A Thorn in Hitler's Side: How the Brutally Efficient Yugoslav Partisans TERRORISED the Axis

[@z000ey]

Thanks for the video, comments: 1. a lot of the pictures misplaced or showing completely different partisan movements, i.e. 1:48 a Partisan Spitfire squadron is shown (cca '44 or '45, with a star emblem) rather than a Royal Yugoslav plane of 1941. (had Bf109e's and Hurricanes as single wing fighters with a white cross on blue circle as emblem), then multiple photos of partisans in the USSR from 6:35 onwards with only a few photos of actual Yugoslav Partisans. 2. the Independent State of Croatia (completely quisling state, contrary to it's name) and it's treatment of it's citizens of different nationalities (especially Serbs) and all political opponents (especially the left, including communists but also all social democrats, even the traditional peasant party members) was the moving power for the thousands upon thousands that enlisted the Partisan movement. Most of the population did not care much about the Allies/Axis at all, but faced with their own lives at stake there was not much they could do but resist in guerrilla style. And for anybody other than Serbs there was only the Partisan movement to join (except a small organisation in Slovenia that got a lot of Italian help in forming). 3. the coup of March 27. (0:50) was a British undercover operation intended to postpone the Axis takeover of Greece, buying time for UK/Anzac troops to take hold there and keep a front in "the soft underbelly" of Europe. This plan failed thoroughly (with the sacrifice of another previously friendly state) as the Germans had already prepared and took Yugoslavia in no time. Belgrade had actually officially surrendered to Fritz Klingerberg's recce force of EIGHT (8!!!) German soldiers that crossed the Danube in a small boat and waltzed into the center of a well garrisoned capital city (check that great story, worth a Tarantino movie). 4. up to late 1943. even with the US/UK led coalition climbing up the Italian boot, Germans held MORE divisions in Yugoslavia vs. the Partisans than in Italy. This lasted up to Monte Cassino and Anzio (and after Kugelblitz) when they pulled some of those formations into Italy. From then on they were on a defensive in Yugoslavia, only launching an unsuccessful attempt on Tito directly in May 1944. with a combined parachute and ground offensive into Drvar (Partisan headquarters at the time). 5. lots of Chetniks switched side into Partisans form '44 onward, following the agreement with the royal Yugoslav government (9:05). 6. the points mentioned in 4. and 5. were crucial for the following Partisan successes, along the fact that Romania and Bulgaria switched sides after the collapse of the Eastern German front in Ukraine and the arrival of Soviets on the eastern Yugoslav borders. Still, the armament of the Partisans was mainly armament taken from the enemy and the armament dropped by UK/US, Soviets did help around Belgrade but then left into Hungary. Thus the Partisans DID actually liberate most of the territory themselves. 7. the last battle was not the Battle of Poljana but rather the Battle of Odžak, where it took the Partisan forces until May 25th to fully clean up the Ustaša formations (up to 12.000 at the start of the battle) surrounded there, resisting to the last bullet. About another Partisan movement, the Greek one is also very interesting! Might be a good watch.

[@TheFront]

Informative and well thought out comment. Appreciate it🫡

[@brett4264]

Eyeroll...

[@z000ey]

@Sucking at chess the point is it wouldn't even had occurred if the Brits hadn't supported it. The main body of the plotters were Serbian officers and officials that were both vs. an agreement with the Axis (which practically all in Yugoslavia but the illegal Ustashe were too) but also vs. all the reforms undergone in the previous years, especially the Cvetković-Maček agreement including the Banovina Hrvatska that was formed through that agreement. In other words, those guys were Yugoslavs in name but actually Greater Serbs that wanted the power to stay Belgrade centric, and as such had absolutely no help from other nationalities political movements in the putsch although the vast majority of politicians were morally against it. The Regent Pavle even directly TOLD Hitler that this agreement will last as long as he's not overthrown and that he expected at the most one year. He was wrong by -363 days!!! He signed it in dire circumstances with assurances that nothing would be sought form Yugoslavia other than staying NEUTRAL in the war, at that time meaning not attacking into Albania or sending troops to help Greece. Hitler had troops in Bulgaria already (no need to go through Yugoslavia to attack Greece, he neede them back through Yugoslavia though as it was a faster route), and as Bulgaria previously signed the action of Yugoslav signing would mean that Yugoslav borders would be protected from any Bulgarian claims!!! Bulgaria could thus only expand into Greece and not in Macedonia or Eastern Serbia, which would be extremely beneficial to Yugoslavia. Of course no dismemberment of the country would take place, Croatians would be satisfied by the Banovina agreement, no Ustashas would take power and bring hell into Croatia and Bosnia, no Serb civilians would be shot in hundreds then thousands as reprisals, although most likely Jews would be persecuted after 1942.-43... Without the British intelligence acting upon the plotters with assurances that UK will help immediately and enter southern parts of Yugoslavia as soon as possible with troops (completely aware that those statements were blatant lies, as UK was in no position to help at the time), these guys wouldn't even try that coup. BTW they very well knew that the western parts of Yugoslavia would not have defenses at all and they didn't really care about it, since those were not their point of interest. Their interest laid mainly in Greater Serbia and not Slovenia or Croatia, those were left to Italy to devour as per 1915. plan by both those nations extremist politicians. In other words, they completely sacrificed Yugoslavia for their own Greater Serbia goals, come what may, with British false assurances and logistical help. And the civilians got punished heavily for that decision, as always... Just to point how the politics of war were at the time, Iceland was INVADED by the British. Had not the Germans landed in Norway on April 9th the British would have landed on April 10th (they were already sent and were on route prior to the German landings). The is a legend that king Haakon VII upon being waken up due to the invasion asked whether it was Germans or Brits...

[@caniconcananas7687]

I also vote for the Greek resistance. Its fate is even more interesting to discover how Stalin and Churchill divided Europe, betraying entire countries, delivered to the tyranny of local Stalinists. Thanks also for mentioning the incredible and bold "invasion" of Belgrade by Klingerberg leading just a handful of soldiers. It's a success of the power of the mind over the force.

[@cambuurleeuwarden]

@@brett4264 Informative comment buddy. What exactly said by the original comment made your eyes roll and why? Or was it directed at @the front comment?

[@samkitty5894]

My father and his 3 brothers joined the partisans in 1941. I asked him how did he get used to fighting knowing that any day could be his last. He said it was hard in the beginning. He was scarred shitless covering his head with his hands. From battle to battle he got more and more brave, and very effective with his rifle. It became like a job to him he said. He was shooting at the Germans standing up, unafraid, willing to accept his fate. He and his comrades never took prisoners. He knew if the situation was reversed he also would not be given any mercy. Partisans were considered terrorists, not a recognized army. His brothers were killed. He survived although wounded few time. He stayed with the newly formed Yugoslavian army which schooled and educated him to the position of officer. My father was not a good husband or a good father...memories and experiences of the war never left him. He drank heavily and was only comfortable around other veterans. War is hell. There are no winners, only losers.

[@jessicarichardson7225]

Thank you for your honesty, it takes courage to call a spade a spade.

[@jackreacher4488]

My grandfather was in the partizani. He was wounded and captured by the Germans, taken to a hospital to recover, then sent home.

[@breal3647]

Tito is the biggest criminal in the Balkans.

[@jackreacher4488]

@@breal3647 Agreed.

[@respectedlocalgentleman7108]

Lol. Yugoslav Partisans fighting the Germans. That's like macaroni fighting cheese.

[@davidbouvier8895]

My dad was a British army sgt. in Italy. He told me this: At one point, a group of Yugoslav partisans came over for some R&R. These brave fighters comprised both men and women. The Brits immediately tried separating the women into different barracks from the men. The women absolutely refused: "We fight with these men. We die with these men. And we sleep with these men".

[@AndreAndFriends]

SERBIAN WOMEN!!! ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 ❤️

[@timbrwolf1121]

@@AndreAndFriends Slavic women in general 🥰 A side effect of putins invasion of Ukraine is going to be a ridiculous number of single russian women for at least the next decade.

[@nikolaskoric804]

@@timbrwolf1121 Omg I had a huge laugh 😂😂, and I shouldn't...because the whole situation in Ukraine is tragic. But it's funny cuz it's true 😂I mean Russia before the invasion had more women than man( because the population of men never managed to recover from ww2), now the gap will only get wider. One mans misfortune is others man fortune. I'm a Serb and if I have a Russian wife, does that mean our children will be Ukrainian? 😝🤣

[@dasboot5903]

@@timbrwolf1121 Amen.

[@dasboot5903]

@@nikolaskoric804 You will never know bro ....

[@LN-dt7xf]

At the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II they were representatives of 86.5 percent of the world's countries. At Tito's funeral, it is a percentage amount of 88.8.(today the UN has 193 member states, while in 1980 at the time of Tito's death there were 148 member states,for additional context it should be mentioned that at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II were also representatives of over 50 member states of the Commonwealth.) according to that fact, he was the most respected statesman in the whole world in recent history and that could not be without reason

[@lucagerulat307]

I think the biggest reason why the yugoslavian partisans are often forgotten in both the west and the soviet Union is yugoslavias unique position as a communist non aligned country during the cold War. The West did not want to acknowledge the partisans success because they were communist and the East didn't want to acknowledge them because of the Tito / Stalin split.

[@danielefabbro822]

Nah, at least, here in Italy people don't talk about Tito's partisans because do that means looks like being fascist. People who decide to talk about that topic is usually accused to be fascist. So the public opinion here is that of ignore everything and go on doing public events to denounce what fascists and nazi have done in Italy and Yugoslavia. Condemn it entirely without any "if". That is the right thing to do but at the same time, if even the State refuses to give explanations and teaching correctly the history behind it, it just leads to more ignorance and by consequence, more extremism. Both ideological and political. At least in the long run. In reality many of our people either they are pro-fascists or not, reminds and knows what happened in Yugoslavia in those years. Especially at the end of the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia. 300.000 exiles, unknown number of civilians killed by Yugoslavia partisans. Ethnic cleaning from Tito against Italians. In international ambience, we can't either say these things for similar reasons. Other than to be accused again to be just fascists. And of course there are the usual jokes and common places about Italy. So Italians never talked about, they never asked nothing, no reparations or recognitions. In the recent years Croatian president usually shows off to join our President of the Republic in front of the monuments to condemn extremism and violence perpetrated by both fascist and communist regimes. But it's an event that have little media coverage, so few follows it, even less knows specifically what's happen and these new are not even decently covered by the same national media of both countries. Still, both governments and States do it officially every year. Here a link if you want to know something. It's in Italian but there are English subs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIa1poykmKiGotk

[@independentthought3390]

@@danielefabbro822 Yes, but Tito's partizans, along with Italian communists, did horrible things after the war in Yugoslavia and parts of north-east Italy.

