March 12, 2003 - Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated.
Đinđić was one of the founders of Serbia’s Democratic Party, and during the 1990s was a fierce critic of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević. In October 2000, he was one of the leaders behind the revolution that saw Milošević overthrown from power, and in December of that year, he was elected Prime Minister.
In his short career as Prime Minister, Đinđić made an impression, reversing Serbia’s policies in many areas. He met with many Western leaders, and talked about European integration. He played an important part in turning Milošević over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the Hague.
He was killed by a mafia-connected sniper in broad daylight in downtown Belgrade. Đinđić, he claimed, was a traitor to Serbia.
The hundreds of thousands of people who turned out to Đinđić’s funeral (top photo) would probably disagree.
Thousands of people again turned out earlier today (bottom photo) to commemorate Đinđić’s life and career.
opaldrone asked: Could you recommend any Hungarian tumblrs? I also am quite happy to stumble upon this one!
Hm, this is a recurring theme…people ask me for recommendations and I don’t know what to tell them. I really like scanzen, but I can’t think of any other Hungarian specific Tumblrs.
I know some of you have recommendations, though, right?
I just reblogged something onto this blog that I meant to reblog to my personal tumblr. (I’m amazed I haven’t done this before, actually.)
I deleted it because it’s not relevant, but I also don’t want to be mysterious (and it’s worth reading) so here is a link.
This is a story on my Google News right now. SO CONFUSING. Did Bulgaria save its Jewish population or not?!
The answer, as it so often is, is somewhere in the middle.
The 48,000 Jews who lived in Bulgaria (a Nazi ally) during World War II escaped unscathed. Not a single one of them perished in the Holocaust.
However, this period, Bulgaria occupied neighboring Macedonia, and the Bulgarian military there deported 11,000 Jews to concentration camps.
The Bulgarian parliament took responsibility for its actions for the first time last Friday:
“The objective evaluation of the historic events cannot ignore the fact that 11,343 Jews were deported from northern Greece and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, then under German jurisdiction,” legislators said in a declaration and expressed regrets that “the local Bulgarian administration had not been in a position to stop this act.”
The Shalom Organization of Jews in Bulgaria had repeatedly demanded the state to take responsibility for the deportations.
“The Bulgarian government must assume the moral responsibility for the Nazi death camp deportation of ethnic Jews from the regions of Thrace and Macedonia regardless of the fact that Bulgaria saved its almost 50,000 Jews,” the group’s chairman, Maxim Benvenisti, told The Associated Press before the declaration.
This is nonsense. Macedonia was never occupied by Bulgaria. It WAS Bulgaria. Only very recently and very long ago was Macedonia it’s own country.
Uh, no, Macedonia was neither independent nor part of Bulgaria. It was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. (See: Vardar Banovina.) It was occupied by the Axis Powers during World War II.
The area in question is what is now known as the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, not Pirin Macedonia in Bulgaria or the northern Greek province of Macedonia, just to be clear.
Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, in February.
Thousands of Slovenians protested against corruption and the political elite in the center of Ljubljana on Saturday, demanding a snap election after the conservative government of Janez Jansa was ousted last week.
Slovenia is struggling to avoid an international bailout, and parliament last week nominated budget expert Alenka Bratusek of the center-left Positive Slovenia to form a new government.
Jansa’s coalition was brought down in part by street protests of a kind not seen since Slovenian independence in 1991, driven by spending cuts and allegations of government corruption.
Saturday’s march, whose organizers put participation at 10,000 and police at 5,000, was comparable with some of the largest so far, despite being held in pouring rain.
“We are not right and we are not left but we are the people who are sick of you,” said a banner held by one protesters in the capital of the small Alpine state.
A sign tells us who the fastest and slowest workers are.
Derviçan, Albania, in 1988.
This is a story on my Google News right now. SO CONFUSING. Did Bulgaria save its Jewish population or not?!
The answer, as it so often is, is somewhere in the middle.
The 48,000 Jews who lived in Bulgaria (a Nazi ally) during World War II escaped unscathed. Not a single one of them perished in the Holocaust.
However, this period, Bulgaria occupied neighboring Macedonia, and the Bulgarian military there deported 11,000 Jews to concentration camps.
The Bulgarian parliament took responsibility for its actions for the first time last Friday:
“The objective evaluation of the historic events cannot ignore the fact that 11,343 Jews were deported from northern Greece and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, then under German jurisdiction,” legislators said in a declaration and expressed regrets that “the local Bulgarian administration had not been in a position to stop this act.”
The Shalom Organization of Jews in Bulgaria had repeatedly demanded the state to take responsibility for the deportations.
“The Bulgarian government must assume the moral responsibility for the Nazi death camp deportation of ethnic Jews from the regions of Thrace and Macedonia regardless of the fact that Bulgaria saved its almost 50,000 Jews,” the group’s chairman, Maxim Benvenisti, told The Associated Press before the declaration.
Female sleeve embroidery across Slovakia.
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