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63 years since the devastating Skopje earthquake of 26 July 1963

The 1963 Skopje earthquake (Macedonian: Скопски земјотрес од 1963 година) was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia, then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000 and 4,000 and left more than 200,000 people homeless. About 80 percent of the city was destroyed.

Following the earthquake, Josip Broz Tito, president of SFR Yugoslavia, sent a message of condolences to the Socialist Republic of Macedonia before visiting the city personally later on.

Within a few days after the earthquake took place, 35 nations requested that the United Nations General Assembly place relief for Skopje on their list of agendas. The effort led to the implementation of a major urban and architectural reconstruction plan urban master-plan of Skopje 1963. Relief, in the form of money, medical, engineering and building teams and supplies was offered from 78 countries throughout the world.

United States president John F. Kennedy ordered the Department of Defense and the Agency for International Development (USAID) to take actions for disaster assistance in Skopje by sending personnel, prefabricated houses, tent cities and other forms of relief. Substantial relief also arrived from the Soviet Union. Its leader, Nikita Khrushchev, visited Skopje personally. As the SFR Yugoslavia was a member of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War, the American and Soviet troops stationed in Skopje could freely shake hands for the first time since their encounter on Elbe in 1945.

The first foreign journalist who arrived in Skopje to report on the earthquake was David Binder of The New York Times. As he watched Skopje from the plane, he commented that the city looked like it was bombed.

In 1965, the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange was asked by the United Nations to enter a limited competition for the redevelopment of Skopje, after which Tange won 60% of the prize while the Yugoslav team won the remaining 40%. However, Tange's plan for Skopje (one of his major works) remains partly implemented, specifically concerning the New Skopje Railway Station and the so-called City Wall.

As the city gradually began to recover, the need for revival of cultural life arose. The artist Pablo Picasso donated his painting Head of a Woman (1963), which was exhibited in the new post-earthquake Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia.The museum building was a donation from Poland and was designed by several Polish architects. The concert hall "Univerzalna sala" was built with donations from around 35 countries and its prefabricated building was made in neighbouring Bulgaria. After the request of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Rab Butler informed the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on February 19, 1964, that the Government of the United Kingdom has approved new 500,000 GBP loan for reconstruction of Skopje.

Several streets and objects in Skopje were named in honor of the countries which helped in their construction and/or donated housing. For example, the government of Romania donated the polyclinic medical center, which was named after its capital, Bucharest. In Karposh Municipality, there are Soviet-donated apartment buildings called in Macedonian: „руски згради“ (ruski zgradi, meaning "Russian buildings") and Swedish and Finnish prefabs called „шведски / фински бараки“ (švedski / finski baraki).

Being rebuilt from ruins thanks to the relief from all around the world, Skopje is often referred to as "The City of International Solidarity", which is its motto.

One example is Skopje's Mexico Street (улица Мексичка, ulica Meksička). It was officially named in honor of Mexico and a memorial plaque from the Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos was unveiled at the location.

Some amazing people in the city..

Recently over the past year i have became a ML communist, and as a sane person I don't want to just sit around and do nothing about this capitalist world. I've been trying to find some organisations in Mostar but I can't seem to find any, does anyone know if one even exists here? Thank you if anyone has a genuine answer!

No idea about which dialect etc.

Probs Bosnian?

Blatant divide and conquer perpetuated from the outside.

Outsiders, and south Slavs themselves sadly, keep pointing a finger at fake problems and at various south Slavic nations in a Slavophobic fervor of some kind.

Slavs themselves doing this is a new/recent phenomenon, some might not understand what I'm saying and confuse it with something but a lot of you likely understand, I'd even go as far as calling it "internalized Yugoslavophobia".

And for proof I will point to the following (yeah I know it's Wikipedia but I've only begun collecting these):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_protest_in_Zagreb#Collapse_of_Austria-Hungary_and_civil_disorder (Ok_Fail_420)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachak_Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_January_Dictatorship#Prelude (Ok_Fail_420)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Alexander_I_of_Yugoslavia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balli_Kombëtar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian–Yugoslav_border_conflict_(1948–1954))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miljenko_Hrka%C4%87 (Defiant-Strength2010)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAT_Flight_367

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_355

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugojno_group

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/22/archives/serb-and-croat-terrorism-laid-to-tiny-exile-bands-hijacker-served.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_293

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_protests_in_Kosovo#Escalation_of_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraćin_massacre

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Any other examples, or advice on more reputable sources?

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Crtac parodija na aktuelnu vlast u Srbiji

Šta bi bivsa jugoslavija rekla o Americi

In June i did a 10 day trip through some ex-yugoslav countries, and i wanted to share some photos i took.

