Search results for query: *

  1. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    No? But in the meantime, here are some Croatian soldiers in Livno releasing a naval mine into the forest: Not exactly natural habitat for naval mines, but eh... it seemed to like it well enough. EDIT:
  2. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    Yeah, pretty much. While there was a lot to dislike about the old Monarchy, there was a lot to like as well. Old people who remembered the Austria-Hungary were quite nostalgic about it, compared to everything that came afterwards.
  3. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    Speaking of hymns, here is Carevka, which was the hymn of the Croatian Kingdom - really a Croatian rendering of the Habsburg hymn:
  4. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    Belgrade, definitely. And Communist rule was far worse than one of the Royalist Yugoslavia.
  5. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    I don't know much, but apparently there is some interest in Croatia there due to our history. Japanese prefer people who overcome odds to unbeatable superheroes, and Croatian history is basically nothing but "overcoming the odds" (even if we also lost a lot). Anyway, if you are interested...
  6. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    Song is about the operation Phoenix 72, an attempt to liberate Croatia from Yugoslavia. Needles to say, it didn't work.
  7. Aldarion

    Music Croatian music and culture thread

    Opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski is a hymn of a Japanese university: In year 1919., after the First World War, a ship full of Czech soldiers got stranded in port Kobo. Czech soldiers sang a Croatian song - specifically, the U boj U Boj ("To Battle, To Battle") segment of an opera Nikola Šubić...
Back
Top