Скачать или смотреть What were the psychological causes of the Yugoslav wars? Discussing an article by Alenka Puhar.

This video (made with Notebook LM*) summarizes Alenka Puhar’s article "Yugoslav Childhood," which offers a psycho-historical analysis of violence, child abuse, and sexual aggression within the traditional Yugoslav Zadruga family structure, particularly among Serbs and Montenegrins.

Puhar argues that the idealized “simple life” of the Balkans, often praised by Western observers, was in reality brutal, characterized by chronic battering and neglect, which fostered a culture of hostility and aggressive masculinity.

The paper connects these ingrained patterns of trauma and a centuries-old national obsession with avenging the Battle of Kosovo to the outburst of violence and war fantasies observed during the 1990s dissolution of Yugoslavia. Utilizing both academic surveys and fictional literary accounts, the author demonstrates how this cycle of unresolved childhood trauma and public rage** ultimately manifested in widespread atrocities and the development of a national identity centered on victimization and the pursuit of revenge.

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