#Yugonostalgia
It's the time of my students' final projects delivery, and one of the groups presented a project on Yugonostalgia. Let me tell you, their meme game is strong:
November 27, 2024 at 2:54 PM
"¿Han oído hablar ustedes de la Yugonostalgia, o la Yugostalgia? Igual sí. Se trata, en principio, del sentimiento de añoranza o de reivindicación de la antigua Yugoslavia".

@irezugasti.bsky.social

📺 #LaBaseAgosto | youtu.be/r5PgL_GXeaM
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My friends from former-Yugoslavia referred to ‘Yugonostalgia’
July 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Yugonostalgia is funny because people who want Tito to come back are usually people who lament the loss of brotherhood and unity among South Slavs, who regret the violent divisions and genocide and meanwhile the Stalinists are just 'Stalin didn't kill enough'.
March 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Firing up my daily dose of Yugonostalgia:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzj...
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October 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
There was a Yugonostalgia bar in NYC that had to close after there was an ethnically motivated stabbing during a brawl between Bosnian and Serb guys after one of the Serbs did a three-finger salute.
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Too lazy but I would have the 38293 photos of his childhood coach exhibiting varying levels of yugonostalgia
May 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hoy en La Base analizamos el “después” de Yugoslavia a raíz del anuncio de referéndum en República Sprska (Bosnia y Herzegovina) y hablamos de la "Yugonostalgia".

📺 youtu.be/r5PgL_GXeaM

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August 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Ist Yugonostalgia ok? Wobei ich für das definitiv auch nicht sterben würde. Außer Partisanenkampf
June 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Weil meine Skeets immer öfter die Bubble verlassen, hier ein kleiner Disclaimer was euch hier erwartet:

- Yugonostalgia
- Basketball
- Drogenverherrlichung
- Deutschland-Hass, aber nicht wie bei den bekloppten AntiD
- Rap
- Klassenbewusstsein und Kommunismus
August 15, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Yugonostalgia is its own political sentiment that people have, it's certainly not good but also the person saying this and being SPS is a rarity. A lot of, probably /most/ hardline Serbian nationalists themselves think Yugoslavia was a mistake and a Communist plot to kill all Serbs
July 14, 2026 at 12:43 PM
I know you didn't, I am making a prediction about him given what I know of who retains Yugonostalgia
April 24, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Copying Western craziness is more of a right thing in Serbia, the standard nat narrative is accepted by too many lefties so they sound like patient 0, but it's interesting how little yugonostalgia there is given we were the most successful ostblok state by a long one
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is also this really unique nostalgic that’s culturally linked to exile and diasporadic populations. For example, Yugonostalgia, the nostalgia for a state that longer is, in the Balkan states.

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January 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“At worst, restorative nostalgia is easily instrumentalised for nationalism, genocide and war. At best, reflective nostalgia can inspire us to form better futures.”

‘Yugonostalgia’ – Jasmina Tumbas

Free online:
www.artmonthly.co.uk/back-catalogue

[image: Milica Tomic, ‘One day … ’, 2009]

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July 4, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Hoy en La Base Agosto analizamos el “después” de Yugoslavia a raíz del anuncio de referéndum en República Sprska (Bosnia y Herzegovina) y hablamos de la "Yugonostalgia".

📺 youtu.be/r5PgL_GXeaM

🎙 go.ivoox.com/rf/156249980
La Base Agosto 1x13 | La República Srpska y una nueva crisis política en los Balcanes
YouTube video by La Base
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August 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here's #josmalo ( #justabitmore ) by #lutajucasrca ( #thewanderinghearts ) on the #Organ. #PipeOrgan #cover #popsong #popmusic #ballad #balladmusic #yugonostalgia #sheetmusic 

Original YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XoLYP_JkvWA

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September 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yugonostalgia, if you don't mind a bit of titoism there?
July 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I would say that he has no respect for his wife, nor for women in general, nor for the Slovenia state. I just don't understand where the Yugonostalgia is in all this, honey?
December 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
You can resist critiques of Yugoslavia/Yugonostalgia all you want. Even my mother had happy moments within a system that systematically displaced her family and deprived her of opportunities. Similarly, marginalised people in the West also experience happy moments.
January 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Culturally, the Balkans seem uniquely unfavorable. Too peripheral for the metropolitan big bucks/prestige but Euro enough for aspiration to whiteness, conceptually stuck in Yugonostalgia/'remembrance', democratic enough to induce dullness but not authoritarian enough to produce life-or-death work...
October 12, 2023 at 1:48 PM
This is where "Yugonostalgia" enters the conversation. Yugonostalgia often claims that "everything was fine" under Yugoslavia, but that wasn’t the case. Unfortunately, it is primarily driven by a privileged majority who insist on this narrative.
January 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Super interesting text about Yugonostalgia: balkandiskurs.com/en/2025/02/1...

My colleagues Maartje Weerdesteijn, Barbora Hola, and Margareta Blazevic have a forthcoming survey research paper exploring different types of nostalgia—looking forward to sharing our results soon!
Yugonostalgia and Yugoslavism: To Believe in ‘Better Times’ | Balkan Diskurs
The memory of the former Yugoslavia is very much alive in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whether it’s when you have a beer at Cafe Tito, looking online on the Lexicon of YU Mythology for a titbit from the…
balkandiskurs.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Primož Krašovec on Yugonostalgia below.

Adding Svetlana Boym: "The 20th century began with a futuristic utopia and ended with nostalgia. The optimistic belief in the future has become outmoded while nostalgia, for better or for worse, never went out of fashion."
December 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
“Although one would have to be completely blind not to notice the difference between basic living conditions in Yugoslavia and today’s ex-Yugoslav countries, one shouldn’t fall into the trap of nostalgia [...] Instead of feasting on Yugonostalgia,”

libcom.org/article/yugo...
Yugoslav self-management: Capitalism under the red banner - Juraj Katalenac
Analysis of Yugoslav socialism and its system of self-management. From Insrugent Notes #9.
libcom.org
August 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM