What do these two nations have in common?

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zeljadin@reddit

Illiteracy, stupidity, corruption, mafia.

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Ill always say that the whole of balkans is pretty much the same, just different flags and different religions, expect for Slovenia and croatian istria - thats not biased, im from bosnia, so ive got nothing to gain from saying that.

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Beautiful-Dish-6275@reddit

Nah bro, you cant tell me vojvodina isnt more similar to Slovenia/Istria than it is to southern greece or Moldavia.

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tar_lix@reddit

I didn't tell you that, it is more similar to Slovenia and northern Croatia, jbg povijest. My thoughts are in aggregate.

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amazingamy19@reddit

I didn’t have that experience at all. If anything, i think similarities are exaggerated.

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tar_lix@reddit

I've been lucky in a way that I traveled quite a bit, and our differences are really not that big, generally worldwide, but especially in our region.

But yes, the amplitude is wider between Zagreb and the Greek islands, but any neighboring countries are quite similar.

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amazingamy19@reddit

From my admittedly brief visits to ex YU countries, i honestly failed to see THAT much similarities, on a level they are talked about here.

I would assume Albania is even less similar.

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oioioioioioiioo@reddit

They do have many things in common but sadly the hatred overshadowed the relations. I have many relatives of Albanian ethnicity.

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placeni@reddit

Kosovo

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Exotic_Talk_2068@reddit

Nationality of their president, or at least his father

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Upstairs_Arrival16@reddit

Kosovo 🇷🇸🇽🇰

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BardhyliX@reddit

The red in the flag, the eagle in the flag, both used to have a monarchy but don't anymore, both used to be communist but aren't anymore.

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Nothing_Special_23@reddit

Truth be told, Albania has never been a functioning monarchy.🤷

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BardhyliX@reddit

Respect Zogolli?

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Nothing_Special_23@reddit

Nope. During his reign Albania was a dysfunctional state ruled by warring tribes. The power he had was exclusively in an ability to somewhat balance the tribal politics.

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Zaba_iz_Zabalja@reddit

Deep political fueld hatred for one another, I mean it's so stupid for me as a Serbian to hate a dude because he is from Albania isn't it or vice versa. If you put that to rest, the countries and people are both very similiar, same food, they both like german cars and criminal, they both have beautiful women, they both like to drink, they both jerk off to war propaganda, etc.

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Gjinkallet@reddit

Why would you hate an albanian? Have we done any genociding to you?

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Zaba_iz_Zabalja@reddit

My grandfather (civilian) was killed by an albanian robber, he cut of his ear and pulled one of his eyes out and took all his money, enough reason for somebody to hate if you look at it that way, but read my post again my friend, I said it's stupid to hate 🥳

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Normal_Neat_4295@reddit

Kosovo

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Individual_Page3212@reddit

Hate and corruption and tribal mentality

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Nothing_Special_23@reddit

Tribal mentality? Serbs? What are you even talking about?

Serbs don't have tribal mentality. A Serbian tribe wouldn't last a week without everyone fighting everyone.

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Individual_Page3212@reddit

That's why the same tribe is in power since like the late 1980s I guess.

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Nothing_Special_23@reddit

That's not what a tribe means. Especially not in Albanian sense.

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Barbak86@reddit

Sure you do. You might just call it something else.

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AdrianLazar@reddit

Kosovo

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Ha55aN1337@reddit

Underrated comment

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Barbak86@reddit

Everything except for the language.

Sure there are differences, but overall it's the same shit. The differences are on the level of: "they use the Harmonica more, we love the Clarinet instead."

One major difference I note is the way we look at each other. They underestimate us a lot, and we overestimate them by a lot.

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baddzie@reddit

poverty, food is quite similar, I think personality is also similar

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sloopywettoppyswife@reddit

both are a dictatorship

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fat_strelok@reddit

And before that, Tito and Hoxha led the people with an iron grip that our main body of voters sorely misses and wants to recreate.

A lifetime of servile attitude is not easily erased.

Tragic for anyone who isn't into braindead nationalism and rampant corruption.

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jankeyass@reddit

People want to recreate Tito era for the economic prosperity and development that Yugoslavia had, not in the slightest for the communism

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LegioXI89@reddit

You compare Tito and living in Yugoslavia with Hoxha and Albania lol

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fat_strelok@reddit

The concept is the same, follow big leader or gulag. That turns into "it's us or them".

