Yugoslav Interlude 3: the Questionable Croatians

About this episode

The episode discusses the political struggles of two Croatian members of Peter II's royal government during Yugoslavia's tumultuous history.

Show Notes This week on MSB: the third of our dedicated Yugoslavia episodes! In this installment, we look at two Croatian members of Peter II's royal government, Vladko Maček and Ivan Šubašić, who spent their careers struggling in vain to find a compromise between Serbian ambition and Croatian independence. The war would catapult one to a position of power he never expected and cast the other into the depths of despair. Ready? Go! Show notes to come. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center . Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nina, Thom

Topics covered

• Yugoslavia
• Croatian history
• political struggle
• Serbian ambition
• independence
• royal government

Keywords

• Yugoslavia
• Croatia
• Vladko Maček
• Ivan Šubašić
• politics
• independence
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Delaware Tribe, Lenape Center

Places: Croatia, Yugoslavia, Lenapehoking

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