My granpa fought in WW2. He drove a train trought Yugoslavian territory to reach Albania and supply the italian troops in Greece. Every time he travelled a group of partisans would attack, and the guy who shot the machine gun would always die. Always, no execption. My granpa told me: "every time, I had to chose who died". They were so good they almost killed him when a bullet almost took him in the head, but killed his friend. He asked to be transeferd in Tunisia because he prefered to fight the Allies rather than the yugoslavian partisans
I actually did some digging and it turns out Draža Mihailović’s grandson Vojislav is actually the leader of a Serbian monarchist party, so I guess the family tradition continues
Well, yes but mainly because chetniks couldn’t recive equipment and ammunition from communists because partisans did and they were not in the greatest relaitons with the allies (despite the yugoslav goverment being pro allied) so the didn’t recieve equipment from them either, because of this they were “collaborating” with the axis to keep their units supplied and well equiped and simply waited for allies to invade balkan. They would use that as a perfect time to revolt and aid allies in driving axis out of the balkans. Also Chetniks weren’t a single resistance group. They were different groups that were remanants of the Yugoslav army and some chetnik groups collaborated with the Axis, others were fighting against the axis, but the most famous and largest chetnik movement was one led bi Draža Mihajlović (as his name is spelled that way in my country) that was the only chetnik movement that was collaborating to keep itself alive while in the same time waiting for perfect opportuniti to revolt. I am croatian so I know something about this since it is related to our history in the 20th century.
I don't see why you call 'begging for labor'. They have economic pact, on a fair negotiation, within the jurisdiction of int'l law. The labors are paid and protected by the economic deal. They work in sectors where they got comparative advantage (cheaper wage) and got paid - simply supply and demand. They're not forced labor. The economic deals are the results of having sovereignty, results of successfully pushing the Germans out. I swear I don't know why people are this stupid to recognize the difference. I feel so bad when people use this narration to talk about Eastern European workers. They work hard and legitimately and still being called 'begging for jobs' by some lazy ass Westerners.
Another reason the Yugoslav resistance was so strong was because the Germans were so heavy-handed that they basically forced people into the resistance. Yugoslav resistance formed quickly, and Germany reacted by decreeing that 100 Yugoslav civilians would be killed for every German soldier killed. This backfired when the resistance used it to their advantage by wiping out German garrisons and recruiting the entire village since everyone knew that the Germans would murder them all anyway. It takes a brave person to fight when it puts them in danger, but even a coward will fight when it’s the only way to survive.
@@Tino1555 partisans did massive number of revenge and hate fueled warcrimes based on all number of reasons. From raping women and little girls and roasting priest alive, to executing captured prisoners and killing entire families because their sons and fathers were drafted into army. They would steal supplies that people kept and if they tried to stop them, killed them in cold blood. They were brutal the same way as their enemies. But post war was bad aswell. Oppresion of national views during Tito to make "yugoslavians". If you shown any national views or criticise the goverment, communist party had a large number of snitches that reported you If you were lucky you would only lose your job, if not... It was a communist oppresive regime, not one system that oppreses the people it claims to want to protect and make prosperous lasts forever.
@@stevanmrkusicmrkusic6320 Because many countries dont get taught much about the World Wars outside of its own, Americas and Englands involvement.. aswell as Germany and japan of course. I didn't even learn about Italy's involvement until I left school in Australia.. and our Anzacs were given a shit deployment and still pushed on.
My grandfather was in the Yugoslav partisans and got a medal for bravery. He mostly fought in occupied southern Serbia against Axis powers (Bulgarians, Albanians, Italians and Germans). Was wounded by a German grenade in the head and was out of combat for months but lived to tell the tale. He died in 1997, I miss him and his WWII stories.
My great grandfather also fought in WWII, but first he was forced to serve the Bulgarian army, and then switched to the Partizans. I sadly never got to hear his stories because he passed away when I was 4 years old (in 2003). Pozdrav iz Makedonija.
@@warbeatler618 It would be unrealistic to ask him to show a quarter of a million people in this four minute cartoon. He shows four, and puts a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying the rest aren't shown which would be pretty obvious.
@@kylemohs8728 Ok, I thought there would some hidden meaning behind this like 250k being just propaganda and not actual army number or that some of them were just soviet troops in partisant uniforms etc. Guess I was overthinking it too much to realize it was just a simple joke :D
My Grandpa was with the partisans. He had been awarded (Spomenicar). He didn't talk much about that time. He fought in Drvar in 1944 and in Srem in 1945. He only came home 3 years after the end of the war, they thought he was dead. The few stories from that time showed that there was no mercy towards the enemy.
Yugoslavia: When you gain independence from a collapsing multinational empire, only to have to deal with the exact same problems that your former overlord did, later down the line.
Yugoslavia wasn't the only failed "Frankenstein monster" of a nation pieced together from random parts by the victors after WW1. Czechoslovakia was ruled over by Czechs, even though they were actually less than 50% of the population, which included Slovaks, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, and Ukrainians. Likewise, the newly formed Poland had large minorities of Germans, Ukrainians, Russians, and Lithuanians. None of these nations had secure borders that were respected and agreed to by their neighbors, and all included large segments of the population that hated being part of the country and wanted out. Ironically, when Germany took the ethnic German Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland availed itself of the opportunity to snatch an ethnic Polish area for itself, seemingly unaware that they would soon be next on Germany's list of victims.
@@thebravegallade731 -Alsace is French tho granted with a strong germanic culture, but that would be calling Irish people English people because... they speak English (yeah not happening). -The polish corridor as for Silesia is basically only polish by now, and old Prussia is only Russian at this point so also highly unrealistic. -German from Sudetenland were also expelled so also unrealistic. -Austria has been forbidden from joining Germany since WW1 and they have been doing fine as of now so they don't need Germany's money nor renounce their independence which is all upside and now downside as of now again. Plus even if they are Germanic people they have noticeable differences with the North Germanic world (History aside). In the end that would be asking the question "why does Canada doesn't join the US?"
@@alengrm7488 Piju i Slovneci rakiju, samo ne znaju da je naprave. Kao što Srbi ne znaju napraviti dobro vino ;) Zato Bosanci peku rakiju za sve nas, a Hrvati mešaju bevandu, Crnogorci prave lozu, Makedonci mastiku, a mi u Vojvodini i Slavoniji pravimo slanine, kulena i čvaraka, da ima da se zamezi ;)
One important factor was that Tito was an ethnic Croat, not a Serb. This meant that people who didn't like Serb dominance were much more supportive of Partisans.
It means that the people who wanted their country free, fought for Partisans, like 80% of Partisans were Serbs.And wdym Serb dominance, you tell me that Serbia, who created Yugoslavia instead of greater Serbia shouldn't have dominance over the country that they've created.
dont listen to these 2 clowns. People that fought in partisan movement indetified as Yugoslavs, not Croats or Serbs. Their goal was Yugoslavian state under communist rule . They didint give 3 f*cks about Croatia or Serbia. Today left wing Serbs and Croats are trying to present them as theirs. In truth Croats back then where Nazi allies called Ustashe that had death camps. Serbs were "antifascist" that were actualy fascist that were doing ethnic cleansings of everything not Serbian. Its left wing propaganda trying to whitewash their crimes from that period. Btw partisans were no better cuz after war they went on rampage fueled by vengance.
In a twist irony, the Independent State of Croatia was also technically a monarchy with an Italian prince, Prince Aimone, being declared the King in 1941.
@@brandonhuynh4528 It's just like Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989, a time where nothing happened was completely normal nothing bad happened at all haha it is fake western propaganda yugoslavia still exists ahaha
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@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 Dude, Yugoslavia during WWII was nothing picturesque like on this video, but it got better after 1955, let say liberal cummunist uprising in 1974 was not deathly anymore. I m sLOVEnian so i have no idea but it seems USA was testing how muslims can be radicalised nowdays so they was 'observers' in Bosnia for more then 4 years before they finally made peace deal.
My great grandfather was a yugoslavian partisan. He was a brave warrior and fought against the nazis and their bosniak puppets. He took part in liberating belgrade but during the victory celebration he was runned over by a soviet T 34 tank and died.
For anyone who's interested, and willing to pay, there's a book by Geoffrey Swain titled "Tito: A Biography" which deals with just that. Good book, lots of detail on political processes.
My Great Grandad fought for the Chetniks. They Partisans did some awful things to them. My grandads family were all murdered and he has a particular story when he was on a train fleeing the country to Trieste and the train stopped just before Italy and they said that they weren't going to be killed anymore so everyone got off the train except my grandad. they opened fire on all of the people and soldiers whilst my grandad was hiding under the seat.
If your great grandad didn't join the partisans in 1944, when King Peter II ordered them to, and when Tito offered them amnesty it can only mean he had some war crimes under his belt and was fleeing with Germans and other collaborators. There was zero tolerance towards those who sided with Nazis after so many people were killed and starved for years
BALKANS ARE NOT SLAVS!!! Maybe by culture but even there they aren't close, when it comes to people they don't look slav and even the language does not sound slav when spoken.
