True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 16: Way Down in Kosovo
Aired: 2019-10-05
Duration: 04:56


=== Welcome Lily Lynch (01:40) ===

[00:00:07]  Hello and welcome to Truanon.
[00:00:11]  I'm your host, Brace Belden.
[00:00:14]  My good friend Liz Francak is unfortunately missing, presumed dead.
[00:00:19]  So tonight, in morning, I called up my old friend Lily Lynch out in Serbia to talk about the Balkans, USAID, sexual slavery, and color revolutions.
[00:00:33]  Enjoy the episode.
[00:00:36]  Kind of weird to do a one-man cold open.
[00:00:38]  Yeah.
[00:00:39]  I could.
[00:00:40]  So welcome to Crank Anchors.
[00:01:09]  Welcome back to True and On.
[00:01:11]  I am running solo.
[00:01:12]  I am inhabiting like the character Too-Faced from Batman.
[00:01:15]  I am half Liz, half Brace.
[00:01:18]  And we have us with here tonight.
[00:01:20]  It was actually evening here, but we have Lily Lynch of the Balkanist.
[00:01:28]  Say hello, Lily.
[00:01:29]  Hi.
[00:01:30]  To your Dorian fans.
[00:01:33]  Our resident Serbian or well, you're not Serbian.
[00:01:36]  Our American correspondent in Serbia.
[00:01:41]  Or just all over the Balkans.
[00:01:42]  I don't know.
[00:01:43]  Are you only based in Serbia or do you kind of cruise around there?
[00:01:46]  I cruise around.

=== Gaddafi's Condolences in Serbia (03:08) ===

[00:01:47]  I've lived in pretty much all the countries in the former Yugoslavia.
[00:01:52]  Okay, you know, I hang out with this guy here, this guy, Andrei Grubachek, who's fucking, uh, his...
[00:01:57]  Really?
[00:01:58]  You know him?
[00:01:59]  Yeah, I hang out with him.
[00:02:00]  Well, I used to hang out with him all the time.
[00:02:01]  I hang out with him sometimes.
[00:02:02]  You know that guy?
[00:02:03]  I mean, only kind of vaguely with him.
[00:02:06]  I think his grandfather was like vice president when Tito was in charge.
[00:02:11]  Yeah.
[00:02:13]  Fucking Mozy.
[00:02:14]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:14]  He seems like a really cool guy.
[00:02:16]  I was actually looking up.
[00:02:17]  So I guess Tito's grandson is still around.
[00:02:22]  Yes.
[00:02:22]  Yes.
[00:02:23]  He has a very marginal political party here, too.
[00:02:26]  Yeah, that's kind of what it seemed like.
[00:02:27]  I just I like one of the things I read is that he right before right after Gaddafi got killed, he sent his condolences, which.
[00:02:35]  Oh, yeah.
[00:02:36]  Same.
[00:02:36]  There was a that's that was a pretty big deal here.
[00:02:39]  When Gaddafi died, this is actually, I was here when Gaddafi was murdered by it.
[00:02:48]  And there was a protest, like a pretty significant protest on the main square in Belgrade.
[00:02:56]  And people had like green flags.
[00:03:00]  They had Libyan flags and like big signs with Gaddafi's face.
[00:03:06]  And because Yugoslavia and Libya were quite close, there's like some Libyan bands that sang in Serbo-Croatian and in Arabic about Gaddafi, but like in the early 80s, these were students in Belgrade.
[00:03:25]  And because obviously Belgrade was the capital of the non-aligned movement, which Tito co-founded with several other world leaders.
[00:03:33]  Or sorry, leaders from the third world, predominantly.
[00:03:37]  So for those of our listeners who don't know, Yugoslavia was made up of what countries, Lily?
[00:03:44]  Or with what nations, rather, not what countries?
[00:03:49]  That's a good question.
[00:03:50]  So the successor states of socialist Yugoslavia are Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia.
[00:04:02]  Now it's called North Macedonia.
[00:04:04]  Yes.
[00:04:06]  That's a whole different story.
[00:04:08]  Kosovo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.
[00:04:12]  I think I've said it all.
[00:04:13]  Yeah.
[00:04:14]  Yeah.
[00:04:16]  It's 2.40 in the morning.
[00:04:17]  If I forgot any nation, that's not because I dislike any one of you.
[00:04:25]  They come up.
[00:04:25]  They come, they go.
[00:04:26]  There's so many of them.
[00:04:27]  Slovenia.
[00:04:28]  Slovenia.
[00:04:29]  Yeah.
[00:04:29]  Sorry, guys.
[00:04:30]  And there was actually a, I think there was a Bosnia-Herzegovina within Kosovo at one point, if I'm not mistaken.
[00:04:36]  There was like a separate one.
[00:04:37]  It was, no, it was called Croatian Bosnia-Herzegovina.
[00:04:40]  I've been getting really into the Balkans in the past few days preparing for this interview.
[00:04:46]  And so you were saying about the Libya protest.
[00:04:48]  So I imagine people in Serbia are rather sensitive to United States interventions abroad.
[00:04:54]  That's very true.
[00:04:56]  Very true.