PASHA AND GRANNY - ꒌ⚜️ Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 009


This series of Serb folk tales focuses on the Serb cultural heritage, primarily on regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️ and is meant to depict a long lasting presence Serbs have had in this region, the way they lived, their relations, their behavior, their language, customs, traditions, historical events etc.

The time of origin is unknown, but it is estimated that it originated between 17th and 19th century.

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🇭🇷🇧🇦 HOWL OF JASENOVAC: creation of the song DJURDJEVDAN - Cry of Krajine and Howl of Bosnia (series about Jasenovac and Nazi Croatia)


The making of the song “DJURDJEVDAN” took place on the “Djurdjevdan” (Orthodox Christian St. George day) holiday in 1942 on a train that was going from Sarajevo to Jasenovac death camp carrying wagons full of Serbs "on the road of no return", to the slaughterhouse. The creator of the song remains unknown, but the text this unknown husband had been singing started to spread among the camp inmates and the survivors took it with them after the camps were liberated at the end of the World War 2.

That day (6th of May 1942) remains remembered as a "Bloody St. George's Day", and this morning of St. George's Day in 1942 became the last one spent in freedom for many of Serbs from Sarajevo who were imprisoned in Nazi Croatian Ustasha camps and prisons not just in Sarajevo, but the entire Nazi “Independent state of Croatia”.

The true story about the creation of the song goes like this:

"On May 6, on St. George's Day, the door of the cell in Beledija prison opens and the Ustasha says from the door: "Come on, Serbs, it’s St. George's Day morning-getup time" – stated professor Dr. Žarko Vidović , still vividly remembering that morning, , a surviving witness who, along with 3,000 other Serbs of Orthodox Christian and Islamic faith who supported those Serbs who were imprisoned in Sarajevo concentration camps.

These Serbs were picked up from the prison and brought to Vijećnica, the town hall in Sarajevo, where the trains that would take them to the Jasenovac death camp were waiting for them.
"On the wagons it was inscribed: made for 7 horses or 40 soldiers, but they kept putting over 200 people in each wagon, so there wasn’t even enough place to stand, let alone sit. There wasn't even enough air, and there was no water. Not to mention food." - testifies professor Žarko Vidović who was a child at the time.

On that road, apart from fear and uncertainty, the Serbs were also accompanied by questions: Where are they taking us and where will we end up?

In those death trains, going to Jasenovac, at one moment the song "Đurđevdan" was born, which first came from the throat of a young man, a member of the Cultural and Artistic Society "Sloga" from Sarajevo, and then that song began to quickly spread from one person to another. And so on, from one wagon to another.

The Nazi Croatian Ustasha response to that song came very quickly. All the windows on the wagons were ordered to be closed, leaving almost no breathable air in them, and many Serbs died of lack of oxygen, before even reaching Slavonski Brod, where they were transferred to different wagons and train that continued the journey to Jasenovac along the broad-gauge railway.

The song "Djurdjevdan", which was covered by Goran Bregović more than three decades ago, is a song of sadness and pain, created in human weakness and despair, but also the pride and defiance of the Serbs from Sarajevo who were transported to Jasenovac by the death trains on Djurdjevdan in 1942, a horrific trip from which only one tenth survived. Of over 3,000 Serbs taken from Sarajevo on St. George day, 6th of May 1942 to Jasenovac (just this one day) only one out of ten ever returned.


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ꒌ🏆 Today we celebrate 8th of May. the day of victory against the Nazism!


On this day, May 9th (or May 8th in US and West Europe), 1945, 79 years ago, the official victory of the Allies over Hitler's Nazi Germany was declared. This event, despite everything that happened after it, still marked the end of the genocide against the Serbs in "Independent state of Croatia" (aka Nazi Croatia 🇭🇷), and that is why it is equally important to celebrate it, as it is to mark the anniversaries of the suffering.

Celebrating May 9, we remind ourselves that Serbs have always fought for their freedom and never put up with oppressors and, nor did they wait for someone else to free them!


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ꒌ🇷🇺 SERBS TO RUSSIANS: Support for persecuted Russian people throughout the world: Serbian Song "Russia"


As witnesses to the mass persecution of Russians around the world, similar to the inquisition's and Nazi persecutions of Jews in Hitler's Germany before World War II, we, righteous Serbs, we could not stand by current events in Western countries silently. Massive firing of people from work, just because they are Russians, expulsion of Russian students with state scholarships and honors just because they are Russians, as well as numerous "bans for Russians" across Western countries, for no other reason than being born as Russians or in Russia, such events are horrific, terrifying and UTTER INSANITY!

In this regard, we video made this video, as a desire to express our love and support, to all the persecuted people men, women, students and children, so they would know that they are not alone and that no injustice, crime and torture like this will last forever. We pray to our same (Serbian and Russian) God for all our Russian brothers and sisters around the world, as well as those in Ukraine and Russia to endure, survive and not to give in nor bow down to this persecution, but to proudly stand up against it, to show and prove to the world once again that they are stronger than globalist (neo) Nazism and bring us again the salvation from neo-Nazism.