What the French Resistance can't do in firepower, they can supplement in intelligence gathering and sabotage. Without the French Resistance doing intel gathering within France aided by British and US intelligence as well as sabotage works on their national infrastructures, D-Day would have not worked.
I didn't forget about them. It's just that the point here was making fun of the french resistance which is disrepectful. I respect others partisans groups as much as the french ones.
My grandpa was in the front and occupied Trieste but had to leave because the British warned them to leave the city. He was from Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian and fought side by side with all ethnic groups of Yugoslavia.
my grandad was a partisan. he told a story once where he met an enemy soldier in the woods. they aimed their rifles at each other and stared for a good while, neither taking the shot. eventually they lowered their weapons and walked away.
@@Prebondus Turks had a province called Bosnia. Bosnia failed to pay taxes for the huge part of it's existence to Turkish Sultan. 3 times armies had been sent to quench rebellion in Bosnia. The rebellions were made by Turkish officials and with Turkish troops against the Sultan. It was so costly to the Sultans that they just kept ignoring the Bosnia as wild west.
Thank you for this video. I'm British but my Grandfather is a Bosnian Serb who fought in this war as a teenager. He has so many stories about it, as you can imagine. Great to see a video about it
Well, so did the Chetniks, yet Serbian government rehabilitated them as antifascist relatively recently. Both groups were submitted directly to Italian MVAC (volunteer anti-communist militia) and took orders directly from Italian high command. Interesting, wouldn't you agree? :D Not that I'm defending Ustashe, they were monsters, but let's not have double standards here.
@@mottom2657Milosevic is criminal by CNN and Western media lol. He was the only man who was normal in Jugoslavia 🙄 But he was Serb--pro Russian, Orthodox and Western chatolic supported chatolic Croats 🙄 The truth is far away different from that.
Thank you. My grandfather was shot two different times as a messenger for the Partisans... I wish he was still alive so I could ask him more questions, now that more history has revealed itself!
Looks like someone didnt know the saying, “Dont shoot the messenger,”, all that aside, sorry for your grandfather, he was a brave man taking such a risky job during a devastating war. Respect ✊
This amnesty programme that Tito issued is what also led Yugoslavia ultimately to its doom, while it did have short term benefits during the war, later on it was a cause of major trouble and source for the rise of nationalist movements. Most of these amnestees weren't the actual cummunists and still secretly held their own - chetnik and ustasha allegiances and when Tito was dead and out of the picture, there was noone strong enough to contain them while simultaniously they held positions of power within army and government.
You cant compare the ideology of the Cetniks and that of the Ustase. Ustase were brutal and held many concentration camps including those for Children. The Cetniks were for the Kingdom of Jugoslavia, for Freedom of Religion and Freedom in General. They were the legitimate army of Jugoslavia before the Terroism of the Communists came around. Ustase were Fasist Neo Nazis who slaughtered entire populations of other nationalities based on Nationality and Religious beliefs. They were Monsters.The Cetniks also had bad people in their rank, but their core ideology was not about destroying all other nationalities. In contrast it was about keeping them together.
Me as a Bosnian Muslim, am so proud that my Grandfather was Partisan, that he fought for our Yugoslavia heavily, and he was soldier of our glory Marshal TITO ! Nek ti je vjecni Rahmet moj deduka, da ti dragi Allah Dzennet podari Amin !
@@SlavaBogu11 most chetniks were Serbs. Very few non-serbs served the chetniks. Also the chetniks fucked up their reputation when they committed genocide of muslims/bosniaks and croats/catholics
Also lesser known fact - at the end of the WW2, Yugoslavian resistance counted over 900.000 soldiers, including women and children. Everyone fought against Nazis and their collaborators. My grandparents were leaders of rebellion at the start of the war in Vojvodina (north Serbia), they got a tons of medals for their war effort, and even more interesting was that my grandmother was of a higher military rank than my grandfather. She was captured and tortured by Nazis, but she never broke and in doing so, she saved countless lives. She paid for that courage and heroism with her health, same as grandfather. They remained heroes to me. After the war, communist party didn't want to recognize huge effort of our women soldiers, even though they stood side by side to men. This was unfortunate, but the truth is still being passed by their relatives.
Croatia is only EU country where Nazism is still incorporated in government structure and is popular among its people, as we can see here. If you can brag about killing 900.000 innocent civilians, including women, children and elderly population, of whom all were Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, then you are a truly a sick man. Psychopath.
@@_neuromanser_ , don't ever label entire nation to mistakes done buy circumstances of the War , you are from Vojvodina as you stated , do you know that many actually part of Deutsche volks subject of nationality were Yugoslav National Heroes during WWII , not all of them followed the orders that could harm fellow innocent human beings , but stand against and paid with their life's it self . I visited Partisan monument side in Bosnia this summer with individual stones and engraved plates , all nationalities are there but was in hearth breaking condition , absolutely nobody take care of the side , it is totally abended , I put some marble plates back to place , for Serbian , Croats , Bosnian Muslim , Deutsche , Slovaks , who give their lives for something higher we can just imagen would exist ! In your first comment I give you like regardless your second comment , because I do believe you are good human fellow , that would stand for a good and fairness regardless , out there are only bad and good human beings in entire World !
plutoniusis did you notice what did that Nazi Ustasa from Croatia wrote just after my first comment? I have put him on block and have reported him to Google because I don want to read his poison here. No idea if Google removed his comment by now and if they did, my answer must seem out of the place. He was proud of his grandfather who tortured Serbs in Jasenovac concentration camp an he bragged how that thing humiliated prisoners. Over 900.000 people were killed there, of all ages and nationalities, but mostly Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. They weren’t gassed or shot, they were all butchered in a most brutal way with knives specially made for humans. There were rivers of blood there and even recorded photographs of those inhumans celebrating their atrocities, all covered in blood. My answer was to him specifically and I am disgusted that his country is still allowing that kind of rhetoric and those Nazi groups. That kind of nazi rhetoric is only increasing now before their elections, because populist right wingers can get votes only that way, and hate attacks on Serbs are being reported throughout the country. Now I am puzzled how is this being allowed in a present day EU country? He is not a single case of an Internet troll, they all belong to same political party which is ruling in Croatia today. This is a problem that must be brought in front of all nations who fought against Nazis in WW2.
Rakija (plum brandy) helped a lot as it did vodka for russians . In hard times as in good times give you the courage and social bond to achieve your goals and resilience . It was true than and it is now ! Not to mention that was used for wounds to heal and an anesthetic to tolerate pain.
It is true for every person in a hard situation... I know sharing a glass of alcohol and light each other a cigarret forms a bond and will of surviving... i've been there.. i know.... Look at Karadic visiting trups sharing rakija.
amazing video, especially since it's a rather overlooked aspect of WW2. but as effective as the partisans were, the population paid the highest price: retaliation of German amd Ustaša forces was brutal. my grandmother (Croatian herself) always shook with fear, when the Ustaša would come looking in the barn for partisans (which in fact were there the night before)
@@theboxygenie the German and Ustasa forces retaliated against the innocent Serb population. The children and elderely they captuted and sent to concentration camps werent Partisan soldiers, they were Serbs. These people werent only 'the population', they didnt round up Germans and Croat families (populations) and send them to death camps. Nor did they round up cattle. They rounded up Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. Give them a name. THE SERB, JEWISH AND GYPSY POPULATION
Reaserch the Slovenian branch of Partisans. They were independantly organized and formed a national goverment and so on before the end of the war and only truly formaly joined Titos partisans administratevaly by the end of the war
Was it even worth it for the Axis to conquer Yugoslavia? Could they have just tried to get them to stay neutral? I know it's pretty funny to say that after the Benelux, but it worked for Sweden. Keeping 100k troops just to try keep Yugoslavia under control sounds like such a waste for the Axis.
Answer is simple, comrades. We had a guy named Walther who had a magical ability to have infinite bullets in any weapon he holds. We also had Prle, Tihi and Marija - with similar abilities as well.
The Yugoslav Partizans are largely recognized as being on the the most successful anti-Nazi movements in WW2. 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.
