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And luck of selfrespect and avoiding real situation on KOsovo before 1455. year when almost 100 % citizens of KOsovo i Metohija were Serbs! Without shadow of Albanians , their graves , churches, without any material proof that they ever lived there until arriving of Turks as occupators of Serbian lands!
@@President-JonSnow.Malkowich but u didn't take into account the DeLorean with a Flux capacitor generating 1.21 gigawatts traveling at 88 MPH that strips the meta contextual narrative from the story that is in fact a satire on the isolation we experience living in a post modern consumer driven capitalistic society
If he was alive our legendary army would have been in Beograd since miloshevic time in a week. 1.7 million soldiers would have crush Serbian army in matter of days . Hoxha had a crazy army
@@albundy1767 Correction it's 1.25 million..but by 1980s standard I don't think RPSH army is with the standard anymore as Albanian Military lacks of New modern equipment..most of their arsenal are from 40s 40s 60s or early 70s.while Yugoslav army has modern M-84 tank Albania still stuck with Type 59..while Yugoslav with new fighter jet like J22 Orao,Mig21 and mig29 Albania only have small amount of J7 Fighter aircraft with large number of old J6A and J5 Fighter aircraft..that is just one sector..goes to Air Defense system Albania only had S2 Dvina as SAM no Mid range SAM neither shot range SAM..Albanian army also didn't have ATGM technology until early 1990..before that Albanian army only depend of Recoilless rifle as anti tank weapon with RPG...there's a lot of thing to be considered
@@joosepher9435 yep..but u need to know that 1.25 million including Paramilitary, reserves and active..Albania had this number due to the Paramilitary training is mandatory to all population of Albania except kids ofc..while their economy is really based on State run production u already know where the money is going..food is ration and many basic things also being given..so people will not get a lot of money..billions of money goes to military..and it's not suprise they got it in large number bcuz it's cheap and outdated..Albania had in total more than a thousand tanks.mainly consists of Type 59,type 62,T34 85,SU 100 etc..meanwhile their aircraft are pretty old like J5,J6 and handful of J7..for navy tho mostly their big warship is from the late 40s..meanwhile modern fleet is mostly the Chinese torpedo boat..even their 4 submarines is from the late 40 or 50s..
People from the balkans trying to explain how in order to understand the Kosovo situation you have to go back all the way to before the universe even existed:
@@verscarii3238 During the time of the Ottomans, Kosovo was one of the sanjaks administered by the Albanians, as well as in the time of Tito, as well as today. It is true that the Serbs in Tito's time were more, but we Albanians were the majority. Not counting that a large part of them were displaced in Kosovo during Tito's time.
its easy. The ottoman's were not ethnic cleansing the balkans, they were taxing you more. You get the age of nations and you can not draw a clear line in the sand. Some people and states are more buttheads than others and you end up with Kosovo. It would be identical in Romania since Stalin artificially created the Hungarian enclave by moving more ethnic hungarians around in the middle of nowhere just to 'encourage' the 'struggle between peoples' (totally not a nazzi thing hurhur). Obviously other than politic spinning of some hate nothing major happened as at the local level people live normally among themselves. We do not mind different people, we hate thieves and aggressors. All ethnic minorities are represented politically in parliament and at local levels.
i had no idea the balkan federation was an idea, but now i'm almost disappointed it didn't happen. imagine all the ethnic hatred we could have had 💔love to our sultry serbian femboys from greece
this stuff of balkan federation existed in Tito's head but it was never an option in Albania bulgaria ect...maybe only in your country greece there was a movement to join yougoslavia during the civil war of 1949
however with all the good desire that the author of the video has tried to present with the aim of being impartial many things he said are not facts but myths..he forgot to mention that the only allies of the Ottomans in Europe were the Serbs and not the Albanians since the time of Bayezid ..the invasion of Constantinople was made by an Ottoman-Serbian coalition...then it is absolutely not true that the Serbs and the Greeks are not converted to Islam On the contrary....you exchanged population on a religious basis with turkey on the other hand, the Albanians have not done such things against themselves or even against their neighbors...
As a Serbian, I don't hate Albanians. It's the Serbian nationalists who frustrate me! Let's unite and harness the potential of our beautiful region, rather than fostering hatred. Our cultures share more similarities than differences, and together, we can achieve so much more.
It's indeed frustrating. It breaks my heart that litteraly nothing is done to resolve this fucking conflict. Everyone is a victim and the winner and most importantly, it's the other ones fault. It's an absolute disgrace what happened to Bosnia (becoming a play ball of Erdogan and vucic) And Kosovo is just schizo shit. Like no way Serbians actually want a second war to get kosovo "back".
I'm from Croatia and all i can say is i wish i was born *LITERALLY* anywhere else in Europe, The Balkans are nothing but hate and corruption turned up to 11, my government is a criminal organization, like you wouldn't believe the shit they pull here, it boggles the mind.
I must say i am amazed by the way you have summarized this topic. There are bad people but there are not bad nations. As an albanian i think we should all let go of our past, the political propaganda, and the nationalist propaganda of both sides, and just have a fair and a happy relation between us.
political propaganda is also that there are no Serbs in Pristina of 40000, no in Peć, no in Kosovo Polje, no in Urosevac, Obilic, all Serbs were bad so they were expelled and killed, places were ethnically cleansed, when your killings were small, you demolished and burned churches to tell now that they are your churches but you should let go of the past and if your evils are still great, Albanians and Serbs live in northern Mitrovica, but in South Mitrovica there are no Serbs like that... Whether it's the past or that you're welcome in our neighborhood, so I don't trust a single hodza let alone an Albanian, you think you had many victims in 99 but our country was bombed and demolished because of Albanian lies like Racak, whether it's a lie or a harsh truth...
Yes i agree , but let Serbia to be Serbia and Albania to be Albania without Kosovo as Albania 2. And it is acctualy the only possible and real situation for peace to reset situation on situation before Turks occupied Serbian land called Kosovo i Metohija and Albanians converted to muslims and settled Serbian teritory from Albanian mountains with massive help of Turkish occupators!!!
@@goranjovic3174It possible if you stop spewing that Serbian propaganda. Albanians were always on Dardania, long before Serbs immigrated to the Balkans after the 7th Century.
There are bad nations, Serbia is a prime example. They did multiple genocides to civilians, that they "considered" their citizens. Their academy of science literally had and still has a plan to exterminate albanians. Their president speaks openly in their parliament how the population in Serbia is declining and makes forecast for 50 years and compares it with nr of Albanians. Honestly serbia would be better to not exist at all, so many people would live their lifes in Peace. Europe would also be much more secure as Serbia is the Trojan horse of Russia
As an Albanian, I thank you for being very neutral about this topic even though you are a Serbian. I hope everything is solved with the Kosovo situation in the future. I respect and I do not hate any ethnicity, even Serbs. 🇦🇱🤝🇷🇸
serbian here in my opinion north kosovo and serbian exclaves should go to serbia. and let the albanian portion be independent, or unify with albania if they want to.
this is the only way peace could be achieved. otherwise both sides will just point fingers at each other, but if both nations are with their own people, we could start to rebuild relationships and maybe stop hating each other in near future. i dont hate anyone either, any nation or any ethnicity, you're a good man for not hating too
@@collared The exclaves should never happen. The Serbs there should just deal with it or leave, they're barely even 50k. Also Kosovo won't give up the North because of the Trepca mines and Gazivoda reservoir
@@afrimlargimi16382and he didnt need to mention the fact that serbs claim theyre illyrian as if its a valid argument, the whole world knows slavs come from ural mountains and its a fact not an insult
romanian living in germany here. i have serbian and albanian work colleagues. they get along very good! everytime i see them i look at them like the 8th wonder of the world. no joke!
My best friend is Albanian. I live in Germany. We even talked about the kosovo conflict. I personally think that Serbia should just leave kosovo independent. And that serbs should stop being so xenophobic and anti Islam. And yeah. And kosovo should be part of the open balkan. Open balkan is a great idea.
@@tomgu2285 that is what led to Kosovo in the first place. Serbia sht'ed the bed and now should give up instead of sleeping in the same bed. There are enclaves of minorities all over the eastern side of the iron curtain and yet only in Serbia it popped.
@@tomgu2285 Kosovo Albanians don't have a problem with Serbia being anti Islam though, as Albanian identity does not have heritage and nor is invested in religion. Albanians respect only the Abrahamic principle of the three religions they adhere to; Islam (inc. Bektashi), Catholic and Orthodox. They're are seen as a personal matter of people connecting life to God and afterlife. That's it. It plays no role in our culture.
I live in Thurgau,Switzerland. Albanians and Serbs live here together , they are neighbours and last thing they care is politics, they all do get well with each other. One sure thing is that , once the people have a better life and better income , they dont really care about nationalism, nationalism is a mindset for the poor only! Great work comrade, keep going 👏🏻
I remember how during Serbo-Albanian war (or maybe after right after it ended, I don't remember that well), two fairly large groups of Serbian and Albanian immigrants (moving towards western Europe) meet by coincidence in my city, almost immediately they started threatening and curing each other, things got so out of controle that several police squads had to be dispatched to calm the down.
Yeah... They think moving to west will help them change their mentality... There is ur answer, we are both monkeys and idiots(speaking about Albanians and Serbians being idiots)
As an Albanian, I f*ckin love this guy. Strange we fought together against the Ottomans in the Battle of Kosova but Ottomans are the main reason everything is wrong in the Balkans. Respect to this guy, idc if he's Serbian.
Serbo-Albanian relations have gotten better over the years but there is always something stupid that halts our friendship (like the recent police updoctions). Most of our disagreements are our own stupidity, we just need to do better and not act in anger. 🇦🇱❤🇷🇸
We will always bicker, since you are good tools for you know who, but the most important thing is, whike we bicker, our criminals will always work with each other
@@eaglesland8093 Shut the fuckk up mate, cheap mercy , what is he supoused to do kill a whole nation of Serbia because of war that happend 30 years ago, both Serbs and Albanians killled,rappped,pillaged what is your point, that Albanians suffered more then Serbs or that Serbs started first ?, that doesn't matter to the dead grow the fuckkk up.
Nobody and never will be forgotten how primitive were Kosovars . Raping young girls Serbian , ruining Semitaries and Churches . And what is the most important for 40 years in Yugoslavia period they were having 12 children intentionaly conducted by Enver Hogja and Meca in order muslim religion to be spread in Europe ! From that period I am sweared Atheist .
