Its CROATIA

@@-0A89 glup si, Jugoslavija nije Hrvatska

@@-0A89 It was still Yugoslavia then. But yes, Riva is a Croatian band.

Rest in peace ❤️🥺

Of course Eurovision has always been political. Yugoslavia has never won the competition before, only in 1989. This was the year of the fall of the Iron Curtain. Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest and the Polish woman became Miss World. And this year the competition was won by Ukraine. Coincidences ...

Terry Wogan was *particularly* outspoken.

LOL Yugoslavia the worst winner erver.

Mocro boy Israel?

@@Tomek-mf2ln did Morocco do good?

@@tsarvic1918 no, he is sick

No idea. That struck me as odd too, especially that we did it for a three-year period.

Did the announcer had to go to the toilet 3 years in a row?

Italy, Spain and Greece were always trying to beat Yugoslavia at european basket events -they have always been were a very strong power in that sport, traditionally-. Those three countries were then serious candidates to try to beat Yugoslavia, but only a few times got a victory over them. Not only in basket, but in many team sports the yugoslavs were very powerful and, specially, Spain was usually defeated by the Balcanians in handball, waterpolo, basket and even in football at that time. The juries of all those three countries could have been misconsidered the yugoslavian song here. Maybe I am phantasizing, but I usually wonder these kind of things when I observe such data on the voting. Another noticeable remark is the fact that Greece and Italy were then among the neighbour countries of Old Yugoslavia.... what about their neighbourhood relationship?

@@JorgeJRO I think that more or less you are fantasizing as far as the greek case is concerned. The fact with Greece is definitely not sports. On the contrary, our rivalry with the Yougoslavs in baskeball and the rest of the team sports was the one factor that was trying to connect us rather than divide us. It helped both countries reinforce a certain level of mutual respect even though in the venues (or swimming pool - we are eternal rivals with the Yougoslavs in water polo) things tended to be really fierce. What maybe went wrong with the Yougoslavs is that we can recognize certain differences in our cultures which are practically perfect strangers to each other. Those differences these certain decades (70s, 80s, early 90s) were enough to put a somewhat cold barrier between the 2 countries even though we were neighbours. This was obvious in many processes as were the entrance and exit from this country, the scarce organized tours (in straight opposition to tours to Italy, Spain, UK or France) or even the news coming from them which used to be random and rare. The fact that Yugo was a communist country as well may have played a small part in them being distant to us, the Greeks have always been looking to the west and we identify ourselves as strongly near with the French people. Greece is attached to France like Lichtenstein is to Switzerland. On the other hand Yugo back then included in its borders a significant part of muslims that are totally unconventional with the greek way of thinking and it was also a time when the issue of the stolen name of Macedonia was starting to boil. There was always around this bad fame that if you enter Yugoslavia expect to be robbed the very first 5 mins. We were right next to each other yet we felt them being light years away.

Rock me- Riva

Yes, I like "Rock Me", it's one of my favorites from '89.

Satori Boy and also Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, (Kosovo...)

techinchly if we watch where emilija kokić is (singer) she is croatian. so win for croatia

Everyone said Yugoslavia won,not Croatia,which is really telling the truth (Im from Croatia) But i dont know. We have to ask Eurovision for that.

svejedno ne tripujte se da je neka pobeda vec je bila podrska Yugi da se ne raspadne..

@@FannomacritaireSuomi Kosovo je Srbija!

Spain's victory by one only point over U.K. in the 1968 contest has made to speak a lot among eurofans, specially in Spain and U.K., logically. We all know the rumors who state that Franco bribed some european juries in order to achieve the victory for our country. All those rumours began from somebody stating something not-everything-right on a Spanish private channel of TV. You can read the true story on Wikipedia. Anyway, yes, Franco was dying and our old regime was reaching at its end, and Spain was trying to be "not so different" by the image projected internationally, but I think the main and almost only very actual reason of Massiel's triomph was the great performance she did of the great song she had to defend. Everything was matter from such a show, nothing coming from external influences at all.

The song was bad though! I, from the UK, believe Finland, Sweden and Denmark had far better songs!

Thanks for 4th! :-)

My top 5 1 Denmark 2 Finland 3 Sweden 4 United Kingdom 5 Spain