My great grandfather was a Serbian partisan because of a group of 5 chetniks that beat the shit out of him and almost killed him. He was a hardcore >serbian< to the end of his days ironically, he wanted to raise my grandfather as a priest during the 50's in a communist country which is hilarious to think about. All he wanted to do is find the 5 chetniks and kill them out of revenge because he figured if he is fighting as a partisan in eastern serbia where they almost beat him to death, and being the place where he lives he would eventually find them. He did. But not in the way he intended to. After the war in 1948 he decided to go to Pirot and become a member of the workers party (the only political party in Yugoslavia) so he could reap some benefits and gibs since he was a partisan scout and later artilleryman. After waiting to finish up paperwork he went to be heard by the local representatives of the party to evaluate him. Guess who was waiting behind those two doors? All 5 of the chetniks with short hair and no beards as representatives sitting and starring into his eyes, all alive, all with respectable positions in Yugoslavia and all of them shitting themselves collectively. He gave them all a look of disbelief and defeat, went back to his village and nearly never left it again. Imagine the level of torment and hate. He only came to my home city in the 90's and early 2000's for the funeral of my grandfather (his son) and the weddings of his grand children (my father and my uncle), the birth and baptisms of his great grand children (five of us all together) and that's that. He hated just about everything in life except his family which he loved. I think of him and the shit he went trough and compare my daily sufferings to his and feel at ease, how lucky i am and how good i got it. Deda Brance i miss you.
So he was a soldier with soldier skills, but unable to enact his vengeance on those who wronged him, and instead never left his village? The problem we still have to this day.
Many Partizani had done the same in Lika. Majority of them quickly fell for the partizans due to communist forces betraying cetnici. It was commonplace back then, and my own family had to join the cetnici as they were on a list of influential serbs to be killed by the communists when the war first started.
My grand grandfather got 5 medals including top medals you could get in Yugoslavia in the WW2. He was leading brigade about 15k people that got encircled by advancing German forces and managed to bring them all out by his wits without anyone dying.
@@stevekillgore9272 No one, that is why we have a statue of him in our hometown! He actually played a trick onto the Germans and they bought it. Since he went with a white flag and told them that they have been sent to negotiate German surrender since it was early 45.
I live in the town of Drvar, better known as Tito's Drvar before the breakup of Yugoslavia. City is known for the battle of Drvar in which the Partisans won. My great-grandfather participated in that battle. After World War II, Tito's Drvar hosted "Desant na Drvar" every year, showing how the Germans attacked the town in the battle of Drvar. Also there is Tito's Cave (Titova Pećina), in the cave there was a small house where Tito hide from the Germans, and today it is whole and can be visited.
How is life in Drvar now? I hear only bad things sadly, but I hope the Serbs of Drvar, Grahovo, Petrovac and Glamoč will one day find a good future again. Pozdrav brate
Tito was a self-obsessed jerk who wasted millions of taxpayers' money on advancing his personality cult. Also, he was a ruthless Stalinist immediately after the war (and during it, of course) and only backed out after Stalin started perceiving him as threat, he then needed to cozy up to the Americans. Despite not having to follow the Kremlin's botched economic policies, unlike Poland, Czechoslovakia or Hungary, he still drove the country to the ground and had to save the public funds by allowing hundreds of thousands of people to emigrate to Austria and West Germany just so they could send back remittances. And he died having done nothing in the way of securing a smooth transfer of power.
Well that's partially right. For one thing the Chetniks weren't exactly a homogenous group under the command of Mihailovic, it was more of an umbrella term for a number of different factions of resistance movements, not all under Mihailovic's direction. The vast majority of the Chetniks were however controlled by him though. Also the UK provided massive amounts of support including the massive supplies of armament and equipment and liason officer, the RAF Balkan Air Force was formed to provide air cover and support troops on the ground, the insertion of the 2nd Special Service Brigade - Army Commandos and Royal Marines Commandos comprising 40 RM Cdo, 9 Cdo (I think), and 43 RM Cdo in which my grandfather served plus the mountain troops of the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry. The 2nd Special Service Brigade was instrumental in preventing Tito falling into Axis hands when his own position became untenable and they started conducting multiple large scale assaults to keep the Germans on the back foot and allow Tito's retreating columns to keep ahead of the pursuing Axis forces. With such a complicated subject this may have been better as a 10 minute history to allow for greater detail. One of the officers of 43 Commando Royal Marines Michael McConville wrote a fantastic history of the campaign entitled "A small war in the Balkans" for those that want a more in depth history
I think you'll find that several resistance movements throughout Europe wouldn't have fought anyone apart from themselves if not for british spy agencies directing them
@@boozecruiser that's very true. Many resistance groups were founded by personal ambition more than anything else and defeating the Germans was merely a means to an end
@@boozecruiser but the Chetniks were notable for terminology being an area of confusion. A chetnik was a Serbian nationalist guerilla, irrespective of his faction or political intentions. Mihailovic declared himself to be their leader but he was only the leader of those under his influence, and there were many that were not under his influence or control and some that actively opposed - such as the nature of guerilla warfare. This oddity of terminology created a great deal of confusion for the British, and leads to errors made by historians such as this
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire Also Draza and his chetniks saved around 300 allied pilots from certain death, they were good guys mostly but hated both nazis and communists.
@@tamovamo94 they were yeah but the problem was that our objectives didn't line up. The Chetniks under Mihailovic's objective was the liberation of Yugoslavia, so they intended to rise up when the Allies were able to enter the country and launch a concerted and coordinated effort to push the Germans out. The Partisans' objective was the liberation of Yugoslavia, so they intended to resist the Axis invaders and try to push them out by force of arms. The Allied objective was to draw Axis troops away from the other theatres in Italy and North West Europe. Their intentions were to draw more and more German and Italian troops into Yugoslavia to allow their armies to move through their respective theatres with less opposition. So of the two movements the Partisans were the ones most closely aligned to the Allies' objectives which is why we chose to switch our support from Mihailovic to Tito, Draza may have been a good guy but he wasn't a winner unfortunately
Tito was one of the few men that not even Stalin dare oppose. If I recall the story goes that after Yugoslavias break from the Soviet Union as an independent communist state Stalin attempted to send many assassins to Tito which eventually Tito wrote to Stalin saying something along the lines of: "you have sent many assassins to Beograd, if this continues I shall send one to Moskva and I will not need to send a second" and Stalin never tried again after that. That's what I remember anyway
Thanks for the video my brother, my great grandfather joined the Yugoslav Partisans during the German occupation. I'm unaware about his role in the partisans but in general history for the partisans and the yugoslavs were very grim due to Hitler's rule of 50/100 (50 Serbians killed for 1 German injured and 100 Serbians killed for 1 dead German.) But I'm glad for my Great grandfather and thousands of other men in Yugoslavia who stood up against Nazi rule.
Red Army "liberated" Yugoslavia",and of course raped a lot of children,girls and even elderly females. Tito was pussy who miledly objected when rape become epidemic,becouse he was Stalin little bitch.Partisans could not defeat Croatian forces on their own,not to mention Wehrmacht. They could only win against cowardley Chetnics and Italians in small battles.
My three great grandfathers fought in Chetniks since the beginning of uprising may-june 1941.They escaped being captured by Germans in april 1941 after Yugoslavia capitulated. One was killed fighting the Germans that same year.Two others survived the war and lived a long life.The fourth one was a Yugoslav Army officer and a POW in Germany for 4 years. After Germany lost the war he returned home with 350.000 Yugoslav (mostly Serbian) soldiers and officers.Died peacefully at the age of 97.
@@Jessie_James850 Who raped children, girls and elderly females? As far as I know, pretty much everyone on both sides committed horrors that shouldn't be ignored. And as for Tito, he could have been Statin's "Bitch" at the time during WW2 but it's obvious he was just using him for his own benefits as he defected from Stalin post-war. And I won't lie, they weren't very strong in terms of battles. But the axis failed to achieve their goals after each offensive which overall made the partisans a pain in the ass for Germans in general.
@@inkblowout partisans we’re not a pain in the ass . But their allies were . Serbia was a country that got occupied many times and freed by Meer luck .
My Great-Grandad was one of them. He fought on the Eastern Front versus the Bulgarians. He was from Beličica, North Macedonia. There were a lot of Albanian Nationalists there, so they came to his home and put his house on Fire. Also his wife and mother were burned alive. That was in 1944. He went on to live until 1988. It is sad that he died on the birthday of Tito. R.I.P.
🇲🇰🇧🇦🇭🇷🇷🇸🇸🇮🇲🇪 I'm from Macedonia and my parents and grandparents lived while Yugoslavia existed. I always asked them how was life back then and they always told me that Yugoslavia was one of the greatest countries and that Tito was a great leader. Nowadays in Macedonia the politics and everything other is so bad. Many people left the country and many people aren't happy with their salary.
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean : MacClean parachuted into Yugoslavia and lived with the partisans, acting as a liason between Tito and Churchill in the latter days of the war. Very informative and also as a plus, very interesting.
I've read about half of the book. Apparently the guy who wrote it was extremely partial to Michaelovich and completely overlooks the fact the Chetniks and the Partisans committed the same war crimes. He also stated that he was very loyal to his people, which as you might know, he sided with the Italians against his people.
Good video man but i think it would he worth mentioning that Mihailovic had the support of the allies initially in ww2 and then they switched support to partizans.