As a Serbian, I have never heard that we were ever natives to Balkans, we learned in school that we came in 6th or 7th and started mixing with locals, so Byzanzine allowed us a land while being afraid of union between Slavs and already existing tribes or whatever. It is known that Balkans believe in conspiracy theories, but this is me first time hearing about this
As an Serbian I am 77% Balkan DNK, 20% east europe, 2-3% west europe and 1% middle east. Something not clear? Nothing about coming in 6th or 7th from elsewhere to balkan....nada!
@@lidijamarker Thanks. That's why I asked, cause haplogroups are more specific than broad description of Balkan as it is today. I2a1b-L621 is Slavic DNA group, which became part of the Balkan make-up DNA after the migration of Slavs in 6-9 AD, cause this group has not been found in ancient remains. Anyone else who falls under the haplogroups that have been found here before this time are the natives who mingled with Slavs or were Slavicized linguistically like the Illyrians, Thracians and Dacian(Gaetan). Haplogroup I2a1b-L621-Slavs: This branch is found overwhelmingly in Slavic countries. Its maximum frequencies are observed among the Slavs (Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians) as well as in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldavia, western Ukraine and Belarus. It is also common to a lower extent in Albania, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and south-western Russia. I2-L621 (L147.2+). The principal determining event that allowed I2a1b-L621 to become a major Eastern European lineage was probably the Slavic migrations from the 6th to the 9th century CE. The minority of I2a1b-L621 individuals negative for L147.2 are all found around eastern Poland, Belarus and western Ukraine, suggesting that this is where this lineage survived since the Chalcolithic. The I2a1b-L147.2 subclade seems to have expanded very fast from 1900 years ago, which is concordant with the timing of the Slavic ethnogenesis, considering that it takes a few centuries before one man can have enough male descendants to start having an impact at the scale of a population. This I2-L147.2 ancestor would have such an impact on the burgeoning Early Slavic population, still small 2,300 years ago, but booming. After the Germanic tribes living in eastern Germany and Poland, like the Goths, the Vandals and the Burgundians, invaded the Roman Empire, the Slavs living further east filled the vacuum. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Slavs moved in the Dinaric Alps and the Balkans. By the 9th century, the Slavs occupied all modern Slavic-speaking territories, apart from the eastern Balkans under the control of the Turkic-speaking Bulgars.'
Unlike many other Albanians from Kosovo , i do not dislike serbs for being serb. Its just a very narrow minded way of thinking. Its what made the balkans the big ass powderkeg in the first place. If we take the very significant steps to bury the past and look ahead, we will achieve great things. Peace and love to all balkaners out there 🇦🇱❤️🇷🇸
Uh no... Both are shits, shortly explained. Both are corrupted and have too many criminals... We will never learn. That is all there is to it... And that will be like that for centuries and centuries... It doesn't matter anything else... I wonder if idiotic shitbirds like that existed in our countrymen few centuries ago... Probably did and if they did then nothing can be changed... Just got back from job, don't have strength for writing more. Bye
I feel like this video missed the whole "Where did Serbians come from" question. There wasn't any mention of Slavic migration, which is important to understand in the scheme of things. Explaining the way in which Albanian language has no relatives is important to understanding that Albanians originate from that region, where as the Serbian language being Slavic and heavily related to every other slavic language is also important to understanding their migration to the region. Also, Albanians did heavily suffer under the Ottomans, our resistance to them is heavily present in our culture and music especially to northern Albanians of Malesia so I wish that was mentioned as well. Otherwise good video.
It is proven by researchers that Serbs have the same haplo group as the bone remains found at Vinca. The thing ia that Europe doesnt allow this to go viral. U do know what was the first thing that Germans have destroyed during WWII? It was Serbian national library, destroyed 87% of Serbian and Balkan writen history. And now they teach u and all of us the "history" that suits them and only them. Open your eyes and use your brain, and learn things away from google and wikipedial
@@FUTBOLICO_uts true bro u just cant accept facts Albania didn NOT come from illyrians just read a REAL book not some fake site on internet. Another non educated Albanian....😂
Damn as an Albanian I appreciate how well you portrayed us in your video! This was clearly very well thought out and researched and you portrayed both sides realistically
@@midlspahe Serbia needs to clean its act as we should all remember the Wagner posters in their cities and many other things. Ironically or not, being part of the EU solves the balkan ethnic tensions but buttheads will keep being buttheads not because they are stupid, but devious with ulterior motives that are not doing anything good for the state and society as a whole.
Fun fact: Albania neraly went to war with Serbia in 1999. Serbia was bombing Kososvo, bht some of the bombs crossed the border and attacked Albania, mainly Tropoja. The president called NATO and told them that Albania was going to war. That same day the NATO bombing of Serbia began.
As an Albanian I'm very pleased that everything you sad was quite accurate. You were quite neutral in your narration and that was a suprise to me. The only thing that you sad and I was quite surprised is the incident during world war 1, when the Serbian army escaped through Albania and was attacked by mountain tribe in a guerrila warfare. This was a shock to me. I never knew anything about this. In our history this fact is completely ignored.
well it makes sense, its pretty hard to explain to kids how you were the good guys in there I was surprised no one mentions that we drove Albanians out after we beat the Ottomans. No one mentions that here either because it was a dick move in fact that might have been the big trigger , if they had let the Albanians living there stay in relative chill everything would look different,
As a serb I have so many similar instances. I never knew anything about the ethnic cleansing of Albanians by Serbia during ottoman empire. We never learned about this in history either
>me, a bored non-balkaner >go to Albanian national anthem and comment "KOSOVO JE SRBIJA" >go to Serbian national anthem and comment "KOSOVO IS ALBANIA" >free entertainment :)
American here - love this video! 💜💚 Hope all the Balkan folks can all someday live together in peace. I sometimes imagine an alternate history: what it might have been like, had the Eastern Roman Empire withstood the invasions of the Turkic people, and survived into modern times to become a United SE Europe + Anatolian megastate.
I often imagine an alternate history: what it might have been like, had the Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Slavic migration to southeastern Europe, and Greek imperialism had never happened, and Albanians were left alone for once instead of being occupied for its entire history.
As a pro-Balkan Bulgarian sending warm regards to both countries. Balkans are so so similar. All of our cultures are interesting and we are home to creative people and strong sports people. Jivela Srbija and long live the land of the eagles.
Love to both Serbia and Albania, from a Bulgarian! 🇷🇸❤🇧🇬❤🇦🇱 May there be peace in the Balkans! Balkans for ever! Na zdrawe/Živeli/Noroc/Yiamas! 🍻🍻 🇭🇷🇧🇬🇷🇸🇲🇪🇬🇷🇷🇴🇦🇱🇸🇮🇧🇦🇲🇰 (🇽🇰)(🇲🇩🇨🇾) Edit: No GSM song in the sponsor section?? 😢
Living in Switzerland, I can confirm getting into the crossfire of Balkan debates. We have many Balkan immigrants and the conflicts are still a hot topic, though most of them are just trying to integrate into society and work
Common error - languages can spread over time without an actual migration of people. That said, early medieval Hungarians were a migratory group. There's just no other way to explain their sudden appearance in Europe, despite their sister languages still being in the Urals. Finnish and Estonian seem to have a more gradual movement in
As an Albanian I don’t hate Serbian people, I do hate their regime their politics, Serbs are people like Me , we the people suffer therefore we shouldn’t listen or play the politics that we don’t know what’s done behind the doors , we need to build bridges not walls. I’ve met and worked with Serbians in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 and yeah of course we talk about our history, surely there was agreement and disagreement, but it was civilised conversation and we work and talk without hating each other. And yeah they’ve changed their mind about Albanians as they never met an Albanian before but heard from Their media. So blame our politicians of any hate that goes on!
@@idrizlama2018 True bro. The other day on the news over here it was said that the biggest albanian party leader was scheming to corrupt the country more, like??
When I arrived in Serbia a couple weeks ago, one of the first things I saw outside the airport was the big KOSOVO IS SERBIA grafiti on a bridge or something above the highway. That's how I knew I really HAD arrived in Serbia and not in Iowa, what with all that corn.
If you only could understand that graffity are true . And why did you go there , in that airport . To see if it can be converted to albanian one ? It was reality Srbia . Kosovar Albanian didn't like Yugoslavia unity ! They started to humiliate serbian on a religious basis ruining churches and cemeteries of old serbian forefathers in order to whipe all what was Serbian . It is going like domino effect now you are all extending to like more and more . You like now Great Albania . So help yourselves take all Europe ! Oh my God your promised continent since Otoman Time ! What else could it be ?
Came across your channel late last night after recalling some Balkan bands I had wanted to listen to again. Somehow your channel popped up. Glad it did. I've been binge watching ever since... Good shit. Especially for an uncultured curr like myself... Hailing from Central California, with kudos for your very entertaining and enlightening work. I'll definitely be returning to the channel periodically to see what else you find over there on the other side of the planet. Til then, ✌️👈
I was born in the States, but both my parents are Albanians from Kosova. I actually subscribed to your channel!! Just wanted to say I think you do great work and I like the fact that you don’t sugar coat anything. Thanks for keeping it 💯
@@invader7191 I'd like it if you listed a few real ones that are worse than Albanian did. Not something already proven to be a made up incident like Račak
@@belivuk2526Bro.. CNN was on the scene there the day after the racak massacre. They caught it all on camera. It’s disrespectful to the families that lost loved ones to say it was made up.
my 4.5 months spent in Türkiye during my Erasmus, theres always be huge online skirmishes whenever both Turkey and Armenia faced each other in the Euro qualifiers
I'm afraid to read the comments, I don't want them to piss me off and ruin the good energy you transmitted. Regarding my country, Albania, between 1966 and 1991, Something very interesting happened... the communist regime banned all the religions, demolished most of our churches, and mosques... in order to reset our mindset. That worked, I'm not saying, is a good thing to do, but that worked. In 1992, I was only a child, and I never heard about God before when my neighbour gave me a picture of Jesus Christ and told who He was. Obviously, that picture is still with me.
Maybe their Orthodox Church did something, worth a look. The Orthodox churches are unique in each nation as the belief is that Catholics are heretics for having a pope and Islam is better because they are also divided (the orthodox nut jobs, nobody is better or worse). Maybe in Serbia the church said islam bad and catholics good or maybe they went full aryan religion.
