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Being genuinely anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, etc. means that you're that way across the board, no matter who is doing it. You don't whitewash the Ottoman Empire or Japanese imperialism just because they weren't "white" in an American sense (and in Japan's case, buy into their own propaganda, as they used the specter of Western imperialism to justify what they did to other East Asian/Pacific countries). You don't make excuses for modern Russia trying to take over Ukraine or other sovereign nations in Eastern Europe. If you truly believe in self-determination then it doesn't matter who is trying to prevent that. This shouldn't be hard, right?

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Apparently Serbia’s SNS ruling party has been deliberately removing/replacing/tarnishing the Albanian translations on Medvegja’s bilingual signs.

If Serbs in North Mitrovica can display Serbian flags and motifs everywhere, speak Serbian with no issue, have all their signs written in Cyrillic, and even exchange their own currency then Albanians in Medvegja at the VERY LEAST should be able to have bilingual signs.

Medvegja as a town has more Serbs but it’s part of the greater Presheva Valley which is majority Albanian. Kosova is less than 10% Serb yet EVERY city has bilingual signs. The same standards should be applied to Medvegja.

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Hello! Quick question, what do Bulgarians think about Pomaks and do you guys consider them Bulgarian? And also do Pomaks consider themselves Bulgarian?

The official Bulgarian position is that Pomaks are ethnically Bulgarian Muslims and most ethnic Bulgarians see them that way for nationalist reasons. Some Pomaks also identify this way but many do not. It depends on the person but I believe that the majority identify as belonging to a separate Pomak ethnic group.

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There needs to be a blog called "Accidentally Right Wing" to collect all of the posts that contain incredibly reactionary opinions, but expressed in a vahuely idpol-sounding way; things like:

Fish & Chips isn't really a British dish because it was invented by Jewish immigrants to Britain

Atheists of colour are just lashing out at God because of trauma, whereas white atheists reject God because they fear Judgement

Imperial Japan wasn't really imperialist because it was fighting Western imperialists

That one post about how culture isn't meant to be shared but is meant to give purpose and identity to members of an in-group

Many many others

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VENUS, THE FIRST COMPLETELY FEMALE ROMANIAN ROCK BAND, FORMED IN 1967.

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The cross would represent the whole world along with the four realms: the one above and the one below, the world of the dead and the one of those who were resurrected. To that one should add the arrow with no end to form an ancient and sacred symbol knon as swastika. In other words read more report less

#romania #traditional clothing

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Hey, i know this has nothing to do with you but i want to know if you or one of your followers knows what happened to tumblr user sabahzora? Her tumblr is still around but she hasn't posted in like 2 years i just want know if she's ok. I used to like her balkan related stuff a lot. Again sorry if i'm bothering you

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I’m planning a western balkans trip by bus/train in summer 2022. Shoot me a message if you’d like to join.

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Dreaming of exploring Romania, from the Black Sea to the hills of Transylvania ★

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Tokyo 2020 is only the second Olympic Games in which Kosovo gets to compete as an independent country. At Rio 2016 — the country’s Olympic debut— its small delegation of eight athletes already managed to bring home one medal. This year in Tokyo, Kosovo secured two gold medals during the first week of the Games. And guess what, they’re all in women’s judo!

Young judokas at 2020 Tokyo Olympic Festival in Prishtina, Kosovo

“When Majlinda Kelmendi won the first gold medal in 2016, I was in Peja at the Hotel Dukagjini restaurant, which only seats about 100 people and all the TVs were on the last judo match. The second she won, I felt like I was surrounded by a million fans cheering and clapping; the ambience was at a level I didn’t think it would ever experience. I will never forget the feeling.”

#Kosovo #Balkan #judo #women #women’s rights #Prishtina #Olympics #Tokyo 2020 #Eastern Europe #post-war nation building #Majlinda Kelmendi #Loriana Kuka #Nora Gjakova #Distria Krasniqi #Dua Lipa #culture

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If there is anyone who can speak Albanian and can help with translation I will be so thankful!

Does anyone from Kosovo want to be featured in an article I am working on about judo in the country? How popular is it? Is it becoming more popular considering the country’s success in the sport at the Olympics? What are the general attitudes in the country since the last two wins by Krasniqi and Gjakova?

Please send me a message or leave a comment on this post if you’d like to discuss the topic 😊

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Does anyone from Kosovo want to be featured in an article I am working on about judo in the country? How popular is it? Is it becoming more popular considering the country’s success in the sport at the Olympics? What are the general attitudes in the country since the last two wins by Krasniqi and Gjakova?

Please send me a message or leave a comment on this post if you’d like to discuss the topic 😊

#Kosovo #Olympics #judo #Nora Gjakova #Distria Krasniqi

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i have a picture of the tirana mausoleum pyramid you can use, there's a fence in front of it though

Someone already sent me pic but thanks so much for replying, I appreciate it!!!

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By any chance, does anyone have a picture of the pyramid building in Tirana they have taken yourself and are willing to have it featured in an article?? Message me 😇😇

#Albania #Tirana #Pyramid of Tirana #piramida

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The National Musical Theatre organised a march in the capital to demonstrate against this unfair treatment. During the event, which has been described by some as Bulgaria’s first-ever Pride parade, the men wore extravagant clothing, some dressed as women, and alongside some Sofia locals, marched from the city’s Central Mineral Baths to Gorna Banya, one of the best districts of the city, at the time largely reserved for the communist elite.

Needless to say, the Bulgarian Communist Party was not best pleased with this show of free will and accused the men of “undisguised manifestation against the people’s power”. The Minister of Interior at the time, Diko Dikov, threatened them: “We will destroy all who are like you.”

The 1963 march led to a group trial year later of 26 men for practicing homosexuality, many of whom were high profile individuals, including actor Georgi Partsalev, pop singer Emil Dimitrov and his rumoured partner, songwriter Vasil Andreev, poet and translator Borislav Georgiev, and other actors, film directors, and dancers – all of whom were in the public eye.

#Bulgaria #sofia pride #sofia bulgaria #lgbt+ #lgbt #eastern bloc #eastern europe #gay rights #gay pride #communism #communist party #българия #лгбт #прайд #БКП

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Today, 31st of May 2021, marks the 29th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity commited over Bosniak muslims and Croats in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Serbs, as an interlude to the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and all the atrocities that followed.

"Citizens of serb nationality, join your army and your police force in pursuit of extremists. All of the other citizens, of muslim and croat nationality, must hang white banners on their houses and apartments and wear white armbands. Otherwise, the consequences they suffer will be immense." - This transmission, aired on Radio Prijedor by serb forces on 31st of May 1992, was followed by a mass incarceration and concentration camp placement of thousands of Bosniak muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serb forces and their supporters.

The deaths of 3,176 innocent civillians, 102 of which were minors, and ethnic displacement of 44,000 Bosniak muslims and 3,000 (out of original 6,000) Croats from Prijedor went by with no punishment for the orchestrators of this henious crime. Many of those guilty walk free to this day, in spite of numerous calls for their trial and appropriate sentencing. The world knew, way back when it was happening, but did nothing to prevent it. Serbs still deny this genocide and their fascist acts at large, leaving fascist rhetoric largely unchecked among their population. For that attitude to be condemned by the rest of the world, is the least of what the victims of their horrendous acts are owed by the rest of us.

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