@@leepek3575 So he escaped Poland to help communists enslaving Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians, Serbs and Macedonians at times when we were already under attack of nazis and fascists? And now YOU are telling me about being triggered? You in Poland got lost of communist oppresion 30 years ago, we still have it, mate! Thanks to all the forces that helped communist bandit army of partisans. I'm not blaming your poor grandpa if he had no other choice - but if that was his own decision, things get a little bit complicated here. I think I know something about Polish situation during the 2.nd was and I adore the bravery of your men to fight both nazis and commies, but if you knew more about Yugoslavian history, you would be much less proud of collaborating with this infamous revolutionary army.
@@quasinormal But as I heard Jugoslavian Partisant army fight against hitler? Btw. Is there any good museum about that soliders unit? I looking for any photos of my grandpa in army - maybe there is some info about him in old archive, do you have any idea? Well live is brutal, and wars are only for making ritch people more ritch , and poor are die for bank families
They all hate each other,comen enemy bind them together.Communist tried to use communism as bond between us(the people of YU) and when it failed ALL failed.
Četnik comes from a word četa = squad. So in its literal translation it means a squad member. Over time especially during the wars of 90's that word started being used to describe Serbian ultra nationalists and in some cases as a word to demean all Serbs.
Please explore the Italian and Greek resistances that were sold out by the allied powers even though they had liberated large parts of their countries from the Germans. The west in many cases even put ex fascists in charge in these countries because they were more scared of these partisan movements gaining left inspired political power. The most horrific manifestation of this was the Greek Civil War, which deserves a video of its own!
Actually, the Chetniks were also collaborating with fascists, and they territorial aspirations plan called Big Serbia ( which included grand part of Croatia). So partisans were actually fighting against Italy, Germany , Ustashas and Chetniks.
@Red Obama in the base they collaborated because they've seen nazis and their extreme nationalism as opportunity to make their own countries greater than they are. croats wanted independent croatia thats includes parts of today's bosnia and herzegovina. while serbs wanted great serbia to tokyo across milwaukee. anyway both sides collaborated with nazis nazis just wanted yugoslavia out of the picture so they collaborated with both sides so that we kill each other. they suceeded.
@@spatrk6634 Chetniks first of werent a united group. Ustase wanted Greater Croatia that featured the entirety of modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of todays Serbia and Montenegro. They based their claim off of medival Kingdom of Croatia that had those borders for extremely short period of time. The most extreme Chetnik group was the one of Dimitrije Ljotic who wanted to do to Croats what Croats did to Serbs and he was just as bad as the Ustase. What Mihajlovic's Chetniks wanted(most of the Chetniks) was to recreate Serbia and to unite all the Serbs as self determination was quite popular at the time. You also make an absolute laughable statement that Croats were guided by self determination as Croats made up less than half of "Greater" Croatia while Serbs were actually the majority in their own "Greater" country(during WW2 that is). What would be equivalent to WW2 Ustase would be Serbs claiming Tzar Dusans Empire. Those people do exist, but noone takes them seriously. What the idea of last centuries Chetniks would be equivalent is the idea of Croatia getting west Herzegovina today. You struggle to understand WW2 Chetniks, who mostly werent fascists(barring Ljotic and his followers) and 90s "Chetniks"(who were lead by idiots like Karadzic and Milosevic who were horrible).
That is 0% truth. Not all chetniks were involved in Axis-Ustashe movement. Some chetniks fought until they ran out of supplies and died protecting their own. Partisans were made out of "Opeartion Barbadossa" and Soviets were supplying Tito for being communist. So that is not true and Mihailovic chetniks were not traitors and kept killing Axis and Ustase. But without supplies Chetniks could not stand against Partisans Ustase and Axis killing them. Research more.
You should do some search on De Gaulle, Moulin, Aubrac, Brossolette, Tillon, Frenay, Malraux. Yeah the French Resistance was the most important. It prepared the D day in Normandy and the ones in Provence. It did a lot of spying activities.
Missed a very important bit, which is HOW they fought, where instead of openly battling the germans they engaged in mostly sabotage tactics and guerrilla type warfare. I know you mentioned this but shoulda hit harder on how smart this was when it came to them being almost untouchable and how damaging it was to the germans, as they needed yugoslavia mostly for transport and logistics, and thats exactly where the partisans hit. Other than that great job
About that: transport what? Germans pretty much stopped in Greece to the south. The African campaign wasn't very supported, or fruitful, right? Despite its potential. So what would be transported through Yugoslavia? Just asking.
Red Army "liberated" Yugoslavia",and of course raped a lot of children,girls and even elderly females. Tito was pussy who miledly objected when rape become epidemic,becouse he was Stalin little bitch.Partisans could not defeat Croatian forces on their own,not to mention Wehrmacht. They could only win against cowardley Chetnics and Italians in small battles.
The Germans were very repressive in Yugoslavia, especially in Serbia.For every German officer killed a 150 Serb civilians would be executed by firing squad. For every German soldier killed a 100 Serb civilians would be executed, and for every wounded German soldier a 50 civilians. With that in mind resistance movements had to be careful how and where they combat the Germans (especially the right oriented Chetniks).
Good video, one point is missed though, the main reason Cetniks didn't show much resistance wasn't due to their waiting for the allies to show up (as Draza Mihajlovic said, the English were keen on fighting to the last drop of blood, Serbian blood), they were pressured by Germans killing civilians, the mass slaughter of kids and people in Kragujevac at 21st of October was due to a German convoy being attacked by Communists(partisans) in a nearby village, the rule was that per one wounded 50 civilians were executed and for one killed a 100. So since Germans enforced this the Cetniks stood quiet in order to preserve the people while Partisans fought on.
No. Chetniks who wanted to fight and liberate their country defected to partisans as soon as they understood that Draža Mihajlović and other chetnik warlords are a bunch of collaborating cowards who were robbing and killing civilians same as ustahes. They even fought side by side with the ustashes against the only true resistance - People's liberation struggle. The only difference between chetniks and ustashes was that the ustashes were better organized and systematic.
@@eduard.bosnjak I will make assumption that you are Bosnian muslim, so no surprise you are having this point of view. But let me remind you about few things-muslims lived in Kingdom ruled by Serbs and there where no prison camps, killings...after formation of NDH and atrocities committed by the Ustaše and Muslims, some Serb forces where killing some innocent Muslims/Croatias...as a retaliation...now you are making guérilla Yugoslav Army in Homeland (aka Četniks) to be the same as nazi allied NDH state with laws, structure, gourmet... Another important point- you are right-there where a lot of local commanders who collaborated with Italians(Djurišić, Djujić), Germans(Kosta Pećanac and his Četnik Unit), Ustaše(Radić) for a different reasons-to fight communist, prevent German retaliation, revenge against Ustaše... here I do not count Ljotić and SDK or Nedić’s Zandamerija who where openly fighting JKVO(Mihailovic)...Feel free to do research that most of those had problem with Mihailovic because of Colaboration.-capturing and killing of Pećanac and fight with Djurišić)...in Serbia, there where virtually no Partisans untill 1944 and Communist would have never won if Soviets didn’t show up...
0:40 You see that landmass at the bottom of the country? How are you going to mess with a country that literally has a ball-shaped border line?? Those Slavs had balls!!
@@zeljosarajevic could have grown into a Balkan union along with Albania, Romania and Greece, but oh well.. so much for "visions" of unity. I guess people were just saving their a**** in ways they knew at the time.
Don’t forget popular leader like DeGuall(I don’t know how to spell his name correctly Sorry) who ruled like a actually democratically elected leader. While Tito was a good leader. He was a dictator which isn’t to favored in a lot of places. Cause well repression
It's also worth mentioning how Tito later managed to keep Jugoslavia idependent and wealthy as a socialist nation while beeing surrounded by NATO and Warsaw pact membersin the middle of the cold war. Despise his ideals as much as you want, but Tito was probably one of the smartest people to ever run a country.
If we ignore the fact that: 1. It left Serbia, as a Yugoslav successor, in crippling debt 2. He drew ethnic lines that caused one of the blodiest and most gruesome European wars in modern history 3. He still was a dictator so no democracy or any freedom of expression, press etc. 4. He reinvented the national ideas of regions that were ethnically ambiguous leading to more conflict 5. He moved a shit ton of Albanians to Kosovo which lead to further ethnic tension in the region which caused another war filled to the brim with warcrimes 5.5 He abused his wife and was a pedophile tho I wont count this one as a full point since it isn't related to leadership 6. His party was so full of oligarchs and red princes that when he finally died (good riddance) the shitstorm of a "government" he left behind started plundering each and every corner of what was left of Yugoslavia. Those oligarchs are also largely responsible for the Yugoslav wars. Their successors rule Serbia to this day (and until recently Montenegro) Oh yeah, did I mention that he was fighting for the enemy during WW1 and quite has possibly participated in some of numerous war crimes in Voivodina (including gangrape, mass murder stc.)
