Clearing the Cobwebs: Yugoslavia, an Avoidable War
Nora Beloff, the foremost Balkan expert, explains it all, in words and pictures. Part 1 of the documentary, 1hr 21min
The Whole (Untold) Truth About Wars that Ripped Yugoslavia Apart
In the West, the generally accepted thesis is that Yugoslavia collapsed from within. The alternative view is the reverse: the Western governments, in recognising the new statelets of Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Hercegovina, defied earlier commitments. In 1975 the European Countries, the US and Canada signed the Final Act at Helsinki. This laid it down that the international frontiers of all the signatories — of which Yugoslavia was one — could not be altered without the specific agreement of the states involved and of the people living there. In parctice, neither the Yugoslav federal government nor the peoples of Yugoslavia as a whole were ever properly consulted.
[...] In pitting myself against the widely accepted view about the reasons why Yugoslavia collapsed in the manner in which it did, I must start by listing my own qualifications. The basic thesis which this twelve part book will sustain is that, had it not been for the ignorance, arrogance and intrusion of the outside world, the conflicts in Yugoslavia could have been averted and, in some form, the state of Yugoslavia preserved.
Nora Beloff,
Yugoslavia, an Avoidable War
The foremost Balkan expert Nora Beloff, a diplomat and a journalist with Reuters, The Economist and The Observer, among others, has passed away in February 1997, having just completed her last book Yugoslavia, an Avoidable War, about the brutal breakup of former Yugoslavia and the subsequent civil wars. Nora Beloff’s wealth of researched material and information collected on the ground and in highest diplomatic circles, as well as her formidable knowledge and expertise have served as the basis for the documentary now available for public viewing on Google Videos.
Tito-drawn internal borders between Yugoslav republics did not correspond to reality, leaving a vast number of Serbs stranded outside of Serbia, within Croatian and Bosnian republic. Part 2 of the documentary, 1hr 25min
The documentary is built around live footage from each of the Yugoslav republics and regions where war raged during the 1990s, some rarely seen historical footage (including those from fascist Croatia and islamofascist Bosnia during the WWII) and around the interviews with Nora Beloff herself and other British and American journalists, diplomats and scholars with outstanding understanding and familiarity with the events discussed.
In short, everything you were not told by the mainstream media at the time is clearly explained and shown here. “Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War” is the best documentary on the subject thus far, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to all who would like to learn the truth and connect the dots that were left fragmented, unexplained, or purposefully hidden.