Nostalgia for the 90s?
Nostalgia for the 1990s is in full s(ch)wing. Or is it?
The Ship Yugoslavia This article first appeared in the Yugobulletin newsletter. * I’ve been back in the US long enough that the semester in Ljubljana, the first of my doctoral studies, seems like a memory of a different life. I survived the reverse culture shock—still a thing no matter how many times I return. I
After Yugoslavia’s dissolution, a large number of places named after Tito were renamed, beginning with cities bearing his name’s adjective.
The episode is just the latest example of America’s presence in the region, which dates back to World War II and particularly socialist Yugoslavia, which, some say, wouldn’t have survived without American loans, grants, and barters.
Belgrade Mayor has proposed that Tito’s grave be relocated from the House of Flowers to Kumrovec.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have begun and one week into the quadrennial event story lines abound. In the former Yugoslavia, Paris 2024 harkens back to Sarajevo 1984.
A citizen campaign in Serbia aims to grow the number of self-declaring Yugoslavs on the 2022 census.