Cool video, very neutral especially when you're from one of the countries. Kind of annoyed you forgot that Kosovo IS and always WILL BE the rightful territory of Timor Leste 🇹🇱
I was born in Montenegro. My father is Albanian/Montenegrin & my mother is a Bosnian Serb!! Who am I supposed to hate🤣?!? Much love to all my Yugoslav brothers and sisters ( Sorry us older folk still see at as Yugoslavia) lol. And of course much love to all the Shqipa's!!
I’m part Albanian, so maybe as not a full blood my opinion doesn’t carry as much weight. But I think a lot of the hate just comes from the fact that so much has happened over the last thirty years, not enough time has passed for us to heal. I was born at the end of the USSR, and vividly remember the collapse of Yugoslavia and the wars in the 90s. I remember extended family being scared, people they knew being killed, people losing their homes. I’m only 32. Albania has only been free of Hoxha for a little over a generation. Serbia really didn’t form as a real entity until the mid 2000s. Successive governments in the region were only really elected due to nationalism. Many members of the Albanian and Kosovar governments are former UCK fighters. Bosnia’s entire government is based on nationalism. Some members of Croatia’s government are thinly veiled Ustashe supporters. Serbia’s government is also ran by a nationalist. Until enough time has passed where younger generations can move on, become power players themselves, and shape their countries to focus on cooperation with their neighbors, the Balkan region will remain a powderkeg. Also just to head off any spicy replies, yes I know I’m not full Albanian, so take that how you will. No, I don’t hate Serbs, I just wish they’d take a little responsibility for what a minority did in the 90s instead of playing it off. And Kosovo is whatever it wants to be, I just want the people there to not hate or kill each other.
@@KimJongBeIllinDaily I actually agree with you. But I do think you sadly don't understand just how retarded balkan people actually are. Like ignoring basic dna like how all humans are related to each other. But hey of course balkan people are experts in facts if its fits there right wing agenda. Basically balkan people are to conservative. That's their biggest issue. Until that doesn't chance there realy won't be any chances.
However to defend balkan a bit I do think that neo liberalism and USA and the eu are a huge reason why the balkans are like that. However I don't think that they are the sole reason obviously.
The Claim that Albanians are from the Caucasus sounds like made up by some guy who only saw the Wikipedia title "Caucasian Albania" and didn't bother to check the rest of it.
@@elvinsherifzadethe name Albania is from latin. Roman Empire names Albania land that they didnt know quite well. Even in Scotland has e region called Albania. It is latin word but none similarities with each other
After all this blah blah blah: Serbs remember how they lost the battle of Kosovo and claim to own Kosovo because they lost… Albanians on the other hand, won 24 out of 25 battles against Ottomans, yet somehow weren’t entitled to own Kosovo… Conviniently, the Serbs remember only the First Battle of Kosovo , but not the Second Battle of Kosovo when they were allied with Ottomans against the Albanian - Hungarian alliance. And that’s when the animosity began! Skanderbeg laid to waste South Serbia when their collaborator despot didn’t allow Albanians to unite with Hungarians during the battle, causing the loss of the Hungarian side.
@@maki3904 Yeah, I am pretty sure there must be some small village in Serbia named Kosovo. That it can be Serbia. But the country named Kosovo, no, it is not. P.S. In Albania proper there are at least another 2 villages named Kosovo (in Elbasan County and Gjirokaster County). They are not Serbia either.
@@andjelavuka5261 Back then the whole European continent had 6 -7 states. Today there are over 55. Your point is what? The Serbian Empire of 1355 has nothing to do with the modern ethnic state of Serbia. One was a religious empire where the emperor was the head of state and church (his title was emperor of Serbs, Greeks and Albanians), the other an ethnic state. Greece didn’t exist at the time either, but I don’t see any Serb arguing their right to have a state.
As an American I'm proud to say my first vacation outside of the US was to Albania, regardless of what arrogant westoids in Berlin and Paris may say it was a lot more beautiful than either of those places and a lot cheaper. Great people with great culture that they're proud of, something the world today needs more of. The Balkans are the jewel of Europe in terms of culture and tradition, patriotic religious communities who understand their history and seek to preserve it. I will be visiting again one day, same with Kosovo which i also visited 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇦🇱 🇽🇰
Same as our criminals, I guess, together with all the other neighbouring countries that "hate" each other. Only nationality they cab bicker over is money.
This beef reminds me of the current political issues between China-Korea-Japan. Same levels of hatred due to historical+recent genocide/war crimes, historical revisionism and a free for all for claiming all historical and cultural elements.
@@INES-mz3zu Colonialism and imperialism is really terrible and surely still affects probably more then 1/2 of the world today. But what I'm talking about is more historical "fraternal" countries which might possible stem from shared/similar origins or always had close relationship throughout history but due to nationalism has build an identity on "not being XXX". For ex. Korean and Vietnamese history for thousands of year has been about "survival as a people and NOT becoming Chinese" despite using Chinese characters/following confucianism, being highly influenced by China etc. etc. Same with Japan and Korea and China vs. Taiwan. Therefore today we have these petty arguments about what is food is Korean, is it 'korean new year" or "Chinese new year". Is "Korean martial arts Japanese influenced" or is "okinawan martial arts" really "Chinese influenced". Is Dokdo island Korean or Japanese? Are the Senkaku Islands Chinese/Taiwanese or Japanese. You can find nationalists fight tooth and nail about every little thing because the other side might use their political clout to officially. claim something via UNESCO or some official channels. The only people that I've personally encountered who come close to this level of pettiness in bickering are Balkans people, Turks vs. Greeks and East Asians
@@dsong2006 I do believe that imperialism was not a fault in itself. If the modern world devolves in a crapshoot and 1 nation evolves 500 years above the rest, would it not be fair for humanity to spread progress? Imperialism for the sake of Imperialism just to spread misery and destroy functional nations is a crime against humanity.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought that objectively speaking, the hatred of East Asian countries towards each other is too abnormal. I am Japanese, and I can honestly understand why people hate Japan because of its history. But Korea and China also hate each other. Unfortunately, with the exception of Mongolia, East Asia is full of hatred. It's an atmosphere where we can't even joke around like you people in the Balkans.
This is correct. Highlanders stayed Roman Catholic & Turks allowed the Orthodox to keep their churches. The Ottomans also used the sword to ‘convert’ Albanians, during the RussoTurk war, as the Russians got closer. They were worried that the Orthodox would join the Russians and turn on the Turks.
Serbs are culturally Slavic. Genetically when they hit the Balkans or Roman Empire they mixed with Romans or the people Romans mixed with Thracians, Illyrians, and Dacians.
As a Croatian I agree. We are Slavic though some may have mixed with Latins or whomever Latins mixed with knowing Romans conquered Thracians, Dacians, and Illyrians. Some not sure what percentage. Majority of us are Slavic.
I was at a 5 day long conference with multiple parties filled with hungarians, chezchs, romanians, and albanians last week and it was lit 🔥 Albanian and hungarian traditional dancing is lit I tell you
As a Serb, everything that has happened before is terrible and two sided. We need to let the kosovars have their own state since they inhabit it and we need to be allowed to unify our people into a complete Serbian state
SERBS HAVE AROUND 16-17% ILLYRIAN DNA WHILE ALBANIANS ESPECIALLY IN KOSOVA AND MACEDONIA (INCLUDING MYSELF) HAVE AROUND 78-80% ILLYRIAN DNA!. WE ALBANIANS ARE GODS IN ILLYRIAN PENINSULA.
Brother, nice video. The only thing I would like to say though is from 8:00-9:00 is a little bit misleading. A few points: 1. Albanians did not immediately convert in the 1400s after the Turks invaded. Literally Skanderbeg fought the Turks during the 1400s so the idea that Serbs never forgave the Albanians for converting is nonsensical. Albanians in majority started converting after 1500 and mostly because the Turks were extra brutal due to how successful the Albanians had been in their short lived revolt. 2. You make the point that Albanians and Serbs fought Turks together in the battle of Kosovo. This is true. What you failed to mention though is when Skanderbeg went to help John Hunyadi in his fight against the Turks, he was blocked by Serb kingdom and allowsd Turks a strategic victory. This is pretty damning to the whole “Serbia mad at Albania because they switched sides” given at one point they helped the Turks. 3. Some cities in Albania NEVER stopped resisting the Turks and never converted. You really need to understand that Albanians are a lot more anti turk than you think (especially the north). Overall though, I understand the passion and connections Serbs have to Kosovo. I do not doubt the authenticity that it is at the heart of the Serbian people.
actually it's *revert not convert and albanians were bribed into reversion. if they were forced into reversion then there would not be any catholic albanians left and we're still here. but treatment of catholic albanians was definitely brutal. and they were extremely impoverished as a result.
My colleauge in charge of our sales distributors in the Balkans has a great way of getting his distributors to try harder. He tells the Albanian that the serbians are doing great. Then tells serbians that albanians are hitting record numbers. In the sapce of 3 years they 10x thier sales.
The Sebian Countryball uses his shield as an eye patch. Important fact. Kind regrds from Argentina bro, I´ve been in Belgrade and Tirana last year; you guys are cool
Bravo brate im albanian and I say screw the old beefs, lets unite the balkans into one large Union like the European union and stop being exploited by outsiders !!!
@@southepirote7676 it is great. Reasonable prices for drinks, food, a motel room for us 2 and the surprising hospitality. We are definitely coming to Durres in 2024 too 🙂😁
It's been nearly 600 years since the battle of Kosovo, just get over with it jeez. I mean how funny Austrians literally tried to genocide the Serbs during the Great War but most of the Serbs I know or see on the internet only talks sh*t about the Turks and don't say anything about Austrians. I guess they reside in Vienna lol
it is funny to hear serbs saying that albanians have come from caucasus while we speak our own language which is unique and they speak russian language.. How can they be a native people in the Illyricum peninnsula if they speak slavic language. All the world know that slavic people appear in Illyricum peninsula in the 7th century
Caucasus peoples who are indigenous don’t even speak Indoeuropean. Albanian, greek & armenian are each their own branch on the IE tree. It is obvious, we each go way back, on our respective lands.
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It doesn’t matter if you were the first. Otherwise, native Americans should claim North and South America back, right? Is this your argument?