My great grandfather was a Yugoslav partisan and earned a plethora of awards post-war for bravery and sacrifice. Not to mention he was captured and tortured several times and managed to escape every time to continue fighting!
They were in fact so successfull they occupied parts of Italy and Austria at the end. The british pressured them to leave Austria and they did. There were in fact plans to annex carinthia, since it had (historically, in the south even back then) been majority slovene speaking
I was going to say--Yugoslavia has A LOT of mountainous terrain with thick forests that is very easy to hide into. Not so with a country like the Soviet Union, France or Poland, where the land is mostly very flat with few forests in which to hide.
I enjoyed this so so much. Im from Bosnia and i had great-granfather who fought in partisan movment. He managed to survive the war and to tell the tales of battles.
Liberating themselves also meant that they could be largely independent during the Cold War and even stand up (sometimes hilariously insulting Stalin), and while authoritarian to at least the degree that you might see today like with the Hong Kong riot police or the way Moscow police protect Putin, it was far more like a socialist country than even the USSR was and any power that Tito didn't wield himself was dispersed relatively widely.
@@BoredLoserAlpha very liberal, it had secret police that went on executing dissidents all over the world and you could get jailed for singing certain songs XD. Good riddance
Great grandfather was a partisan and great great grandfather fought for the kingdom of serbia in ww1 :) thank you for covering these topics, god bless all soldier’s souls
To quote Lindybeige's video on this(Yugoslavia in World War Two - a tale of resistance, collaboration, and betrayal), "actually it was more complicated than that", like I love this channel, and I get the idea is to have a short video, but this really isn't something that can be easily summarized in a short video, though you can explain why the Partisans were more effective than the Chetniks. The Partisans never stayed anywhere for long, meaning they didn't have to see the effects of their actions on the civilian population, the Chetniks did. The Germans/Axis were brutal, and it's safe to say a lot of Yugoslavian's died for the actions of the Partisans that didn't need to die. Also the Russians only really got involved in helping at the very end of the war, after with British help the Partisans were basically already free. Tito basically stabbed the allies in the back and sided with Stalin over the allies who had helped to free his country. Though as stated earlier, actually it was more complicated than that.
Is hard to invade Yugoslavia because with all the forests and mountains, you don't know where yugo.
hahahahahaha, not bad
lol
Lol nice one
Ill go to slavia
Same with Afghanistan. Except more mountains and less Forest.
My granpa fought in WW2. He drove a train trought Yugoslavian territory to reach Albania and supply the italian troops in Greece. Every time he travelled a group of partisans would attack, and the guy who shot the machine gun would always die. Always, no execption. My granpa told me: "every time, I had to chose who died". They were so good they almost killed him when a bullet almost took him in the head, but killed his friend. He asked to be transeferd in Tunisia because he prefered to fight the Allies rather than the yugoslavian partisans
That is an intersting story
@@M-SRB who
@@valentinamedojevic8512 communists
@@M-SRB Svaka cast na recima, brate Srbine
My great grandfather was with the Wehrmacht in Yugoslavia for fighting the partisans. He never spoke about anything regarding his time there...
I actually did some digging and it turns out Draža Mihailović’s grandson Vojislav is actually the leader of a Serbian monarchist party, so I guess the family tradition continues
Tito's grandson is the head of the Communist Party in Serbia.
He is stupid like his grandfather,never passed 10 % of votes...now he is in another party and they are sitting at 3.5 %
@@CounterTheAnimatorocn1 Communist Party in Serbia is not even party anymore ,they are more like club now...
@@misiknuo like Elderly Society Club more like.
@@vvkth2500 I mean we god SPS and pokret socijalista tho, but the only socialism left there is in the names lmao
Imagine being such a bad resistance that the side you’re fighting aids you to help fight another resistance
😂😂
LOL
Well, yes but mainly because chetniks couldn’t recive equipment and ammunition from communists because partisans did and they were not in the greatest relaitons with the allies (despite the yugoslav goverment being pro allied) so the didn’t recieve equipment from them either, because of this they were “collaborating” with the axis to keep their units supplied and well equiped and simply waited for allies to invade balkan.
They would use that as a perfect time to revolt and aid allies in driving axis out of the balkans.
Also Chetniks weren’t a single resistance group.
They were different groups that were remanants of the Yugoslav army and some chetnik groups collaborated with the Axis, others were fighting against the axis, but the most famous and largest chetnik movement was one led bi Draža Mihajlović (as his name is spelled that way in my country) that was the only chetnik movement that was collaborating to keep itself alive while in the same time waiting for perfect opportuniti to revolt.
I am croatian so I know something about this since it is related to our history in the 20th century.
@@johnythecookedsteak4819 finally a non serb who knows the truth about it, pozdrav
@@thearbiter3351 Pozdrav iz Zagreba
Tito: Unity is cool
Literally 2 seconds after Tito's death: *Let's all kill each other over ethnic hatred*
*10 yrs after his death
@@thefishoftruth235 That makes it better.
shut the fuck up, please, just shut the fuck up
@Ksio fuck tito? he sent people who were nazis in ww2 to the bare island and other nazis. just like it should be done.
Turns out everybody hated each other and only didn't do a thing when he was alive because they feared and respected him A LOT.
We kept the Germans out so successfuly so that 80 years later we would beg to move to Germany for labor lol.
80 years later? Tito begged West German government to accept workers from Yugoslavia already in the 1960s. 20 years after the war.
@@nemanjaras Begging is the wrong word, it was a economic pact. Yugoslavs had work and Germany had workers in sectors where workers were missing
@@felsachat7931 And mind you, many were high quality engineers and technicians. Yugoslav engineers practically built Egypt, Libya, Iraq..
@@nemanjaras Yes, because Germany haveb`t payed for all damages in Yugoslavi during WW2.
I don't see why you call 'begging for labor'. They have economic pact, on a fair negotiation, within the jurisdiction of int'l law. The labors are paid and protected by the economic deal. They work in sectors where they got comparative advantage (cheaper wage) and got paid - simply supply and demand. They're not forced labor. The economic deals are the results of having sovereignty, results of successfully pushing the Germans out.
I swear I don't know why people are this stupid to recognize the difference. I feel so bad when people use this narration to talk about Eastern European workers. They work hard and legitimately and still being called 'begging for jobs' by some lazy ass Westerners.
Another reason the Yugoslav resistance was so strong was because the Germans were so heavy-handed that they basically forced people into the resistance. Yugoslav resistance formed quickly, and Germany reacted by decreeing that 100 Yugoslav civilians would be killed for every German soldier killed. This backfired when the resistance used it to their advantage by wiping out German garrisons and recruiting the entire village since everyone knew that the Germans would murder them all anyway.
It takes a brave person to fight when it puts them in danger, but even a coward will fight when it’s the only way to survive.
They killed only Serbs. Not killing Croats and others. Only Serbs 100 for 1
I’ve always wanted to know more about Yugoslavian Partisans because from what my grandma has told me my great grandpa was one.
That's bad-ass.
Fuck yugoslavia
@@kreso149 why?
@@Tino1555 partisans did massive number of revenge and hate fueled warcrimes based on all number of reasons. From raping women and little girls and roasting priest alive, to executing captured prisoners and killing entire families because their sons and fathers were drafted into army. They would steal supplies that people kept and if they tried to stop them, killed them in cold blood. They were brutal the same way as their enemies. But post war was bad aswell. Oppresion of national views during Tito to make "yugoslavians". If you shown any national views or criticise the goverment, communist party had a large number of snitches that reported you If you were lucky you would only lose your job, if not... It was a communist oppresive regime, not one system that oppreses the people it claims to want to protect and make prosperous lasts forever.
@@andrija2555 holy shet,thats dark
I really like this channel for focusing on less known topics. Thanks for the content man!
Hows this less known..
Stevan Mrkusic Mrkusic Why are you mad Balkan
Stevan Mrkusic Mrkusic a lot of people don’t even know where the balkans are
@@stevanmrkusicmrkusic6320 Because many countries dont get taught much about the World Wars outside of its own, Americas and Englands involvement.. aswell as Germany and japan of course. I didn't even learn about Italy's involvement until I left school in Australia.. and our Anzacs were given a shit deployment and still pushed on.
Simp
My grandfather was in the Yugoslav partisans and got a medal for bravery. He mostly fought in occupied southern Serbia against Axis powers (Bulgarians, Albanians, Italians and Germans). Was wounded by a German grenade in the head and was out of combat for months but lived to tell the tale. He died in 1997, I miss him and his WWII stories.
That's bad ass. Your grandfather was a badass.
@@devinreis5811 thnx man 🙂
My great grandfather also fought in WWII, but first he was forced to serve the Bulgarian army, and then switched to the Partizans. I sadly never got to hear his stories because he passed away when I was 4 years old (in 2003). Pozdrav iz Makedonija.
That's pretty cool. My grandad was also a veteran, but not from WW2.