[@DailyHistoryBuff]

We were going to be Too OP and they had to nerf us...

[@danielefabbro822]

@@independentthought3390 yes, we have the day to remember the Foibe. 10-20.000 civilians death. Then there was the exodus.

[@sugbarnis]

@@danielefabbro822 We took back what was ours - ende Everywhere along the croatian coast there are big and proud monuments how we defended our Yugoslavia against italian fascists

[@grimmig13]

The Yugo partisans are probably not discussed as much because a small, communist force originating from a country that is no longer relevant managed to achieve similar, if not more success than much larger and more dignified armies. Acknowledging their successes would serve as an embarassment to very powerful players on the geopolitical playground and the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars don't help their case either.

[@HawkThunder907]

Thanks to the chetniks but the partisans didn't use weapons but propaganda and like that they were heroes, but in reality many communists under Tito collaborated with Usaše. The chetniks were formed to protect serbs from more genocide.

[@3breze757]

@@HawkThunder907 says the guy with chetnik avatar, cry more nazi collaborator

[@adlibitum2139]

@@HawkThunder907 lmao ur either delusional or heavily indoctrinated with chetnik ideology. or both

[@lycanaes8418]

Yugoslavia lost 70% of male population during those wars, we never recovered and no one talks about it. Thank you The Front, you don't know how much this means to us from Balkan.

[@Usernotfound9920]

Ehh, of those 70 percent, 68 percent died after the war, mostly Croats😢

[@m.aurelius]

French resistance didn’t liberate a single village on their own, while the Yugoslav partisans liberated a large chunk of their country without direct support.

[@vanja2565]

Yugoslav partisans took nothing lmao, most of work was done by the yugoslav army and RKKA, they later just took the credit for it

[@baki4341]

@@vanja2565 what are you on my guy? Which yugoslav army. The partisans were the yugoslav army

[@vanja2565]

@@baki4341 no they were not. Yugoslav army fought a civil war with them. Just look JVUO up

[@baki4341]

@@vanja2565 OH that yugoslav army im familiar with the topic as i am from croatia but while its true not all formations of serb nationalists did horrible shit, they didnt really liberate anything apart from probably some places in serbia i dont really know about their actions there too well, they were largely defeated by the end of 1943, by this i mean no longer being able to threaten the partisans with their actions. Lets not fight lets have a civil discusion i mean no harm

[@darriguescaroline5668]

In south west of France during summer 44 (beetween Toulouse, Agen etc), a lot of area made up-rising and succeed to liberated villages and city. But to be fair, Germans forces where planning to escape from these parts. And in some area Germans made some Fortress (Festnung) like Royan (Not so far from Bordeaux), and while experimented French forces were fighting in Alsace and later Germany, the resistants were enroled in the army and liberated some of these parts (Not all to be precise). I know that war in Yugoslavia was terrible and bloody, but sadly (i don't want to make a competition, R.I.P for all the civilian victims), Germans did also dirty acts in France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre No anger, no boastfulness, just to inform you. Message from Marc (France).

[@adnandzindosoda]

Tito is only person who smoked tompus inside the White house. Top G

[@pmladen1005]

Tito and Snoop Dogg, but Tito infront of everyone

[@d0m574]

That's literally misleading comment that has been going on through for years, at that time smoking was allowed in White House lol.

[@bokar98]

Cuban cigar while USA was in war with Cuba.

[@alenabazovski]

And in Buckingham Palace

[@ilijameseldzija2983]

​@@d0m574 No it wasn't. This happened in 1971 and smoking in White House is banned since 1946. And not any cigar but Cuban cigar (illegal in US) which Tito was getting from Fidel Castro. When Tito started lightning it up, Nixon looked at him and told him: "Mr President, we don't smoke in the White House" on which Tito answered him: "Good for you" and lighted up a cigar. After that, there was a moment of silence, Nixon just smiled and didn't mentioned it again. That was a proof how much Tito was powerful.

[@inherentvice3393]

My father was an 18-year-old boy when he was taken to an Italian concentration camp. After 6 months, the camp was liberated, and my father joined Tito's partisans. I am proud to be his son.

[@inherentvice3393]

@Johnny Testinator THX. From September 1943. until 02. May 1945. when he was in Trieste, when that Italian city was liberated from Germans by Tito's partisans. Western Allies (British and US) did not honestly consider Tito's partisans to be allies because they were comunists.

[@AudieHolland]

Tito's Partisans did not receive nearly as much acclaim as the Polish and French resistance because Tito was a Communist. Note: half of the French resistance was Communist too and they are rarely mentioned either.

[@HawkThunder907]

Chetniks were pro allied and are portrait as collaborators.

[@moler]

apparently there is a difference between communist and commnist or to be more accurate some communist are more equal then others communist.

[@coraddo280]

My grandfather and his two brothers joined the partizans. Two of them got killed. One at age of 25,killed by the Bulgarian fascists,and the second one,killed at age of 17,killed by the Albanian fascists. Eternal glory to all of them!

[@nessa71034]

I have always admired Yugoslavia for their resistance 💕

[@Lessgo00]

There were 2 bravest partisans, Croatian Stjepan Filipović and Montenegrin Sava Kovačević. When Nazis along with chetniks hanged Filipović he said "Death to fascism, freedom to people".

[@alexwest2573]

"I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities." ~ Josip Broz Tito

[@freefalling6960]

how well did that multiculture turn out for them? That shit never works but still we keep trying to make it work.

[@majdavojnikovic]

@@freefalling6960 it took about ten years of heavy nationalistic propaganda from all centers, much help for that from abroad, and a gift of IMF putting country on financial diet for a debt of 26% og GDP to break it. I mean, it was a lot of work.

[@majdavojnikovic]

@@freefalling6960I don't agree, and I should know, as I was a witness. Nobody lived in communism, but in socialism, big difference ( Google it) And, in Yugoslavia, what multiculturalism? Everybody lived the same. Listening to the same music, speaking the same language, reading the same books, watching the same movies, vacationing at the same places. I didn't even knew what nation was my husband. Multiculturalism, internationalism, migration, is not only better way, but it is the only way, as it existed our whole history. Those who are pure nations are those who lived isolated, the rest is already mixed in every possible way What does a nationalist want? What do they want? What would make them happy? Close the borders, have ethnically pure population, with one homogenistic isolionalistic culture and " one view of the world, OURS"? If you really want to die out as culture, be my guest.

[@Alexx975]

@@majdavojnikovic indeed. Together with a lot of support from USA and Europe. Both wanted to see Jugoslavija falling appart.

[@prostadušaslovenska]

@@Alexx975 If anything Europe and USA is the reason Yugoslavia existed how much it existed. Artificial country with no identity of its own that people can relate to is doomed. Same thing with Bosnia now. Only reason Bosnia exists is because Europe and USA are forcing people.

[@kristijan8518]

I'm glad someone is finally acknowledging the sacrifice and suffering the Yugoslav people went through.

[@HawkThunder907]

But still nobody cares about the real heroes, the Italian army and the chetniks.

[@pu4e1]

THE BIGGEST LIE! The bigger the lie, the longer it takes to disprove. The "perfidious Albion" regime in London decided Serbs could be better controlled by betraying Europe's first anti-Hitler resistance leader, (then) Col. Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović, and substituting a non-Serb named Josip Broz, who had been on the English payroll since the 1920s. Thus, Hitler's widely posted Nazi "WANTED" notice for the arrest of Colonel Mihailović was never shown in Anglo media and the Anglos instead promoted Anglo-collaborator Josip Broz as the "sole" resistance leader even though he only took up arms *after* Mihailović, when Hitler surprised Stalin by invading the Soviet Union and Stalin then ordered Broz to fight Hitler's Nazis in occupied royal Yugoslavia. To support their man Broz, the English then gradually cut off all weapons and ammunition supplies to loyal royalist colonel Draža Mihailović and his royalist Serb-led resistance movement, the "Југословенска војска у отаџбиниi" (Yugoslav Army in the Homeland), and falsely accused (then) General Mihailović of collaboration after his forces released captured Italians in return for their weapons, which he needed to continue fighting all of the anti-government totalitarian enemies: the occupying Nazis of Adolf Hitler, the Communist-led Partizans of Josip Broz, and the clerico-fascist Croatian Ustaša of Ante Pavelić (who had also been on the Anglo payroll since the 1920s!). George Orwell wrote in 1943 about the trick played on the Serbian people and on the world, but his comments were officially censored for 30 years, until they were finally printed in England and in the USA, in 1972, decades after Orwell's death in 1950. READ AND WEEP! PS: Why did the English betray the Serbs? Because they had studied the close historic and genetic links between the Serbs and the Russians, and knew that the Serbs would NEVER join in any future Anglo-Western war against their Russian brothers, regardless of whether it was led by the Nazis or by NATO, as it is today, in Ukraine. (Thus the Anglos provided support to Hitler, Broz and Pavelić... all of whom they saw as enemies of the Serbs, and their "big borthers" the Russians... who the Anglos see as their main global power rivals till this very day).

[@zomber566]

@rijeka_niggers Yeah glorifying the 2nd worst fascist state in Europe is a really good look for you

[@pu4e1]

@@castorcarvi Serbs were some of the greatest victims of Yugoslavia. Anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000 Serbs who were loyalists to the King and of whome fought alongside the Chetniks were caught and executed between 1945 and 1955. All the while Tito hushed the genocide of +600,000 Serbs in Jasenovac by Ustasha forces and another +350,000 Serbian civilians killed in other locations throughout Bosnia and Croatia during the Nazi Satellite state of Croatia. This is all documented fact and I have both French and US sources to confirm these numbers. Tito was a Bolshevik Communist from the same order as Stalin, Lenin, Marx who led 60-110 million Christian Russians to die in Gulags.

