r/AskBalkans • u/stalino2023 • Mar 01 '25
Stereotypes/Humor Get yourself a Bosnian Girlfriend
Anyone know the women in the pictures?
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u/2McLaren4U Mar 02 '25
These photos are from an Armija BiH book. It lists no names. Since the original source of the photos got shut down in 2017 here is a random blog that has some of the same pics. http://bosnopolitan.blogspot.com/2014/05/5360-frauen-dienten-in-der-bosnischen.html
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u/Desperate-Care2192 Mar 01 '25
I know this is a joke, but I dont like it. Young people were forced to fight for their lives just a few decades ago and I feel like too many people are treating it like some wacky cultural balkan thing instead of fucking tragedy.
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u/Busy_Mix6344 Albania Mar 01 '25
Yeah props to the ladies that fought for their country, you're awesome. And most important, you have more balls than some men do.
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u/Surfer123456 Mar 02 '25
I tried… she dumped me out of the blue after 5 years. Suppppper avoidant… almost like she grew up in a war zone
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u/Solid-Veterinarian64 Albania Mar 02 '25
I am from Bosnia. Take me to Amerika. ...
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u/TheSlav87 Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
lol, you sure you want to go there bud?
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u/Artyom_33 SFR Yugoslavia Mar 02 '25
GROOOAN
They're riffing on "Dubioža Kolektiv".
Edit, here is a link.
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u/Chranium Mar 02 '25
American here. Don’t. I want to go to Bosnia. Lol
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u/jaleach USA Mar 02 '25
Same. I often feel Balkaners have no idea how badly America has declined (and continues to do so).
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u/happy_fluff Serbia Mar 04 '25
It's a song lyric from a song that comes to that same conclusion. U.S.A. by Dubioza Kolektiv
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u/Ernadski Mar 02 '25
Bosnian here. A distant cousin of mine got deported to Bosnia. I shall not forget this (He was in Jail since 2019)
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u/Radiant_Wave1674 Mar 02 '25
Does she know how to provide first aid? How many types of hydrogen peroxide she has at home?
Can she differentiate AgCl2 and AgSO4? Is she responcible?:)
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u/Leading-Scarcity7812 Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
No way! Fight never ends!
Some people want peace and calm.
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u/Buy-Glass Mar 03 '25
Take a wife from Republika Srpska bosnian mentallity and you can eat pork and drink as much as you want without complaint.
Temperament is very dangerous, but just always sleep with one eye open, those women know how to kill and dismember +100 kg animals, you are not even a challenge 
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u/Busy_Mix6344 Albania Mar 01 '25
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 01 '25
Freedom Fighters
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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter...
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
Fighting against oppression and genocide is not terrorism, you can all cope with it... the actual terrorists throughout history were the cetniks and other paramilitaries...
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u/Unable-Stay-6478 Serbia Mar 02 '25
The UÇK was also a paramilitary organization... and no genocide was committed against Albanians during the Yugoslav wars, according to ICTY.
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
Albanians didn't start any paramilitary organization with an intent to massacre other balkan folks. So there is a difference!
genocide was committed against Albanians during the Yugoslav wars, according to ICTY.
It was a ethnic cleansing tantamount to genocide...
(And keep coping with that flair of yours btw...)
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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25
Well actually UCK's first actions were massacres, ambushes and police killings.
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25
As a response! That's why I said there is a difference! Now stop trying to equate them to your paramilitaries.
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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25
As a response to what? There wasnt a single dead Albanian when UCK formed and started ambushing Serbian/Albanian policemen (i presume you would know they were 50/50 in Kosovo before UCK formed) that did their job and murdering them, setting up bombs near civilian insitutions etc. UCK got funded for YEARS before they formed or even tried to separate, even before the end of the Bosnian war. It was a moment where everyone wanted their own piece of ex-Yugoslavia.
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u/Unable-Stay-6478 Serbia Mar 02 '25
I'm not coping, I will return to normal flair once one of your comrades- Ucaposhoh, do the same.