@ In fact you tried to expelled the albanian population of Kosovo in 1999 with the argument that they are not native population while the non native population is you.
@ Of course a Serb would think this is a reasonable comparison. Native Americans died of diseases and we hunted them down, genocide was used to remove them. Serbs inflicted two genocides on two peoples, in a decade. And you prove that they learned nothing. Whether you like or not, Albanians have existed in these lands for centuries, many more than Serbs, and now comprise 95% of Kosovo, which Serbians lie continually about, even pay bots to spread the lies on the net, especially the big soc media platforms like yt. The latest leak was less than a month ago, 15,000 names were leaked. TrOll farming, to discredit Albanians in popular soc media places. To try and destroy and entire people. Despicable and vile are inadequate words to describe what Serbs are doing.
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@@Alistir_TheChessPlayer, in fact, those were criminals and criminal structures of our government back then, not me or anyone close to me nor the whole Serbian nation. Generalizations are never good. Otherwise, you should be blamed also for the massacres Albanians did e.g. in Klečka or Staro Gracko. In any case, you haven’t answered my initial question. Please respond. Thanks!
Bro wtf,we don't love each other but lately kinda start to not even hate each other,we are evolving some kind of way.Even in political field we are looking small but stady changes. ✌️ from Albania
Lol , how can Skenderbeg been Servian when he fought all he's life for Albania and never for Servia ! He always signed himself as Lord of Albania as well .
It's truly mindblowing how insensitive these kinds of videos come across when they quickly go over the latest war in the balkans. Ethnic cleansing is a horrible tragedy. Thousands murdered, hundreds of thousands displaced, thousands raped and assaulted. And we're not talking about our early early ancestors, we're talking about our fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts. All that blood spill and trauma is still fresh, yet videos like these have the audacity to tell us to forget our pasts and move on. Until Kosovo is recognized as an independent country as we truly deserve, until Serbia apologizes to us for all the inhumane war crimes they comitted, and until all war criminals face justice, there's no moving on. After all that death and terror, we are owed justice.
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Very good video and unbiased 👍 🇦🇱❤🇷🇸
Kosovo je srbija
@@obama20127 Kosovo je srbija
You made a mistake Andrew is not Albanian.He is british american
Man I sure hope this comment section is gonna be very civil and respectful.
Famous last words.
Same
ok lets start KOSOVO JE SERBIA
@HeisenbergIsHereStop polluting the comment section
Koszovó Magyar
Really good video! As an albanian myself I would love to see the balkan nations living in peace together :)
(written from my apartment in germany)
Germany je Srbija
@@hans7856world je srbja
@@hans7856 cak ni srbija nije srbija
@iipxre. and costa rica
The love for your neighbor is measured in kilometers.
Two ethnicities inhabit eachother’s historical homelands? What could go wrong. 🇷🇸🇲🇪🇽🇰🇦🇱
historical? we were here before u and even u know this 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 go back to Russia
Absolutely nothing!
Nothing will go wrong!
Kosovo is Antarctica
@@tonijelecevic9238 Omg real😨🤯🤯😱😱😱‼‼
The calmest Serb explaining the whole Kosovo Situation. Bravo to You and Your neutral situation.
He's a Romanian.
@@PurooRoy I thought he was Hungarian? :D
@@jeboshifru He is balkan
you albanian? Ardit?
@@EndritBajramiEshte21 Mixed
I have a deep respect for Living Ironically in Europe for leaving the comment section on. This man has balls of steel!
Kosovo is nigeria
Raged kid I mock
Kosovo is Antarctica
And luck of selfrespect and avoiding real situation on KOsovo before 1455. year when almost 100 % citizens of KOsovo i Metohija were Serbs! Without shadow of Albanians , their graves , churches, without any material proof that they ever lived there until arriving of Turks as occupators of Serbian lands!
@@goranjovic3174 Yes, before Serbs there was nobody there in all of the history...😂
As a diabetic Samoan with seafood allergies, I agree 100%. Glory to Prussia!!!
Chad
Prussia as a political entity, as a state has ceased to exist after WW2. Sadly for Prussia, there is no glory to be found. RIP - Rest in Prussia.
@@President-JonSnow.Malkowich but u didn't take into account the DeLorean with a Flux capacitor generating 1.21 gigawatts traveling at 88 MPH that strips the meta contextual narrative from the story that is in fact a satire on the isolation we experience living in a post modern consumer driven capitalistic society
@@robs9237 oh my god! You are absolutely positively one hundred thousand million percent correct!!! How could I have been so blind?!? Forgive me!
Bro same, Polish dude from the harbour coast city with fish allergy, damn that sucks
As a former dictator of Albania I see this as an absolutely Balkaning kind of thing
OMG YOU'RE STILL ALIVE??????😨😨😨
If he was alive our legendary army would have been in Beograd since miloshevic time in a week. 1.7 million soldiers would have crush Serbian army in matter of days . Hoxha had a crazy army
@@albundy1767 Correction it's 1.25 million..but by 1980s standard I don't think RPSH army is with the standard anymore as Albanian Military lacks of New modern equipment..most of their arsenal are from 40s 40s 60s or early 70s.while Yugoslav army has modern M-84 tank Albania still stuck with Type 59..while Yugoslav with new fighter jet like J22 Orao,Mig21 and mig29 Albania only have small amount of J7 Fighter aircraft with large number of old J6A and J5 Fighter aircraft..that is just one sector..goes to Air Defense system Albania only had S2 Dvina as SAM no Mid range SAM neither shot range SAM..Albanian army also didn't have ATGM technology until early 1990..before that Albanian army only depend of Recoilless rifle as anti tank weapon with RPG...there's a lot of thing to be considered
@@enverhoxha5451.25 million? How did Albania have the population and economy to sustain that
@@joosepher9435 yep..but u need to know that 1.25 million including Paramilitary, reserves and active..Albania had this number due to the Paramilitary training is mandatory to all population of Albania except kids ofc..while their economy is really based on State run production u already know where the money is going..food is ration and many basic things also being given..so people will not get a lot of money..billions of money goes to military..and it's not suprise they got it in large number bcuz it's cheap and outdated..Albania had in total more than a thousand tanks.mainly consists of Type 59,type 62,T34 85,SU 100 etc..meanwhile their aircraft are pretty old like J5,J6 and handful of J7..for navy tho mostly their big warship is from the late 40s..meanwhile modern fleet is mostly the Chinese torpedo boat..even their 4 submarines is from the late 40 or 50s..
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People from the balkans trying to explain how in order to understand the Kosovo situation you have to go back all the way to before the universe even existed:
The Big Bang was Albanian
Let me explain it in a few words: The population is about 1.8 million inhabitants and 98% Albanian.
@@ermirdestani It wasn't always like that, huh I wonder if a conflict at some point led to any ethnic cleansings or forced expulsions.
@@verscarii3238 During the time of the Ottomans, Kosovo was one of the sanjaks administered by the Albanians, as well as in the time of Tito, as well as today. It is true that the Serbs in Tito's time were more, but we Albanians were the majority. Not counting that a large part of them were displaced in Kosovo during Tito's time.
its easy. The ottoman's were not ethnic cleansing the balkans, they were taxing you more. You get the age of nations and you can not draw a clear line in the sand. Some people and states are more buttheads than others and you end up with Kosovo. It would be identical in Romania since Stalin artificially created the Hungarian enclave by moving more ethnic hungarians around in the middle of nowhere just to 'encourage' the 'struggle between peoples' (totally not a nazzi thing hurhur). Obviously other than politic spinning of some hate nothing major happened as at the local level people live normally among themselves. We do not mind different people, we hate thieves and aggressors.
All ethnic minorities are represented politically in parliament and at local levels.
i had no idea the balkan federation was an idea, but now i'm almost disappointed it didn't happen. imagine all the ethnic hatred we could have had 💔love to our sultry serbian femboys from greece
A total battle royal across the entirety of the Balkans
this stuff of balkan federation existed in Tito's head but it was never an option in Albania bulgaria ect...maybe only in your country greece there was a movement to join yougoslavia during the civil war of 1949
@@lagjescuni5482 No tbh we kinda feared Yugoslavia and its need for access to the aegean
however with all the good desire that the author of the video has tried to present with the aim of being impartial many things he said are not facts but myths..he forgot to mention that the only allies of the Ottomans in Europe were the Serbs and not the Albanians since the time of Bayezid ..the invasion of Constantinople was made by an Ottoman-Serbian coalition...then it is absolutely not true that the Serbs and the Greeks are not converted to Islam On the contrary....you exchanged population on a religious basis with turkey on the other hand, the Albanians have not done such things against themselves or even against their neighbors...
@@juvencus3992 you who??
Laughed so hard that I lost my kidneys
That or my Albanian roommate, Idk
I never know with you, so I gotta ask...is there really an Albanians roommate in your life.
@@papanasicuafineno, why would i interact with an albanian in real life
@HeisenbergIsHere no.
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 you’re everywhere lmao
Why do you have to blame your Albanian roomate like that😔
As a Serbian, I don't hate Albanians. It's the Serbian nationalists who frustrate me! Let's unite and harness the potential of our beautiful region, rather than fostering hatred. Our cultures share more similarities than differences, and together, we can achieve so much more.
It's indeed frustrating.
It breaks my heart that litteraly nothing is done to resolve this fucking conflict.
Everyone is a victim and the winner and most importantly, it's the other ones fault.
It's an absolute disgrace what happened to Bosnia (becoming a play ball of Erdogan and vucic)
And Kosovo is just schizo shit.
Like no way Serbians actually want a second war to get kosovo "back".
Greetings form Croatia, I totaly agree with you.
Greetings from an orthodox albanian(there are actually many of us in the country)
Invite them to your country you will become a minority in 10 years 😂
I agree with you, I'm albanian from the mountains and my girlfriend is serbian
as a greek i can confirm everything you said eventhough i haven't watch the video yet
Omg finally someone else who agrees without watching the video🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@TooAlbanianForAlbaniaSo many serbian lickspittles hail from greece.
@@Hajde_budalla SERBIA FOREVER
@@ChicoMogs.. SERBIA FOREVER STUPID
Ok, lets kiss!
"Anyone I don't like is from Russia" is what truly unites Europe and Asia.
