How to Invent a Country

How to Invent a Country

BBC Radio 4

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Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are.

Publisher
BBC Radio 4
Category
government · history
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
6 Nov 2006
Latest episode
17 Apr 2026

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  1. 17 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The birth and death of Yugoslavia

  2. 17 Apr 2026

    More history than you can consume!

  3. 3 Apr 2026

    What are the Balkans?

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The birth and death of Yugoslavia

Published 17 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There is also collaboration with the administration that helps kind of police the country. Yeah, so like different things are happening in different parts of Yugoslavia. The consequences will be immense. And it's worth adding that even the resistance was split between the Chetniks. They were nominally and officially a resistance movement. They represented the government in exile. And then there were the partisans. There is only one consistently resistance movement throughout the whole war, and that's the Yugoslav Partisans or the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, as it becomes called later. […]

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