NAVO/VS vernietiging van Joegoslavië

The Weight of Chains | Težina lanaca (2010)

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The Weight Of Chains presents a perspective on Western involvement in the division of the ethnic groups within Yugoslavia, and claims that the war was forced from outside, while ordinary people wanted peace. Malagurski says extreme factions on all sides, fuelled by their foreign mentors, outvoiced the moderates and even ten years after the last conflict, the hatred remains and people continue spreading myths about the 1990s.[10]
The film starts with a brief history of Yugoslavia, explaining the concept of Yugoslavia and how it came to exist. Narrated by Malagurski, the film explains what happened in Yugoslavia during World War II and how Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia was formed. The pace slows down as Tito's death is documented, and the author moves on to changes in the Yugoslav economy in the 1980s, with specific mention of Ronald Reagan's National Security Decisions Directive 133 from 1984. This presents U.S. interests in Yugoslavia as promoting the "trend towards a market-oriented Yugoslav economic structure". The role of the National Endowment for Democracy in Yugoslavia is then analyzed, and connected to the formation of G17 Plus. Privatization through liquidation is explained, and presented as a major cause for the rise of ethnic tensions in the late 80s and early 90s, further fueled by Foreign Operations Appropriations Act 101-513, enacted during the George H. W. Bush era.
Slobodan Milo¨ević, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović then receive criticism, all of them described as being power-hungry and without much concern for their people. Domestic war-mongers are mentioned also. The regional media are presented as having a major influence on mobilizing public opinion in favor of a conflict. The film then alleges that the West – openly diplomatically and covertly militarily – supported separatist groups and encouraged conflict so that NATO could jump in as peacekeepers for their own interests. The film includes new footage of a village in Bosnia where Serbs and Bosniaks lived together up to the end of the Bosnian war, but were then separated – with Serbs saying goodbye to their Muslim neighbours, who decided to collectively leave to their own entity, in tears.
The topic of Kosovo is covered most out of all the issues, and the history of the region is explained to show why the Kosovo war broke out. The film talks about the medieval Battle of Kosovo, inclusion of Kosovo into the Kingdom of Serbia in 1912, the persecution of Kosovo Serbs during World War II and Tito's Yugoslavia, as well as alleged plans by Albanian nationalists to create an ethnically pure Greater Albania. The film then discusses what interests the Western powers had in Kosovo and why they decided to intervene in a secessionist war in 1999. Questions such as why a cigarette factory was bombed by NATO (and later bought by Philip Morris) are tackled, with the author concluding that the purpose of the war was to economically colonize the country.
This film also presents positive stories from the war – people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice. For this purpose, the widow of Josip Kir (former police chief of Osijek, Croatia) Jadranka Reihl-Kir was interviewed concerning her husband's attempts to resolve ethnic issues back in 1991 in a peaceful manner. The widow of Milan Levar, Vesna Levar, was also interviewed and spoke of her husband's fight to expose policies of ethnic cleansing in his hometown of Gospić, Croatia, where Croat forces killed dozens of Serb civilians. Another story covered is that of a young Serbian man by the name of Srđan Aleksić, whose father tells how his son saved a Muslim man from an attack by soldiers of the Army of Republika Srpska.
After discussing the wars of the 1990s, the film deals with what happened afterwards and how policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank affected the newly created former Yugoslav states. The author presents his theory that Eastern European states were never meant to be colleagues and equals with the European Union and the West, but rather markets for Western industrial goods and sources of cheap labor. The way in which the debt of the former Yugoslav countries has changed from 1990 to 2010 is graphically depicted, with revelations of how much tax money each citizen of the former Yugoslavia would have to pay in order for their countries to be debt free.

The Weight Of Chains | Deleted Scene 1 | Sarajevo

The Weight Of Chains | Deleted Scene 2 | Kosovo Liberation Army

The Weight Of Chains | Deleted Scene 3 | Propaganda

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? | Boris Malagurski (2009)

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Op zondag 16 februari 2014 19:11 schreef truthortruth het volgende:

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The Weight of Chains (2010) - User ratings

Yugoslavia - the Good Old Days of Tito-style Communism

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Op zondag 16 februari 2014 19:36 schreef Enneacanthus_Obesus het volgende:
Ik dacht dat het voormalig Joegoslavië verscheurd werd door een geloofstwist, nadat Tito overleden was...

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Op zondag 16 februari 2014 20:15 schreef Phlogi2013 het volgende:
Deze ken ik niet volgens mij. Wel een andere docu van een Noor als ik me niet vergis, die ook ingaat op buitenlandse invloeden. Daarin worden vrij stevige beweringen gedaan over hoe de VN hele dorpen en stadjes bewust als lokaas gebruikten voor een Servische aanval, welke dan weer een excuus gaf op een partijdige manier in te grijpen.

Geen idee wat ik daar van moest vinden, maar het was op sommige punten vrij overtuigend. Alleen de naam vergeten

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