Eurasian things'
LOVE RUSSIA THE MOTHERLAND ❤
@@ChicoMogs.No ukraine 🥺
@@DSpace1No Russia
@@ChicoMogs. true, only russians can love russia. truly a country that can only be loved by some of inhabitants and no one else.
"In an effort to make it better, we made it worse."
- The Balkans.
I'm from Croatia and all i can say is i wish i was born *LITERALLY* anywhere else in Europe, The Balkans are nothing but hate and corruption turned up to 11, my government is a criminal organization, like you wouldn't believe the shit they pull here, it boggles the mind.
ngl this actually made me laugh.
I must say i am amazed by the way you have summarized this topic. There are bad people but there are not bad nations. As an albanian i think we should all let go of our past, the political propaganda, and the nationalist propaganda of both sides, and just have a fair and a happy relation between us.
political propaganda is also that there are no Serbs in Pristina of 40000, no in Peć, no in Kosovo Polje, no in Urosevac, Obilic, all Serbs were bad so they were expelled and killed, places were ethnically cleansed, when your killings were small, you demolished and burned churches to tell now that they are your churches but you should let go of the past and if your evils are still great, Albanians and Serbs live in northern Mitrovica, but in South Mitrovica there are no Serbs like that... Whether it's the past or that you're welcome in our neighborhood, so I don't trust a single hodza let alone an Albanian, you think you had many victims in 99 but our country was bombed and demolished because of Albanian lies like Racak, whether it's a lie or a harsh truth...
Yes i agree , but let Serbia to be Serbia and Albania to be Albania without Kosovo as Albania 2.
And it is acctualy the only possible and real situation for peace to reset situation on situation before Turks occupied Serbian land called Kosovo i Metohija and Albanians converted to muslims and settled Serbian teritory from Albanian mountains with massive help of Turkish occupators!!!
bravo vlla taman ke than
@@goranjovic3174It possible if you stop spewing that Serbian propaganda. Albanians were always on Dardania, long before Serbs immigrated to the Balkans after the 7th Century.
There are bad nations, Serbia is a prime example. They did multiple genocides to civilians, that they "considered" their citizens.
Their academy of science literally had and still has a plan to exterminate albanians.
Their president speaks openly in their parliament how the population in Serbia is declining and makes forecast for 50 years and compares it with nr of Albanians.
Honestly serbia would be better to not exist at all, so many people would live their lifes in Peace.
Europe would also be much more secure as Serbia is the Trojan horse of Russia
As an Albanian, I thank you for being very neutral about this topic even though you are a Serbian. I hope everything is solved with the Kosovo situation in the future. I respect and I do not hate any ethnicity, even Serbs. 🇦🇱🤝🇷🇸
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serbian here in my opinion north kosovo and serbian exclaves should go to serbia.
and let the albanian portion be independent, or unify with albania if they want to.
this is the only way peace could be achieved. otherwise both sides will just point fingers at each other, but if both nations are with their own people, we could start to rebuild relationships and maybe stop hating each other in near future.
i dont hate anyone either, any nation or any ethnicity, you're a good man for not hating too
The problem will be solved once serbia, kosovo and Albania develops humility
@@TheSwedishHistorian so never
@@collared The exclaves should never happen. The Serbs there should just deal with it or leave, they're barely even 50k. Also Kosovo won't give up the North because of the Trepca mines and Gazivoda reservoir
As an Albanian knowing that you are Serbian, hats off to you for making this fairly objective video in my opinion.
@@edinedin1885 He can't speak Hungarian
He tried so hard lol. Just for a few albanian subs. The man is still a shkije non the less.
Albanian ALBAINAN ok
@@afrimlargimi16382 Куѕ
@@afrimlargimi16382and he didnt need to mention the fact that serbs claim theyre illyrian as if its a valid argument, the whole world knows slavs come from ural mountains and its a fact not an insult
romanian living in germany here.
i have serbian and albanian work colleagues.
they get along very good!
everytime i see them i look at them like the 8th wonder of the world.
no joke!
My best friend is Albanian. I live in Germany. We even talked about the kosovo conflict. I personally think that Serbia should just leave kosovo independent. And that serbs should stop being so xenophobic and anti Islam. And yeah. And kosovo should be part of the open balkan. Open balkan is a great idea.
@@tomgu2285Great thanks for your insight
@@tomgu2285 that is what led to Kosovo in the first place. Serbia sht'ed the bed and now should give up instead of sleeping in the same bed. There are enclaves of minorities all over the eastern side of the iron curtain and yet only in Serbia it popped.
@@tomgu2285 Kosovo Albanians don't have a problem with Serbia being anti Islam though, as Albanian identity does not have heritage and nor is invested in religion. Albanians respect only the Abrahamic principle of the three religions they adhere to; Islam (inc. Bektashi), Catholic and Orthodox. They're are seen as a personal matter of people connecting life to God and afterlife. That's it. It plays no role in our culture.
I live in Thurgau,Switzerland.
Albanians and Serbs live here together , they are neighbours and last thing they care is politics, they all do get well with each other.
One sure thing is that , once the people have a better life and better income , they dont really care about nationalism, nationalism is a mindset for the poor only!
Great work comrade, keep going 👏🏻
When people work have less time for bullshit. 😂😂 You know what I mean?!
Agree
Truth
Must be nice living in a country with sane border policies where nationalism is only for the poor (are there even poor people in Swiss?)
The thing is when we are "out" we are ours (croatians, serbians, bosnians, alabnians...) but here we are enemies xD so dumb
The Berserk reference was perfect lol great vid as always
I remember how during Serbo-Albanian war (or maybe after right after it ended, I don't remember that well), two fairly large groups of Serbian and Albanian immigrants (moving towards western Europe) meet by coincidence in my city, almost immediately they started threatening and curing each other, things got so out of controle that several police squads had to be dispatched to calm the down.
#justBalkanthings
damm bruv
There was no war it was a police action against US funded and armed terrorist groups.
Yeah... They think moving to west will help them change their mentality... There is ur answer, we are both monkeys and idiots(speaking about Albanians and Serbians being idiots)
There was no Serbia-Albanian war. Serbia was not in war with Albania but tried to defend and keep Kosovo, its own land.
As an Albanian, I f*ckin love this guy.
Strange we fought together against the Ottomans in the Battle of Kosova but Ottomans are the main reason everything is wrong in the Balkans. Respect to this guy, idc if he's Serbian.
I disagree. The ottomans are gone for like 100 years. It's the fault of capitalism and neo liberalism
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well it all started in some god path , but its all over now. im getting tired of Balkan . im gonna leave
@@okavipra dont let the door hit you on the way out
@@zoranagavrilovic9403 ❤️❤️❤️
Hey lisen lets have respekt to albania love Albania from Serbia 🇷🇸🤝🇦🇱
Greetings as an Albanian
OOP UR THE FIRST SERB I SEE THAT RESPECTS US-
After what your people did? I'm sorry, you can't butcher a family and say it's all in the past.
@@varun009 bruh i wasnt in the army bro
@@varun009I don’t think he personally killed people
Serbo-Albanian relations have gotten better over the years but there is always something stupid that halts our friendship (like the recent police updoctions).
Most of our disagreements are our own stupidity, we just need to do better and not act in anger.
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@alb_mobile, I don't understand why you wanna join a gulty team , or just to have cheap mercy?
We will always bicker, since you are good tools for you know who, but the most important thing is, whike we bicker, our criminals will always work with each other
@@eaglesland8093 Shut the fuckk up mate, cheap mercy , what is he supoused to do kill a whole nation of Serbia because of war that happend 30 years ago, both Serbs and Albanians killled,rappped,pillaged what is your point, that Albanians suffered more then Serbs or that Serbs started first ?, that doesn't matter to the dead grow the fuckkk up.
Nobody and never will be forgotten how primitive were Kosovars .
Raping young girls Serbian , ruining Semitaries and Churches .
And what is the most important for 40 years in Yugoslavia period they were having 12 children intentionaly conducted by Enver Hogja and Meca in order muslim religion to be spread in Europe !
From that period I am sweared Atheist .
Yea I don’t see why Albanians and Serbians should be friends and make up after the war crimes in Kosovo broski
As a Serbian, I have never heard that we were ever natives to Balkans, we learned in school that we came in 6th or 7th and started mixing with locals, so Byzanzine allowed us a land while being afraid of union between Slavs and already existing tribes or whatever. It is known that Balkans believe in conspiracy theories, but this is me first time hearing about this
All northern Balkan Slavic countries have a mixture of natives, which are less % and majority of Slavs that migrated in 6-7 AD.
As an Serbian I am 77% Balkan DNK, 20% east europe, 2-3% west europe and 1% middle east. Something not clear? Nothing about coming in 6th or 7th from elsewhere to balkan....nada!
@@lidijamarker What Haplogroup do you belong to from the Balkan?
@@dios1ish868 I2A
@@lidijamarker Thanks. That's why I asked, cause haplogroups are more specific than broad description of Balkan as it is today. I2a1b-L621 is Slavic DNA group, which became part of the Balkan make-up DNA after the migration of Slavs in 6-9 AD, cause this group has not been found in ancient remains. Anyone else who falls under the haplogroups that have been found here before this time are the natives who mingled with Slavs or were Slavicized linguistically like the Illyrians, Thracians and Dacian(Gaetan).
Haplogroup I2a1b-L621-Slavs:
This branch is found overwhelmingly in Slavic countries. Its maximum frequencies are observed among the Slavs (Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians) as well as in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldavia, western Ukraine and Belarus. It is also common to a lower extent in Albania, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and south-western Russia. I2-L621 (L147.2+). The principal determining event that allowed I2a1b-L621 to become a major Eastern European lineage was probably the Slavic migrations from the 6th to the 9th century CE. The minority of I2a1b-L621 individuals negative for L147.2 are all found around eastern Poland, Belarus and western Ukraine, suggesting that this is where this lineage survived since the Chalcolithic. The I2a1b-L147.2 subclade seems to have expanded very fast from 1900 years ago, which is concordant with the timing of the Slavic ethnogenesis, considering that it takes a few centuries before one man can have enough male descendants to start having an impact at the scale of a population. This I2-L147.2 ancestor would have such an impact on the burgeoning Early Slavic population, still small 2,300 years ago, but booming. After the Germanic tribes living in eastern Germany and Poland, like the Goths, the Vandals and the Burgundians, invaded the Roman Empire, the Slavs living further east filled the vacuum. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Slavs moved in the Dinaric Alps and the Balkans. By the 9th century, the Slavs occupied all modern Slavic-speaking territories, apart from the eastern Balkans under the control of the Turkic-speaking Bulgars.'