[@pu4e1]

@@castorcarvi And to say 'Yugoslav' people do not exist is utter bs. Genetically Croats.Slovenians, Bosnian's etc have a common ancestor who accounts for 40% of the populations of all the smaller regions we see today. Then there is the fact that a common language is spoken by all the Yugoslavs. Then we have the fact the Croatians are simply Serbs who living for hundreds of years under Frankish empire and then later the AustroHungarian empire were forced to assimilate into the Western Catholicism and changed their writing from Cirilic to Latin alphabets. Bosnian Muslims are Serbs who converted to Islam during the Ottoman occupation of Balkans and prominent Muslims today like Salih Selimovic admit this fact as well as others. The 90's war was basically an attempt by the West in conjunction with modern day descendants of the Ustasha and Bosnian Muslim Handzar division to complete the task they failed in ww2 by recreating a 'Greater Croatia' which they hoped would occupy all of modern day Croatia and Bosnia and to expel all Serbs from this region through the 3 methods used by Ante Paveliches Ustasha, kill a third, convert a third and ethnically cleanse the rest. They succeeded vastly in Croatia due to help from the West but not in Bosnia where due to staunch Serbian resistance a Serbian Republic was born with in Bosnia itself.

[@glenchapman3899]

I worked with a couple Partisans back in the 1990s. One was a woman, who at the age of 67 had her purse snatched. She beat the thief so badly the police considered charging her lol

[@brankajosilo-perry8889]

Both parents in the Partizans. I am so proud of them. My father said little. I found out a lot more from my mum who was a medical aid and a soldier. The odds were so much against them but they were victorious. Their achievements should never be diminished or forgotten. Both were wonderful parents and kind and loving human beings, not only to their children but to whoever they met and could help.

[@gokitrki5577]

Hvala im vecno!

[@travaa54]

Za dom spremni

[@mralexlex]

Hvala im.

[@itsblitz4437]

So happy for you. To serve the fatherland!

[@mothermadness3586]

wow, your parents are heroes. you can be proud!

[@mirsadogic5157]

when the German generals told Hitler that Tito was unimportant and not a real danger, Hitler answered them that I need such a man, the generals were surprised and asked why Hitler answered them, I gave you an army and you did nothing, but Tito made an army out of nothing

[@raner2367]

Čak postoji i Himmlerov govor o tome ...

[@aleksandarteodorovic5349]

nE SERI.

[@raner2367]

@@aleksandarteodorovic5349 salje li ista kralj u Londonu

[@Андреа-е3п]

@@raner2367 Oteta država kao sto je oteto i KiM. Valja to ispraviti. Britanci izjebali malog kralja, pa uvalili.ovog agenta.

[@avetsuper6272]

@@aleksandarteodorovic5349 ne kenjaj pastiru kad ne znas

[@vladimirdragoljevic1779]

My grandfather was a Yugoslav partisan, he served in the 9th Krajina Brigade in the small town of Kupres in northwestern Bosnia, and we inherit that tradition. The video is good, but the crimes of the Croatian Ustasha were not mentioned, nor was it stated that 90% of the civilians who died were Serbs.

[@BlackQback]

My grandfather, as an act of rebellion against his wealthy but cruel, fanatically religious father, joined communists before fighting started, and was a part of of underground resistance primarily against NDH, then joined partisans as soon as the chance presented itself, but sadly on one occasion he came to visit my grandma in Zagreb and see my baby mum, in 1942, he was arrested and sent to a prison in Germany (luckily, not a conc. camp), and spent most of the war there, until freed by allies. He hurriedly returned home and joined partisans at the start of 1945 and stayed until that last battle. Meanwhile my grandma was working for the underground resistance, carrying correspondence and participating in other covert operations. Grandfather's brother, a veterinarian by education and occupation, earned a "national hero" status (and there's still a street named after him), for fighting ustaše and healing animals, mostly cows and horses for civilians and taking care of partisan's horses too; but mostly, for the way he went - when he got caught by ustaše, he activated a bomb/granade(?) killing himself and taking 14 of those ustaše scum with him. My grandparents lived into their 90s and never talked about the war, except the few facts here and there. Now I'm sorry I didn't push grandpa a bit harder to tell me at least about the history part of it all, if not his personal experiences. He preferred to talk about world geography and teach me to play cards.

[@drazenivanda9514]

I am most proud to say that my grandfather (still alive, and a decorated war vet, last name Polić) fought in the Partisan movement in Dalmatia, and that our hometown of Šibenik gave many brave fighters in the epic battle of Sutjeska / 5th off. His mother and the rest of his family was taken and killed in Jasenovac, a very (if not the most) cruel and notorious war camp established by the Ustasha forces and the so called NDH - Independent state of Croatia. That was on my mother's side, and on my father's the Italian Axis forces burned alive some 10 family members behind their house in our local village near Šibenik, and the survivors joined the Partisans as well. They were all Croats, Dalmatians and proud patriots. Had nothing to do with communism, a mere peasants, land workers, fishermen, fighting for their lives and their country.

[@ms-jl6dl]

My grandfather was also captured and killed in Jasenovac,I got named after him (Milan)-I was the first grandson. And after one partisan ambush on German convoy as a retribution combined German-ustasha forces massacred dozens of villages in the area (western Bosnia). In my grandpa's village they caught and killed 7 (out of 100) in the next one 22 (of 150). They were burnt alive,all of them very young children and their grandparents. Adults grabbed some children and run away in the woods. Those who couldn't run fast were captured. They were also not big on communism,just kill or be killed. And every generation of my family in the last 200 years had to start from zero after loosing everything in some balkan war (stolen,burnt,destroyed),last time in the nineties but we keep keeping on. Tough region. We are like Taliban of Europe.

[@3lazo]

Eternal glory to your grandfather and his comrades! My grandfather was one of them as well.

[@zrm1134]

@Simon Horvat .... AJDE NE JEDI

[@zrm1134]

..... BRAVO ..... IS MAKEDONIJE

[@swamifakkananda4043]

Wooooow, kakva prica!! Jel covjek jos ziv?? Ja mislim da, procentualno, dalmatinci su cinili najvise partizana.

[@sle3py_zZz]

Fun fact:leader of USSR once tried sending special agents everywhere to kill Tito, but they never successed..Tito sent him an message saying "Stop sending people to kill me,dont make me send someone,because i wont need to send another".Tito is a true legend!

[@malozez]

I heard the same thing about how Tito was sending ppl to kill Stalin but anyways both stories are viable as "trust me bro"

[@DamjanZivanovic]

​@@malozez Titos letter to Stalin is absolutely true,and Stalin in fact stopped sending assasins after that,but instead startet to arrest and terrorise Titoists in Soviet Union.

[@klauslass6766]

Truth, Tito told it to Stalin.

[@damirglavas7940]

I never heard such a stupid story in my life🤔😂.Please show me the source of this nonsense .I dare you🤨! And why is this communist fake myth a fun fact 🤨?

[@miketheman4341]

He was a clown , mass murderer and authoritarian dictator.

[@fxgarden3271]

My grandfather was in the Yugoslav partisans. Captured by the Germans, got lucky they needed workforce so he was sent to Dachau where he had to work until the end of the war. Barely survived, he was about 190cm (6ft3) and had 40kg when the Americans liberated the place. Took him almost a year to recover and get back home, he was presumed dead. The man was an absolute beast.

[@goranindjic7725]

You forgot to write that English army as a part of NATO fascists bombed Yugoslavia and Belgrade... They spread depleted uranium with bombs... Now, we are ashamed that we helped Americans and Englishmen... Never with you. Your culture is very dangerous for human civilization...

[@stanislavkoshkin6224]

Who would thought, that phrases "got lucky" and "sent to Dachhau" could be in one sentence but overall good story. Your grandfather was definitely a beast

[@slenderman27490]

@@stanislavkoshkin6224 My great grandfather was killed at the battle of Sutjeska, he didn't even had to go to fight, because he had two kids. Grandmother's father was captured and sent to an Italian prison in Montenegro, and his wife ended up in a concentration camp in Ilok, both died. Lucky indeed...

[@OtaBengaBokongo]

did he see the gas chambers? 😭😭

[@tatjanaarandelovic9555]

My grandad was a Yugoslav Partisan. He came from Serbia to Slovenia, married and joined the Partisans. He also was captured by the Germans, but luckily enough they sent him not even to a work camp, but to work for a farmer in Austria. One day he just didn't come back and fled and joined them again until the end of the war. When I was a kid he always some stories. I'm really admire him until now xxx 🙏

[@vosstoofly]

My great grandfather was around 20 when ww2 started and he joined the Partisans, he told me many stories about fighting the Axis forces all the way to Italy, he was and still is my hero.

[@mexicanusrex9418]

I believe that the reason why the Yugoslav Partisan's isn't covered in the West is because of Historical Western Eurocentrcism towards the Balkan region.

[@Nightdare]

Nope Simply Communism The west didn't like that one bit It's also why figures like General Zhukov were only recognized and appreciated later by western history

[@depechemoto]

My grandfather was a 14yr old messenger with the partizans, shot twice, moved to Canada after the war and rarely ever talked about it or glorified anything... he laughed a lot and lived a good life. What a hero. Every single one of them..

[@jeyzeus]

My grandmother (on my father's side) was also a messenger for partisans starting when she was a teen. After the war, she had a chance to register herself as a veteran and she could get a nice job and pension (if she joins the communist party). However, her father forbid her to do so as he was afraid that in a few years, a different political option would rule and that might get her in trouble if she would be associated with communists. From time to time she would tell a funny anecdote about those times, but avoid telling bad experiences, even though I know they happened (my dad told me about it). On my mom's side, almost everyone was involved somehow with partisans (mainly in support functions).

[@scalfer]

Those who moved to Canada,... actually escaped the partisan terror. He didn't talk about it for your safety. After war people were killed in most brutal ways. It was a genocide on a large scale.

[@vukotapejovic898]

Same here my great-grand father was messenger with a partizans when he was 13yr

[@onrr1726]

I suspect that the reason why the Yugoslav partisan army is ignored is simply because Yugoslavia was a communist country. That or most people in the western world are just to stupid and blind to sort out the facts that Yugoslavia and the USSR were not the same country and in fact ran on two diffrent ideological ways of thinking when it came to communist ideas with Yugoslavia bring a little more liberal thinking while the USSR being more hardcore.

[@aldoso2]

That's true! But Tito wanted a different comunist way and, when he broke with the USSR, he became the worst enemy for KPCC, near the Capitalistic World. France liberation movement is overrated, if you consider how much the Popular amy of liberation made. I'm Italian, and I don't forget the umiliations given the italians kicked out after 1947 by jugoslavian government!

