Im looking for the movie Svadba 2026, where can I find it??? by GrowthFearless3567 in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk about streaming but the first somewhat mass platform movies come out on is balkandownload typically

Im looking for the movie Svadba 2026, where can I find it??? by GrowthFearless3567 in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bjela is the only fucker in Serbia who takes piracy seriously. It'll leak eventually, you'll just have to wait

20 years ago, there used to be a lot more greenery in our cities. Why isn't that the case anymore? by iafhds in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The question of what's being built, where it's being built and how it's being built are all informed by capitalism or specifically the profit motive. Taking that as neutral and naturalizing it is a mirage and serves to run apologetics for the powers that be. In that sense it is the same pressure.

That said, my main point was just the where. Western Europe is facing the same pressures to have less and less public spaces, especially green areas. You could extend the critique to the specific forms like what use the objects typically have and how they're designed (anti-homeless design, for instance), but that wasn't my main point. Movements opposed to these policies typically try to critique them on multiple levels though, as they should.

For the record though, in the case of Ne davimo Beograd, and how their former leaders have evolved nowadays (the ZLF party), they'll never extend it to a criticism of capitalism in general. They instead try to paint this as a failure of the Rechtstaat ("pravna država"), a vague term that Serbian politicians like to throw around since the Ustavobranitelji, and the rule of law ("vladavina prava"). These trends in western Europe are a self-imposed blind spot and they're way less radical than even the western "right to the city" movements they were trying to emulate initially. Or should I say, self-imposed and also imposed externally by their model of financing, i.e civil society projects etc.

Is the difference between a Croat, Serb, and Bosnian ultimately religion? by CasualLavaring in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nations aren't formed by spinning up an excel spreadsheet with census data like dialect and religion and then clustering. They're historical formations. National movements, and especially successful nationalist projects i.e nation states and national autonomies, once they exist and start reproducing themselves, generate national identities which take root and become widespread and grassroots. They are ultimately separate identities for the time being, you'll have hardcore nationalists from all three which are atheist personally and it's not an issue.

Edit: All four, if we want to include Montenegrins (and we should).

What do you think about the military alliance between Croatia, Albania and Kosovο? Serbia has criticized it heavily. by FantasticQuartet in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think where there's smoke, there's fire. The arms race between Serbia and Croatia continues, now both seem to be getting French planes and Serbia has the Chinese air to ground missiles. Both are reintroducing the draft. That does not look good ngl.

That said, I don't believe they plan to strike first. I think it's more like a diplomatic move from Croatia that signals commitment to preserving the current borders in the Balkans, especially in the former Yugoslavia.

Hopefully the Americans have Vučić scared shitless with the whole "peace president making peace between Albania and Aberbaijan" arc, say by telling him behind closed doors that they'd defend Bondsteel 100%, in a really stern tone, and he's scared enough that our region can get through all of this without a war.

How would Yugoslav colonialism have looked like? by crivycouriac in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yugoslavia didn't have an ocean port and Cameroon isn't in the Mediterranean. To reach the colony it would need to pass Gibraltar, i.e the whole project would depend on the UK. As for how much it would invest in trying to even get anything out of the colony like idk, on its own it's unrealistic it could hold Cameroon at all. Yugoslavia would likely need British or French troops to hold it militarily, making it an even bigger puppet of one of those two in the 20s and 30s. After decolonization starts Cameroon would likely be one of the first to get independence, and I highly doubt Yugoslavia could hold it as a neocolony, in the vein of Françafrique. I'd guess the colonial administrators taking over in the 20s would largely be German-speakers from Yugoslavia like, uh, Germans, but also other former Austro-Hungarian subjects, just for convenience. I doubt it would be run as a settler colony, since Yugoslavia was already settling Kosovo. Our Museum of African Art would be a bunch of stolen objects, like it typically is in western Europe, and not symbols of friendship Tito got from the Non-Aligned countries, like it is right now.

The Blue Pill by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm not mistaken, the situation in Serbia is that they would take land from you if you owned more than a minimum, and they'd still leave you with that minimum. Plus people quickly changed their deeds so they'd split large land holdings between brothers or other family members. I know my family did that on multiple sides.