My great grandpa was a Partisan too in eastern Serbia, gonio nemce do austrije, but he died early from cancer, he was like 57 years old
2:44 that joke in the bottom right corner.... I’m still laughing
I completely overlooked that. XD
I don't get it. Can you explain?
@@warbeatler618 It would be unrealistic to ask him to show a quarter of a million people in this four minute cartoon.
He shows four, and puts a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying the rest aren't shown which would be pretty obvious.
@@kylemohs8728 Ok, I thought there would some hidden meaning behind this like 250k being just propaganda and not actual army number or that some of them were just soviet troops in partisant uniforms etc.
Guess I was overthinking it too much to realize it was just a simple joke :D
@@warbeatler618
You fall too easy for capitalist propaganda
My Grandpa was with the partisans. He had been awarded (Spomenicar). He didn't talk much about that time. He fought in Drvar in 1944 and in Srem in 1945. He only came home 3 years after the end of the war, they thought he was dead. The few stories from that time showed that there was no mercy towards the enemy.
Been so good because been in bosnian mountains with half of them "partizans" been bosnians who Thought about freedom
The virgin French resistance vs. the Chad Yugoslav resistance.
and yet, the French get all the glory...
@@testytesteberger6397 lol what glory, no one praises french resistance, they are made fun of for losing in 40 days and rightfully so
Also dont forget the soviet partizans who did much more than the French resistance.
@@glebb..3416 everyone did more than the French
@@jake42731 your à clown
Yugoslavia:
When you gain independence from a collapsing multinational empire, only to have to deal with the exact same problems that your former overlord did, later down the line.
You either die with Empire or long live to see yourself became that empire but even worse.
Except people didn’t kill each other under the Austro Hungarian empire but they did under Yugoslav rule.
Yugoslavia wasn't the only failed "Frankenstein monster" of a nation pieced together from random parts by the victors after WW1. Czechoslovakia was ruled over by Czechs, even though they were actually less than 50% of the population, which included Slovaks, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, and Ukrainians. Likewise, the newly formed Poland had large minorities of Germans, Ukrainians, Russians, and Lithuanians. None of these nations had secure borders that were respected and agreed to by their neighbors, and all included large segments of the population that hated being part of the country and wanted out.
Ironically, when Germany took the ethnic German Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland availed itself of the opportunity to snatch an ethnic Polish area for itself, seemingly unaware that they would soon be next on Germany's list of victims.
@@dongilleo9743 proper 'german' borders would be 1936 borders+ alsace (but not lorrane) +polish corridor+austria + sudetenland lol.
@@thebravegallade731
-Alsace is French tho granted with a strong germanic culture, but that would be calling Irish people English people because... they speak English (yeah not happening).
-The polish corridor as for Silesia is basically only polish by now, and old Prussia is only Russian at this point so also highly unrealistic.
-German from Sudetenland were also expelled so also unrealistic.
-Austria has been forbidden from joining Germany since WW1 and they have been doing fine as of now so they don't need Germany's money nor renounce their independence which is all upside and now downside as of now again. Plus even if they are Germanic people they have noticeable differences with the North Germanic world (History aside). In the end that would be asking the question "why does Canada doesn't join the US?"
French resistance: happens
Yugoslavia: hold my rakija...
Hahagahahahahaha, that is soo True.
Slovenians don't drink Rakia.......wine and beer is like rakia here lol
@Estrim Rolls Ik but wine and beer are still way more common
@Nalchi pa i hrvati piju rakiju sa ne
@@alengrm7488 Piju i Slovneci rakiju, samo ne znaju da je naprave. Kao što Srbi ne znaju napraviti dobro vino ;) Zato Bosanci peku rakiju za sve nas, a Hrvati mešaju bevandu, Crnogorci prave lozu, Makedonci mastiku, a mi u Vojvodini i Slavoniji pravimo slanine, kulena i čvaraka, da ima da se zamezi ;)
One important factor was that Tito was an ethnic Croat, not a Serb.
This meant that people who didn't like Serb dominance were much more supportive of Partisans.
It means that the people who wanted their country free, fought for Partisans, like 80% of Partisans were Serbs.And wdym Serb dominance, you tell me that Serbia, who created Yugoslavia instead of greater Serbia shouldn't have dominance over the country that they've created.
dont listen to these 2 clowns. People that fought in partisan movement indetified as Yugoslavs, not Croats or Serbs. Their goal was Yugoslavian state under communist rule . They didint give 3 f*cks about Croatia or Serbia. Today left wing Serbs and Croats are trying to present them as theirs. In truth Croats back then where Nazi allies called Ustashe that had death camps. Serbs were "antifascist" that were actualy fascist that were doing ethnic cleansings of everything not Serbian. Its left wing propaganda trying to whitewash their crimes from that period. Btw partisans were no better cuz after war they went on rampage fueled by vengance.
@@saellenx3528 clowns? They speak more facts than you do
To be honest, Tito identified as a Yugoslav, rather than a Croat
@@thearbiter3351 they speak nonsense.
Tito: Hey Hitler wanna hear a joke?
Hitler: Yes, sure.
Tito: Adriatic sea.
Hitler: I don't get it.
Tito: That's right you will never get it.
This has to the best one I've seen today thanks man
@@t.bfisher5855 Yeah same
Mussolini got it🤷🏻♂️
@@bassmentier and lost it in a blink of an eye;)
@@nikola_tomic To the Germans at first
Last time i was this early Trieste was still populated by Slovenes.
Trst je naš!
Tako je
Život damo, Trst nakon 20 godina.
:)
@@einzweidreivier24 Trst, Istra, Gorica, Reka, naša so pravica!
Tujega nočemo, svojega ne damo
In a twist irony, the Independent State of Croatia was also technically a monarchy with an Italian prince, Prince Aimone, being declared the King in 1941.
He was decrowned i 1943...
m vg *in
@@Edmonton-of2ec in*(my bed)
The pinnacle of lunacy
Andro A I think they did it to try and legitimize their regime by related it to the Croatian Kingdoms of old....
Also, please recognize the commitment to getting the weaponry correct for each army and time period. It’s actually impressive.
When the mountains start speaking Serbo-Croatian
When the language is called Serbo-Croatian: *cryes in bosnian*
Don’t do the Macedonians and Slovenes like that bro 😭 we were there too
@Michael M man my girlfriend speaks “Yugoslavian”
More like when the mountains start speaking South Slavic.
when the snow starts speaking Finnish
2:43 "other 250,000 not shown" lol
cuz they are hiding in mounts
Good thing all that ethnic tension is a all in the past now. hahaha gulp.
The_Nuke Yugoslav War of the 1990’s? What’s that?
@@brandonhuynh4528 r/woooosshhh
@@brandonhuynh4528 It's just like Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989, a time where nothing happened was completely normal nothing bad happened at all haha it is fake western propaganda yugoslavia still exists ahaha
@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 Dude, Yugoslavia during WWII was nothing picturesque like on this video, but it got better after 1955, let say liberal cummunist uprising in 1974 was not deathly anymore. I m sLOVEnian so i have no idea but it seems USA was testing how muslims can be radicalised nowdays so they was 'observers' in Bosnia for more then 4 years before they finally made peace deal.
*Serbia strong playing in distance*
The Partisans basically pulled a Band-Aid, making your name into the name of your categorisation
Thank you for all the informative and fantastic content!
good job passively advertising your channel by commenting like this on every history channel
Wow I look at your channel and I hope it grows
How else do you get your channel out there?
My great grandfather was a yugoslavian partisan. He was a brave warrior and fought against the nazis and their bosniak puppets. He took part in liberating belgrade but during the victory celebration he was runned over by a soviet T 34 tank and died.
@@muchentuchen6592 oh... I am sorry to hear your lost
Can you do a video on Tito's Yugoslavia and the nation's Cold War History and how it differed from Soviet style socialism?
For anyone who's interested, and willing to pay, there's a book by Geoffrey Swain titled "Tito: A Biography" which deals with just that. Good book, lots of detail on political processes.
Yes please do it
Also including the support for the Greek Communists who were attacked by the British forces during ww2
Don't forget to mentioned the hundreds of thousands of German Wehrmacht POW's mass murdered by Tito's men in Yugoslavia after the war's end.
@@Gallic_Gabagool That is incorrect. They were brutal only to partisans.
Tito and his Broz.
I see what you did there.
Nothing
"Broz before Hoes"
- Yugoslavs
Jo, sip on this rakija Bro'z
My Great Grandad fought for the Chetniks. They Partisans did some awful things to them. My grandads family were all murdered and he has a particular story when he was on a train fleeing the country to Trieste and the train stopped just before Italy and they said that they weren't going to be killed anymore so everyone got off the train except my grandad. they opened fire on all of the people and soldiers whilst my grandad was hiding under the seat.
