mare_cccp

(2013-05-16 14:46:36)

If the story is true, it would be a really good documentary - but, it isn't

I watched the film after I read that it "... takes a critical look atthe role that the US, NATO and the EU played in ... Yugoslavia." Thedocumentary failed at doing so. On the technical side, it is a finedocumentary, the wicked, dark sense of humor makes it watchable, and ifyou're looking for a superficial, anti-western story about Yugoslavia,I guess you can enjoy watching it. The film is probably doing great inRussia. The authors anti-western, and "pro-Serb" (more like pro-tycoon)view has, as a result, some serious flaws in the story... He usedinterviews with people not known to the wide audience, presenting themas "former adviser of the president", without saying the name of thepresident - Slobodan Milosevic, which makes all the difference. Howrelevant this "adviser" guy is, shows his criticism on the Westallowing low-rate credits for Serbia, as an evil scheme to increaseSerbian debt(?). When the privatization was mentioned, the authorfailed to stress the role Milosevic's era tycoons had, letting theaudience think it were western companies who bought and destroyed allthe factories in Serbia. The film looks like a bad compromise betweenproducers, director(s), author... at the same time, the author isanti-war, anti-nationalist, yet he has a soft view on Serbian warcrimes - barely mentions Srebrenica Massacre, says nothing about warcrimes on Kosovo, and Chetnics are presented as pro-Yugoslav freedomfighters. Slobodan Milosevic is portrayed as almost an averagepolitician. The film makes a dark spotlight on the pro-EU parties inSerbia, making it easy for an average viewer to come up with a beliefthat anti-EU parties are the solution, when in fact the other side iseven worse than current parties in power, hence the majority of thepeople voted them. If the author could have made that step back, andseparate himself from the Serbian daily politic, it would be animportant documentary on former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and US/EUinvolvement... but as I said before, it totally failed. Too bad, cos USand EU politics on former Yugoslavia was completely wrong from thestart, still is, and someone should definitely publish a good, andimportant story about that.

Pithyoneliner

(2013-05-16 00:50:43)

Possibly the best bit of Serbian whinging?

Pretty special, whether you are looking for hopelessly paranoidramblings or wildly inaccurate facts (population of the EU is 1Billion, and the Slovenes are hopelessly unhappy with their currentprosperity) - you are well served by this title.The film makers, as commented on by other reviewers, display a worryingSerbian tendency to rationalise the war without accepting even partialreponsibility. Of course it wasn't all the Serbs, or the Croats or theBosniaks, all shared in the blame, just as the West could rightly becriticised for it's own mismanagement of the crisis. But deny even aportion of the blame to Serbia is just ridiculous.I can understand an anti-Nato bias, a Serbian friend of mine lived twohundred yards from a Nato precision bomb on a TV station that killedhis neighbour. That isn't going to endear Nato to anyone. But withdelusional propaganda like this... reconciliation isn't going to bemade any easier.

Ana Radic

(2013-05-15 13:50:56)

