Yugoslavia’s Strange Love Affair with Mexico

From Netsurf Digest:

At the end of the 1940s, Yugoslavia’s relationship with the Soviet Union was so strained that it nearly erupted into outright hostilities. Yugoslavians turned their backs on Soviet movies and music and looked elsewhere for entertainment. They found it in the most unlikely of sources. Mexican movies, with their revolutionary themes and ideals, fired the Slavic imagination, and before long Yugoslavians were donning sombreros and forming mariachi bands, which they called “Meksikanski ansambl”. Don’t believe us? The Yu-Mex site has scans of dozens of old record covers and even some (poor-quality) MP3 files of the bizarre Yu-Mex music. The lyrics of these songs were something else: - “Carbine you old gun, tell about your glorious days, all heroes remember you, many of them carrying the wound you gave them. If somebody wanted my hot blood, I would shed it gladly!” Ole!

Yu-Mex Webiste with covers and posters

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