosovo was ruled by Turkey?
@@dusancville When U say U guys I don't know who are you talking about.
1. 1912 Serbia Grece and Bulgaria attacked Ottoman Empire (NO ROMANIA)
1913. Bulgaria Attacked Serbia and then.
2. DRUZE JA SAM SRBIN IZ PANCEVA!
ZIVELA SRBIJA!
Can you show me one albanian monument older than 30 years?! I can show you Serbian older than 1000 years on Kosovo and Metohija!
@@lesa0132 massacre of Albanians by Serbs during this time. I know they don't teach you in your Chetnik schools, but its well detailed by all international observes of the Balkans wars from 1912-1913. Like I said, we paid some of it back to you 30 years later. What comes around goes around.
what SS division rebelled against the SS?
More or less yes.
You wrong again to tell history you have to live there and you have to study different sources ,anyway next time if you don't mind can you tell us about Serbia there history and when did they arrive to Balkan
You don't explain why I am wrong. The argument of that you have to live somewhere to understand its history is nonsense. Today we have books.
An outright lie by your books @@HistoryHustle
Northern Kosovo was not apart of Italian Albania not to "deny" Italy of the resources of Mitrovica but because northern Kosovo is made up of Serbs and thus it was only natural that it go to the Serbian Government of National Salvation
Actually no. Mitrovica was Albanian majority. What was above Mitrovica (leposaviq...) was indeed serb majority.
Germans occupying Trepça mines was of importants due to the ressources to build more weapons, which the germans lacked.
Additionally the area in and around Mitrovica was given under control of Albanian chieftains due to the Albanian majority.
I refer to my sources.
Kosovo je Srbija
Irrelevant regarding this video.
Yes bro
Kosovo is heart of 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 Albania
You dont know nothing abouth Serbia history as I can see! You speak about our territory like it is some other country...Serba is born on Kosovo and Metohija we live there almost 1000 years before albanians come with turks from today Azerbeijan! And they was invented like country in 19-th Century by our enemies taking Serbian and Greek land for that!
Kosovo was,is and will be Serbia!
Nah, it won't.
@@HistoryHustle Do you want to beat on that? Various enemies take Kosovo from us many times in past and guess what we always took it back! So I hope soon you will see our flag in Prizren old Serbian town!
@@HistoryHustle And yes because I can see that you are our enemy..I would realy like that you come to help your albanian friends when we came to take our Holy land back!
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You are crazy beyond repair! 🤗
@@tttyuhbbb9823 Because you dont know history?! 🤣🤣🤣