[grujicd]

Core of Yugoslavia, still lives on in cultural space, where music, movies, and literature are consumed in all ex republics. Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space. But even in Slovenia and Macedonia there's a significant part of population which at least understands common language. And it's not only about language, there's lot of shared mentality and history from Yugoslav period.

[foobarian]

Kusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend

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> Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space.

The Albanian speaking countries really punch above their weight for English language pop stars with global presence. ~7.5 Million Albanian speakers globally gave us Bebe Rexha, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, and Rita Ora. 22 Million Romanian speakers for a comparable post-Communist community and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

[Gare]

> and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

But Romania gave us the Dragostea din tei (Numa-numa song :)

[throw-the-towel]

That wasn't even Romania, that was the smaller Moldova, a country of about 4 million at the time.

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A beautiful global phenomenon whose artist I sadly cannot name.

[emmelaich]

It makes me sad for all the human creativity and artistry repressed in Albania and other countries.