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.
The Weight of Chains
2010
Documentary / History / News / War
The Weight of Chains
2010
Documentary / History / News / War
Plot summary
The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
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Serbian side of the story, but economics is for all
Very informative
Very informative account of the events that led up to the break up of Yugoslavia as well as the events that took place during and after the wars. The background historical information that helps put things into context was very useful too.
The film presents very well the fact that at the time and for obvious reasons the Western and Yugoslav politicians as well as the Western mass media played their role very well towards the break up. This is especially true in the West were the public had to be convinced for the necessity of the break up and intervention.
I see several parallels with what is currently (Dec 2011) happening to a lot of European countries that are struck by the Capitalist crisis.