Sunday, March 09, 2008

The former Yugoslavia is messed up

Serbian jokes aside, the whole situation with Kosovo is a hell of a clusterfuck. Like, Israel levels of clusterfuck. I suppose in Canada when people think of a province trying to separate, Quebec comes to mind. Kosovo is a bit more complicated though.

So, once upon a time there was this country called Yugoslavia ruled by a communist leader named Tito. The Serbs were most populous, but he wanted there to be a balance of power so then he got a bunch of Albanians and moved them into Kosovo. Then he gave them an autonomous government. But then Tito died, and then Yugoslavia starts falling apart like a house of cards. So at this point they're left with a whole bunch of Albanians in Serbia.

Then the Albanians started wanting to secede and decided to go all IRA on the Serbs in the region. The Serbs decided that they had enough of that shit so they went and politely disagreed. By which I meant they took their tanks and marched into Kosovo.

Then the Kosovo war happened.

Now we have this mess as it is today.

So there you have it, history in a nutshell. Serbians are stupid lolol.

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