Propaganda, but good insight into the mindset of Serb nationalists

This documentary is rather familiar Serb propaganda, and is essentiallyuseless for anyone who actually wants to find out about the wars duringthe 1990s. However, for those of us who actually know about the wars,this film has its uses; it shows us how Serbian propaganda has evolvedover the years. Rather than the outright denial of Serb atrocities inearlier Serb propaganda films, Malagurski realises that the evidencefor them is too strong, so instead he resorts to obfuscation andrelativization to spread blame around to take as much guilt off Serbiaas possible. The way in which Malagurski portrays the rise of nationalism is highlydisingenuous. He portrays it as though all three nationalisms arose atthe same time, and were all equally guilty for the breakup. Thus, hetalks about Izetbegovic (claiming he was a Nazi collaborator, a seriouscharge for which he neglects to provide any evidence), beforeMilosevic. Watching this, you would not know that before Tudjman andIzetbegovic were elected, Milosevic had already illegally andunconstitutionally ended the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina, crushedthe Kosovo Albanians, held a series of nationalist rallies to coercethe other Yugoslavs and the Federal authorities, toppled the governmentof Montenegro, attempted forcibly to recentralise the Federation,imposed an embargo on Slovenia and driven the Slovene and CroatianCommunists out of the 14th Congress of the League of YugoslavCommunists.Malagurski repeatedly takes facts and events out of context to suit hisagenda. He asserts that Croatia armed itself illegally under Tudjman,yet neglects to mention that this was because the JNA, illegally andwithout Federal authority disarmed the Croatian TOs in April 1990,before Tudjman even took office, sponsored a Serb rebellion in August1990 and prevented the democratically elected government fromresponding. Malagurski also presents Operation Storm in a vacuum.Falsely claiming that it was 'the largest single act of ethniccleansing' during the wars (the Serb assault of East Bosnia was anethnic cleansing operation far larger in scale), he would like us tobelieve that it was simply waged against an innocent body of Serbcivilians. He would like us to forget that it was waged against Serbrebel military forces who had ethnically cleansed the territory of allnon-Serbs, and who were using that territory to shell Croatian citiesand attack the Bihac enclave in Bosnia, threatening the inhabitantswith a second Srebrenica. He also attempts to minimize Srebrenica bypointing to the long disproved claims of atrocities committed by NaserOric involving attacks out of the Srebrenica enclave; yet whollyneglects to mention the incomparably larger scale Serbian offensivesand atrocities which preceded his actions, and which led to Srebrenicabecoming an enclave in the first place. Oric's attacks only took placeanyway due to Serbian bad faith by blocking humanitarian convoys andshelling the enclave with artillery.It distorts the rebellion of the Krajina Serbs, saying that they merelywanted control of the lands they populated. Malagurski does the samefor Bosnia, but anyone who has looked at the ethnic maps of these twocountries and the areas which the Serbs attacked, will know that thisis a falsehood. If they merely wanted to control lands they populated,why did the JNA and the Serb militias spend so much time attacking andethnically cleansing Slavonia and Eastern Bosnia, where they formed asmall minority? Why did they besiege and destroy Vukovar and Sarajevo(which Malagurski wholly neglects to mention), when they did not formanywhere near a majority in either of these cities? Malagurksi presents the Serb nationalist sound-byte 'If the Croats canseparate from Yugoslavia, why can't the Serbs separate from Croatia?'This is an easy argument to refute; 'the Croats' were not given theright to secede from Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was recognized as being 'inthe process of dissolution', and the six constituent republics wererecognized as the entities that inherited its sovereignty. Thus, it wasthe six republics – including Serbia – not 'the Croats', whose right toindependence was recognized. Serbia was not treated differently fromSlovenia, Croatia or Bosnia in this respect, and was entirely free toseek and receive international recognition of its independence, just asthey did. In fact, the only group on the territory of the formerYugoslavia whose carving out of a wholly new entity has ever beenrecognized by the international community is the Bosnian Serbs.Malagurski tries to present the war in Bosnia as a 'civil war' in whichBelgrade had little if any direct involvement. He does not mention thefact that the Uzice Corps, a JNA corps based in Serbia, was centrallyinvolved in the Serb conquest of East Bosnia in 1992. Or the fact thatall regular Serb forces in Bosnia were under the exclusive and formalcontrol of Serbia and Montenegro until 19 May 1992; or the fact thatSerbia's former representative on the Yugoslav Presidency, BorisavJovic, admits in his own published diary that the VRS was organized bythe leaderships of Serbia and the JNA; or the fact that Bosnian Serbcommander Ratko Mladic was handpicked for the role by the leadershipsof Serbia and the Yugoslav army; or the fact that Vojislav Seseljadmitted that his paramilitary forces were under JNA command duringtheir early operations in East Bosnia in 1992 and that their ethniccleansing operations were directed from Belgrade, or that the JNAillegally and unconstitutionally confiscated the arms of the BosnianTOs in April 1990 (months before any nationalist party was elected) andredistributed their arms to Serb paramilitaries; or the fact that anofficer from Serbia, Momcilo Perisic, directed the JNA's bombardment ofMostar in April 1992, or the fact that the JNA attacked Tuzla andSarajevo in May 1992. Unfortunately, space prevents me from addressing any more of thedistortions in this documentary, but this should give a good picture ofwhat the documentary is like.

feri-naf

(2013-05-15 01:38:07)

