Why Yugoslavia Collapsed? History Never Dies

Video Description

This documentary provides a rigorous, evidence-based explanation of why Yugoslavia collapsed between 1980 and 1990, grounded exclusively in documented history. Rather than attributing Yugoslavia’s dissolution to war, nationalism, or individual leaders alone, this analysis traces the institutional, economic, constitutional, and geopolitical mechanisms that caused the Yugoslav state to cease functioning before large-scale armed conflict began. The documentary examines: ● The structural design of Yugoslavia as a federation without a unifying national core ● How authority was exercised through institutions under Tito and why succession failed ● The consequences of the 1974 Constitution and the loss of federal enforcement power ● The role of 1970s debt accumulation and IMF stabilization programs in the 1980s ● How economic adjustment transformed federalism into zero-sum competition ● The disintegration of the League of Communists before the state itself collapsed ● Why nationalism functioned as a political instrument after institutional failure ● How Serbian centralization altered the federal balance ● The impact of international disengagement after the end of the Cold War ● Why Yugoslavia collapsed institutionally before the war began