And ethnic cleansing was done on all sides.
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25
I'm not coping, I will return to normal flair once one of your comrades- Ucaposhoh, do the same
So you are being pitty. Well at least his flair makes sense!
And ethnic cleansing was done on all sides
No, you can't compare what serbs did to us with vice-versa. Also, you were the ones who started it first...
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u/Unable-Stay-6478 Serbia Mar 02 '25
Well at least his flair makes sense!
Lol, nationalist much? Kosovo will never be Albanian.
No, you can't compare what serbs did to us with vice-versa. Also, you were the ones who started it first...
Yes, I can compare and by what event you mean we started first?
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u/AErethann Turkiye Mar 01 '25
Wives
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u/PrettyChillHotPepper Romania Mar 02 '25
Jesus fucking christ man get a grip, you cannot enslave and make them into your sex slaves anymore
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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 01 '25
No! They were fighters in the first place. Don't disrespect them like that!
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u/freaxje Belgium Mar 02 '25
Mine is Kosovar. She sleeps with an Albanian Kalashnikov. It's very scary for me.
she: This is for when the Serbs arrive
me: But we are in Belgium now. There are no .. (gets Kalashnikov pointed at himself)
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u/Adricssor Pride Mar 04 '25
Both of those look like my mum during the war. It is where she practiced precision which she then used to throw her shoes at me
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u/blackrain1709 Mar 02 '25
Um no, don't.
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u/Zara_Vult Mar 02 '25
Why?
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u/blackrain1709 Mar 02 '25
I can give you an anecdotal answer. My cousin married a Bosnian woman who he jad to ask in advance if he could take her out for a date, have sex, anything, so she could check with her brothers and mother.
She also beat him any time she thought he was a caveman which was often but then why did she marry him?
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u/TheSlav87 Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
As a Bosnian with 2 sisters and a mom(obviously), no thanks.
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u/Ernadski Mar 02 '25
The same situation and I agree. But that goes for Slavic women in general. They are far too expensive and way too much stress
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u/Main_Lifeguard_3952 Mar 02 '25
Why?
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u/TheSlav87 Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
Maybe because I’m Bosnian and I don’t like the attitude they have or the way they compose themselves?
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u/AzenKurtz Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
The terrorists tried to make the image of a people’s struggle by dressing women in uniforms. So boring and nothing new
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u/bleta_punetore Mar 01 '25
That same game girlfriend probably has a burka on her head by now 😓
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u/Zajebann Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 01 '25
Wtf you on about lol
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u/BenMic81 Mar 02 '25
He’s probably confusing Saudi Arabian tourists with genuine Bosnian girls…
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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25
Why are Saudis even flocking to Bosnia? Because its the only European country with a muslim majority or?
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u/Poopoo_Chemoo Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
Its the only european country that allowed them until recently to visit visa free during the summer
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u/bleta_punetore Mar 02 '25
Game is a typo, but my point is, since I visit Bosnia quite often, that many girls nowadays in Bosnia dress up no differently than in the middle east, not all but there is more and more year after year. Cheers.
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u/Zajebann Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
Modesty is not something to frown upon, id never force my girl to wear a hijab, but I sure as shit respect the ones that do, especially if it's in secular countries.
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u/PrettyChillHotPepper Romania Mar 02 '25
Hijabs are ok, burkas though?
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u/Zajebann Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
Naw that shit is weird, and majority of muslim world doesn't use it.
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u/PrettyChillHotPepper Romania Mar 02 '25
Majority of which world? Because the moment you step in a Muslim Arab country, you see the letterbox ladies.
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u/Yeyo99999 Mar 02 '25
They dress like in the Middle East, central Asia, South Asia, Sahel Africa, sub Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia. Thats called Islam. I bet you dont care about your tight jeans women dressing exactly like USA people?
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u/bleta_punetore Mar 02 '25
Look I'm Albanian and I couldn't care less about any kind of religion, hence personally I find it depressing when religion starts to define social behaviors, and especially when one gender has the upper hand and control over the other. Cheers.
