Disparities In Yugoslavias

The 20th century was accompanied by the dissolution of several countries in Europe due to the fall of Communism. In particular, the Yugoslavian and Czechoslovakian breakups were widely controversial due to the violence throughout the duration of separation in Yugoslavia versus the peaceful separation in Czechoslovakia. During the Czechoslovakian breakup in 1993 the state was only compromised of two main ethnic groups, the Czechs and the Slovaks. However, in the 1990s during the separation in Yugoslavia there were several ethnicities: the Albanians, Bosnians, Macedonians, Croats, Hungarians, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Slovenes. The purpose of this essay is to access as to why Czechoslovakia was able to split up into different states relatively

Yugoslavia faced many ethnic tensions due to the different ethnicities various cultures, religions, and traditions; this combined with the previous years of fighting led to a heated Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. President Tito of Yugoslavia kept the country together by limiting the ethnic tension and the idea of nationalism because he showed equality to all the different groups in Yugoslavia. After Tito’s death in 1980 Yugoslavia fell apart and the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic came to power in Yugoslavia (Schwartz 1999: 42). Slobodan Milosevic is credited as the reason for the tension in Yugoslavia because of the policies he put forward to nationalize Serbia as the dominant group in Yugoslavia because Milosevic believed Serbia’s culture, tradition, and language dominated Yugoslavia (ibid 42). Each ethnicity pushed to become its own separate state because they disagreed with Slobodan Milosevic’s rule and with the other ethnicities language, religion, and culture. Yugoslavia can be deemed as a primordial nationalist movement because the country’s tensions came from the different ethnic differences such as culture, religion, language, and tradition which they were not able to put aside. Primordialist nationalism can also be seen in president Milosevic’s attempt to nationalize Serbia as the dominant group in Yugoslavia because primordislism stems from a feeling of love and loyalty to your country. Milosevic felt that Serbia was the leading party in Yugoslavia because he believed they had strong culture, tradition, and language. Other ethnicities disagreed and this is why they wanted to separate from Yugoslavia. Another example of primordialist nationalism is how Serbia tried to reclaim their holy land, Kosovo, which was maintained by the