Unlike many other Albanians from Kosovo , i do not dislike serbs for being serb. Its just a very narrow minded way of thinking. Its what made the balkans the big ass powderkeg in the first place. If we take the very significant steps to bury the past and look ahead, we will achieve great things. Peace and love to all balkaners out there 🇦🇱❤️🇷🇸
Živeli Brate!
Cheers Brother!
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Don't hate the people, hate the politicians
As a Serbo-Croatian half breed I think you guys are pretty alright.
How naive can you be? You say that because you're not a Kosovo Albanian victim 🤦♂️
Uh no... Both are shits, shortly explained. Both are corrupted and have too many criminals... We will never learn. That is all there is to it... And that will be like that for centuries and centuries... It doesn't matter anything else... I wonder if idiotic shitbirds like that existed in our countrymen few centuries ago... Probably did and if they did then nothing can be changed... Just got back from job, don't have strength for writing more. Bye
I feel like this video missed the whole "Where did Serbians come from" question. There wasn't any mention of Slavic migration, which is important to understand in the scheme of things. Explaining the way in which Albanian language has no relatives is important to understanding that Albanians originate from that region, where as the Serbian language being Slavic and heavily related to every other slavic language is also important to understanding their migration to the region. Also, Albanians did heavily suffer under the Ottomans, our resistance to them is heavily present in our culture and music especially to northern Albanians of Malesia so I wish that was mentioned as well. Otherwise good video.
Serbs didn’t came from anywhere, they were there already
@@JuiceForJuice sure buddy 🤣
It is proven by researchers that Serbs have the same haplo group as the bone remains found at Vinca. The thing ia that Europe doesnt allow this to go viral. U do know what was the first thing that Germans have destroyed during WWII? It was Serbian national library, destroyed 87% of Serbian and Balkan writen history. And now they teach u and all of us the "history" that suits them and only them. Open your eyes and use your brain, and learn things away from google and wikipedial
@@FUTBOLICO_uts true bro u just cant accept facts
Albania didn NOT come from illyrians just read a REAL book not some fake site on internet.
Another non educated Albanian....😂
@@JuiceForJuiceNo
I like to imagine Albania and Serbia screaming at each other who is from Russia, while Montenegro is sleeping nearby
What a dumb thing to say. Serbian is a slavic language so they have in common with Russia 😂
@@southepirote7676 Don't expect very logical discussions coming out of Balkan nationalists on both sides
@@compatriot852Us Albanians don't associate with Balkans anyway. Like Balkans is pretty much full slavs.
@@southepirote7676
Last time I checked we still live in the Balkans. Not that I am oppose to moving Albania right next to Britain. lol
@@andin3720 Albania just happens to be surrounded by Balkanoids but originally they aren't.
As a Non-Balkaner...
All I can do at this point is...
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Lol.Lucky
Same
Lol...swiss is a new balkan, see ur national football team.
lmao might as well at this point
Damn as an Albanian I appreciate how well you portrayed us in your video! This was clearly very well thought out and researched and you portrayed both sides realistically
yes, it would be nice if we stopped fighting once and for all
Yes, totally not biased
@@excentrik5725 I’m open to that as you can see
@@limontrashupa2768 Serbia and Albania will probably be in the EU soon. and the eu is becoming more and more a federation:)
@@midlspahe Serbia needs to clean its act as we should all remember the Wagner posters in their cities and many other things. Ironically or not, being part of the EU solves the balkan ethnic tensions but buttheads will keep being buttheads not because they are stupid, but devious with ulterior motives that are not doing anything good for the state and society as a whole.
Fun fact: Albania neraly went to war with Serbia in 1999. Serbia was bombing Kososvo, bht some of the bombs crossed the border and attacked Albania, mainly Tropoja. The president called NATO and told them that Albania was going to war. That same day the NATO bombing of Serbia began.
As an Albanian I'm very pleased that everything you sad was quite accurate. You were quite neutral in your narration and that was a suprise to me.
The only thing that you sad and I was quite surprised is the incident during world war 1, when the Serbian army escaped through Albania and was attacked by mountain tribe in a guerrila warfare. This was a shock to me. I never knew anything about this. In our history this fact is completely ignored.
From my understanding it was based on tribal(clan?) lines mostly, some clans were hostile some were helpful/neutral.
@@KundershtimiDigesSkavicesI definitely agree with you.
well it makes sense, its pretty hard to explain to kids how you were the good guys in there
I was surprised no one mentions that we drove Albanians out after we beat the Ottomans. No one mentions that here either because it was a dick move
in fact that might have been the big trigger , if they had let the Albanians living there stay in relative chill everything would look different,
As a serb I have so many similar instances. I never knew anything about the ethnic cleansing of Albanians by Serbia during ottoman empire. We never learned about this in history either
well it did happen I guess they were ballisti without any Besa thought in their mind. :)
>me, a bored non-balkaner
>go to Albanian national anthem and comment "KOSOVO JE SRBIJA"
>go to Serbian national anthem and comment "KOSOVO IS ALBANIA"
>free entertainment :)
crazy
exactly lmao
😂😂😂
Well I guess Satan definitely isn’t from the balkans.
@@danh6720 JAJAJAJAJ XD
As an Albanian our Serbo-Albanian relation is the weirdest thing i know from Albania
Kosovo je Srbija!
Kosovo je Srbija
@@Tokarev03NOOOO KOSOVO IS MARSHALL ISLANDS!!!!!! 🇲🇭😡🤬🤬🤬
@@Tokarev03 Nah bruh Kosovo is Antartica🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶
@@tamakaze712 It's Antartica wdym🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶
American here - love this video! 💜💚 Hope all the Balkan folks can all someday live together in peace.
I sometimes imagine an alternate history: what it might have been like, had the Eastern Roman Empire withstood the invasions of the Turkic people, and survived into modern times to become a United SE Europe + Anatolian megastate.
I often imagine an alternate history: what it might have been like, had the Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Slavic migration to southeastern Europe, and Greek imperialism had never happened, and Albanians were left alone for once instead of being occupied for its entire history.
American...you guys are done enough for free world😂😂 stop already
@@Pedja-s7y you literally claimed to be American in another comment? Are you an american or not lmao (i already know you are not)
There was so much more he didint cover
@@Pedja-s7yhe was being perfectly nice, chill
Id sell my soul to have you make a whole historical movie. You're the greatest historian ever.
As a pro-Balkan Bulgarian sending warm regards to both countries. Balkans are so so similar. All of our cultures are interesting and we are home to creative people and strong sports people. Jivela Srbija and long live the land of the eagles.
Thanks for the kind words, wish you all the best!
You Bulgarian are the Best in Balkan respect from Kosova
and long live the land of Vasko Jabata 😁
@@dej4n76hahahahaha 🐸 thanks
@@Bennov26thanks vlla. But Kosovo is Serbia
Love to both Serbia and Albania, from a Bulgarian!
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May there be peace in the Balkans!
Balkans for ever! Na zdrawe/Živeli/Noroc/Yiamas! 🍻🍻
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Edit: No GSM song in the sponsor section?? 😢
Piss of turk
Love Bulgaria from Russia
We are brothers too. Our languages is very close to each other.
@@alexbayer2365 ey its new war criminal,howdy do man
@@potatoes8414 I don’t support Putin’s band.
Are u bot? Your registration date
@@potatoes8414USA with their NGO’s also involved let’s not pretend it wasn’t.
I have to say, this is by far the best comment section out of any Balkan video.
Living in Switzerland, I can confirm getting into the crossfire of Balkan debates. We have many Balkan immigrants and the conflicts are still a hot topic, though most of them are just trying to integrate into society and work
They accuse each other of coming from the mountains in Russia. But actually... The ancient Hungarians originated from the Ural region of Russia. 😅😅
And maybe finns. Who knows, who cares, take a map of what is east of continental Europe... People would not be migrating from the moon
And even if. Who cares. We’re here now all together
Common error - languages can spread over time without an actual migration of people. That said, early medieval Hungarians were a migratory group. There's just no other way to explain their sudden appearance in Europe, despite their sister languages still being in the Urals.
Finnish and Estonian seem to have a more gradual movement in
As an Iraqi, I recently discovered how the Balkans can be as peaceful as the Middle East
Oh, I discovered that even their affectionate comments to each other seem Middle Eastern
haha as a Kuwaiti it felt like we are the Kosovo in this story lol.
As an Albanian I don’t hate Serbian people, I do hate their regime their politics, Serbs are people like
Me , we the people suffer therefore we shouldn’t listen or play the politics that we don’t know what’s done behind the doors , we need to build bridges not walls. I’ve met and worked with Serbians in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 and yeah of course we talk about our history, surely there was agreement and disagreement, but it was civilised conversation and we work and talk without hating each other. And yeah they’ve changed their mind about Albanians as they never met an Albanian before but heard from
Their media. So blame our politicians of any hate that goes on!
hello from Western Sydney 😀
Thats a real pattern: people are nationalistic here in Balkan, but onc3 they live outside, theyre normal people and befriend even their "enemies"
@@Ethan7_7 our biggest enemies are our politicians bro
@@idrizlama2018 True bro. The other day on the news over here it was said that the biggest albanian party leader was scheming to corrupt the country more, like??
When I arrived in Serbia a couple weeks ago, one of the first things I saw outside the airport was the big KOSOVO IS SERBIA grafiti on a bridge or something above the highway. That's how I knew I really HAD arrived in Serbia and not in Iowa, what with all that corn.
that’s how u understand serbians are primitive
Oh yes ik what ur talking about, thought it was only me that saw it on my way to Belgrade.
so they quickly tore down the Wagner posters once sht hit the fan with the coup in Russia?
@@cristibrad6742no. No one gives a f about that. But we do about that globalist elite private police, nato
If you only could understand that graffity are true .
And why did you go there , in that airport .
To see if it can be converted to albanian one ?
It was reality Srbia .
Kosovar Albanian didn't like Yugoslavia unity !
They started to humiliate serbian on a religious basis ruining churches and cemeteries of old serbian forefathers in order to whipe all what was Serbian .