[@usernwn7qe]

Yugoslavia was never communist, not sure where people got that from. Half of the GDP came from Guestworkers living in western Europe.(which they do until this day)

[@krizanicmisko8763]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bojanmitrovic972]

@@usernwn7qe lol yugoslavija was communist till break up 100% , but yes much more liberal then others, and 1 thing Tito did was if you dont like it here just piss off and go whereever you want, but guest workers started end of 70ths really ;)

[@usernwn7qe]

​@@bojanmitrovic972 Serbia has a population of ~6 Million, but the Serbian diaspora is anywhere between 4-6 Million. (Mainly western Europe and North America, yep you won´t find "communist" Serbians in Cuba or North Korea.) To put things into context, picture *1 Billion* Chinese "Communist" would reside in the "Capitalist" West as guestworkers. That's the numbers we´re talking !

[@zekoomrkva]

Yugoslav Partisans and the old Yugoslavia were respected worldwide until the 1990s. Tito was literally a legend almost everywhere in the world. However, many decades have passed and after the breakup, Yugoslavia's name was appropriated and thus trashed by Slobodan Milosevic. That's why many got confused over the title and associated Yugoslavia with a conflict with NATO and the West.

[@CountBane]

Did You Know: Stalin inspired fear in many, but not in Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. Stalin sent dozens of assassins after the unruly 'ally'. Tito wrote to him: "To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another." The assassins stopped. That's some sass.

[@DraganBakema]

true story

[@franfinesim]

Tito be like: "Stallin, give up already." 💅🏻

[@sextempiric7137]

@@DraganBakema There is no story about Tito that is true.

[@andjelkovicjasmin2954]

No f... way, Stalin was afraid of Tito? Wow

[@franfinesim]

@@andjelkovicjasmin2954 Staljin was very paranoid. He always had ideas that someone could take him down. He even "photoshopped" his colleagues away on photo 🤣🤣🤣

[@RedLyner]

Proud I got this in my Recommended tab, I am born in the last Yugoslavia which was SRJ, Im Serbian but also consider myself a Yugoslav. Tito was one of the most powerful men in the 20th century, the reason why Partizans were not much mentioned in the history its because the Historians are still very much separated while people here (I mean all EX Yugoslavia Countries) are still very much sensitive when it comes to Tito and old country. Shame today we all are hating on each other, we could have been somewhere, now we are nowhere Very Nice video. ВЕЧНА СЛАВА ДРУЖЕ МАРШАЛЕ!

[@Capajebo]

My grandfather was a partisan and participated in the battle of Sutjeska and got a personal letter from Tito for his heroic deeds with his signature on it! I now have it and it will be passed on to my son. Interesting story: he got captured and sent to (I think my dad said it was) Salzburg, Germany as a captive. He befriended the German soldiers, got a lot of respect from them, got a lot of freedom and even had a job. At the end of the war he was offered to stay there but he refused and went back to Yugoslavia.

[@ajohnymous5699]

Did you inherit your Grandpa's balls of steel? Because that's fucking rad

[@Weeboslav]

All four of my grandparents either served or actively supported Partisans during ww2. Only grandma I managed to talk to about ww2 told me how terrible it was,how having a piece of bread and tea for dinner was blessing and how nazis threatening to skin alive anyone who supported Partisans. I also heard stories about my grandfather that joined Partisans in 1943 and how he was forced to fight his neighbors that joined chetniks(I never got to question him,since he died when I was 2 years old)

[@dusan2001]

Ау, значи све твоје бабе и деде су издајници Србије. Знам, сад ћеш ти да кажеш како би требало да ме је стид, али имај у виду да је по "обзнани" из 1921. комунистичка партија забрањена у Југославији као терористичка организација. Знам, сад ћеш ти рећи како је то урађено зато што су комунисти били превелика претња за краља Александра, што се видело на изборима. Заправо, КПЈ је забрањена јер је један њен фанатик, Спасоје Стејић, покушао да убије краља. Што се тиче успеха на изборима имај у виду да су за КПЈ тада гласали сви непријатељи Србије: Бугараши са истока Србије, зеленаши из Црне Горе, ВМРО из Македоније, косовски Шиптари. Зашто су то радили, питаш се? Погледај одлуке донете на четвртом конгресу КПЈ у Дрездену и ако ти мозак није испран пропагандом и излапелим причама твојих баба и деда, отвориће ти се очи. Само се запитај ово: Ако би сутра избио неки рат у којем учествује Србија да ли би се, ако би желео да ратујеш наравно, ти пре прикључио војсци своје земље или би се прикључио војсци забрањене партије чији циљ није ослобођење Србије него велеиздајничко преузимање власти у време рата насилним путем?

[@zgemboadislic9350]

In my family were three chetniks(youngest 17 years old). Two of them were killed in war and youngest died after being tortured by partisans. Another uncle of my mom is killed, by partisans after war, despite he wasn't Chetnik. Partisans tortured my father's grandmother and took all food that they had. They even beat my grandfather(13 years old) and his younger brother. We have neighbors and family members of other religions an nationalities and we hadn't problems with them in WW2 but only with foreigners(communists). After the war my grandfathers weren't angry and their children married other nationalities and some from communists families.

[@fritula6200]

Don't get yr story... The Chetnicks were the criminal army of Serbia: they did unbelievable things to human beings, men, women children. There are books of photographs taken after they committed SATANIC atrocities.

[@fritula6200]

Yr grandmother had tea and bread: We don't drink tea in this part of the world ::: WE ONLY DRINK BLACK COFFEE: WHERE DID SHE FIND TEA TO DRINK??? Wonder who baked her bread, from which bakery: must of been a very very busy bakery.

[@fritula6200]

ZGEMBO : CHETNIKS AND PARTISANS ARE ON THE SAME SIDE :: THEY ARE SERBIAN.. YOU BETTER RETELL YR STORY AGAIN..

[@nebojsanikolajev2991]

Yugoslavian people were really brave. During the war my grandma Was pregnant. Germans were really close to village and all people from village needed to escape in the forest. On the day when they moved from Willige my grandma gave birth. Baby was crying a lot and my grandma leave the baby in the bush overnight so that Germans cannot find all the people from village in forest. Next day my grandma returned and she finded a baby alive in bush with the finger in her mouth (1 day old baby). For something like that you need to be really brave and unselfish and wise..

[@HeathenDance]

Absolutely.

[@chickenlover657]

My great grandma had 9 kids. She was always pregnant. Everyone knew. So she used that even when she was not pregnant. She smuggled flour and other goods to partisans under her skirts, pretending to be pregnant. No one payed attention, because she was always "pregnant".

[@lightcyy]

​@@chickenlover657 i love it 😀

[@buzzbuzz3254]

My grandfather was a pilot and engineer during the war, my uncle from Sarajevo too. Always loved to listen to their stories.

[@ketnaa]

My grandfather on my moms side was ranked pretty high in the Partisans. when I was a kid, he'd get drunk and tell me stories about his medals, describe battles. I remember the one he told most, was when he ordered a bunch of soldiers to go into a lake during an air raid and ended up saving a lot of them, and another one where he fought hand to hand and killed a man. He always cried after that one. He got wrecked by the war through alcohol, but he was as strong as they come. He wanted what was best for his family and country and despised politics. There is a narrative by the right politicians in Slovenia (mostly nationalists), that all partisans were communists and should be equated to terrorists, which is both nonsense. Those same people would like to see the war in Ukraine continue. We forget so soon what war really is, and that the innocent die, and that it is one of the stupidest things we put our time, effort and resoursec into as a species.

[@chickenlover657]

Yes. But wars are inevitable. Because we are the species that we are.

[@Mizekslav]

Saying that all partidans were communist is absurd, but Tito and other higher ups used the peoples will to fight the occupator as jumoing off point for a communist revolution, that was something that i believe was unforgivable. My grandpa joined the partisans beacuse it was the only way to resist, if there were homeguard movments in our parts he would join them, since he never wished to support communism.

[@oskargerzevic7873]

Non communists never make a good antifascist resistance

[@bluzercic]

@@Mizekslav It should tell you something that the only way to resist was to join communists. You are actually blaming them for being only ones who would resist enemy occupation, real great of you.

[@klauslass6766]

Sad truth.......@@chickenlover657

[@Isoweb1000]

My grandfather from fathers side fought for partisan counterintl, finding informants and colleborators and dealing with them. His brother fought in the regular army and survived 3 attacks on german bunkers. He was awarded with medals. My grandfather on mothers side also.fought for the partisans valiantly. Some of their relatives died or got captured and died later in german concentration camps. My grandmother had to run from the germans in the winter barefooted through snow. The hardships Yugoslav people had to endure fighting the germans and their colleborators were very harsh.

[@leonne07]

My grandfather joined the partisans in 1943 at tender age of 16. He was wounded twice and stayed with the Yugoslav Army getting a rank of an officer. I grew up listening his war stories of him fighting for the freedom of our country. He died 20 years ago and I still miss him.

[@luizalex.7424]

My granddad (1922-2019) fought in the Brazilian feb in ww2, both our grandpapas killed nazis, 👊

[@robert48044]

I've heard Tito told Stalin to quit sending assassin's or he would send some who wouldn't need a second trip

[@vanja2565]

That story is made up, it didn't happen

[@stephenle-surf9893]

And it worked.

[@enderman_666]

ehh, it’s kinda like those Chuck Norris jokes, it’s a much-repeated anecdote but AFAIK there’s no evidence of such a letter or telegram

[@xerxen100]

@@enderman_666 hehe, Tito always shit his pants, when Stalin send a letter to him...

[@oldenshort1346]

There is a lot more to Tito before the war, he was connected in quite a few countries. The way I heard it was that he would need to send but one and I am going back to the Early Sixties. Rumour has it Stalin died of poisoning but Tito lived on. An awful lot of secrets and no real definitive proof of said threats and counter threat.

[@modricaninmodricki7559]

My grandfather join partisans in may 1941 and 2 Monts later he died. I visited his monument last September on Montain Smetovi near city of Zenica and that day Wheater was very nice and its very hard to describe how great I felt that day.

[@77garga]

zaboravio je navesti da su sve velike bitke drugog svjestkog rata vodjene u Bosni...

[@jasarevicnino1729]

Pa sramota je i kako taj spomenik danas izgleda ali svaka cast na komentaru

[@modricaninmodricki7559]

@@jasarevicnino1729 Nije lose samo je bilo dosta smeca okolo . Ja sam zakljucio da nije do ljudi nego kante za smece su lose dizajnirane pa psi lutalice vade kese i papire trazeci hranu i vjetar to raznese na sve strane.