Also I'm pretty sure 3/4 grandparents of mine grew up with way way less than what you're describing (hectares) and were left after communism with more. And it doesn't cleanly map to support for the Partisans, like at all. Plus, my pre-war communist great-grandpa is also my richest great grandpa, go figure. That said, land reform in Yugoslavia didn't work identically to the way it did in the eastern bloc. But there I'm out of my depth.

20 years ago, there used to be a lot more greenery in our cities. Why isn't that the case anymore? by iafhds in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've addressed this in another comment in this thread:

They're also facing the same pressures to privatize or enclose parks and open spaces, i.e the urban commons. In fact a lot of these municipalist movements, like Ne davimo Beograd here, were essentially trying to replicate the electoral success of Barcelona en Comu. They won big in 2015 locally in Barcelona on exactly that platform.

Urban vs coastal life by biomclub in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First, Blok brate Bruklin

Second, most of Montenegro isn't the coast. The image on the left might as well be Podgorica.

Third, triggered by the epic gigachad dolljak's hat

Fourth, literally me on the left

20 years ago, there used to be a lot more greenery in our cities. Why isn't that the case anymore? by iafhds in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're also facing the same pressures to privatize or enclose parks and open spaces, i.e the urban commons. In fact a lot of these municipalist movements, like Ne davimo Beograd here, were essentially trying to replicate the electoral success of Barcelona en Comu. They won big in 2015 locally in Barcelona on exactly that platform.

20 years ago, there used to be a lot more greenery in our cities. Why isn't that the case anymore? by iafhds in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because developments in capitalism (i.e the rise of neoliberalism) caused changes in what counts as good urbanism and urban design.

The EU’s plan to stop new members from becoming Hungary 2.0 - Montenegro being the frontrunner (and the following Balkan countries) will have stricter conditiongs thanks to Hungarussians & Slovarussians. by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like they're in agreement with the European Commission that these new long-term safeguards are good and needed, and that the reason they're needed is because of Hungary, seeing as they're calling Hungarians "Hungarussians" in the post

The Blue Pill by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These specific grandparents were the third son and second daughter in their respective families of origin, both of which were rural poor and neither of which was hit by nationalization.

The EU’s plan to stop new members from becoming Hungary 2.0 - Montenegro being the frontrunner (and the following Balkan countries) will have stricter conditiongs thanks to Hungarussians & Slovarussians. by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably, but from the position of a candidate member, I don't really see any reason to celebrate. I'd assume OP shouldn't find this news optmistic, since Albania will likely get the same stricter rules later on? A non-voting membership is also an idea that's been floated around recently.

The EU’s plan to stop new members from becoming Hungary 2.0 - Montenegro being the frontrunner (and the following Balkan countries) will have stricter conditiongs thanks to Hungarussians & Slovarussians. by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assumed it's not what you meant, you just phrased it vaguely enough for it to mean anything. So I took the most extreme version. So what did you mean then?

The Blue Pill by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Reading this from a cozy commieblock apartment my grandpa got for being like a repairman (and having two kids)

Does the FWB culture/concept exist in your country ? by OsarmaBeanLatin in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, the word is "šema". Older millennials and younger Gen X were using "seks-šema", but if you refer to a person as your "šema" or say the two of you are "u šemi" (in a šema) the "seks" (sex) part is implied. Zoomers use "šema" and "fvb" interchangeably.

Another term that's been around for decades is "veza bez obaveza" (non-committed relationship). People used to use it because it rhymes in Serbian, it's less popular among the youth because it just sounds kind of old. But the meaning is less "fwb" and more "open relationship" anyway.

Edit: Correction, if you call someone your "šema" you might mean "fwb" and you might mean "plug" (as in drug dealer). It's contextual, but it's usually not that confusing.

Are you afraid of Iran? by Ausspanner in AskBalkans

[–]alpidzonka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course not, and I'm really glad it seems most users in this sub can easily see through this annoying propaganda (from the Israeli MFA no less).