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World War Civ 21: Balkan Wars 1912-1913

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Balkans for the Balkan Peoples

Bessarabia was taken from Romania by Russia at the present two-thirds of it is in Moldova. I know now, because I looked it up, that in Moldova they speak Romanian. So it's mostly Romanian-speaking small country. He's constantly returning to his belief that the only solution for this is a Balkan federation without any great power participation. But he says democracy has no right to entrust the organization of the Balkan peoples to forces outside its control. That's a very interesting argument that he makes there.

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