[@modricaninmodricki7559]

@@77garga Nazalost ured svako zlo potrefi nasu jadnu drzavu.

[@АлександарВелики-ч9ш]

Немци и комунисти су били савезници до почетка операције Барбароса.

[@DrBrunoDzogovic]

The Chetniks of Draza Mihailovic had a direct collaboration with Hitler. His people were domestic enemy and traitors who were lately all shot in public executions. Their main goal was to uphold their illusion called "Great Serbia" which never transpired nor can it ever. My grandfather was a Partisan and was saying how the domestic traitors were way worse to the people throughout Yugoslavia than the Germans or Italians. Even the Germans were executing Chetniks at a later point saying: "If you could betray your own people, what would stop you from betraying us".

[@frimul1]

My Uncle joined partizans when germans attacked Serbs around Kozara. He got two medals for his bravery leading his soldiers in charge against germans. He was charging first and all of his men followed him. Got wounded second time but still kept going. He retired as a Major and died 1987. Once I asked him if he was afraid while charge. He told me: We where outnumbered so if we did not attack, we would probebly die. Hate towards fascits was greater than a fear and everyone in my unit wanted a revenge for all they did to our people. No fear, just hate.

[@zoricca1]

5th KOzara brigade part of 11th Krajina division....they ambushed parts of the 1st mountain division near Avala... all boys btw 13 and 20 yrs old... they charged with shovels, knives, pistols, and bombs... it was a slaughter... 15 yr old boys against trained mountaineers... Kozara boys made a mess, more than 300 dead Germans lay snuffed on the field....they said they didn't want to spend any bullets...that was a war story from one of my grandfathers... Krajina of steel

[@CatholicBoy]

Brave partisans hiding in the woods Burning fields villages stealing from locals and so on Partisans were nothing else then criminals pure comunist satanic criminals Do you now how many people partisans killed ? And until which year they had open concentration camps ?? 1970s? Partisan’s were attacking local population all around Croatia is plenty of mass graves with victims of satanic comunists Your video is full of lies You commie cunt

[@bertrecht913]

In an open battlefield, they would be destroyed by the germans. The germans and their allies fought against this whole sh*t World.

[@zoricca1]

​@@bertrecht913 they fought on an "open" battlefield on many occasions and not just that they haven't been destroyed, they were victorious. Although, they suffered serious casualties. NOVOJ backed by Red Army artillery, destroyed the 1st Mountain division - the same one that put svastika at the top of the mountain Caucasus. In the Battle for Belgrade. German SS and Heer suffered over 40 000 casualties. Also, during the battle for Niš, the 7th SS Princ Eugen was destroyed and disseminated. Those are a couple of examples. Battle for Vukov gorge, and for Čakor pass, and the list continues. Even when they were in guerilla mode, they clashed with german heer and ss, like in the battle of Kozara, Banija and Grmeč, the Battle of Bugojno/Makljen, the battle of Bare and Zelengora, and much more. Dive deeper into the subject before shiting some stupid comment about the topic U know nothing about... all the best

[@bertrecht913]

@@zoricca1 The Main Focus was not the Balkan - it never was and the germans had the mighiest army, even much more than the russians and the U.S. The defender part is always easier than the attacker and with partisan tactics, even more difficult for the agressor. I wonder how long the Serbs would have lasted against the Wehrmacht who were fully focused on them? And how well would a united Balkan offensive against Germany have fared? Probably would have failed miserably while the Axis fought the entire world and almost won.

[@enisredzepagic8823]

History channel, where are you!? "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" The motto of Yugoslav partisans still echoes. We are proud of our history, and revisionists will never prevail. Thanks for sharing the truth about Tito and YU partisans.

[@matejmacek5784]

Sadly no ancient aliens in Yugoslavia

[@HeathenDance]

@@matejmacek5784 LOL.

[@ms-jl6dl]

Tako je Enese,pozdrav od Milana. Those young farts know nothing and think they're "educated".

[@jelenajm1160]

The Yugoslav Partizans are largely recognized as being on the the most successful anti-Nazi movements in WW2 and it was largerly comprised of civilians including both men and women. My paternal Serbian grandfather Mirko who lived on the territory of Croatia, joined the Partizans at the age of 19, along with many of the other men from the same community where he lived. After the war, my grandfather recounted many stories of his time as a Partizan and I still remember many of them as they made such a strong impression on me. In one of my granfather's accounts, he recalled an instance where he, along with a group of other Partizan men were apprehended by the Croatian Ustashe. The Croatian Ustashe asked each of the Partizans at gun point what their ethnicity was. When they came to my grandfather, the Partizan soldier standing behind my grandfather (who was ethnically Croatian), quickly interjected before my grandfather had time to speak and stated: "My name is Mirko, and his name is Mirko, and we are both Croats". That statement saved up saving both of their lives. The Partizans in the group who revealed that they were Serbs were separated by the Ustashe and beheaded. In another incident, a group of Partizans including my grandfather came through an empty Croatian village where there was a catholic church. Some of the Partizans decided to raid the church and take any valuables that were left behind. The only person why refused to steal anything was my grandfather, who only took one candle as the day that the incident occured was on the his Patron Saint Day (or Slava). My grandfather took the candle with him, lit up in a forest and said a prayer for safety. In a nearly miraculous turn of events that occured several days afterward, the group of Partizan man were again apprehaned by the Ustashe. This time, the Ustashe were at a distance and instead of shooting at the men, they threw several grenades at the group of men, killing every man in the group, except my grandfather, who only sustainined non life-threatening injuries as a result of cuts from sharpnel. Whenever I think of the Partisans, I know that heros really exist, as does God.

[@mahirevski]

Great video and thanks for covering this topic that doesn't get much international recognitions. Also what should be mentioned is that this freedom from fascisms was payed with much blood by the people of Yugoslavia and the death toll is in the top 10 of the entire WW2

[@winstonwolf7420]

Considering the size of the population the death toll in Yugoslavia was the second after Soviet Union. Including also the killings of "political enemies" by communist governament in 1945 after the WWII was over, the death toll in Yugoslavia was the highest in WWII😐😐.

[@TFJWise]

Churchill had sent three commandos to Yugoslavia to find out whether or not Tito and the communists were worth supporting. Those three were; Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son. Evelyn Waugh, the famous author. Fitzroy Maclean, a founding member of the SAS and one of Ian Fleming’s inspirations for James Bond.

[@adriankolavcic2702]

Yep, my father was at the time not only Titos barber but also one of his bodyguards and dad had said that he had cut these three mens hair many times as all three had grown their hair out and had wanted a European hair style rather than the English boaring cuts

[@TFJWise]

@@user-mz7tx5jj2m I have, yes. Popov himself was a poker player and it was when Ian Fleming saw him make a bet that he used that as a basis for Casino Royale.

[@kixigvak]

The partizans found Randolph Churchill to be mighty peculiar.

[@TFJWise]

@@kixigvak So did his Dad, Winston himself!

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@kixigvak If they found Randolph peculiar, what could they have made of Evelyn?

[@health019]

My grandfather would talk about the jugoslav partisans a LOT. He told us that while he served for the Bulgarian army , he was full pro-axis , and anti Serbian, (basically a nationalistic Bulgarian) , yet while serving , he met a man in Vidin, in which he realized just how brave these people were, and after that, he told us he gave the man and his family new clothes and food, he told them good luck and never saw them again. As a Bulgarian , this story has always taught me that Serbians, although have been our enemies, are people too, and good people that just want to survive . 🇧🇬🙏🇮🇱

[@danicao.6778]

Big shame and both nations are literally brothers by Orthodox faith!!! How did you even agree to kill us for Nazi's sake!?!? We would never do that to you, never!!!

[@health019]

Serbia betrayed Bulgaria in the begging simple as that. You’ve always gotten to be the favorite child in europes eyes. We’ve always had to to do your busywork and get rewarded with nothing for it.

[@paulgrieshop5024]

General George Patton loved and admired Tito and his army

[@usernwn7qe]

Of course they admired him, Titos was the biggest conman and bulwark against communism.

[@paulgrieshop5024]

@@usernwn7qe Patton didn't admire anyone you had to really prove yourself to him

[@raner2367]

@@paulgrieshop5024 Marshall Tito does not prove himself to anyone. He just is.

[@paulgrieshop5024]

@@raner2367 Patton and him sat down and discussed strategy during the war and after in case we got into it with the russians. Both men admired each other

[@raner2367]

@@paulgrieshop5024 Actually my grandad was Tito's fighter. Tito was very well versed how Americans tick - and they tick same as today - always trying to get an edge. In end Tito beat them to it and sold them space program that was not working. Patton and USA joined when everything was over, Red Army was already crushing Germans and it was just matter of time ... same as in WW1 when everything is over anglosaxons join up. No hard feelings that's just how your government works. Tito actually was fighting with his men, Patton stayed in his HQ.

[@lordMartiya]

Why aren't the Jugoslav Partisans better known in the West? Because their success is embarrassing to the Western Allies. Only Italy may be inclined to recognize it... But that would force the Italian government to admit that Fascist Italy had taught them the cruelty they inflicted on Italian civilians, and that would ruin their preferred narrative.

[@im_flat]

No, it's really just leftover cold war mentality. They were Communists so we don't talk about them. The AK and French Resistance weren't (mostly) communists, so we do talk about them.

[@lordMartiya]

@@im_flat You are repeating what I said for the West: a successful Communist insurgency on their side is embarrassing. As for Italy, we've always been in a relatively decent relationship with the Eastern Block... But our government's narrative would suffer if they admitted certain things.

[@aldoso2]

The cruelty to italian civilians come form the past: in Italy italian people had to speak italian, so all the language minorities considered the fascist government as a enemy; in Istria there was a armed resistance against Italy, before and during the war. This movement was so strong the fascist government created a Police special office which had the same powers as Gestapo in the German Reich and this office worked with the nazis after the italian surrender, in 1943: in Trieste there is one of the few KL not place in Poland (Risiera di San Sabba). After 1943, the italians split in two parts: the fascist armed forces (M- Batallions) continued the war with Germans, but some units come from the Italian army fought with the partisans and the air attacks against german forces was made by the Italian cobelligerant royal Air Force.

