Hello everyone, I hope you are well stay well despite this pandemic crap with the crap restrictions we have to put up with. As you can see I bring you another story, yes, another story. However unlike the others, this will be (finally) the big project I have in mind in this fandom.
The reason?
Simple, I consider the Yugoslavian War as one of my favorite wars with the different ethnicities clashing and the extreme nationalisms. I wanted to adapt it to the Loud family. Now what will it consist of?
This story will be set in the 90's but remembering events from the 80's. The story will be about how the Louds will travel to Yugoslavia to spend the summer on the Croatian coast, not to mention the fact that the war had just started. Their destinies will change forever and separately due to the war.
Thanks to that, some Louds as a consequence will end up being moved to different countries of the former Yugoslavia and furthermore including Albania. This will cause permanent wounds in the family with no possibility of healing to the point of forming total enmities between them.
This is what I already advance you of the story that will have a total of three acts: Before, During and After the war. I warn you that not all the facts will be real, some facts are real but others will be invented by me.
Before I begin I put the character that will represent each country during the war except Macedonia that in this story will function as a simple place of refuge because in reality it did not intervene in the war.
These will be the representatives:
Lincoln: Serbia but in favor of Yugoslavia
Lori: Serbia but in favor of Serbian ultranationalism.
Luna: Slovenia
Luan: Montenegro
Lucy: Croatia
Lynn: Albania
Leni: Bosnia
Others: They will be in Macedonia to protect themselves from the war.
Knowing all this I hope you like this little prologue I have made dedicated to the death of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
Pd: I know the cover is wrong but I will change it eventually.
The Loud House: Yugoslavia
Act I: Before the war (1980-1990)
Prologue: Farewell, Marshal Tito
May 4, 1980
Ljubljana, Slovenia
The weather could not have been colder and more unwelcoming for an event like the one that took place on May 4. The streets of the present-day Slovenian capital looked as if they had been abandoned for a century. However, this was far from being the case. The atmosphere was not the cheerful and hopeful one of the last 35 years. It was literally the opposite in the purest sense of the word. Everything indicated that something tragic was on the verge of happening.
The first people who approached him already foreshadowed that his agony since the end of 1979 had reached its final climax.
"His pulse is very low, he is almost not breathing" was the first sentence that the doctor commented to his family as well as his government partners. The anticipation of his death came as soon as it was announced that his left leg had been amputated due to blood circulation problems that he had been suffering for weeks.
The heart of the one who had been the manda plus of a country that made Adolf Hitler and Iosif Stalin fear during World War II and the Cold War stopped beating at 3:05 p.m. at the city's Medical Center due to heart failure.
The news of the death of Josip Broz Tito, better known as "Tito", spread like wildfire throughout Yugoslavia, causing great resignation and sadness among the citizens about the long-suffering but evident departure of their leader due to his advanced age.
The communist country completely stopped all its activities for at least a week as a sign of an official eternal mourning to the marshal. From all soccer matches to school days. In short, everything would change from that cursed date that meant the beginning of the end of Yugoslavia.
A country born in 1945 after the Second World War thanks to the revolution of the partisan army with the help of the USSR, a nation with which they would break all kinds of relations some time later. After a brief nine-year period of Ivan Ribar in power from 1945 to 1953, right after that, Tito, the man who would change everything, came into power.
Thanks to him, the different ethnic groups were united for the first time, from the Orthodox Serbs to the Catholic Croats to the Muslim Bosnians. Unlike the other communist countries, Tito decided to stay out of the events of the Cold War by not positioning himself in favor of any side, thanks to the movement of non-aligned countries.
He was the only one who opposed the domination of the Soviet Union to the point of initiating an extreme enmity despite supposedly being of the same ideology. Rumors intensified about which Tito had Stalin killed after the latter suffered a total of that he suffered a total of 22 assassination attempts.
The rumor had been sparked by a letter that Stalin kept under lock and key until the day of his death. The letter read:
Stop sending people to kill me! We have already captured five assassins: one with a bomb, one with a rifle... If you don't stop sending me assassins, I will send one to Moscow very quickly and I certainly won't need to send another.
