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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Surprisingly wholesome and educational thread, for a conversation about a Bosnian civil war song.

Until the last line. 😄

Balkan Reddit has no chill.
For reference, the song that started it all. 😉
Another gem in the YouTube comments.

"If you ever feel useless, just remember: There was a UN peacekeeping force in Sarajevo."

What a proud moment for ... *checks notes* ... a certain UN official by the name of Shashi Tharoor.
One more for @CursedBalkanYT.

Pakistani: "Much Respect to Bosnia what it went through, whether Muslims or Christians. I Pray Stability for Today's Bosnia Love from Pakistan.

Bosnian: "Dont worry without NATO and westerners in Bosnia we are more stable than the whole USA itself"

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7 Jun
It was replaced by this in 2001 under Vajpayee and Jaswant Singh, but was changed back to St George's Cross in the middle of the 2004 general elections.

Because officers complained that the flags "merged with the blue colour of the sea and the sky and were not visible from far." Image
2001: "During the post-colonial period whilst other ex-colonial Navies discarded this symbol in their newly adopted ensigns and Flags, the Indian Navy retained it until now. The desire for change has thus been very strong amongst the rank and file of the Navy, for several years." Image
"It is commonly acknowledged in Navy circles that the original idea to change the Navy's ensign came from Vice Admiral Vivian Barbora in the early 1970s.

Admirai VEC Barboza retired from the Indian Navy as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command ..." Image
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7 Jun
Important. One of the reasons Beijing has no respect for India as an equal sovereign state is because we take pride in adopting the aesthetics, philosophies, and operating procedures of the British Raj, reinforcing their view we are still a "semi-colony".

theprint.in/india/new-marc…
"Many of these honours were awarded to units of the then British Indian Army, for fighting against local Indian kings. For example, battle honours were won by units during the first Indian uprising against the British, in 1857, including in the battle with Rani Lakshmibai."
"[M]ost military studies in the country refer to the writings of Sun Tzu ... and British strategists such as Liddel Hart and the German General Clausewitz, while there are comparatively fewer references to indigenous works such as Kautilya’s Arthashastra."
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3 Jun
Same struggle, same pain.

"The main national narrative remains that of inferiority of the modern Greek state and society vis-à-vis the advanced West.

Instead of the renewal of Hellenism, there is a pervasive culture of contempt and devaluation of everything Greek"

-@gsteiris
"The shadow of the visions of [the war of independence of] 1821 is still falling heavily on us.

So heavy that it flattens our souls and becomes unbearable. On the one hand the greatness of the heroes, the sacrifices of a brave people."
"And on the other hand the modern state which is presented as the outcast of the advanced world; which in comparison with the abstract idea of the advanced European state lags behind.

A people whose leaders, ... ask them to change, to imitate other people's standards."
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2 Jun
Fixed that for you:

"An indigenous rice-based dish, documented in ancient texts, was appropriated under a Persian name in the 17th century, when enslaved and converted natives were put to work in royal kitchens in parts of India under the Tourkokratia of the Gurkaniya Timurids."
A rich and illuminating thread on this topic, with extensive sources, thanks to @panchanada:

In addition, there is no such dynasty as the "Mughals". That is just a colonial era term for the Gurkaniya Timurids, invented by British Orientalists who, to justify their own colonialism, portrayed Indians as a "savage" race, who needed strong foreign despots to "civilise" them.
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2 Jun
"The Queen’s courtiers banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from serving in clerical roles in the royal household until at least the late 1960s, according to newly discovered documents."

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/j…
"The documents also shed light on how Buckingham Palace negotiated controversial clauses – that remain in place to this day – exempting the Queen and her household from laws that prevent race and sex discrimination."
"[I]n 1968, the Queen’s chief financial manager informed civil servants that “it was not, in fact, the practice to appoint coloured immigrants or foreigners” to clerical roles in the royal household, although they were permitted to work as domestic servants."
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1 Jun
Tourkokratia (Turkocracy) in Anatolia & the Balkans has clear parallels to the contemporaneous Sultanate and Gurkaniya ("Mughal") tyranny in the Indian subcontinent.

Reborn as the founding ideology of a certain "Land of the Pure", which is why neo-Ottomanism is so popular there.
Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia all experienced centuries of Turkocracy.

Their independence and identity are based on rejecting foreign tyranny and slavery, through cultural revival.

While "independent" India glorifies that period, to prevent any such revival.

Behold the importance of having a self-respecting state that reflects the values and sacrifices of its people.

Vietnam was also under foreign rule for centuries, but their history is told from the perspective of native resistance, not foreign invaders.

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