[@lordMartiya]

@@aldoso2 Lo so benissimo.

[@enderman_666]

Not to rain on your parade, but how is their success embarrassing to the Western Allies, exactly? How do the Yugoslav Partisans take away from the Battle of Britain, North Africa, Normandy, Sicily? While the Partisans did a remarkable feat, it was almost inconsequential for the outcome of the war in Europe.

[@maticdragan93]

Fun fact: Partizan is read Nazitrap backwards! :)

[@markcandrl6039]

My great uncles fought against the nazis in occupied Yugoslavia. 3 brothers and as a lad I joined them in 1976 at a reunion celebration in a place called Lukovo. Much respect to those old warriors bedecked with tinkling medals. They were old men partying like young soldiers….laughing,crying and living. Interestingly, Lukovo was apparently a mountain stronghold that the Germans couldn’t penetrate because of the narrow winding mountain roads and the 30 meter pine trees that grew so close together on the mountain that a horse was unable to penetrate the growth…let alone a tank. Greatest respect to Uncle Marco, Ivan and Franco along with their comrades…..may to all rest in peace 🙏🏻🙏🏻💪🏻💪🏻🤝🤝

[@ms-jl6dl]

R.I.P. you great people. In today's BS we really miss you.

[@asnakeabdi]

Do you know a patriot called Abdissa Aga from Ethiopia and fought with the Yugoslav partisans? Abdissa Aga had broken the Italian island prision with other inmates of different nationals and led them into Yugoslavia and fought with Tito. He was the only black African who fought the fascist forces in Europe. Organize this interesting story .

[@nostromokg]

i would like to see more about this story...

[@jasarevicnino1729]

Not true one picure never whit black man whit Yug.partisans only U.S. army 1945

[@HelerifiKtion]

Or write a Shakespearean-like novel on it. It's a fantastic story about different sides of morality.

[@TheKlazar92]

It would be interesting if someone would make a movie based on that story

[@vassilyvodka2638]

Actually he wasn't the only one. A famous man from my hometown named Rizo Šurla served with my grandpa in the Yugoslav Resistance. He was a afro Albanian.

[@dalibro7701]

It's heavy to defeat the Serbs 🇷🇸💪💪💪

[@zengi7]

Thank you for posting this video. They want to erase any memory of Yugoslavia. Especially any good and positive memory of Yugoslavia. When you watch a documentary, let us say, Germans retreating from Greece. One minute they are in Greece and the next, they are in Italy, or Austria. They talk about the war in eastern Europe and they mention all the countries apart from Yugoslavia. Its not a mistake. Its deliberate. So, thank you one more time for posting this video. Polish and French resistance?? They cannot be even compared to Yugoslavian partisans, nor did any of them had a leader anywhere near Tito. After all, they didn't win. Tito and partizans won by themselves. Liberated every inch of the country and established a prosperous and beautiful country after the war, all by themselves. Resisted Stalin, with no aid from anybody. None of this would have happened if it wasn't for Tito. He was one of the greatest men that walked this planet. A guy you can trust. If he tells you, its going to rain tomorrow. Then, its definitely going to rain tomorrow. Always down to earth, always hones, full of self criticism. Its my fault that this or that happened. Its our fault (meaning the party). Unlike those tin pot dictators that eastern Europe was full of. The only problem with Yugoslavia was that Tito wasn't immortal. Without him, it immediately started crumbling into the dust of nationalism. He brought it up out of the dust and to the dust it returned.

[@zengi7]

@@phildoddhistoriaantiqua Unlikely. Yugoslavia was a thorn in the side of super powers with its unique and independent social and political structure. Plus the Non Aligned movement. And daring to meddle in world politics. You can't allow people to be reminded of that, in case they get wrong idea. You don't allow them to even think that there might be a different and perhaps fairer way.

[@klausklaus9112]

it is worth noting though that Romania was the only one that refused to send troops into Yugoslavia ... ... and the only one that not only refused to send troops along the soviets into Budapest and Prague ... Albania refused it too ... but also publicly condemned it ...

[@darijovonobervogt3384]

The Story of Josip Broz iz very suspicious a poor Farmers Boy who goes to War and became, after it a piano playing, fencing, a couples of language speaking Diktator, all by himself! The man was replaced by Tito! You can find a lot of interviews from former Gernerals who worked unnder him talking about his heritage! I am a Croat and i can hear the akzent from tito wich is not spoken anywhere in former Jugoslavija! Did you know that when he died almost every leader of the World was on his Funeral! Why would a Aristokrat go to a Farmers Boy funeral? It was and is a big Theater Show for the Peasents...and Shows are planed long before the Start!

[@klausklaus9112]

@@darijovonobervogt3384 what accent would you say Tito had ?

[@darijovonobervogt3384]

@@klausklaus9112 a russian like

[@DeadManSinging1]

The Yugoslavs aren't mentioned because they were communists. Most people still think Yugoslavia was part of the USSR, despite the fact that for most of its existence, they merely tolerated each other

[@Warmaker01]

Over 100k German troops stuck in Yugoslavia doing anti-partisan work and suffering losses still is an important feat. This is an army's worth of men, and they're not being used as reinforcements in the Eastern Front, fortifying Italy or France. 1943 on, Germany was hard pressed in manpower. It can't afford to garrison all these occupied territories, fight several active combat fronts, and deal with a multitude of insurgencies. In 1943 at the Eastern Front, Germany was reeling post-Stalingrad and eventually Kursk. As many men were lost or surrendered when Axis forces in North Africa were beaten in Tunisia that year as at Stalingrad. Italy, Sicily was next on the Western Allies list. But 100k men are stuck fighting an insurgency in Yugoslavia. I imagine that, due to the Axis occupation's excesses, brutality, the insurgents they fought were equally as brutal if they got their hands on them. A horrible cycle.

[@baki4341]

Yeah the partisans tied down almost the same number of German divisions as the allies in italy

[@SarsTheSecond]

They stole from civilians and masacred them as well.

[@baki4341]

@@SarsTheSecond why do only the partisans get this amount of shit for taking food, its bad sure im not saying it isnt bud they are the only ones who actually had a reason to other armies were on the frontline food was mostly delivered all the time, yet for one example the americans stole a birthday cake from an 8 year old kid, tbf they did return it although again quite a few years too late

[@sthrich635]

Well 100k of mostly second-rate troops with captured weapons or obsolete equipment. Plus a big part of them were locally "recruited" troops that wouldn't really fit anywhere outside their respective region or with other regular Wehrmacht forces. Still 100k of meat shield had to worth something by 44 or 45, that is if they don't swtich sides or desert.

[@MrDeicide1]

600 Thousand of german and other Axis troops were tied up by yugoslav partisans. The video just mentions 1 of the Offensives in which 120 Thousand axis troops participated...

[@a.p.3004]

THE BEST resistance armies 1) The Partisans of Yugoslavia. 2) The EAM-ELAS of Greece 3) The Belarus (Soviet) partisans.

[@sanelamujagic6915]

My grandfather was picked up in a truck and was supposed to go to Jasenovac. He and two other young men jumped out of the truck and fled into the woods and hid in a big stump. Later they went to Partzane, and my other grandfather was partisans, they survived all that horror, they were wounded,,,I am proud of them, proud of our fight against fascism, Thank them, and eternal glory to all partisans!

[@oliverpetroski4205]

WW2 Yugoslavian partizans movement was the only one to have established its own airforce. They also repaired a crash landed B17 which the Americans discarted it but after its repair they decided to take it back.

[@philsarazen6619]

I knew a Yugoslav partisan, a construction worker in Ottawa Canada; an amazing athlete, man of conscience.

[@jovanpejic]

When you say "Yugoslav" in 98%, it is thought of a Serb. Croats, Slovenes and Muslims (Bosniaks) were mostly loyal to Germans or completely uninterested in resistance. Because they didn't even have some reason. The Serbs (as Gypsies and Jews) suffered the most retaliation, repression, suffered all sorts of torture, and it was made of them - or sit home and wait for someone to kill you or give you resistance.

[@sabiloxflu]

My bloodline was one of the most give sacrifice in Montenegrian -Yugoslav partisans. The are monument in place Rijeka Crnojevica with more than 30 names of our bloodline Strugar.

[@albertmisic3876]

Some interesting fact. In one period of time in 1912 in Wiena lived Stalin, Trocky, Froyd, Hitler and Tito.

[@vanja2565]

Too bad nukes were not a thing and one wasn't dropped at the time

[@zoroasterman]

Hitler and Lenin played chess together.

[@EnlighthenedOne123]

Imagine a sitcom in Vienna 1912, where these bois live. Hitler trying to win art college, Tito being a locksmith, and Stalin and Trotsky just constantly bickering and trying to one up another all the while Freud looks at them with wonder and disgust at the same time.

[@elche2522]

@@vanja2565 at your mama

[@srecnamim6198]

They were all British agents obviously except Froyd

[@panayiotis_antoniadis]

Excellent video and very informative! It is not surprising at all, but still fascinating, that the situation in Greece was pretty much the same during the same period; Communists leading the resistance, (some-many) nationalists collaborating with the nazis, I believe the Allies helping the communists too at some point, but not for long, due to political reasons (british interests). Thank you!

[@badshahshah4611]

The story of Tito & his Partisans & the many battles at the Neretva river & beyond is one of the most revealing lessons of how a guerilla force transformed itself into fighting like a regular Army.

[@galgodec]

yet they became bad leaders and killed tons of innocent ppl like stalin...

[@carsunlimited4397]

My grandpa was fighting for partisans from 1940 until end of war, he was one of founders of airport in Skopje, modern day Macedonia.

[@donroka1]

My Grandfather was expelled from his birthplace (small village in east Bosnia) by Nazi colaboracionists chetniks, into small bosnian city of Gracanica, where he joined Partisans, he was 17 years old back then, and with the partisans he returned in his birthplace at the end of the war. I have to mention that he wasn't communist, and nothing even close, he was very religious man, his father also, but he loved Tito, and proudly served his army! I am so proud of my grandfather, and my ancestors who fought for our lovely leader and for Yugoslavia, no matter what today's so called historians tell, Yugoslav partisans were the only movement who hardly fought against bloody fascism and domestic traitors who invaded our country ! Long live memory of our Marshall and our brave fighters ! Pozdrav za Jugoslovene gdje god bili

[@sguerilla6142]

'' Nazi colaboracionists chetniks,''....... Neretva movie?!