Despite the suspicions on the part of the Soviets, it all ended there after Stalin's successor came to power and settled the matter.
Even with Tito in power, nationalisms already started to resurface even before his death. It was mainly Slovenia and Croatia that were the most dissatisfied with the regime, almost crying out for a referendum that would allow them to gain independence and separate from Yugoslavia once and for all. For obvious reasons all requests and even threats were stopped by the marshal, that meant they would have to wait until his death to fulfill their task... even if they had to shed innocent blood to achieve it.
That did not mean that most of the country was not affected by his death, in general everybody loved him as the man who had led them to eternal glory... Except for the independentistas and nationalists.
False promises and outright lies were especially prominent during the cold and frosty day of his funeral. A certain part of the population feigned without compassion the sadness for the loss of their leader. However, this meant the beginning of a macabre plan whose sole objective was to destroy everything that Tito once built under blood, sweat and tears. While one promised to give him a worthy succession and keep the country as a great power, others simply wanted the total destruction of everything they knew so far. Those who would soon betray him were the first to pay tribute to him by maintaining false positions, inside people who were even very close to him, in the end their tasks were totally different from what they promised.
The flag with the red star of Yugoslavia was placed on his grave as the flag and the empire he built by keeping the German Nazis and Soviet communists at bay. His future traitors waited impatiently until his spirit left his body to seize the opportunity they had been looking for for so many years, to leave the regime to become a dependent zone and leave the communist regime for good.
"There is little time left, we only have to wait to take advantage of this opportunity and make them fall surrendered at our feet" said an unknown voice along the horizon.
Those men elegantly uniformed for the occasion reflected a great sadness on the outside, meanwhile inside they were jumping with joy at the thought of how the disintegration plan would be, that was what his later traitors called him.
Days after his funeral Tito was buried in the House of Flowers in the city of Belgrade, every day he received thousands and thousands of visitors crying for him and leaving him an extensive amount of bouquets of flowers from all kinds of people of different nationalities. The population, especially in Serbia, felt that they had lost a great one, to the point that they felt that it seemed that they were going to die too. They could not restrain themselves from calling the Croatians living in the area "traitors". They argued that they had shown symbols of rebellion against the communist regime.
In Croatia and Slovenia the feelings were totally opposite, their hatred of the Serbs by their politicians and military was on the verge of getting out of control. Their desire to get rid of communism and become independent from Yugoslavia was the beginning of the disaster.
For the moment everything seemed to be relatively relaxed in spite of all that was happening, however, it would only be a minimal mirage. There were in the coming days arrests of Croatian ultranationalists approaching Tito's tomb to try to graffiti it with insults towards him and later they were arrested by the police. These minor acts of what appeared to be typical hooligans were really the clear sign that things could go wrong in the short or long term in the near future.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, they would see the death of the Marshal as a unique opportunity to destroy not only Yugoslavia, but to destroy all their political and economic rivals in order to become the only world power, taking advantage of their weaknesses, especially in the economic field, which brought with it a war that was beginning to be smelled since the last years of Tito. They would do anything to become the kings of the world.
But at what price...?
To be continued
I hope you liked this chapter. Before I say goodbye, I'll show you a little preview of the next chapter that will be nine years later but with small flashbacks years back in time. It will be almost impossible for you to guess whose point of view it is, but you will be surprised. Stay tuned and see you next time.
Preview:
P.O.V: ?
I never thought a soccer match would turn into a war, thank god we didn't get hurt at least in my close circle. I thought I was going to die, it is a miracle that there were no deaths or excessively serious casualties or so I would like to think.
I knew that country was but I never imagined that so much that they would reach such heights of hatred.
I feel sorry for my love, who unfortunately and without disrespect has these origins, I do not want him to suffer again as he suffered today. I understand that it is his country but I think it is best that he does not return for a long time and go with me to the United States. There the situation is better and we can be better off.
I swear to God that no innocent people will die because of this. Now I understand the real situation in that country. I have seen things that no one would believe.