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NOW HE WAS TAKEN CARE OF - ꒌ⚜️ Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 010

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NOW HE WAS TAKEN CARE OF

There were 2 brothers who lived in poverty; one was flaying the lamb wool, and the other one was constantly robbing people. Wool-peeler's wife constantly scolded her husband, why can't he also bring animals to eat, saying:
- Look, your brother brought a sheep!
- They haven't taken care of him - the wool-peeler would answer.
The next morning, she saw that her brother-in-law had brought an ox, so she said to her husband:
- Your brother brought home a big bull!
-- They haven't taken care of him - he answered again.
On the third morning after that, a woman came running to the
wool-peeler and said:
- Your brother is being carried dead on a horse!
- Well, now they've taken care of him - replied the wool-peeler.

This series of Serb folk tales focuses on the Serb cultural heritage, primarily on regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️ and is meant to present and familiarize everyone with culture of Serbs from this region, depicting a long-lasting presence Serbs have had in this region, the way they lived, their relations, their behavior, their language, customs, traditions, historical events etc.

The time of origin is unknown, but it is estimated that it originated between 17th and 19th century.


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LIE AND PARALIE - ꒌ⚜️ Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 011


What's a Lie and what's a ParaLie, what's the truth and what's the reality? You can find out here: https://youtu.be/sUqc4WWBOqU


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ZAGORAC AND PRIMORAC - ꒌ⚜️ Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 012


Two men from vastly different regions decide to go on an interesting trip together, what adventures may befall them, find out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma9ugQgOFVQ

This is the first folk tale from Dalmatia, Slavonia and Lika (modern day Croatia)!

Lesser known terms:
Zagorac - a man from Zagorje region (near Zagreb)
Primorac - a man from Primorje region (Eastern Adriatic coast)
Kraljević Marko - the most famous hero of Serb medieval epic poetry


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I WOULD LET HIM GO BUT HE WON'T LET ME GO - ꒌ⚜️ Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 013


Strange things and many adventures await you in the forest, find out what happened to a Turk who steered off a road to drink some water in the forest stream: https://youtu.be/U5sBSP8K8OY

Lesser known terms:
hajduk - Ottoman name for Serb guerrilla fighters against Ottoman occupation

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BRIGHT BROTHERS - ꒌ⚜️ Comedic Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 014


Be careful whenever you go to a big, its shiny lights can easily overwhelm you and distract you from its many dangers! To find out about a silly situation two brothers found themselves in while in Karlobag*, check out: https://youtu.be/uKi3aGjot5Q

Lesser known terms:
scissors - scissors (Turkish scissors)
roam the white world - travel around the world aimlessly as if you're homeless
Karlobag - coastal city in (North) Adriatic, Lika region, today in Croatia
Pazarište - a small village near Karlobag


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I WOULD KNOW IF I WAS ALLOWED TO SAY - ꒌ⚜️ Comedic Serb folk tales ⚜️ꒌ episode 015


If you do not know why nor how something happened, you can always ask the guilty one! But knowing what happened and daring to say it are not the same thing!Find out more in the following story: https://youtu.be/4q3XpT6onhs



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ꒌ🔆 28th of June - Anniversary of Battle of Kosovo 1389 ꒌ🔆


This song was dedicated to and thought of as a song of the heroes of The Battle of Kosovo from June 28th, 1389. It was dedicated to those who, although greatly outnumbered (460.000 Ottoman troops to around 125.000 Serb troops according to historian Milojevich) bravely and fearlessly marched onward and fought the Ottoman Sultan's armies emerging victorious, killing sultan Murat and his younger son Yakub in the process, but not without grave casualties on both sides.

The song talks about brave knights leaving their families, wives, daughters, sisters, mothers and fiancées; about every single man leaving his beloved ones to defend his homeland against the Ottoman invasion, most of whom have never returned.

Key participant of this battle was also Vlatko Vuković, the best general of Bosnia's king Tvrtko I Kotromanić, aiding prince Lazar - his distant in-law cousin, and duke Vuk Branković. Vlatko Vuković managed to smash into pieces Yakub's army and surround central army of sultan Murat thus enabling Serb knights to pierce hundreds of Ottoman troops and kill sultan himself, this was the only Ottoman sultan to ever die on the battlefield!

Although won, the battle didn't change much. Serbia's prince Lazar had also died in battle, leaving behind a 12 year old son, Stefan. Thus, the Serbian state had to become a vassal of the Ottoman empire because of massive and irrevocable losses its army had suffered since there were no more soldiers who would defend the country from the next Ottoman sultan's invasion.


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ꒌ🐺💔 "STORM" - CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT


In the all-criminal ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the Knin Krajina of unprecedented proportions called "Storm", the second largest ethnic cleansing of Serbs in the 20th century (after the one in the NDH), 726 soldiers, 2313 civilians lost their lives, over 250,000 Serbs were expelled from their centuries-old hearths, and over 20,000 Serbian houses were burned to the ground. To this day, the bloodthirsty and participants in this crime have still not been punished! We do not forget, we do not forgive! Song in memory of the Knin Krajina ꒌ🐺 "Wolfland - Cry of the Krajina" https://youtu.be/6dunrTdy6uk?feature=shared

#Storm #FatherlabdDefenceWar

Burial of bones of #Serbs, killed by #Ustasha in #ww2 in the village of #Prebilovci #Bosnia. The Prebilovci #massacre was an atrocity perpetrated by the #Croatian #Ustaše in the Independent State of Croatia during the World War II persecution of Serbs.

