Versailles #10: OTD 1 Dec 1918 - Birth of Yugoslavia
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 1st December 1918 - The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is proclaimed by Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia
This kingdom, known to history as Yugoslavia, was to have a tumultuous birth, life cycle and death, but even its very name was contentious! Serbs wanted the state to indicate the greater Serb role in its administration and creation; non Serbs wanted to maintain the facade that all were equal under the new kingdom, and that it was more a union or federation than a unitary state. The facade was not maintained for long.
This fragile kingdom, which drew together so many Balkan states and tidied up the region a great deal, was not built to last, but in this episode we examine the circumstances surrounding its proclamation, in the context of a world which was struggling to get to grips with everything that had come pouring out of Pandora's Box...
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| 0:00.0 | Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you. |
| 0:19.0 | To the end, it's the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth. |
| 0:30.5 | I earnestly intrigued my countrymen to pause before they rush Hitler into this revolutionary change, which may well be irretrievable. |
| 0:51.0 | I know that it is hard for Americans to realize the magnitude of the war in which we are involved. |
| 0:59.6 | France and Italy, between them have made waste people in the treaty of their side and the whole |
| 1:05.3 | scheme of international relationships that is in fairness confusion affairs to the world |
| 1:10.0 | can be set straight |
| 1:11.6 | all by the permit and most determined exhibition of the world can leave and make the right to avail. |
| 1:18.6 | We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here, because the following events. |
| 2:08.8 | Hello and welcome history friends, patrons, delegates, all two. |
| 2:10.8 | Well, I was going to call this a history hit episode, but I'm sure that's probably copyrighted. |
| 2:15.1 | It's a smaller episode than normal because, well, every single episode does not have to be half an hour long when you get three or four a week, because my sanity and also reasons. |
| 2:23.9 | Anyway, you're very welcome. |
| 2:25.5 | And, well, I was going to say we got a lot to cover here because I'm so used to saying that. |
| 2:28.8 | But what we have to cover today is a special story, something that happened exactly 100 years ago today, and |
| 2:35.2 | something which for the younger crowd listening at this very moment might seem a bit kind of |
| 2:39.8 | far removed from our daily lives, but for those of us that weren't born in the 90s, such as |
| 2:45.5 | myself, for those of us that remember what it was like to have a Yugoslavia, and for those |
| 2:49.9 | of us that may even have |
| 2:50.9 | been there, this episode may be a little bit poignant, especially if you remember the awful |
| 2:55.3 | way that Yugoslavia deteriorated and eventually collapsed in on itself. For the record, I have |
| 3:01.2 | been asked to cover that awful collapse of Yugoslavia, and I'm not saying that I'll never do |
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