Posted on 05/14/2015 10:10:19 AM PDT by Ravnagora
I’ll admit I’d never seen a claim like it before either.
Remember that we only started in stages to try to counter Stalin's seizure of nations, after a number of alarming developments. Meanwhile, Paton had been removed--and possibly assassinated for being anti-Communist; and Stalin had seized several Eastern European nations. (We did not really react until after Czechoslovakia fell.)
To briefly comment on the main theme of the thread, Mihailovic was the true Serbian loyalist. It is about time that they honored his memory.
It is largely lost on the current scene, but he commanded the guerrilla forces loyal to King Peter, the teen aged Monarch, who courageously fought against the German invasion--rushing to rescue Mussolini from humiliation, after the Italians attacked Greece, and were effectively counter-attacked.
It was Hitler's forces who were rushing to save Mussolini from humiliation--obviously not King Peter's who resisted bravely against the Nazi demand that they be allowed through Yugoslavia.
About time....no matter... he is already a heroic legend among freedom lovers everywhere.
Well, Tito (i.e. his lieutenants) also collaborated with Nazis albeit nothing really came out of their discussions.
That said, the primary point is that most people do not understand that there was a civil war going on in that region within a broader (larger) war - of course that broader war being WWII.
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