On 6 August 1941, the Croatian Ustaša killed around 600 women and children from the village of Prebilovci, Herzegovina, by throwing them alive into the Golubinka pit, near Šurmanci. During the summer of 1941, the Croatian Ustaša
continued with mass murders of Serbs - of 1,000 inhabitants of Prebilovci, 820 of them were killed, while in the neighbouring places of the lower basin of the Neretva river, including Šurmanci, around 4000 Serbs were killed. The Golubinka pit was covered with concrete in 1961.

Only 14 of the 550 known Croatian perpetrators were brought to trial after the war, and one of the judges was himself a Croatian Ustasha close to the crime. Six were sentenced to death, the remainder received prison sentences, the majority around three years.

ꒌ⚜️🕊 🇧🇦🇭🇷 DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT


29 years ago today, the essential outline and draft of the peace agreement to end the Fatherland-Defence War in Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️ were agreed upon . The agreement was signed at the Right-Paterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and was named after it, although it was actually signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris.

Despite everything, this day remains recorded in our history as a crucial day for the end of the bloodiest conflict of the 1990s, the four-year Fatherland-Defence Defense War in Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️ which (according to official data) claimed the lives of over 100,000 people, and forcibly displaced and expelled over 300,000.

While the impression of the "Dayton Agreement" signed in Paris remains quite mixed, both with joy over the end of the war and with pain over the lost territories, houses and expulsion of the Serb people, as well as the official recognition and consent to the occupation of 51% of our country's land (if we exclude the coastline that Tito gave to 🇭🇷), the importance of peace and the opportunity for our independent development, freedom and survival provided to us by this agreement, I would say, still outweighs all the bad.

We cannot love our country (Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️) as we know it if we do not respect and celebrate the agreement that brought us peace, self-governance, international recognition and the right to independently fight for our existence, survival and recovery from centuries of suffering, now, finally at peace and without foreign rule for a change.

The bittersweet taste that Dayton leaves on us is nothing new, because our entire history is filled with such extremely complex events, and each mixed memory of them has left a mark on our unique sense of humor and personality traits.

Dayton is not perfect, Dayton is not beautiful, Dayton did not fulfill our desires and dreams, but the compromises made for it allowed us to decide our own destiny, but also bear responsibility for the bad choices and decisions we've made after it, to this day.

The picture shows Bosnian Serbs' possessions during the war (1993) and after the acceptance of the Dayton Agreement that followed. Which followed the NATO bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina ꒌ⚜️ (Operation "Deliberate Force") and the attack by the invading HOS forces from 🇭🇷 after the ethnic cleansing of the "Serb Krajina" and sacking of Knin in the so-called. " Operation Storm".


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🇷🇸🦅 Saint Sava - given name "Rastko Nemanjić (pron. Nemanyich), the founder of autonomous Serbian Orthodox church in 1219. and its first Orthodox archbishop, was also a Serb nobleman from medieval ages who gave up his privileges as a nobleman to join monks on mount Athos and serve God, son of great duke of Serbia Nemanja, and brother of king of Serbia Stefan Nemanjić.
THE MOST NOTABLE SONG IN HIS HONOR IS LINKED IN BIO!
At Athos he established the monastery of Hilandar, which became one of the most important cultural and religious centres of the Serbian people. In 1219 the Patriarchate exiled in Nicaea recognized him as the first Serbian Archbishop, and in the same year he authored the oldest known constitution of Serbia, the Zakonopravilo nomocanon, thus securing full religious and political independence.
He is widely considered one of the most important figures of Serbian history. Saint Sava is venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on January 27. Many artistic works from the Middle Ages to modern times have interpreted his career. He is the patron saint of Serbia, Serbs, and Serbian education. The Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade is dedicated to him, built where the Ottomans burnt his remains in 1594, during an uprising in which Serbs used icons of Sava as their war flags; the church is one of the largest church buildings in the world.
The Serb people built the cult of St. Sava based on the religious cult; many songs, tales and legends were created about his life, work, merit, goodness, fairness and wisdom, while his relics became a topic of national and ethnopolitical cult and focus of liberation ideas. In 1840, at the suggestion of Atanasije Nikolić, the rector of the Lyceum, the feast of Saint Sava was chosen to celebrate Education every year. It was celebrated as a school holiday until 1945 when the communist authorities abolished it. In 1990, it was reintroduced as a school holiday.
St. Sava is regarded the father of Serbian education and literature; he authored the Life of St. Simeon (Stefan Nemanja, his father), the first Serbian hagiography, and was given various honorific titles, "father", "Enlightener" etc.

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