Some interesting views but more or less one-sided and quite manipulative

If you judge this film as a rhetorical piece it's a 10 but if you judgeit as a documentary it's a complete failure. It deliberately leaves outsome facts and after i spotted a few of those i couldn't bring myselfto watch the movie with any kind of trust left. As most conspiracytheories the "documentary" oversimplifies the events. For example ...When "explaining" the disintegration of Yugoslavia it fails to mentionthe power struggle in country's executive council with the Serbs tryingto takeover with the help from Kosovo and Vojvodina votes. It nevermentions people's wish for democracy after it became evident that theeastern bloc (and its one party rule) is falling apart. It doesn'tstate how the army (mainly controlled by Serbs) started to violatecivil rights. And above all it doesn't take into account people's wishfor independence after being governed by a corrupt central government.All of those factors had a significant influence in the whole process.It also fails at geography miserably when it states that the US wantedto "colonize" Serbia to get right on the Russia's border. Well howabout Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland etc. that are all closer toRussia. Another piece of manipulation were the interviews from theSlovenian capital Ljubljana where people in the streets were asked ifthey feel they are better off being a part of the European Union. Allof the locals shown say that it's worse now. In reality there are pollsthat show that at least half of the people in Slovenia still want to bea part of EU even as the crisis started to deepen in the last fewyears. And i could go on and on ... Indeed i'm focusing more on thefailures of the film here but still i'm not saying don't watch it. Justif you do watch it, don't base your image of the events only on thismovie. Take it as another point of view and judge for yourself. ThisBBC documentary series http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283181/ i canrecommend as a much more balanced attempt.

marinko-przolica-747-604430

(2013-05-14 12:59:44)

Worst propaganda bullshit I ever saw

This so called "documentary" is the worst propaganda bullshit I eversaw.There are several so stupid sentences like: "Serbs dint won't tomassacre 7000 Muslim civilians in Srebrenica: Muslims civilians trickedthem to do so...."It is supported from Serb national television (I believe that "support"means "paid"). So you have to look at some of their materials fromMilosevic regime era you will have sense not to look any of theirmaterial. If you have any sense at all you will never watch this.Marinko

rodiena

(2013-05-13 19:02:54)

