Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet domain outlives the nation

Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by OfSanguineFire on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:13AM (#38035951)

Interesting that your experience says Bosnia is the most yugonostalgic. The most batshit crazy Greater Serbia talk I hear, even to the point where Yugoslavia is viewed as an anti-Serb mistake, is always among older men in villages in the Republika Srpska. They outdo their peers over in Serbia, and they might even be ahead of their coethnics in northern Kosovo. In the Federation, Muslims often express happiness at being independent, they just wish their independent state didn’t have such a dysfunctional system. I have seldom interacted with Croatians in the Federation, though.

My own experience has found that ethnic Macedonians are the most yugonostalgic, which might be understandable since 1) they had linguistic autonomy outside the acrimonious quarrel over "Serbo-Croatian", and 2) they avoided the wars. But all this is anecdotal and I can see how others might have very divergent experiences.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by malermeister on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:45AM (#38036085)

I definitely meant the Federation and not Srpska. I haven't dared to show up in Srpska, as I also understand it to be a hotbed of nationalist extremism.

I encountered a lot of Yugonostalgia especially amongst the more secular muslims of Bosnia. Hell, I went to a museum that had a photo op for "Your picture with comrade Tito"! https://imgur.com/a/7cMCgjH

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by medo-bear on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:56AM (#38036945)

> I definitely meant the Federation and not Srpska. I haven't dared to show up in Srpska, as I also understand it to be a hotbed of nationalist extremism.

Relax nothing will happen to you.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by asta123 on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:06AM (#38036216)

"Yugoslavia is viewed as anti-Serb mistake"

It is fascinating that nationalist Serbs and nationalist Croats think that Yugoslavia was a mistake and benefited the other side?? Someone must be wrong I guess.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by actionfromafar on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:34AM (#38036401)

Well, neither could win over the other side while the pesky Yugoslavia kept them from each other's throats. So they are both right, in a sad way.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by malermeister on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:03AM (#38036989)

Both are wrong, or right, depending on your viewpoint. Yugoslavia forced equality, when they wanted supremacy.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by wheelerof4te on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:21AM (#38036737)

"In the Federation, Muslims often express happiness at being independent, they just wish their independent state didn’t have such a dysfunctional system"

Muslims want their own Greater Bosnia, and Republika Srpska to be only a bad memory.

Hence, the patriotism of Serbs in Bosnia is naturally stronger, to counter a threat to the existance of their "entity".

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by jakupovic on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:08AM (#38037423)

>>Bosnians (Muslims) want their own Greater Bosnia, and Republika Srpska to be only a bad memory.

This is true that Ethnic Bosnians want their own state. Also, it's racist to call Bosnians Muslims instead of Bosnians. Please correct yourself.

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