A war wages a heavy toll and it sucks I'm sorry
If your great grandad didn't join the partisans in 1944, when King Peter II ordered them to, and when Tito offered them amnesty it can only mean he had some war crimes under his belt and was fleeing with Germans and other collaborators. There was zero tolerance towards those who sided with Nazis after so many people were killed and starved for years
Germans: Let's invade Yugoslavia!
YUGOSlavic mountains: Neće ići bagro Švabska.
Edit: Holy Tito look at all these likes ;-;
Hahaha
Germans: Können wir Jugoslawien erobern?
Yugoslavia: Ah da ali ne
Jes jes
Kad su shvatili da vojnim putem neće moći, porobili su nas ekonomski.
@@markomarkovic5729 Да, нажалост
Yugoslavia ahead.⛔
No tresspassing! 🚷
Slavs and mountains danger! ⚠️
OH no the worst combination of slavs communism and mountains
BALKANS ARE NOT SLAVS!!! Maybe by culture but even there they aren't close, when it comes to people they don't look slav and even the language does not sound slav when spoken.
@@mycrobyte6063 Ok boomer
@@mycrobyte6063
Ž.
@@mycrobyte6063 im pretty sure our languages sound slavic, it's just mixed with turkish, german, latin n shit
The Chad Yugoslav rebellion vs the Virgin French resistance
What the French Resistance can't do in firepower, they can supplement in intelligence gathering and sabotage.
Without the French Resistance doing intel gathering within France aided by British and US intelligence as well as sabotage works on their national infrastructures, D-Day would have not worked.
First of all that's just disrepectful towards the french resistants who gave their live and actually the french resistance was very effective.
@@teamdoge8917 forgetting about Yugo, Polish and Russian partisans every time is more disrespectful...
I didn't forget about them. It's just that the point here was making fun of the french resistance which is disrepectful. I respect others partisans groups as much as the french ones.
@@teamdoge8917 It's a meme. Chill.
My grandpa was in the front and occupied Trieste but had to leave because the British warned them to leave the city. He was from Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian and fought side by side with all ethnic groups of Yugoslavia.
And he agrees that kosovo is serbian
No @@MrStefkic
my grandad was a partisan. he told a story once where he met an enemy soldier in the woods. they aimed their rifles at each other and stared for a good while, neither taking the shot. eventually they lowered their weapons and walked away.
Invading a mountainous and ethnically complex country is always difficult to pull off. Ask anyone who has attempted to invade Afghanistan.
Peter Anderson you can ask Russia
Invading is the easy part, Yugosalvia fell in 14 days. Occupaying or controling it is virtualy impossible though.
@@KKKKKKK777js Tell that to the Turks.
@@Prebondus Turks had a province called Bosnia. Bosnia failed to pay taxes for the huge part of it's existence to Turkish Sultan. 3 times armies had been sent to quench rebellion in Bosnia. The rebellions were made by Turkish officials and with Turkish troops against the Sultan. It was so costly to the Sultans that they just kept ignoring the Bosnia as wild west.
The Eccentric Budget Gamer That was after they lost an entire army along with a sultan. And later on got their asses handed to them.
Thank you for this video. I'm British but my Grandfather is a Bosnian Serb who fought in this war as a teenager. He has so many stories about it, as you can imagine. Great to see a video about it
Is your father Niko Bellic? 😁
Nikola Stojiljkovic Commit Slobodan Praljak please.
U ar idiot man!U British...ahhhahha fck u and your british in passport!
And how did you become "British"? By getting passport? So If I get a passport of China, I am now Chinese? Really cool.
Fascist litter
Ustashe didn't just conduct ethic cleansing, also a bit of genocide and Holocaust here and there.
Milosevic?
@@Losangelesharvey What about him?
@@Losangelesharvey Milošević was a criminal, of course. But Ustaše crimes were horrible and inhuman.
Well, so did the Chetniks, yet Serbian government rehabilitated them as antifascist relatively recently. Both groups were submitted directly to Italian MVAC (volunteer anti-communist militia) and took orders directly from Italian high command. Interesting, wouldn't you agree? :D
Not that I'm defending Ustashe, they were monsters, but let's not have double standards here.
@@mottom2657Milosevic is criminal by CNN and Western media lol. He was the only man who was normal in Jugoslavia 🙄 But he was Serb--pro Russian, Orthodox and Western chatolic supported chatolic Croats 🙄 The truth is far away different from that.
Thank you. My grandfather was shot two different times as a messenger for the Partisans... I wish he was still alive so I could ask him more questions, now that more history has revealed itself!
Looks like someone didnt know the saying, “Dont shoot the messenger,”, all that aside, sorry for your grandfather, he was a brave man taking such a risky job during a devastating war. Respect ✊
my grandpa used to live in the time of ww2 as a kid and told me lots of things mostly about taking apart bombs
your grandfather was a hero
Been so good because been in bosnian mountains with half of them "partizans" been bosnians who Thought about freedom
This amnesty programme that Tito issued is what also led Yugoslavia ultimately to its doom, while it did have short term benefits during the war, later on it was a cause of major trouble and source for the rise of nationalist movements. Most of these amnestees weren't the actual cummunists and still secretly held their own - chetnik and ustasha allegiances and when Tito was dead and out of the picture, there was noone strong enough to contain them while simultaniously they held positions of power within army and government.
.y coment got deleted lmao
Nigaz geting ofended for sppiting facts yhat ustashas were evil anti serbs and chetniks antinazis
@@ЈајаХлат they were all evil xD
You cant compare the ideology of the Cetniks and that of the Ustase. Ustase were brutal and held many concentration camps including those for Children. The Cetniks were for the Kingdom of Jugoslavia, for Freedom of Religion and Freedom in General. They were the legitimate army of Jugoslavia before the Terroism of the Communists came around. Ustase were Fasist Neo Nazis who slaughtered entire populations of other nationalities based on Nationality and Religious beliefs. They were Monsters.The Cetniks also had bad people in their rank, but their core ideology was not about destroying all other nationalities. In contrast it was about keeping them together.
Yugoslavia was the biggest mistake in the history of Europe.
Why anyone believed such a state could possibly function is beyond me.
Someone: Yugoslavia
All the rest: Ah shit, here we go again...
I like the part at 0:20 when the editor says: "Mostly, the Red Army helped." in the top left corner
Doing a video on the Balkans is like running through a minefield. U my friend are a very carefull runner. Good job- Serbian approved👍🇷🇸
You are so tasty :)
Metaphorically or literally?
@@fulcrum2951 Ok mate, i see you everywhere you have to tell me who you are.
@@johnarbuckle2619 I'm just a mysterious MTF agent
When you make a video about the balkans ther are 2 Option
you'll die or the normal people like it and the right wing will kill you
Me as a Bosnian Muslim, am so proud that my Grandfather was Partisan, that he fought for our Yugoslavia heavily, and he was soldier of our glory Marshal TITO ! Nek ti je vjecni Rahmet moj deduka, da ti dragi Allah Dzennet podari Amin !
Theres no Bosnian Muslim you either Albanian or servian choose your lane and stop lying to your self
@@SlavaBogu11 most chetniks were Serbs. Very few non-serbs served the chetniks. Also the chetniks fucked up their reputation when they committed genocide of muslims/bosniaks and croats/catholics
Also lesser known fact - at the end of the WW2, Yugoslavian resistance counted over 900.000 soldiers, including women and children. Everyone fought against Nazis and their collaborators.
My grandparents were leaders of rebellion at the start of the war in Vojvodina (north Serbia), they got a tons of medals for their war effort, and even more interesting was that my grandmother was of a higher military rank than my grandfather. She was captured and tortured by Nazis, but she never broke and in doing so, she saved countless lives. She paid for that courage and heroism with her health, same as grandfather. They remained heroes to me.
After the war, communist party didn't want to recognize huge effort of our women soldiers, even though they stood side by side to men. This was unfortunate, but the truth is still being passed by their relatives.
Croatia is only EU country where Nazism is still incorporated in government structure and is popular among its people, as we can see here. If you can brag about killing 900.000 innocent civilians, including women, children and elderly population, of whom all were Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, then you are a truly a sick man. Psychopath.
@@_neuromanser_ , don't ever label entire nation to mistakes done buy circumstances of the War , you are from Vojvodina as you stated , do you know that many actually part of Deutsche volks subject of nationality were Yugoslav National Heroes during WWII , not all of them followed the orders that could harm fellow innocent human beings , but stand against and paid with their life's it self . I visited Partisan monument side in Bosnia this summer with individual stones and engraved plates , all nationalities are there but was in hearth breaking condition , absolutely nobody take care of the side , it is totally abended , I put some marble plates back to place , for Serbian , Croats , Bosnian Muslim , Deutsche , Slovaks , who give their lives for something higher we can just imagen would exist !