Disgusting Propaganda

This 'documentary' is simply a rehash of long debunked and discreditedSerbian nationalist myths.Even anyone unfamiliar with the background of the majority of thefilm's interviewees - well-known/notorious Serb apologists like SrdjaTrifkovic (which is equivalent to interviewing Joseph Goebbels in adocumentary about Nazi Germany and taking his opinion seriously),Canadian supporters of the Belgrade interpretation of recent historylike James Bissett, Michel Chossudovsky, and a collection of Americanfellow travellers like Lituchy, Parenti, etc. - would get a fairlyclear indication of where the film was coming from if you looked at thelist of its backers and read the media coverage quoted at the film'swebsite. There are also pictures of the film's director standing infront of the Clinton statue in Prishtina giving the Serb nationalistthree finger salute, which makes one slightly suspicious of hisintentions and ability to be impartial.The 'documentry's' nature is clearly signalled by the treatment ofSrebrenica. There is a brief acknowledgement that thousands of Bosniakswere killed and ethnically cleansed (the exact number is notspecified), but it then goes on to practice the old denialist trick inrelation to the Srebrenica massacre, of describing (and exaggerating)the military actions of the Bosnian military commander in theSrebrenica region, Naser Oric – involving attacks on Serb villagesaround Srebrenica and atrocities against Serb civilians – whileneglecting to mention the incomparably larger-scale Serbian offensivesthat preceded Oric's actions, and to which the latter were a response.It also emphasises the disproven claims of James Corwin that the numberof the prisoners executed in the week following the fall of Srebrenicawas no more than the number of Serbs killed in the villages surroundingSrebrenica during the entire course of the siege. Corwin's former UNcredentials are highlighted without any mention of the content of thefindings contained in the report of the UN's own official inquiry intothe fall of Srebrenica and its rebuttal of claims concerning Serbdeaths, eg at Kravica. Srdja Trifkovic, who was the spokesperson forthe Bosnian Serb Presidency,is allowed to make highly contentiousassertions unchallenged.The author, the narrator in the film, does not forget to include a fewsentences about the supposed 'anti-fascist' struggle of the Chetniksand, describes them as "the first guerrillas" of Europe (he hasobviously never heard of the IRB). He also doesn't mention the factthat many Chetniks collaborated with the Nazis. The number of peoplekilled at Jasenovac is also exaggerated, and there is no mention of thefact that many Croats were killed there.Also very telling is what is not mentioned in this 'documentry'. In thefilm, the rebellion of Serbs in Croatia is treated as a legitimatedemand for cultural autonomy; the actual truth of the nature of thissecession is bypassed. There is no mention of the ethnic cleansing of150,000 to 200,000 Croats from Serb-controlled areas of the so calledRepublika Srpska Krajina in 1991/1992. There is only a very briefmention of the horrific destruction of Vukovar and the bombing ofDubrovnik. The film also disingenuously mentions Operation Storm beforeany mention of the war in Bosnia and the Srebrenica massacre, eventhough it occurred afterwards. The number of Serbs killed during theoperation is exaggerated (even Serb sources say the number of civilianskilled is around 1200, not 2000 as the film states) and there is nomention of the fact that many of the refugees forcibly evicted Croatsand Muslims from their homes in Bosnia and Vojvodina.The 'documentry' spends very little time on Bosnia, but again it'somissions are very telling. There is virtually no mention of any ethniccleansing of Bosnia by Serb forces. The film also neglects to mentionthe siege of Sarajevo and Tuzla, all very interesting targets if theSerbs just wanted to "control the areas which were inhabited by Serbs"as the director says, seeing as they are Muslim majority cities.The "history lesson" of Kosova is also pathetic. It goes straight fromthe annexation of Kosova from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 to thepersecution of Serbs during WW2 by Albanian fascist collaborators.There is no mention of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albananians inthe period between WW1 and WW2, which included massacre, colonisationby Serbs and even attempts to deport the Albanian population to Turkey,nor is there any mention that Albania was under fascist (and laterNazi) occupation at the time, and that many Albanians fought againstthe Nazis. No mention of the discrimination of Albanians in terms ofemployment and culture is forthcoming, in fact the Albanians aretreated in general like a bunch of ungrateful fascists who just want tokill Serbs for no reason. As for the Kosova War 1998-1999,the Serbs campaign of systematicviolence against the Kosovar Albanian population is not mentioned atall, in fact the ludicrous assertion that no Kosovars were killed inareas controlled by the Serb security forces is made. The directorasserts that the Recak massacre was "proven to be a hoax by a Finnishinvestigation", this is untrue. It is true that the Yugoslav andBelarusian (ordered by the Yugoslav government) concluded that thosekilled were not civilians, but the Finnish investigation includedevidence that the victims were unarmed civilians, not soldiers. Theteam leader, too, described the dead as unarmed civilians, includingolder men and a woman, who had all been killed at the same time. Shestated that the killings were "a crime against humanity." Nothing saidor published by any members of the team has contradicted thatstatement.These are just some of the examples of the propaganda in this so called'documentry'. If you are looking for how Serb nationalists attempt tospin the war to alleviate their guilt and portray themselves as thevictims, this film has uses, but if you are looking for a factualaccount of the war, avoid like the plague.

stakleni00

(2013-05-13 02:55:35)

I am sorry to burst your bubble...

There have been many myths created about the break-up of Yugoslavia andthe post-war state of its societies. A few myths are created throughmanipulation of historical facts, creating a myth of "our nation's"status of the victim, while at the same time denying "our nation's"crimes against other ethnic groups.This film is a bit shocking, mostly in its accuracy. Of course, the USAand the EC (today EU) have never looked at Yugoslavia as sort of afriend, because Yugoslavia was a communist/socialist (titoist) state.It was stronger than other communist states, because of its freedomfrom the restraints of the Soviet Union. However, not one ofYugoslavia's economic problems cannot be blamed upon the "West". Thesocialist/communist leaders of Yugoslavia and their corruption were thereason for the bad state of Yugoslav economy, most notably in the1980's.Whatever this "documentary" says, the fact still remains that in thelate 1980's Serbia's president Slobodan Milosevic DID use nationalistgroups to take down the governments in Kosovo, Vojvodina andMontenegro, putting his own chosen men to power, thus becoming the mostinfluential political power in Yugoslavia. He DID take control of theSerbian media, which used lies and propaganda to manipulate the peopleof Serbia.The fact remains that "Serbian White Eagles", "Scorpions", VojislavSeselj's and Arkan's paramilitaries (and other paramilitary groups)have made themselves guilty of war crimes against civilians, non-Serbsin both Croatia and Bosnia, from the start of the war in Croatia 1991and the war in Bosnia in 1992, until the end of the war in Bosnia in1995.Whatever guilt the US-government and the European states' governmentsbear, it can never be an excuse or an explanation for all the warcrimes against primarily Bosnian Muslim population.This movie is an attempt to take away the responsibility and wash awaythe shame of war crimes that were done in the name of the Serbs.Unfortunately, the myths that this movie partly repeats and partlycreates, serve only the purpose of enforcing Serbian nationalism'sdenial of all the murders and evils that it is guilty of. Serbnationalism was not the only evil in the wars in former Yugoslavia, butits crimes should speak for themselves.