It is going like domino effect now you are all extending to like more and more .
You like now Great Albania .
So help yourselves take all Europe !
Oh my God your promised continent since Otoman Time !
What else could it be ?
what a lovely video surely people won't say that KOSOVO JE SRBIJA
KOSOVO JE IRAK 🇮🇶 🇮🇶 🇮🇶
@@osheridanSADDAM HUSSEIN FOUGHT NATO TO GET HIS RIGHTFUL LAND!
KOSOVO ESHTE ANTARTICA!!!!!!!!!
because it makes no sense to say such a phrase when you can very well say serbia je Albania
@@osheridanKosovo je Srbija
Came across your channel late last night after recalling some Balkan bands I had wanted to listen to again. Somehow your channel popped up. Glad it did. I've been binge watching ever since... Good shit. Especially for an uncultured curr like myself... Hailing from Central California, with kudos for your very entertaining and enlightening work. I'll definitely be returning to the channel periodically to see what else you find over there on the other side of the planet.
Til then,
✌️👈
I Hope One Day Our Children Gonna Be Friends Like French and Germans and not Enemies.
Respect for all good People
Greetings from Prishtina.
I’m sure that the comment section under this video won’t be at all violent! 😁
Take this 🛡🍶🩹
I was born in the States, but both my parents are Albanians from Kosova. I actually subscribed to your channel!! Just wanted to say I think you do great work and I like the fact that you don’t sugar coat anything. Thanks for keeping it 💯
Sugarcoat? This was pure Albanian slander 😂
This was slander of both sides lol
@@belivuk2526serbs did worse crimes than Albanians in history but not as bad as croats.
@@invader7191 I'd like it if you listed a few real ones that are worse than Albanian did. Not something already proven to be a made up incident like Račak
@@belivuk2526Bro.. CNN was on the scene there the day after the racak massacre. They caught it all on camera. It’s disrespectful to the families that lost loved ones to say it was made up.
as a turk with albanian heritage, PERSONALLY (underline personally) it is time we dont hold on to hate and anger from the past
my 4.5 months spent in Türkiye during my Erasmus, theres always be huge online skirmishes whenever both Turkey and Armenia faced each other in the Euro qualifiers
As an albanian I want to greet my Serbian friends! There is enough bloodshed. We should all get along.
You guys didn't really believe any Albanian would ever say this right??? Greetings to the balkan from germany :p
@@de_anubis i knew it something wasn't right here
LivingIronicallyinEurope is single-handedly healing the Serbo-Albanian conflict
This channel has helped me understand why they didn't teach us about the bit between Italy and Greece in history and geography class.
As an albanian , you have done an amazing job with this video
Hes not an albanian. Stop kissing serbian bythë, he dissed us liberally in this clip. Nevertheless, the rest of it was enjoyable, if not respectful.
@@Hajde_budalla 👍
I'm afraid to read the comments, I don't want them to piss me off and ruin the good energy you transmitted. Regarding my country, Albania, between 1966 and 1991, Something very interesting happened... the communist regime banned all the religions, demolished most of our churches, and mosques... in order to reset our mindset. That worked, I'm not saying, is a good thing to do, but that worked. In 1992, I was only a child, and I never heard about God before when my neighbour gave me a picture of Jesus Christ and told who He was. Obviously, that picture is still with me.
I send you love and good energy. Will pray for you and your loved ones. ❤
So, the Serbs assumed that just because the Albanians were Muslim, they were on the Ottomans’ side…Because logic
Well that's Islamophobia.
Maybe their Orthodox Church did something, worth a look. The Orthodox churches are unique in each nation as the belief is that Catholics are heretics for having a pope and Islam is better because they are also divided (the orthodox nut jobs, nobody is better or worse). Maybe in Serbia the church said islam bad and catholics good or maybe they went full aryan religion.
Greeks did the same thing
Cool video, very neutral especially when you're from one of the countries. Kind of annoyed you forgot that Kosovo IS and always WILL BE the rightful territory of Timor Leste 🇹🇱
As a south east asian and vassal of Timor-Leste, I can confirm that Kosovo and all of Europe truly belongs to our Timorese overlords
I was born in Montenegro. My father is Albanian/Montenegrin & my mother is a Bosnian Serb!! Who am I supposed to hate🤣?!? Much love to all my Yugoslav brothers and sisters ( Sorry us older folk still see at as Yugoslavia) lol. And of course much love to all the Shqipa's!!
Yourself
@@DomnulSarb That hurts my soul!
Hate your mother for fucking a dirty pigeon. You potential for sports is ruined genetically thanks to her. Have fun being 150 cm.
Are you from Ulqin?
What is your faith(religion)?
Jazakallah khayran, the way you delivered the history, love from 🇦🇱
May Allah SWT bless you, your family, and your people from Serbia
I’m part Albanian, so maybe as not a full blood my opinion doesn’t carry as much weight. But I think a lot of the hate just comes from the fact that so much has happened over the last thirty years, not enough time has passed for us to heal. I was born at the end of the USSR, and vividly remember the collapse of Yugoslavia and the wars in the 90s. I remember extended family being scared, people they knew being killed, people losing their homes. I’m only 32. Albania has only been free of Hoxha for a little over a generation. Serbia really didn’t form as a real entity until the mid 2000s.
Successive governments in the region were only really elected due to nationalism. Many members of the Albanian and Kosovar governments are former UCK fighters. Bosnia’s entire government is based on nationalism. Some members of Croatia’s government are thinly veiled Ustashe supporters. Serbia’s government is also ran by a nationalist.
Until enough time has passed where younger generations can move on, become power players themselves, and shape their countries to focus on cooperation with their neighbors, the Balkan region will remain a powderkeg.
Also just to head off any spicy replies, yes I know I’m not full Albanian, so take that how you will. No, I don’t hate Serbs, I just wish they’d take a little responsibility for what a minority did in the 90s instead of playing it off. And Kosovo is whatever it wants to be, I just want the people there to not hate or kill each other.
Also as an aside, Serbian music is really good, you have some hits. Food ain’t bad either.
@@KimJongBeIllinDaily I actually agree with you. But I do think you sadly don't understand just how retarded balkan people actually are. Like ignoring basic dna like how all humans are related to each other. But hey of course balkan people are experts in facts if its fits there right wing agenda. Basically balkan people are to conservative. That's their biggest issue. Until that doesn't chance there realy won't be any chances.
However to defend balkan a bit I do think that neo liberalism and USA and the eu are a huge reason why the balkans are like that. However I don't think that they are the sole reason obviously.
The Claim that Albanians are from the Caucasus sounds like made up by some guy who only saw the Wikipedia title "Caucasian Albania" and didn't bother to check the rest of it.
Yeah Caucasian Albania is our history as an Azerbaijani. It is just a coincidence that they have the same name 🇦🇿
@@elvinsherifzadethe name Albania is from latin. Roman Empire names Albania land that they didnt know quite well. Even in Scotland has e region called Albania. It is latin word but none similarities with each other
This was great. The way you explained this is very relatable and I learnt something as a result. Cheers
Respect for our beloved Balkans and this nice channel…we always go love&hate. Cheers from an Albanian 🇦🇱 living is Russia 🇷🇺
Ca ke dash n rusi bro 😂
John Cena is Albanian Albania 🇦🇱
Holy fuck. Full history of the conflict given with no biases? This some good shit.
After all this blah blah blah:
Serbs remember how they lost the battle of Kosovo and claim to own Kosovo because they lost… Albanians on the other hand, won 24 out of 25 battles against Ottomans, yet somehow weren’t entitled to own Kosovo…
Conviniently, the Serbs remember only the First Battle of Kosovo , but not the Second Battle of Kosovo when they were allied with Ottomans against the Albanian - Hungarian alliance.
And that’s when the animosity began! Skanderbeg laid to waste South Serbia when their collaborator despot didn’t allow Albanians to unite with Hungarians during the battle, causing the loss of the Hungarian side.
@@maki3904
Yeah, I am pretty sure there must be some small village in Serbia named Kosovo. That it can be Serbia. But the country named Kosovo, no, it is not.
P.S.
In Albania proper there are at least another 2 villages named Kosovo (in Elbasan County and Gjirokaster County). They are not Serbia either.
Albania didn’t even exist back then lol
@@andjelavuka5261
Back then the whole European continent had 6 -7 states. Today there are over 55. Your point is what? The Serbian Empire of 1355 has nothing to do with the modern ethnic state of Serbia. One was a religious empire where the emperor was the head of state and church (his title was emperor of Serbs, Greeks and Albanians), the other an ethnic state. Greece didn’t exist at the time either, but I don’t see any Serb arguing their right to have a state.
As an American I'm proud to say my first vacation outside of the US was to Albania, regardless of what arrogant westoids in Berlin and Paris may say it was a lot more beautiful than either of those places and a lot cheaper. Great people with great culture that they're proud of, something the world today needs more of. The Balkans are the jewel of Europe in terms of culture and tradition, patriotic religious communities who understand their history and seek to preserve it. I will be visiting again one day, same with Kosovo which i also visited 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇦🇱 🇽🇰
Watch your watch 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@diktrejsi8214 I said I visited Albania, not Romania.
Hahah, that's why I said, they stole watch George Bush when he visited Tirana
@@diktrejsi8214no they didn’t that was serbian propaganda news. Bush himself said it and showed a video of him putting the watch in his pocket.
@@diktrejsi8214albanians stole your mom
Every eu4 player knows that everyone wants Kosovo because of it's gold mine
How can they take Serbian land
@@SerbGeo2024EDITSif it's Serbian land then why can't you control it
I like how you are using papers please theme as a background music.I love that game!
Kosovo. The answer is Kosovo. There, I saved you 16 minutes.
We´re hating each other on RUclips and in front of the TV but in Austria and Germany we´re working together at the Baustella.
Same as our criminals, I guess, together with all the other neighbouring countries that "hate" each other. Only nationality they cab bicker over is money.
all i can say it was a good video, enjoyable as always. and to the balkan people out there: voli svoje, poštuj tuđe
I as Serb love what's mine, I respect what's others. Albanians don't, since they occupied Serbian teritory.
@@dadrrd1464how you did in 1912 yes?
This beef reminds me of the current political issues between China-Korea-Japan. Same levels of hatred due to historical+recent genocide/war crimes, historical revisionism and a free for all for claiming all historical and cultural elements.
