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14 days ago

Last surviving member of elite WWII regiment, 103, reveals incredible exploits battling the Nazis in Yugoslavia alongside 'beautiful' partisan girls - before he was captured and had to use ingeniously hidden pistol to escape

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

John Gomer Morris, who is now a Chelsea Pensioner, spoke to historian DAMIEN LEWIS about his incredible wartime experiences serving in the little-known Raiding Support Regiment.

19 days ago

Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city

This intriguing documentary from Croa…

23 days ago

‘Football still owes Serbia’: Veljko Paunovic on the Balkan war, his career and facing England

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The head coach faces England with a tough battle to qualify for the World Cup on his hands as he recalls his career path

Veljko Paunovic’s right hand moves in a wide, smooth arc: up, around and down. …

25 days ago

Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war ⊖⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Groups of Italians alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian…

3 months ago

‘We would love to enter Eurovision!’ The boy who saw some unclaimed land – and founded his own country

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Daniel Jackson was just 14 when he and his friends saw a strip of forest between Serbia and Croatia, and decided to claim it. Now 20, he is the president of Verdis, but has been forced to live in exi…

4 months ago

The sexy European blueblood so magnetic that a classic British actor begged her to marry him - and why the Princess turned down King Charles' attempts to court her

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In his courting days, King Charles was more than happy to be seen with her on his arm. Sexy Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia was the most alluring blueblood that postwar Europe had ever seen.

5 months ago

Germany urgently needs to attract migrant workers – it just doesn’t want them to feel welcome | Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Friedrich Merz is unwisely trying to revive the discredited postwar ‘guest worker’ programme

Friedrich Merz’s government has sent a clear message to anyone thinking about coming to live in Germany: do…

6 months ago

‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia – podcast

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in th…

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