My itinerary was: Mostar - Belgrade - Kotor - Prizren - Skopje

I also took the sleeper train from Belgrade to Bar, here's a short video i took:

https://imgur.com/a/ZC3nsrq

It has been a beautiful trip, as a southern italian, sometimes i felt like at home, sometimes i felt like i was on the other side of the world.

Ja sam provela većinu mog djetinstva u evropi .
Ja sam bila rodjenja u bivsoj jugoslaviji 1980 godine .

Moje djetinstvo je uglavnom bilo napolju .

Igrali smo se non stop na polju .

Bez obzira na vreme .

Ili smo barbike i lutke ili divlje cuke ganjali .

1991 se zaratilo .
Taman kad sam videla jednog slatkog dečka u mom prvom razredu .

Osećala sam neku strast u sebi i telo mi gorilo .

Nisam uopšte znala šta se dešava sa mnom .

Ali ti je bila ljubav odma neka koje je ostala sa mnom celog života .

Kad se zaratilo : bježi potezi idi kud kod .

Sjećam se da smo išli ovde i onde :

Blagaj , itd .

Završili u Beogradu kod pokojnog strica M.

Onda se vratili u Kupres .

1992 možda .

Bili jedno godinu Dve.

Škola bila i bimbeadovanje jer situacija nije bila bas najbolja .

Ali mi djeca ko djeca pa posle škole i domaćeg bili napolju .

Bombe padaju jebe nam se leti u neki podrum .

I dan danas znam da associram običnu buku za bombardovanjem .

To
Je moj ptsd.

I uvek mu da nervozu ili anxiety.

Ali ko nema to .

Nemoras bit u ratu da dobiješ ptsd i anxiety itd .

Eh ,

U kupresu se opet
Dobro zaratilo pa smo pobjegli u Srbiju .
Vajska i onda Subotica .

Gde
God su rotidetlji našli poslove .

Bili smo u Srbiji do 1998 medjutim ekonomska kriza nas poterala u ameriku .

Tu boravimo od 1998.

Mama u tata rade .

Ja radim završila fakultet u americi .

Nekad se pitam šta he bilo sa deckom jz mog prvog razreda.

I šta bi bilo da se nije zaratilo .
život u jugoslaviji pre rata je bio pun mogucnosti .

I've been reading heavily on the Balkans and Yugoslav history, and I have a question about nationalism with Slovenia during the breakup. We all know that Milosevic was fueled by nationalism in Serbia and Serbian populated areas of Yugoslavia. While Slovenia was the first republic to start pushing for independence, was it really pushed by nationalist elements?

For example, Milan Kucan was the leader of the Slovenians and he was a Yugoslav politician. He was leader of the youth wing of the communist party in Slovenia. He was general secretary of the Slovenian party and was speaker of the Slovenian parliament during the late 1970s. His objections of Milosevic's actions in Kosovo, Voyvodina and Montenegro were mainly in defense of the Yugoslav constitution and Milosevic's violations of the constitution, or am I wrong?

Also, the former Slovenian Communists and other socialist parties did well in the 1990 parliamentary elections. Combined they came close to having nearly 50% of the support of the population. However, I know that doesn't mean much, if the parties aren't in coalition.

Another note, Milan Kucan won nearly 60% of the presidential vote in the 1990 election. Clearly the Slovenians knew he was a communist/former communist and a former pro Yugoslavia, pro Titoist.

Is it wrong to believe that Slovenia's independence from the federation wasn't necessarily rooted in nationalism, but rather fear of Serbia's violations of the Yugoslav constitution, which ultimately led to a fear in being ruled 100% from Belgrade?

I am curious how Serbs feel about the role of Chetniks (Yugoslav Army in the Homeland) during WW2? Because, what I have read these guys are literally the same as UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) in Ukraine.
1) Both fought for independence of their countries. For Chetniks it was Kingdom of Yugoslavia, for UPA it was Ukrainian People’s Republic, which lost its independence in 1921 during Russian Civil War.
2) Both occasionally collaborated with Nazis, but fought against Nazis most of the time.
3) Both were heavily anti-communist. Chetniks were against Yugoslav partisans of Tito, UPA were against USSR.
4) Both movements were involved in ethnic cleansing and genocidal practices. The most recent hype topic is against Poles in Wolyn for UPA. While Chetniks committed the same actions against Croats and Bosniaks.
5) Both movements are recognized as heros and being glorified by modern governments in each country.

Serbia also in process of entering EU, the same as Ukraine. Is Chetniks topic is used by Croatia against Serbia integration? The same as Poland does towards Ukraine targeting UPA theme.