• PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      10 months ago

      They probably meant North Macedonia. Macedonia changed it’s name since there is also Macedonia in Greece which is presumably the southern part of Macedonia. There’s a lot of places like that in Europe. Usually remnants of old kingdoms. Tyrol is a region encompassing part of Northern Italy and Western Austria for example. Bohemia is another example which historically was a lot bigger than the region of Czech nowadays.

    • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      10·
      10 months ago

      - OK, let’s see today’s mail… oh, this guy says he’s not a crackpot, huh… OK, maybe I should do what he says.

      - Mr. President, you do remember what happened last time you listened to someone who sais he was not a crackpot 😒.

    • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      26·
      10 months ago

      To be honest, things went wrong because the person who knew how to keep the piece died, so… nationalists rose to power (they didn’t rebrand communism though, so most got onboard the loony train thinking this is about communism and who is against it), and that was about all that was needed in a powder keg like the Balkans… a lot of war time profiteering as well, some people got very rich during those days… blood money, sure, but it didn’t seem to bother them. Some of them are still in power, or their children.

      Bottom line, none of them are communists, period. They’re thieves and killers.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        121·
        10 months ago

        Why is it, every time some regime claims to be communist, they are never really communist?

        • Azzu@lemm.ee
          10·
          10 months ago

          Because it sounds conceptually nice to good people, but selfish people know that without proper transparency and checks, it’s very easy to consolidate power with it.

          So the bad people get the support of good people and then exploit that flaw to do what they want instead of what is good.

          • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
            2·
            10 months ago

            The reason why it worked perfectly here, in the Balkans, was that Tito never actually lied to the people (OK, that’s an understatement, lol 😂, but in general, he did have the people’s best interests in mind)… so, everyone just thought that their leaders are actually being honest with them and that the other guy is at fault 🤷… it was easy to be honest… it was only after they were tried it became apparent that the only thing their leaders had in mind was money and power, nothing more… but, by then, it was too late… lives were lost, people’s lives were shattered… it was really sad to be honest… when everyone realized that they fought a war for nothing…

        • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          81·
          10 months ago

          It WAS as close to communism (actually socialism… though yes, the party was called a communist party and all that, but in reality, the name didn’t really reflect the ideals of the party at the time, the name stuck for the sake of the Stallinists that were in quite large numbers and Tito and others were just trying to balance things out, since they needed some of those people to run the country and not turn their backs on them… some people were very cross with Tito when he turned his back on Stalin in the 50s, he didn’t need to iritate them further by changing the name of the party) as you can possibly get at the time. No textbook representation of a social or economical system is 100% accurate to what the books say… just like democracy (which is basically anything but democracy at this point) is flawed everywhere.

          The perfect system doesn’t exist, but you can strive to make it better and serve the people, which is exactly what we DON’T have nowadays. Back then… to be honest, yes, it mostly served the people.

  • Gabu@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    They’re not entirely wrong… Quite a bit of the division comes from pre-modern events and decisions.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    553·
    10 months ago

    Meanwhile I’m here thinking it would be nice if the whole world was made up of countries of that size with a global alliance that will fuck up any country that starts getting all imperialistic.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          To improve the geopolitical situation or to brag about Kazakhstan being the largest country in the region? You could change your name to BigBorat1!

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
          9·
          10 months ago

          We’re the second largest country
          On this planet Earth
          And if Russia keeps on shrinking
          Then soon we’ll be first
          (As long as we keep Quebec)

          • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
            6·
            10 months ago

            We barely have an army
            The economy is lousy
            But all that doesn’t matter 'cause
            Canada’s really big!

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      71·
      10 months ago

      Pretty sure Americans are gonna do that soon. Then we can convince MAGAland to pay to build a wall around itself

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      Seems like that would be hard to regulate things like pollution, since there isn’t really effective treaty enforcement. Unless we give someone like the UN binding authority on global things like that and enforcement ability.