Justice 4 all

(2013-05-13 00:06:51)

Another Serbian lies documentary

This is the biggest piece of crap I have seen about the conflict informer Yugoslavia!Hey, according to this Serbs did not kill hundreds of thousands ofcivilians in Bosnia and Croatia. According to this rubbish documentarySerbs are heroes, and Bosnians and Croatians are the bad guys, alongthe Americans who intervened AFTER Serbs killed and destroyed a lot ofCroatia and most of Bosnia.This documentary is PURE Serbian propaganda and lies!If you want to watch documentary that shows the truth, watch:The Death of Yugoslavia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283181/

nanajbg

(2013-05-12 10:58:08)

unbelievable!

The person that made this movie is either very evil or very uninformed.This is an insult to all the people that survived the war. And theyknow what a big lie this is! I was there, I was a child and they tookmy childhood, they took my family members, and now they want to takethe truth. I hate no one, and everyone knows in a war is nothing just black orjust white, every side had it's wrong doings, but this film isn'tsaying that. This film is trying to erase the guilt of Serbia and putit on others. For everyone who doesn't know the facts, here is a fact that will makeeverything much clearer and no one (Croate, Muslim or Serb) can sayit's not true: The Serbian army fought on Croatian and Bosnian ground.The war happened in Croatia and Bosnia. Were there Croatian and Bosniansoldiers fighting on Serbian ground? No! Was there war on Serbianground? No! Nationalism is never good, but truth isn't nationalism, and the truthshould not be forgotten. So, don't let us forget! Don't allow them totake the truth and the past from us!

herrfleischgewehr

(2013-05-11 17:51:50)

A time wasting failed amateur filming attempt...

What is the point of this documentary, viewers might ask them selves;what is the point of this misinterpretation of history? What the hell,for crying out loud? Why would somebody produce such a piece of crap?For what purpose? The answer is bluntly simple; the Serbs are trying,very poorly indeed, to wash their bloody hands. I am sorry guys butthis lame attempt just fails like every attempt that came from yourSerbo-Goebbels kitchen... You guys are guilt as it gets. Grow someballs, look yourself in the mirror and admit it. You are the soleresponsible for the blood and gore of the Balkans. You made the messand you were punished. Stop wining and deal with it. There could besome dignity in saying the truth, Germans pulled it out when theyadmitted that they were the culprits of the II WW horrors, at leastthey are honest ones.People who appreciate this collection of denials are either seriouslyuninformed or Serbian nationalists refusing to admit the obvious. Thereis no such thing as Great Serbia, there never was, there never will be.Snap out of it and start living in the 21. century. Jeeez. There is noworld wide antiserbian conspiracy, no body wants to destroy you, youwere never important. The whole Balkan area was never important, getthat in your thick heads. The only real thing about you, the thing youcannot run away from, are your bloody hands. Lying and hiding them willdo you no good.If you want some unbiased view on the fall of, once an important stateof Yugoslavia, take a look at BBC's The Death of Yugoslavia. Do notwaste time on this atrocity.

Dragana Gavrilovic Petrusic

(2013-05-07 04:30:48)

War's heroes are not the main leaders

Great documentary! Shall we no more hear "What happened to Yugoslavia"!Love it that it is done in English with a plethora of peopleknowledgeable about this issue and not just people who second guess.Facts presented in this movie are too hard to ignore considering theirsources and it is all well tied in with never-before-seen footage,chronology of the events and Boris's great sense of humor. The messagebeing "real heroes are not the top heads who started the whole war, butrather every day people who didn't want the war" it is hard not to sitdown and loose yourself in this movie and the history. May we have morecoming from Boris. :)

Lazaros Filippidis

(2013-05-06 11:54:34)

Very informative

Very informative account of the events that led up to the break up ofYugoslavia as well as the events that took place during and after thewars. The background historical information that helps put things intocontext was very useful too.The film presents very well the fact that at the time and for obviousreasons the Western and Yugoslav politicians as well as the Westernmass media played their role very well towards the break up. This isespecially true in the West were the public had to be convinced for thenecessity of the break up and intervention. I see several parallels with what is currently (Dec 2011) happening toa lot of European countries that are struck by the Capitalist crisis.