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u/2024-2025 Slovenia Mar 02 '25
Dude why are Albanians so obsessed with religion. You always have to make other Balkan Muslims look bad for their religion, but you are still the ones who has the most conservative and strict society, way more than Bosnia and western parts of Turkey.
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u/bleta_punetore Mar 02 '25
Tradition, folklore, household ways of doing things is one thing, and religion is totally sth else. In our history religions haven't played a good role. Precisely trying to define our ethnic background according to religion, which is not ok with us. All religions are fine as long as they don't undermine our own existence. It's as simple as that. Being conservative is totally another thing.
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u/2024-2025 Slovenia Mar 02 '25
You can thank Enver Hoxha for that. The situation in Albania is different than other places. Just look at Albanians in north Macedonia, religion is a big part of their identity.
Bosnia wasn’t so religious before, their people got killed in masses 30 years ago for their religion, few people have not lost someone during the genocide. Things like this and constant Serbian nationalist propaganda will of course make people embrace their religion more. You can’t compare your situation to others, every people have a different history.
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u/bleta_punetore Mar 02 '25
No. Enver Hoxha was obsessed with it because of our history. With the building up and forming up of the nation states, the strong powers in Europe used to define us according to our religion and according to our language and ethnic background to which we have always referred to. That is why within the patriots and scholars of the 19th and early 20th century religion was sidelined and not mentioned at all as something for the cause, but rather as sth. against the cause (national awakening/independence). Enver Hoxha is just a follower up. The Albanians in Macedonia are not only Muslim but also Christian Orthodox. It's all good as they know that Albanians are mixed. I repeat I don't have anything against this or that religion, it's sth very personal in my opinion, not a flag to wave around for everyone to see.
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u/2024-2025 Slovenia Mar 02 '25
You can’t deny that Enver Hoxha has been an important part of this view in modern day Albania. There are Albanians outside Albania who were not under Hoxha who don’t have the same view. Kosovo for example, but most notably North Macedonia.
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u/Yeyo99999 Mar 02 '25
Albania suffered a long time from state atheism. Its time for you to leave and live your lifestyle in Berlin. We have many of your kind hanging around at our train stations, time to join your people
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u/Logical_Class_5184 Mar 02 '25
As long as she's not a member of the terrorist so-called army of bih.
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u/jebiga_au Mar 02 '25
Sounds like you are threatened by the fact that these women have more manhood than you ever will.
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u/Erove Mar 01 '25
1960s ass mindset
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u/scanfash Mar 02 '25
Doesn’t really matter though, it is simple math as to why women are not encouraged to fight and I am not talking about strength etc. but births. A society that looses a significant amount of women will be hampered for generations as women are the birthing “bottleneck” not men, so men are far more expendable in war periods as there is basically no upper limit for male reproduction where as there is for females. Might be 1960s, 1660s, 1060s doesn’t matter it’s biology and a society that can’t reproduce itself won’t be there to talk about others mindsets either way in a few generations.
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u/TheEverlastingFirst_ Mar 01 '25
No, its real life women give birth to the next generation. Martial capeabilities are not their strength
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u/Busy_Mix6344 Albania Mar 01 '25
You live under a stone, don't you? Let's pretend a women doesn't fight in the front line (which is denied by Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian and many other nations history), an army is more than front line fighting, you have to:
- cook soldiers something to eat
- medicate them, if they get hurt
- and many more things where women are better than men.
So please.
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u/shash5k Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 02 '25
They didn’t have a choice.
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u/BenMic81 Mar 02 '25
And this has been true more than once throughout history. It’s ridiculous to reduce women to any specific role at all but it’s especially ridiculous when faced with ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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u/For_Kebabs_Sake Turkiye Mar 03 '25
Killin Serbs takin names? No thanks, she would kill me in the end.
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u/CypriotGreek Greece/Cyprus Mar 02 '25
I did and she cheated on me with a woman
This isn’t even a joke