O Peso das Correntes

I watched the first phase of the Balkans 90s conflict play out whilst studying for a degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at a UK college... it was made immediately part of the course. Since then I've made a constant effort to keep an eye of how things have progressed - right up to the recent duping of the people in Kosovo - who seem to welcome being made one big US/NATO base.

Anyway - apart from a 5 part BBC series - nothing has tackled this issue in the depth it demands till now apart from this Documentary. Ignore the handful of reviewers who claim it's "Serb propaganda" - that's just idiotic - in fact this is one of the best produced and written documentaries I've seen on contemporary geopolitical monkey-business to date! The interview snatches are all from erudite commentators, the chronology is unravelled in a comprehensive manner and footage they've amassed really adds a human quality to things. The footage of elderly Serb and Croat neighbours being forced to pack-up and leave after living together without and issue is heart-wrenching (and definitely not staged before someone suggests this).

Also - by peeling away the propaganda the Serbs have been framed with for so long - we finally begin to hear the real ramifications of the war... which was partially a CORPORATE war. Bosnitch adds some amazing facts - such as the Yugo car industry being terminated by clever bombing - and the take-over by US firm Philip Morris by Clinton agreeing to bomb three times a very successful Serb cigarette factory - so much for military targets??! Recommended. A total and much needed breath of air.

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

This is a Serbian documentary but anybody who watches it from the area of former Yugoslavia will learn that everything is not black and white and it never is.

Not many Croats will have the willpower to watch the whole documentary but they should not because of the part about politics before the war and war itself but for the second part that talks about economy and what has happened to us all after the wars.

Pay attention to the graph of the Yugoslavia and the debt that each country accumulated.

Shame that the author was not more neutral because many people will not see it because of it.

At the end its better to be a colony then to kill each other.

Well documented story! The author was very young during the war, so rather the being emotional for the sake of his Serbian "fraternity", he chose obvious facts, lots of audio and video recordings that cannot be propaganda. Propanada is not what this documentary is about, because it would be useless when too much damage has already been done, and propaganda can fix a zero thing right now. This not being just a lament over the sad old times is also an attempt to reconcile the people who certainly all have been victims, regardless of their ethnicity. The author tried to show the position of the people of the Balkans in general, taking about the geopolitical position, which is something other authors before him missed to do.

This documentary purports to describe why Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990's. Surprise, surprise, it was all a US Imperialist plot! Who knew?!

Actually, this documentary is not quite as simplistic as that. It turns out that the EU is also evil, as is the IMF, NATO, and anyone who can't see that a country dominated by a communist elite is so much better than a country dominated by a capitalist elite.

This documentary does provide a different point of view though and is a thought-provoking if you can stomach the absolute banality of it's completely biased pro-Serb viewpoint and the sing-song style of it's insufferably-I'm-smarter-than-you narrator