Never Mind

(2013-05-06 05:34:46)

Nonsense. Stop plagiarizing Zeitgeist, shut up and go back to school!

But how come it has such a high rating?Well the same way many silly amateurish "documentaries" have: obviouslythe people behind this piece of garbage have created a bunch ofaccounts here on IMDb to give their little project a high rating. Notthe first time this has happened.This is awful, the typical radical Serbian conspiracy theories aboutsome mystical powers creating the war, because of course it wasn't thelunatics on the streets with their fascist WWII-insignia and machineguns, shouting "We're gonna butcher these guys and then those guys andthen...". Of course not. No way, it was the west, the Jews, the EU, theAmericans..."it's not my fault I'm killing my neighbor and burning down his house,it is the FREEMASONS who are making me do it!"Basically, this is what these people are trying to say. But those of uswho've actually seen the war "live", and not from afar, in some cozylittle apartment in freaking CANADA, we know the reasons behind thiswar. Yes, the leaders misled the public, yes the media was in on it,yes there were probably foreign interests involved (why wouldn't therebe? That's why they're called "foreign interests"). But the reasonsbehind the war were simple, it was just like any other war: peoplerobbing people, people raping people, it was the triumph of thebastards on all sides, as any other war. No need to complicate thematter further. Bastards with guns.Now stop plagiarizing Zeitgeist, shut up and go back to school.

DA A

(2013-05-05 18:34:27)

Quite bad

An interesting try to show the role of the "International community" inthe breakup of ex Yugoslavia. Probably there is some truth in it(economic interest, military lobby, NATO, etc.), but the documentary isfar-stretched in explaining historic facts from within ex Yugoslavia.Causality between most of the events is misinterpreted and even thoughthe movie points out the power of propaganda in conflicts, itsintention and the way it was produced is not far from propaganda. Apoor try of the author and other individuals participating to presentthe answer to "why it happened". A simple answer such as "bad Americanswanted to colonize peaceful and once prosperous piece of heaven in theBalkans" that this documentary tries to give is simply not good enoughfor anyone who wants to understand the complexity of the events in thelate 20th century in ex Yugoslavia.

rdvicova

(2013-05-03 01:37:29)

Good stuff

A very good documentary that brings out a lot of emotion to the livesthat have been affected by the wars in Yugoslavia. It's not easy tomake a film like this so long after the wars, given that there's beenso much spin by the people who were behind the break up of the country.It's even harder when you take into account that the information thatneeded to be gathered is spread so far and wide in several continents.I'm looking forward to the film being shown in the countries of theformer Yugoslavia so that the people can have a sober look at the pastand balance the scrutiny against what so called "experts" have producedabout the region and the history of the break up.

jasum-686-236819

(2013-05-02 23:54:48)

Serbian Michael Moore

Considering this Documentary was written by a boy they call the SerbianMichael Moore and just about everybody involved is Serbian you can besure you get a 1 sided view point. Taking into account the Serbian viewof the civil war that they did nothing but defend them selves I thinkmost people can judge for them selves how accurate and honest this Docois. I believe history needs to be rewritten in some departments but Iwould not be letting Serbia rewrite the history of the Balkans 1990'scivil War !! The only place this Documentary was really seen withinterest was Serbia & Russia with a token showing in England and thewriter/Directors second home Canada. Other then those few countrieswhere the makers of this Docu/Drama had influence this Documentary wasnot taken seriously. It is no surprise most of the Docu/Drama wascentered around Kosovo with Kosovo still a major sore point with theSerbs. Not a Documentary I would recommend more like Propaganda then ahonest Documentary.

hrvoje4

(2013-04-27 17:48:47)

