Today is my country's statehood day!
It has been 29 years since we declared independence from Yugoslavia.

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Super-chic concept art by Lew Keller for the animation in The Four Poster (1952), dir. Irving Reis, Stanley Kramer Productions

UPA's animation for this live-action film (still unreleased on home media) made its way to Yugoslavia and inspired the famous Zagreb School of animation

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Photographer captures magnificent photos of abandoned concrete monuments around ex-Yugoslavia - https://t.co/yi7qLrL73u

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So utterly charming,I can’t stop smiling.Leptirica (The She-Butterfly, 1973)a wonderful Yugoslavian folk-tale TV movie of a vamp-like creature.The villagers add an element of comedy and Radojka is sigh-worthy pretty. I fear I will be haunted by the call of Sava Savonavić tonight!

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King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, just before their assassination, 1934.

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covers from yugoslavian ‘galaksija magazine’ (1974-1983)

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NOT AT ALBANIA'S COST

On this day, 100 years ago, US President Woodrow Wilson killed the prospect of a deal between Yugoslavia and Italy that traded territories of Albania, based on the secret Treaty of London. For that Albanians remain eternally grateful.

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Yugoslavia experimental Aerostatoplan VTOL plane in 1937

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Ivan Vavpotič Yugoslavian 1877-1943

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He was the oldest of five brothers. One went to fight in Russia, one in Yugoslavia, one in France, one was in Sicily when the allied landed, and yet they all managed to survive one way or the other. (8/9)

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KzU-42, a Yugoslavian encryption device, 1984. With a segmented display!

(From https://t.co/eS9uiEdMhQ)

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When Miyazaki made PORCO ROSSO, he was inspired by Croatia

But when conflict broke out in the region, it changed the nature of the film:

"I wanted to make something light. But then Yugoslavia collapsed...Suddenly in the real world it became a place where battle was happening"

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Vučko (1984 Saravejo Winter Olympics)

This wolf, created by Jože Trobec, was designed (much like Misha) to dispel the vicious reputation of wolves, an important animal in Yugoslavian fables.

His simple cartoony design remains surprisingly appealing!

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Yugoslavian animated short, SATIEMANIA (1978).

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British General Adrian Carton De Wiart- a one-handed, one-eyed Great War veteran sent to advise the Yugoslavian army- has been captured by Italian forces after his plane crashed into the Mediterranean.

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