@@INES-mz3zu Colonialism and imperialism is really terrible and surely still affects probably more then 1/2 of the world today. But what I'm talking about is more historical "fraternal" countries which might possible stem from shared/similar origins or always had close relationship throughout history but due to nationalism has build an identity on "not being XXX". For ex. Korean and Vietnamese history for thousands of year has been about "survival as a people and NOT becoming Chinese" despite using Chinese characters/following confucianism, being highly influenced by China etc. etc. Same with Japan and Korea and China vs. Taiwan. Therefore today we have these petty arguments about what is food is Korean, is it 'korean new year" or "Chinese new year". Is "Korean martial arts Japanese influenced" or is "okinawan martial arts" really "Chinese influenced". Is Dokdo island Korean or Japanese? Are the Senkaku Islands Chinese/Taiwanese or Japanese. You can find nationalists fight tooth and nail about every little thing because the other side might use their political clout to officially. claim something via UNESCO or some official channels. The only people that I've personally encountered who come close to this level of pettiness in bickering are Balkans people, Turks vs. Greeks and East Asians
and even tough Russia had a longer Imperialist legacy, Japan outgrew them in maturity given current Korean peninsula status quo.
@@dsong2006 I do believe that imperialism was not a fault in itself. If the modern world devolves in a crapshoot and 1 nation evolves 500 years above the rest, would it not be fair for humanity to spread progress? Imperialism for the sake of Imperialism just to spread misery and destroy functional nations is a crime against humanity.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought that objectively speaking, the hatred of East Asian countries towards each other is too abnormal.
I am Japanese, and I can honestly understand why people hate Japan because of its history.
But Korea and China also hate each other.
Unfortunately, with the exception of Mongolia, East Asia is full of hatred.
It's an atmosphere where we can't even joke around like you people in the Balkans.
Just a little note: Majority of Albanians converted to Islam rather late. It wasn't until the 1700s that they became majority Muslim.
This is correct. Highlanders stayed Roman Catholic & Turks allowed the Orthodox to keep their churches. The Ottomans also used the sword to ‘convert’ Albanians, during the RussoTurk war, as the Russians got closer. They were worried that the Orthodox would join the Russians and turn on the Turks.
Serbs are Slavs not Illyrian
Serbs are culturally Slavic. Genetically when they hit the Balkans or Roman Empire they mixed with Romans or the people Romans mixed with Thracians, Illyrians, and Dacians.
As a Croatian I agree. We are Slavic though some may have mixed with Latins or whomever Latins mixed with knowing Romans conquered Thracians, Dacians, and Illyrians. Some not sure what percentage. Majority of us are Slavic.
I was at a 5 day long conference with multiple parties filled with hungarians, chezchs, romanians, and albanians last week and it was lit 🔥 Albanian and hungarian traditional dancing is lit I tell you
Fun, isn’t it? I hope you joined in!
@@Hajde_budalla sure did, had a blast
@@TheSwedishHistorian Mashallah ! Next time, they’ll hand you the hankie and you can lead the line 😉
you can not be lit without romanian 'palinca'. The hard versions can make a hole in your stomach.
ALWAYS educational and entertaining! Too bad people in these beautiful countries cant just chill out and enjoy the wealth of peace for a change.
nato bombing serbia only happened like 20 years ago.,..
As a Serb, everything that has happened before is terrible and two sided. We need to let the kosovars have their own state since they inhabit it and we need to be allowed to unify our people into a complete Serbian state
i have found the actual smartest serb.
finally. Thank you for using your brain like it was designed.
Cannot agree more! Let the people determine what state they want to live in
SERBS HAVE AROUND 16-17% ILLYRIAN DNA WHILE ALBANIANS ESPECIALLY IN KOSOVA AND MACEDONIA (INCLUDING MYSELF) HAVE AROUND 78-80% ILLYRIAN DNA!. WE ALBANIANS ARE GODS IN ILLYRIAN PENINSULA.
Brother, nice video. The only thing I would like to say though is from 8:00-9:00 is a little bit misleading. A few points:
1. Albanians did not immediately convert in the 1400s after the Turks invaded. Literally Skanderbeg fought the Turks during the 1400s so the idea that Serbs never forgave the Albanians for converting is nonsensical. Albanians in majority started converting after 1500 and mostly because the Turks were extra brutal due to how successful the Albanians had been in their short lived revolt.
2. You make the point that Albanians and Serbs fought Turks together in the battle of Kosovo. This is true. What you failed to mention though is when Skanderbeg went to help John Hunyadi in his fight against the Turks, he was blocked by Serb kingdom and allowsd Turks a strategic victory. This is pretty damning to the whole “Serbia mad at Albania because they switched sides” given at one point they helped the Turks.
3. Some cities in Albania NEVER stopped resisting the Turks and never converted. You really need to understand that Albanians are a lot more anti turk than you think (especially the north).
Overall though, I understand the passion and connections Serbs have to Kosovo. I do not doubt the authenticity that it is at the heart of the Serbian people.
actually it's *revert not convert and albanians were bribed into reversion. if they were forced into reversion then there would not be any catholic albanians left and we're still here. but treatment of catholic albanians was definitely brutal. and they were extremely impoverished as a result.
My colleauge in charge of our sales distributors in the Balkans has a great way of getting his distributors to try harder. He tells the Albanian that the serbians are doing great. Then tells serbians that albanians are hitting record numbers.
In the sapce of 3 years they 10x thier sales.
I hope that one day Albanian kids and Serbian kids will be able to play together in peace
I'm not sure on that😤
We are civil and respectful 🇦🇱🇽🇰 🇷🇸
Veey respectful🇦🇱🇽🇰🇷🇸
w serbia
Did they have a protest and almost threw hands with Serbians not too long ago?
@@themyth3686 sure after serbs burned the cars of neutral albanian media channels. They ALMOST threw hands while serbs burned cars
The hungarian folktales theme in the opening ❤🇭🇺
Once again, you've given us an enlightening and hilarious video. Keep it up!❤😂
Vegan
I love the enthusiasm with which you present.
I can't even leave for a minute without missing something.
The Sebian Countryball uses his shield as an eye patch. Important fact. Kind regrds from Argentina bro, I´ve been in Belgrade and Tirana last year; you guys are cool
Bravo brate im albanian and I say screw the old beefs, lets unite the balkans into one large Union like the European union and stop being exploited by outsiders !!!
Actually I like Albania 😂 Iʼve been on the beach in Durres last week. Greetings from the northernmost city of Subotica ❤🇷🇸🇦🇱
Thats cool
@@KartingRules I wonʼt lie, it’s better than in Croatia or Montenegro
This is what I mean, we have Serb tourists in Durres every summer
@@southepirote7676 it is great. Reasonable prices for drinks, food, a motel room for us 2 and the surprising hospitality. We are definitely coming to Durres in 2024 too 🙂😁
@@LucicIvana I hope that you enjoyed it there. 😊
Kosova osht shqipni 🇦🇱🇽🇰 zemra e shqiptarëve
No ☠️
It's been nearly 600 years since the battle of Kosovo, just get over with it jeez. I mean how funny Austrians literally tried to genocide the Serbs during the Great War but most of the Serbs I know or see on the internet only talks sh*t about the Turks and don't say anything about Austrians. I guess they reside in Vienna lol
it is funny to hear serbs saying that albanians have come from caucasus while we speak our own language which is unique and they speak russian language.. How can they be a native people in the Illyricum peninnsula if they speak slavic language. All the world know that slavic people appear in Illyricum peninsula in the 7th century
Caucasus peoples who are indigenous don’t even speak Indoeuropean. Albanian, greek & armenian are each their own branch on the IE tree. It is obvious, we each go way back, on our respective lands.
It doesn’t matter if you were the first. Otherwise, native Americans should claim North and South America back, right? Is this your argument?
@ In fact you tried to expelled the albanian population of Kosovo in 1999 with the argument that they are not native population while the non native population is you.
@ Of course a Serb would think this is a reasonable comparison. Native Americans died of diseases and we hunted them down, genocide was used to remove them. Serbs inflicted two genocides on two peoples, in a decade. And you prove that they learned nothing. Whether you like or not, Albanians have existed in these lands for centuries, many more than Serbs, and now comprise 95% of Kosovo, which Serbians lie continually about, even pay bots to spread the lies on the net, especially the big soc media platforms like yt. The latest leak was less than a month ago, 15,000 names were leaked. TrOll farming, to discredit Albanians in popular soc media places. To try and destroy and entire people. Despicable and vile are inadequate words to describe what Serbs are doing.
@@Alistir_TheChessPlayer, in fact, those were criminals and criminal structures of our government back then, not me or anyone close to me nor the whole Serbian nation. Generalizations are never good. Otherwise, you should be blamed also for the massacres Albanians did e.g. in Klečka or Staro Gracko.
In any case, you haven’t answered my initial question. Please respond. Thanks!
Bro wtf,we don't love each other but lately kinda start to not even hate each other,we are evolving some kind of way.Even in political field we are looking small but stady changes. ✌️ from Albania
The only time we were friends with u guys was during fight against turks lol 😂 that was long time agoo dude hahahah
If Bulgaria joined Jugoslavia, we would've been unstoppable. Something that the great powers could never allow.... Divide and rule.
Serbs and Albanians are basically the same people. They should unite instead of fighting each other. Greetings from Croatia!
LOL, wut? You must be out of your mind.
@@chickenlover657 well he isn't realy wrong...
@@tomgu2285 Ok, you're out of your mind too.
Lol , how can Skenderbeg been Servian when he fought all he's life for Albania and never for Servia ! He always signed himself as Lord of Albania as well .
It's truly mindblowing how insensitive these kinds of videos come across when they quickly go over the latest war in the balkans. Ethnic cleansing is a horrible tragedy. Thousands murdered, hundreds of thousands displaced, thousands raped and assaulted. And we're not talking about our early early ancestors, we're talking about our fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts. All that blood spill and trauma is still fresh, yet videos like these have the audacity to tell us to forget our pasts and move on. Until Kosovo is recognized as an independent country as we truly deserve, until Serbia apologizes to us for all the inhumane war crimes they comitted, and until all war criminals face justice, there's no moving on. After all that death and terror, we are owed justice.
Kosovo will never be fully recognized as an independent country. Kosovo independence was a geo-political mistake that will fire back in the future.
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