"Yugoslav Military Doctrine Hastened the Country’s Collapse" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Feb 2018 9:46 p.m. PST |
"In April 1941 Axis forces defeated the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and would spend the rest of the war attempting to defeat an array of resistance groups. The most effective of these groups was the Partisans, a broad coalition of national liberation forces led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its general secretary, Josip Broz "Tito." The Partisans, with limited assistance from the British and Soviets, developed into a formidable force capable of conducting both guerrilla and more conventional operations. Following World War II, the Communist Party consolidated its control of the country and Yugoslavia aligned with the Soviet Union. However, Tito soon fell out of favor with Stalin, and in 1948 Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform. Seeking to re-establish their base of legitimacy, Yugoslav Communists returned to Marx and Lenin and formulated their own interpretation of socialism, allowing them to present themselves — rather than Stalin — as the true torchbearers of the revolution…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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