[@sveti_krompir]

My grand-granddad got killed by partisans for no reason

[@chickenlover657]

Pozdrav i tebi brate.

[@danicadabic9789]

"Our lovely leader"? The one who sent the Serbian youth to die on Sremski front? The one who killed thousands of Serbs after '45, took their property and nationalized it, infested Belgrade with his semiliterate, obnoxious comrades who came from mud and occupied the villas of the wealthy industrialists, moved the pre WWII factories from Serbia to Slovenia and Croatia, effectively destroyed Serbia by splitting it to three parts and giving autonomy to two, something he could have easily done in Bosnia and Croatia but didn't... I could go on and on. He was in charge of the fake trials of supposed traitors and collaborators in Serbia, but did nothing to catch and punish Ustashas in both Croatia and Bosnia. Those atrocities were swiped under the rug and we were forced into brotherhood and unity. It is no wonder Yugoslavia fell apart in the '90-ies. Some people still remembered WWII. But why would you know any of it? Your grandpa in Bosnia probably had no clue and you didn't care to educate yourself.

[@chickenlover657]

@@danicadabic9789 It's obvious you're the one without education, or - more importantly - any understanding.

[@samkitty5894]

After the WW II ended Tito also proved himself a master politician. He played both, west and east for fools. He would promise Russians he would not lean west, and he also promised the west that he would not lean east. So he got help from both sides...and went on to form the movement of non-aligned countries...together with India, Egypt and many African countries. Not bad for a man with equivalent of elementary school education.

[@ytmandrake]

I was born as Yugoslav, now they tell me I am Serbian, and I am hated in majority of countries because of my passport. When I say I am not Serbian and instead I say I am Yugoslav, almost everyone laughs at loud at me. We were strong, honorable, diverse and honest, but we destroyed ourselves because of Croatian greed and German maleficence that never ended since WWI and WWII. Still, I am proud that I am from a country and the people that will never be again.

[@malimate2660]

But Google,for 150 years.....Greater Serbia

[@CAP198462]

Who hasn’t heard of Josip Broz Tito. He was quite the Chad.

[@gangstaman2069]

No he wasn't cause he didn't had a six pack ;))

[@obiwanschinobi]

the chadest!

[@ddoherty5956]

@@gangstaman2069 I suspect he was a Vodka drinker, not beer 😉

[@gangstaman2069]

@@ddoherty5956 i'm just kidding, yea allegedly womens were crazy about him when he was younger.

[@cat_city2009]

Westerners don't want to glorify a socialist leader. Also nationalist butthurt.

[@simescales]

Tito was a bigger leader than De Gaul, he was with his army during the whole war, he was the only supreme leader who was wounded during the war, and his army liberate the whole western part of Yugoslavia alone. Partisans also had free territory during the whole war.

[@DaveHaze]

My grandads fought in yugoslavian partisans, one died in buchenwald other one died defending castle žužemberk in Ribnica Slovenia now.

[@skikakaleee]

My grandmothers brother went to partisans at age of 16 and died.. Real courage right there...

[@TheWarmachine375]

Hitler: *invades Yugoslavia* Tito: "Cowabunga it is."

[@HENSIONAVDUli]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.Nice Joke

[@ognjenmarkov]

@@HENSIONAVDUli Шта је шиптар?

[@adissabovic]

@@ognjenmarkov Znaš ti dobro šta je.

[@zoricca1]

@@adissabovic aj nam objasni? šipućetega opet, vrlo brzo...

[@bananamen2316]

@@zoricca1 Та чипча ноне.

[@mjoskoski]

My grandfather was a Macedonian Partisan and a major in JNA after the war. I remember him telling me all these war stories, atrocities of the Bulgarian fashists (servants of the Germans) and the bravery of the partisans. One thing he kept repeating till his last days was the we must never forget and allow it to ever happen again.

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Tito was a great leader & strategist! Ran his country well .

[@nikolaskoric804]

It really depends who you ask. He made a huge geo-political mistake by not addressing ethnical issues in Yugoslavia. The economy was heavily based on foreign loans. USA/USSR were basically paying Yugo so they don't end up on the ''other side'' of the ''Iron curtain''. He was a good demagogue I'll give him that much. The reason why Yuga broke up is because he used simple solutions for complex problems. Thus making a ticking bomb out of Yuga, which inevitably exploded only 10-ish years after his death. But you could really see the crack in society in '86, the writing was already on the wall. And that was only 6 years after he died. He did not stabilize the country, and it's not like he didn't have time, he was in power for 35 years. It's almost like he borrowed the saying from King Louis XV: ''Après moi, le déluge'' . A lot of people in ex Yuga really don't like Tito. But i guess he is sort of a Yugo brand from the past.

[@padi5star]

If you knew your history, you should know that Tito was the bloodiest assassin of them all. Allow me to share one of the many atrocities mandated by your Marshal Tito! The foibe massacres, supported and encouraged by Marshal Tito was the mass killings both during and after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA in the then-Italian territories of Julian March (Karst Region and Istria), Kvarner and Dalmatia, against the local ethnic Italian population (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians), as well the ethnic Slovenes, Croats and Istro-Romanians who chose to maintain Italian citizenship, against all anti-communists, associated with fascism, Nazism, and collaboration with the Axis powers, and against real, potential or presumed opponents of Titoism. The type of attack was state terrorism, reprisal killings, and ethnic cleansing against Italians. The Yugoslav partisans intended to kill whoever could oppose or compromise the future annexation of Italian territories: as a preventive purge of real, potential or presumed opponents of Titoism (Italian, Slovenian and Croatian anti-communists, collaborators, and radical nationalists), the Yugoslav partisans exterminated the native anti-fascist autonomists - including the leadership of Italian anti-fascist partisan organizations and the leaders of Fiume's Autonomist Party, like Mario Blasich and Nevio Skull, who supported local independence from both Italy and Yugoslavia - for example in the city of Fiume, where at least 650 were killed after the entry of the Yugoslav units, without any due trial. Tito assassins are responsible for the massacre of then of thousand innocent civilians. Next time you open your mouth, get the facts straight!!!

[@itsblitz4437]

@@nikolaskoric804 yeah he didn't think that far ahead in the long run.

[@jozz2248]

@@nikolaskoric804 What should he have done? Not criticizing, just wondering

[@aclown36]

So well that it broke up into full out civil war, genocide, and ethnic cleansing?

[@KarlVeliki]

Pretty good and fairly objective description of Yugoslav National Liberation War. It is important to know that with Yugoslav people uprising against pact with Hitler in 1941 and resulting Hitler's attack on Yugoslavia, Hitler postponed for mid-May planned attack on Soviet Union for 6 weeks to 22 June. These six weeks was the time he came short to capture Moscow before great freeze. Without that uprising Soviet Union would have lost war, Britain would have been occupied and there would be 3rd Reich in Europe today instead of EU. Video focuses on the Partisans fights with chetniks when in fact in every part of Yugoslavia in every nationality there were local traitor movements that helped and collaborated with Germans and other occupation forces. In Slovenia, it was so called white garde, supported and led by Catholic Church. Its members were after 1943 incorporated into SS. in Croatia there were ustase. Their help meant that Germans had more free divisions to engage on western and eastern front and so contributed not only to thousands and thousands of partisan deaths but also to deaths of western and eastern allied forces. It was so absurd that members of these quisling forces after loosing the war surrendered to allied forces in the west and were then resettled as refugees from communism in western countries as the cold war started. Fight in Yugoslavia was one of the most cruel ones. It was not only occupation fight, it was political for revolution and counter-revolution and it was also fight among religions.

[@googleuser4207]

They were not resettled they were given to tito by english betrayal. Then it was "Krizni Put" long march back to yugoslavia and they were slaughtered raped and robbed, not many survived.

[@KarlVeliki]

@@googleuser4207 Toward end of the war Churchill, Stalin and and Roosevelt agreed that all those nationalistic groups that helped Nazis would be returned to the country of origin. So British did not betray anybody. In addition toward the end of the war Nazis incorporated all those foreign legions into the SS, so they were SS and everywhere in Europe people were liquidating SS members for brutal crimes the committed, so it was also in Yugoslavia. But when relations between Allies soured and the Catholic church started interceding many were resettled in the West. So now we have their descendants resurrecting Nazism in Europe like currently the AZOV battalions in Ukraine who are celebrated there as successors of SS division Galicia which fought with Germans and committed war crimes over Europe including Yugoslavia. HISTORY REPEATS as people who do not remember tend to repeat it.

[@googleuser4207]

@@KarlVeliki those ukranians are grand and grand-grandchildren of ww2 veterans. They may be national patriots but nothing to do with SS. Also you want actual fascism look no further than Florida and DeSantis. No yugo or ukranian blood in him.

[@KarlVeliki]

@@googleuser4207 O yes they are grandchildren of veterans, namely ww2 war criminals as the Nuremberg court convicted ukrainian SS divizon Galicia as a war criminal unit. Despite that the remnants who surrendered to Amis were all resettled overseas, the majority in Canada as they were "only cooks and drivers" and Pope begged Amis to let them go as they were all good catholic boys. There is enormous ignorance about all that, at begining of the war the major canadian TV station interviewed old survivor of Galicia not knowing that they were actually putting an ex SS member on TV. They wanted to present him as a hero who fought Red Army in ukraine. They did not think that because of him and like more Canadians and Amis died on western front. Once the Russians are done with denazification in ukraine more truth will come out.

[@googleuser4207]

@@KarlVeliki FSB please dont pay this propagandist for February he is doing a bad job convincing us of your fairytales.

[@asherasator]

Jugoslavija and that region, is one of the most important places on the face of the earth. With the most brilliant men, ever.

[@Springbok295]

My father lost a cousin and uncle who fought for Tito's partisans. One died at Sutjeska the other on May 9, 1945, near Ilirska Bistrice on the last day of the war.

[@IJ72]

Dalmatinac?

[@upakaosnjim]

It wasn't the last day of the war in Yugoslavia, on contrary. The resistance of the retreating collaborationists' and German armies was so severe that Yugoslav partisans took about 8000 casualties only in that last week of the war in Slovenia and Austria.

