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grujicdyesterday at 10:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Core of Yugoslavia, still lives on in cultural space, where music, movies, and literature are consumed in all ex republics. Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space. But even in Slovenia and Macedonia there's a significant part of population which at least understands common language. And it's not only about language, there's lot of shared mentality and history from Yugoslav period.


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foobarianyesterday at 8:20 PM

Kusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend

1-moreyesterday at 8:28 PM

> Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space.

The Albanian speaking countries really punch above their weight for English language pop stars with global presence. ~7.5 Million Albanian speakers globally gave us Bebe Rexha, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, and Rita Ora. 22 Million Romanian speakers for a comparable post-Communist community and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

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