Waiting for a package to be delivered by DHL. Will they manage it today as promised? Or will I waste a complete day waiting for someone to turn up who decides not to bother?

Fortunately I have things to do, such as reading Marie-Janine Calic's "Balkan-Odyssee 1933-1941: Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa."

#life #AmReading #DHL #WW2 #Germany #Yugoslavia #Literature #History

🇪🇺💥 Battle related deaths in #Europe, estimated by #UCDP

The chart shows how many deaths related to wars have been in Europe since 1989

🇷🇺 #Russia has been the country most involved in these deaths: about 22.000 in wars internal to russia (mainly in #Chechnya), and 385.000 in external wars (🇺🇦 #Ukraine, 🇬🇪 #Georgia, 🇲🇩 #Moldova)

Then the wars in 🇧🇦 🇷🇸 🇭🇷 🇽🇰 former #Yugoslavia with 57.000 deaths, and in 🇦🇿 🇦🇲 #NagornoKarabakh with 14.000

source: https://ucdp.uu.se/

#EU #UkraineRussiaWar

Croatia Eyes ‘Secret’ Yugoslav Airbase as New Node in EU Asylum Architecture

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/06/16/croatia-eyes-secret-yugoslav-airbase-as-new-node-in-eu-asylum-architecture/bi/

today i came across original painting that was used as a cover to 1980's Den Za Den S/T infuential/representative yugoslav jazz rock scene

we had this album at home. i don't know how much i listened to it as very young but as i'm listening now it feels like it is quite familiar -- actually just spoted a part that i'm 100% myself and Miklavž Pirnat aka Trypno Nu Psylocybe sampled circa 97'

the album is pretty amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07PSHe3V1U

it was a weird dejavu/image-spotting. of course also because the painting is futuro/sci-fi/gothic in content,... it is called CRUCIFIXION XX and is by Slobodan Zhivkovski and is dated 1976. digging around about Zhivkovski gets his behance and instagram as best sources, albeit poor and not resembling that painting much. he must have been very young when paiting it.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/23245149/Drawings
https://www.instagram.com/techno_neolith/

oh, and if you want to locate the paiting, it is in Restaurant Pelister right in the center of Skopje, on top of stairs otherwise leading to toilets, but well visible from the terace too.

#JazzRock #JazzFusion #yugoslavia #ExYu #macedonia #music #jazz #skopje @altbot

Gamechanger? Bosnia’s World Cup Participation Could Create Moment of Collective Pride

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/06/10/gamechanger-bosnias-world-cup-participation-could-create-moment-of-collective-pride/bi/

"Comrade Tito, we swear to you that we will never stray from your path."

~ The people of Yugoslavia

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tito #josipbroztito #marshalltito #maršaltito #yugoslavia #jugoslavija #jугославија #yugoslavian #yugoslavians #jugoslavenski #jugoslaveni #jугословенски #jугословени #socialism #communism #socijalizam #komunizam #социјализам #kомунизам #brotherhoodandunity #bratstvoijedinstvo #братствоијединство

Tito’s Admirers Pay Their Annual Tribute to Yugoslavia’s Strongman

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/05/25/titos-admirers-pay-their-annual-tribute-to-yugoslavias-strongman/btj/

Обвинувачення Слободану Мілошевичу
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/lunitupoxu

#СлободанМілошевич #Югославія #Гаага #Балкани #Історія
#SlobodanMilosevic #Yugoslavia #ICTY #Balkans #History

Heroes or Collaborators? How WWII Continues to Divide North Macedonia

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/05/21/heroes-or-collaborators-how-wwii-continues-to-divide-north-macedonia/btj/