[@elche2522]

@@upakaosnjim actually war in Yugoslavia lasted until may 16th ,because for last 7 days they were chasing collaborationists and SS personal there is book on that subject

[@ernestmalaj2779]

Not ilirsca bistrica sonder BISTRICA ILIRIANE pure Albanian name you bitch

[@upakaosnjim]

@@elche2522 That's what I said/meant. It actually lasted till 15th of May. The last German and collaborationists troops surrendered on that day. From 8th may till 15th may our - Yugoslav Army/People's Liberation Army - casualties were about 8000. That's how fierce was the fascist resistance in attempt to get to the western allies and surrender to them.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Tito is an exceedingly curious historical figure. The man took Yugoslavia away from the Axis made it communist and yet resisted turning it into a Stalinist communist state. But made Yugoslavia his own version of a communist state. I respect him for forging his own path for the country he ruled.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Abandoning multiculturalism after his death to set up ethnostates proved to be a disaster for all concerned, including Slobodan Milosevic, who has inspired Vladimir Putin to fail on a much larger scale.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Indeed. However it must be said that in the notes that Churchill passed to Stalin in Teheran (famous photo and all that) and that Stalin gave back all with a nod of agreement said: "Yugoslavia 50% USSR, 50% British influence".

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@LuisAldamiz---Yeah that would make sense. Thanks for responding.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@brokenbridge6316 - There was a Cold War status quo re. Yugoslavia that surely began in that meeting. Once the USSR bloc collapsed the international protections for Yugoslavia also did. I happen to be part of team of our antimilitarist movement traveling to just recently broken Yugoslavia in the early 90s and we interviewed a lot of people so we could figure out what was going on and what, if anything, we could do to help stop the war (essentially nothing other than a million people march to Sarajevo, I guess, something that never happened), and there was this Montenegrin politician, a liberal pro-western one, who told us about his last conversation with his friend in the US embassy (whom he believed a spy): -- Your country has lost strategical relevance -- said the American. -- I'm glad to hear that -- replied the Montenegrin. -- I wouldn't be happy if my country would lose its strategical relevance - sentenced ominously the diplomat. And then he went on explaining how the war broke up barely weeks after that conversation and that only then he realized that Yugoslavia had turned from a "protected" buffer state into a free for all the imperialist and weapon selling ill-intents around.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@LuisAldamiz---Hey I'm not trying to disagree. So stop with long lecture.

[@aleks2937]

Proud of my family who fought as partisans and freed Belgrade with the support of the Russians. My great grandfathers told crazy war stories.

[@filipkostic6580]

My grandpa was Partisan, only he and one guy from unit survived of 30 of them... His unit first entered Sarajevo...

[@АлександарВелики-ч9ш]

Имаш ли неког у четницима?

[@filipkostic6580]

@@АлександарВелики-ч9ш Imam, to ti je tako kod nas dva brata, jedan u cetnik, jedan u partizane...

[@АлександарВелики-ч9ш]

@@filipkostic6580 Такође

[@NenadTrajkovic]

I think this is due to an ideology that is not capitalist, but not Stalinist either... And the Partisans fought without Western or Russian help almost until the end of the war and put the great forces to shame. My grandfather was a partisan, but he was captured and deported to Dachau, then to the Arctic Circle camp in Norway.

[@copee3166]

im sad that i see this video 2 moths after it has been posted.Great vid. Im from serbia and something that is sad is that in our schools common knowledge about Partisans isnt known. I wish this type of topics were learned in schools becouse its good to know what ur country and ur people suffered through.Again great vid.

[@brrsgraham6181]

A number of Italian officers and ethnic militia leaders involved in summary executions of civilians and partisans, including the flattening of whole villages, lived out their days in comfort in Australia due to the lack of attention on this topic.

[@franfinesim]

Interesting! Many croatian and serb fascists ran away to Australia. Their kids still are furious at partisans, although they don't know history 🤣

[@biohazard8295]

As far as i know Italian and Yugoslav governments agreed to forgive each other's crime, so nobody was prosecuted on both sides. Also consider the Italian communist party was really strong after the war.

[@TheFraMTK]

​@@biohazard8295 also you know, Tito wasn't really kind either to the Italians that were in Yugoslavia right after the war

[@biohazard8295]

@@TheFraMTK that was implied in my comment..

[@brrsgraham6181]

@@biohazard8295 Axis aligned perpetrators where targeted by Tito’s regime, from 1944 to even into the early1950s, particularly the Serbs who took part in civilian reprisals. Hence the large migration to Australia 1945 to mid 1950’s. I suppose that being effectively banished to a productive life in another country was also a good outcome.

[@iwrutledge1]

Both of my grandads were in the partisans and I couldn't be prouder of them! One even got a street named after him, though for achievements in medicine after WW2.

[@draganjagodic4056]

"17.000 residents killed" is absurd. Bombing Belgrade lasted three days (actually 6 hours in these three days) and Germans didn't have atomic bomb! People were not idiots and seek shelters. The number of killed civilians is ranging between 200-250, which can be seen in the mortuary documents. "17.000 dead" would make any town dysfunctional, while Belgrade continued to function in all its peace time aspects. And how effective Partisans were, can say only we, whose closest relatives WERE PARTISANS and watched with disgust the lies created on their bravery and suffering.

[@bosnianlady10]

My grandfather was a Yugoslav Partisan. The war was brutal and I only recently learned he suffered probably from PTSD and took his life.

[@EagleProductionsMK]

Vecna mu slava ⭐

[@scalfer]

PTSD was for killing innocent people.

[@EagleProductionsMK]

@@scalfer Tf u on

[@bosnianlady10]

@@scalfer You can save your political b.s for someone else. We all know who the real killers were. You can’t talk about someone you didn’t know. Just sit down. Bad people don’t get PTSD , they enjoy it.

[@marko8640]

A brief but interesting history of my family during those days: Both of my grandpas were too young to participate in the partisan movement, but the brother of my grandma was 22 when the war broke out. He joined the Ustaša movement, and almost momentarily became an officer because he had a high school diploma, something rare at that time. During a battle with the partisans, he was taken captive, and because he was educated, partisans offered him to switch sides. They desperately needed well-educated, and combat-proven officers to lead their ranks. He accepted an offer, but with his fingers crossed. When the opportunity arose, he swung back to Ustaša's side once again. Nobody from my family has ever heard of him again. I can't describe how proud I am watching this video, no matter the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia in the '90s. And I can't describe how ashamed I am, because of the actions of my long-passed relative.

[@ozvoid]

He fought for idea of Croatian independence little did he knew anything else.

[@ms-jl6dl]

His actions are not your responsibility. Cheer up.

[@franfinesim]

Interesting! My great grandfather was a domobran, but I never got any information if he was a killer or something. My grandmother didn't know him much, since he vanished, when she was like four. I hope he never killed innocent

[@borismatic]

@@franfinesim Of course he did, but we are past that now, they probbably vanished to South America because if he stayed all croats were sent to Tito and he of course executed them

[@alexanderpetrovich7792]

And now when your travel modern Croatia you will see how Croatia is wiping out this part of their history. Monuments to Partisans are destroyed or erased while they put up memorials to Ustasa fascists.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

One could say Albania is also afraid of them by the shear number of bonkers bunkers.

[@aldoso2]

Thiese bunkers were built by the Albanian post war Government

[@LuisAldamiz]

It was indeed in the times of Enver Hoxa.

[@dasboot5903]

From the old Croat I have heard, that right after the WAR, the huge tension has been developed between the communist CCCP and the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Red Army was stationing in Austria already ..... and was waiting to go against the People's Yugoslavian Army, just because President Josip Broz Tito did not want to rule his country, taking the orders from Joseph STALIN from Moscow. BINGO !!!! So .... both communist armies were on the high alert for a period of time, ready to fight with each other !!!!

[@stevanv6210]

Treba ponovo da napravimo Jugoslaviju! We need to rebuild Yugoslavia!🤝💪

[@brunovrancic8330]

Fact: Tito organised the biggest resistance movement in Europe. It wouldn't be presumptuous to say that his politics of organising nonalignment movement is todays answer to world peace. Also, EU can look at his SFRJ as nearly identical model. Legend says that Swedes came to learn from Titos model of workers self-governing. So, there is much to learn for smart.

[@dleechristy]

French Resistance and esp Polish Home Army were JOKES compare to Tito's Partisans (Greek Partisans also pretty effective but also much smaller scale). Tito and his movement were Giants

[@ic8611]

Мој деда са мајчине стране је био војник у краљевој војсци ,а деда са очеве стране је био комуниста. Обојица су ми причали странхоте рата,шта су радили партизани,а шта су радили четници. Закључак је ,да када политика умеша прсте није битно чији си. Страда народ,са које год стране да си.

[@goranrapuc3014]

I live very near from Poljana, the place, where the last fights in 2. WW in Europe took place. Unfortanely, that last battle in Europe soil is barelly mentioned. It deserves more attention, allong with whats happens in Topoljščica, few days before. Hope, someone will put that on film.

[@tylerdurden9161]

My grandfathers were both in the partisans. They were both farmers and just wanted to work on the farm and feed their children. One was forced to join the regular army of Independent state of Croatia (Domobrani). He was granted leave to visit his farm. He was walking on the road, then the partisan stopped him. After a short conversation the partisans told him to join them. He refused and said that he was going home to his children and wife. But then they said " you have no choice, join us or we will kill you". That is how he became a partisan, against his will. After the war he told my mother that everyone was bad. He meant the partisans too. My grandparent despised politics. He passed that value to his children. The other grandpa was only in the partisan army.

[@kecabojan]

I echo most of the comments here. All 4 my grand parents were in Partizans. After the war the new government settled people from Bosnia to newly taken villages (from Germans and Hungarians) in north Serbia. Most of these people were Partizans and they were very proud of that. They would talk about their victories and hardships during the war for decades after. The newly found communist Yugoslavia rose from the mud and every year people felt the rise and better living standard. They were starving in war and 20years later they were working in factories, building cities and railroads. Yugoslavia was probably the lonely example of "successful" communist country, but of course it had its flaws. Westerners didn't like this too much and were ready to help it dissolve when it was ripe.

[@bobtaylor170]

I recommend Fitzroy Maclean's fascinating book, Eastern Approaches.

[@ronaldrhatigan7652]

I second the recommendation.

[@TFJWise]

I strongly recommend it also. Fun fact: Fitzroy Maclean was one of Ian Fleming’s inspirations for James Bond.

[@kixigvak]

Don't miss Beacons in the Night, a great account of Brits working with the Partizans

[@borislawkkc6749]

Nothing is that simple in former Yugoslavia that can sums up in one 11 minutes video. There is much more history before SFRJ