Excellent Exposition

Though not 100% an objective documentary, it comes pretty darn close.Despite its socialist leanings (think the very informative, butleftist-socialist biased Global Research) AND the slightly heavierpro-Serb leanings, it is a very good film. This coming from a Croat.One glaring fault, for example, is the producer's astounding inaccuratestatement at around the 50 minute mark where he says the Croatian"Operation Storm" killed between 2,000 and 250,000 Serbs!!! This isinsane and completely ridiculous. I listened to it again to confirm.What had happened was the exile of between 100,000 - 250,000 Serbs,with perhaps up to 2,000 dead. Furthermore, I feel the Serb massacreswere downplayed, even though they were used by the West to paint theSerbs as the bad guys.This was just an excuse for NATO intervention and to build it into aglobal police force (to serve under the United Nations worldgovernment).A much needed documentary examining the events accurately, where what Iknew all along, that the "West" (aka New World Order) sought to breakup this union and stir up the people, paving the way for three powerhungry leaders (and so here Tudjman and Izetbegovic were singled outmore than Milosevic who was equally hungry in his drive for a GreaterSerbia).Overall, an excellent expose of what happened, if not the best! Whowere the greatest culprits with the most blood on their hands?Washington and beyond that, the globalists. Now we all need to uniteand fight these evil bastards!

Mario Martinec

(2013-04-27 07:15:12)

Conspiracy theory meets propaganda

I truly enjoy a good documentary that is based on objective fact. Ieven like a mockumentary type films that use irony and satire toexpress a view. This movie is none of those things.The only thing I liked about this film is that it was made in a styleof a modern documentary film that I sometimes like(like Super size mefor example). Also it does raise some good questions about EU, monetarypolicies and the future of countries of ex Yugoslavia in EU. That'sabout it.I don't like to talk about politics but that is what this film isabout. What I dislike most about this film is that it is a Serbianpropaganda film disguised as a documentary, based on a very narrowpoint of view that also pushes a conspiracy theory that the westernpowers are to blame for the wars in Yugoslavia and the Serbs are justvictims, sometimes even heroes for standing up to tyranny in historyand now.The director of this movie is a Serbian and he wishes to make hisfellow countrymen look better in the eyes of the world by washing awaythe guilt of crimes and transferring it to another party. Falsifyinghistory, using false facts, diminishing the victims while equating themwith their victimizers and shifting blame away from a country(Serbia)whose politics for 2 decades involved oppressing, waging wars, ethniccleansing and supporting war criminals is wrong and offensive. The partof the film that is closest to the actual truth is the narrative wherefacts(often inflated) are used but then distorted by putting them intoa different context.Imagine a documentary saying that the holocausthappened but it was not the Germans' fault, the Jews share the blame,it was not that bad, the Germans are just as much as victim and it wasall thought of, made possible, decided and done by the Americans? Thisfilm is similar in that way. Very poor and one sided research was donefor this film. The screenwriter should have started with wikipedia andbrowsing thru old unbiased media.

zmarko47

(2013-04-22 13:01:28)

Not expected to be that good.

I have just watched this, and i have to say that it is very gooddocumentary.From my point of view as a Serb, when i hear all of these lies,delusions, that lead to massive wars, i feel such an anger, and i'masking myself, how can someone betray everything that we are, becauseof the money, and personal good, what happened to moral, what is goingon with f....ng world!? Yes i know, this is happening from thebeginning of the world, but still.. overall everyone who is interestedwhy and how it really happened, just watch this, maybe not 100%objective as i read in some comments from other people view, but nonethe less, very informative.I hope one day we all realize what is really going on, and turn to theright direction.

EddieGunner

(2013-04-22 05:12:55)

half true

Where to start with this movie, maybe in those part that i totallydidn't liked, or should say part of movie where maker forget to mentioncouple of very important things. just to say thing that movie showed USrole in whole Yugoslav conflict also showed me some things i didn'tknew or i just wasn't sure how they did, like thing with G17 , maybe itwould be too harsh to say but this movie as i see it is totally proSerbian, it's very obvious they blame US for everything thathappened,.... like i said at start of this comment, i won't call it a review, themovie maker forget to say that Serbian forces kept Sarajevo a Bosniancapitol under siege from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 and that waslongest siege in modern warfare .... this is that big thing that BorisMalagurski forget to say in hes movie, Serbian forces kept in Sarajevonot just Muslim Bosnians, there were Serbs, roman chatolics, andothers,,,, and thats the truth u can check it anywhere, he wanted to show Serbia here as victim, but hes wrong, i agree 100% with some parts of movie, how American imperialismdestroyed our beloved Yugoslavia, and how they financed right partiesin elections back early 90s .... but cause big mistake and lie thismovie will be low rated by me .....