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Titoslavia, a Virtual Country
There have been other virtual states, and from the ex-yu specifically there was the NSK state in time which also issued passports. Nonetheless this seems interesting given the particular reasonance that titoism continues to exert in south-east europe.
devin writes
'Titoism Has a New Country, Titoslavia, Available at a Click'
This article is about perhaps the first virtual country...
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36- 652496@51-646623,0.html
The site is http://www.titoslavija.com
If you can't read French, here is my translation:
The Yugoslavia of Tito, since divided into five countries, will count an additional state on the 25th of May, the anniversary of the birth of its creator, Josip Broz. Nothing will distinguish it in appearance from the others, with its own constitution, flag, anthem and passport.
Proclaimed in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, it will be a state without territory, without international recognition, destined to “live in the heart” of its citizens. For “The Republic of Titoslavia” is a virtual creation, which only exists on the web (http://www.titoslavija.com).
A state without territorial, ethnic or religious divisions, Titoslavia will incarnate “the vision and the ideas” of Josip Broz Tito, and his motto, “Fraternity and Unity,” according to Jezdimir Milosevic. Yugoslavia remains, for the creator of “Titoslavia,” an ideal, and yugo-nostalgia a state of mind, an art of living. “Our state has no territory but proposes to assemble the people of the world that share the ideas of Tito, notably peaceful cohabitation,” he says. As a Sarajevan Serb that refuses Serbian nationalism, Jezdimir Milosevic belongs to the group of anti-nationalists that think that Tito knew how to preserve a federation where, in spite of a dictatorial aspect, there reigned a veritable comfort of living. After the country’s separation, it was ten years of war and 250,000 deaths.
“Jezdimir cultivates nostalgia for a place where their existed a system of values. Faced with the fascism of Serbs, Croats and others, the creation of Titoslavia is an act of resistance,” thinks Svetlana Broz, the grand-daughter of Tito, a writer and an activist for human rights.
Since the end of the conflict, “yugo-nostalgia” is gaining ground. Some pilgrims are returning to Kumrovec, the village where Tito was born, and to Belgrade, to his tomb. The first Internet site that was dedicated to him, Titoville, which opened in 1997, just crossed the million visitor mark.
It is hardly surprising that it is in Sarajevo that the “Republic of Titoslavia” is born. Sarajevo, which, despite the war, was successful in preserving its multi-ethnic character. Sarajevo, the only city in a vanishing area where the main street is still called ulica Marsala-Tita, Marshall Tito Street.
To become a citizen of Titoslavia, it only takes one click. To obtain a Titoslavian passport, it costs 10 euros.
By Rémy Ourdan
Le Monde 22.05.05
There have been other virtual states, and from the ex-yu specifically there was the NSK state in time which also issued passports. Nonetheless this seems interesting given the particular reasonance that titoism continues to exert in south-east europe.
devin writes
'Titoism Has a New Country, Titoslavia, Available at a Click'
This article is about perhaps the first virtual country...
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36
The site is http://www.titoslavija.com
If you can't read French, here is my translation:
The Yugoslavia of Tito, since divided into five countries, will count an additional state on the 25th of May, the anniversary of the birth of its creator, Josip Broz. Nothing will distinguish it in appearance from the others, with its own constitution, flag, anthem and passport.
Proclaimed in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, it will be a state without territory, without international recognition, destined to “live in the heart” of its citizens. For “The Republic of Titoslavia” is a virtual creation, which only exists on the web (http://www.titoslavija.com).
A state without territorial, ethnic or religious divisions, Titoslavia will incarnate “the vision and the ideas” of Josip Broz Tito, and his motto, “Fraternity and Unity,” according to Jezdimir Milosevic. Yugoslavia remains, for the creator of “Titoslavia,” an ideal, and yugo-nostalgia a state of mind, an art of living. “Our state has no territory but proposes to assemble the people of the world that share the ideas of Tito, notably peaceful cohabitation,” he says. As a Sarajevan Serb that refuses Serbian nationalism, Jezdimir Milosevic belongs to the group of anti-nationalists that think that Tito knew how to preserve a federation where, in spite of a dictatorial aspect, there reigned a veritable comfort of living. After the country’s separation, it was ten years of war and 250,000 deaths.
“Jezdimir cultivates nostalgia for a place where their existed a system of values. Faced with the fascism of Serbs, Croats and others, the creation of Titoslavia is an act of resistance,” thinks Svetlana Broz, the grand-daughter of Tito, a writer and an activist for human rights.
Since the end of the conflict, “yugo-nostalgia” is gaining ground. Some pilgrims are returning to Kumrovec, the village where Tito was born, and to Belgrade, to his tomb. The first Internet site that was dedicated to him, Titoville, which opened in 1997, just crossed the million visitor mark.
It is hardly surprising that it is in Sarajevo that the “Republic of Titoslavia” is born. Sarajevo, which, despite the war, was successful in preserving its multi-ethnic character. Sarajevo, the only city in a vanishing area where the main street is still called ulica Marsala-Tita, Marshall Tito Street.
To become a citizen of Titoslavia, it only takes one click. To obtain a Titoslavian passport, it costs 10 euros.
By Rémy Ourdan
Le Monde 22.05.05