The Đorđe Martinović Incident: When a Bottle Broke Yugoslavia
Exploding the Powder Keg
Picture it- 1985, Kosovo, a province within the crumbling Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Enter Đorđe Martinović, a 56-year-old Serbian farmer, who stumbled into a hospital with injuries so bizarre they’d eventually embroil a nation in a political firestorm. Depending on who you believe, Martinović was either the victim of a lifelong Balkan di…
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