Hoxha was a lot more scary and isolationist as far as I know.

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usernameisokay_@reddit

And worse for his people compared to what Tito managed to achieve.

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LegioXI89@reddit

No it wasn't, Yugoslavian communism and albanian were two different worlds

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sloopywettoppyswife@reddit

We were this close too 🤏

We celebrated when we got rid of Millo after 30 years and we will celebrate in 2028 when we enter the EU and Schengen

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LegioXI89@reddit

No we are not similar with albanians, especially personality

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baddzie@reddit

We are more similar to them than to Russians for example, except for tge language

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LegioXI89@reddit

We are definitely not, speak for yourself

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Content-Departure-77@reddit

So much and people dont even realise that.

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idleWizard@reddit

their hatred for each other

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Legal_Apartment5789@reddit

Hot take: Basically everything the only diffrence the language and religion i mean serbs dick suck russian so much and we albanians are the same just with the US

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Miloslolz@reddit

I don’t think we suck up to Russia that much. I mean all we didn’t do is sanction them but beyond that we have both supported and sold weapons to Ukraine.

Not to mention if anyone Serbia sucks up it’s China by a large margin. They have free reign to do what ever they want here.

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Legal_Apartment5789@reddit

True that you mentioning now you guys are good with china we used to be good with china under hoxha now your good with them but either way as an albanian i think serb and albanian have more in common then they would admit

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Miloslolz@reddit

Honestly Albanians are way more united and really hardworking compared to Serbs and that’s coming from my Kosovo Serb refugee colleague.

Sure Serbs are better at other things but as a country I think Albania is set up better, way less divided.

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burmadurma@reddit

Trust me man, grass is greener on the other side. I have not been to Serbia, but other slavic countries in the balkans, and we are very similar. Righteous, tribal, arrogant idiots.

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This_Lion5856@reddit

China is Russia's big daddy nowadays tbf. Even Orban who was staunchly pro-Russian mainly dealt with Chinese loands and deals

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MediumPositive8953@reddit

but albanian sucking payed off big time while the serbian one, not so much

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Barbak86@reddit

We did it expecting something in return, they did it for the love of the game.

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amazingamy19@reddit

I mean language and religion are two of the most important identifying factors for one nation.

You are also not Slavic, and are a costal country.

Can’t talk much about mentality, but I have a feeling you are also more conservative.

A lot of Serbian cultural identity comes from Byzantine culture, or even Slavic customs.

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waudi@reddit

Same brother, I had the same exact thought first time I was in Albania, everyone was really nice and genuine towards us, just like we were to them when they visited us prior to that. Everything felt familiar.

And one thing I really noticed was the disdain towards us politicians. Fuck them. Oh and we hated the beans burek, but we did our best to pretend we didn't because you don't hate another man's burek. 😅 Driving was crazy tho 😂

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BarnaclePotential132@reddit

A lot of ppl will disagree but you are spot on lol

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fogleth@reddit

A beef

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LLTsochev@reddit

Kosovo

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Ok-Skill-265@reddit

Handsome masculine men

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NevrijemeSamJa@reddit

Both hungry for foreign territories based on self created mythes/history.

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barracuda4848@reddit

Best answer!

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Ok_Singer_5589@reddit

Hate for each other

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EnesAkhan@reddit

Umm . They hate each other? Idk this is balkans sub . Everyonr hates everyone here as much as they love each other 😒

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sloopywettoppyswife@reddit

except for us

we are build different and therefore we have no haters

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fat_strelok@reddit

I caught cholera and almost died as a child in Montenegro

I hate y'all

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Yto_Itinen@reddit

Are you 200 years old, a time traveler, or does Montenegro still have diseases from the long 19th century?

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waudi@reddit

Turns out we really don't, some extremist minorities maybe, but overall we have so much in common that when politics are put aside we get along really great, just like the rest of the balkans... Who knew that politics turn everything to shit. (and religion)

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Trick-Size-1522@reddit

I’m supposed to hate them - but my girlfriend is Albanian, life’s cool like that. Our food is very close

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

Ages ago there was rhis Albanian Serbian friendship group on facebook

Does anyone even use facebook nowadays

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Not in the EU, communist past..

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MinimumArt8781@reddit

They're in Europe....on Planet Earth, spinning around the sun in a galaxy, inside a universe