In your first comment I give you like regardless your second comment , because I do believe you are good human fellow , that would stand for a good and fairness regardless , out there are only bad and good human beings in entire World !
plutoniusis did you notice what did that Nazi Ustasa from Croatia wrote just after my first comment? I have put him on block and have reported him to Google because I don want to read his poison here. No idea if Google removed his comment by now and if they did, my answer must seem out of the place. He was proud of his grandfather who tortured Serbs in Jasenovac concentration camp an he bragged how that thing humiliated prisoners. Over 900.000 people were killed there, of all ages and nationalities, but mostly Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. They weren’t gassed or shot, they were all butchered in a most brutal way with knives specially made for humans. There were rivers of blood there and even recorded photographs of those inhumans celebrating their atrocities, all covered in blood.
My answer was to him specifically and I am disgusted that his country is still allowing that kind of rhetoric and those Nazi groups. That kind of nazi rhetoric is only increasing now before their elections, because populist right wingers can get votes only that way, and hate attacks on Serbs are being reported throughout the country. Now I am puzzled how is this being allowed in a present day EU country?
He is not a single case of an Internet troll, they all belong to same political party which is ruling in Croatia today. This is a problem that must be brought in front of all nations who fought against Nazis in WW2.
@@goodplayer6957 HDZ party. All undercover fascists.
@@_neuromanser_ no, they are commies, stop talking shit trying to fuel the cro-srb war you piece of shit
Rakija (plum brandy) helped a lot as it did vodka for russians . In hard times as in good times give you the courage and social bond to achieve your goals and resilience . It was true than and it is now ! Not to mention that was used for wounds to heal and an anesthetic to tolerate pain.
German also have schnaps(rakija) and lot drugs pervitin(amfetamin)
It is true for every person in a hard situation... I know sharing a glass of alcohol and light each other a cigarret forms a bond and will of surviving... i've been there.. i know.... Look at Karadic visiting trups sharing rakija.
amazing video, especially since it's a rather overlooked aspect of WW2. but as effective as the partisans were, the population paid the highest price: retaliation of German amd Ustaša forces was brutal. my grandmother (Croatian herself) always shook with fear, when the Ustaša would come looking in the barn for partisans (which in fact were there the night before)
Retaliation on who? Why is it it so hard to say the name of the people they retaliated against?
@@SrbKuc The population?
@@theboxygenie the German and Ustasa forces retaliated against the innocent Serb population. The children and elderely they captuted and sent to concentration camps werent Partisan soldiers, they were Serbs.
These people werent only 'the population', they didnt round up Germans and Croat families (populations) and send them to death camps. Nor did they round up cattle. They rounded up Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. Give them a name.
THE SERB, JEWISH AND GYPSY POPULATION
Been so good because been in bosnian mountains with half of them "partizans" been bosnians who Thought about freedom
@@SrbKuc civilians. Not too hard to figure out
Reaserch the Slovenian branch of Partisans. They were independantly organized and formed a national goverment and so on before the end of the war and only truly formaly joined Titos partisans administratevaly by the end of the war
Se strinjam :)
WE FUCKING DID YEAH
Also Slovene resistance had the most developed Hospital system of any resistance in Europe.
@@timmocnik3458 you, yourself?
Was it even worth it for the Axis to conquer Yugoslavia? Could they have just tried to get them to stay neutral? I know it's pretty funny to say that after the Benelux, but it worked for Sweden. Keeping 100k troops just to try keep Yugoslavia under control sounds like such a waste for the Axis.
Answer is simple, comrades. We had a guy named Walther who had a magical ability to have infinite bullets in any weapon he holds. We also had Prle, Tihi and Marija - with similar abilities as well.
That's as far as some propaganda can get, shitty movies that made my childhood
@@vanja2565 well at least they were good
@@Alekx445 some of them
Da ima nekih dobrih ali zato ima sranja poput Mirko i Slavko ali zato ima dobrih poput Bitka na Neretvi
@@Alekx445 nebi neretvu nazvao dobrom, most valja npr
The Yugoslav Partizans are largely recognized as being on the the most successful anti-Nazi movements in WW2. 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.
My great grandfather was a Serbian partisan because of a group of 5 chetniks that beat the shit out of him and almost killed him. He was a hardcore >serbian< to the end of his days ironically, he wanted to raise my grandfather as a priest during the 50's in a communist country which is hilarious to think about. All he wanted to do is find the 5 chetniks and kill them out of revenge because he figured if he is fighting as a partisan in eastern serbia where they almost beat him to death, and being the place where he lives he would eventually find them. He did. But not in the way he intended to. After the war in 1948 he decided to go to Pirot and become a member of the workers party (the only political party in Yugoslavia) so he could reap some benefits and gibs since he was a partisan scout and later artilleryman. After waiting to finish up paperwork he went to be heard by the local representatives of the party to evaluate him. Guess who was waiting behind those two doors? All 5 of the chetniks with short hair and no beards as representatives sitting and starring into his eyes, all alive, all with respectable positions in Yugoslavia and all of them shitting themselves collectively. He gave them all a look of disbelief and defeat, went back to his village and nearly never left it again. Imagine the level of torment and hate. He only came to my home city in the 90's and early 2000's for the funeral of my grandfather (his son) and the weddings of his grand children (my father and my uncle), the birth and baptisms of his great grand children (five of us all together) and that's that. He hated just about everything in life except his family which he loved. I think of him and the shit he went trough and compare my daily sufferings to his and feel at ease, how lucky i am and how good i got it. Deda Brance i miss you.
this story omg ty for sharing this, cuz my grandfather went trough similar situation in his life and i miss him so much
So he was a soldier with soldier skills, but unable to enact his vengeance on those who wronged him, and instead never left his village? The problem we still have to this day.
Many Partizani had done the same in Lika. Majority of them quickly fell for the partizans due to communist forces betraying cetnici. It was commonplace back then, and my own family had to join the cetnici as they were on a list of influential serbs to be killed by the communists when the war first started.
Evil cowardly malicious pussy sh*ts always cling to power and politics, while men of honor die in battle or are alive but ruled by these sh*ts.
As someone who lives in ex-yugoslavia....i hear the word partisan on average like three times a day :)
Time to draw a map of Yugoslavia
*Points at spaghetti*
We need a map of Yogoslavia, ROJACK WE NEED YOU!
😂😂😂
My grand grandfather got 5 medals including top medals you could get in Yugoslavia in the WW2. He was leading brigade about 15k people that got encircled by advancing German forces and managed to bring them all out by his wits without anyone dying.
No one, not a one, of fifteen thousand, died ?
@@stevekillgore9272 No one, that is why we have a statue of him in our hometown! He actually played a trick onto the Germans and they bought it. Since he went with a white flag and told them that they have been sent to negotiate German surrender since it was early 45.
I live in the town of Drvar, better known as Tito's Drvar before the breakup of Yugoslavia. City is known for the battle of Drvar in which the Partisans won. My great-grandfather participated in that battle. After World War II, Tito's Drvar hosted "Desant na Drvar" every year, showing how the Germans attacked the town in the battle of Drvar.
Also there is Tito's Cave (Titova Pećina), in the cave there was a small house where Tito hide from the Germans, and today it is whole and can be visited.
How is life in Drvar now? I hear only bad things sadly, but I hope the Serbs of Drvar, Grahovo, Petrovac and Glamoč will one day find a good future again. Pozdrav brate
Tito was a self-obsessed jerk who wasted millions of taxpayers' money on advancing his personality cult. Also, he was a ruthless Stalinist immediately after the war (and during it, of course) and only backed out after Stalin started perceiving him as threat, he then needed to cozy up to the Americans. Despite not having to follow the Kremlin's botched economic policies, unlike Poland, Czechoslovakia or Hungary, he still drove the country to the ground and had to save the public funds by allowing hundreds of thousands of people to emigrate to Austria and West Germany just so they could send back remittances. And he died having done nothing in the way of securing a smooth transfer of power.
yarpen26 you have no idea, so be quiet kid
@@yarpen26
You sound dumb
Bog blagoslovia tvog pradida, pravi borac za slobodu!
Well that's partially right. For one thing the Chetniks weren't exactly a homogenous group under the command of Mihailovic, it was more of an umbrella term for a number of different factions of resistance movements, not all under Mihailovic's direction. The vast majority of the Chetniks were however controlled by him though.
Also the UK provided massive amounts of support including the massive supplies of armament and equipment and liason officer, the RAF Balkan Air Force was formed to provide air cover and support troops on the ground, the insertion of the 2nd Special Service Brigade - Army Commandos and Royal Marines Commandos comprising 40 RM Cdo, 9 Cdo (I think), and 43 RM Cdo in which my grandfather served plus the mountain troops of the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry.
The 2nd Special Service Brigade was instrumental in preventing Tito falling into Axis hands when his own position became untenable and they started conducting multiple large scale assaults to keep the Germans on the back foot and allow Tito's retreating columns to keep ahead of the pursuing Axis forces.
With such a complicated subject this may have been better as a 10 minute history to allow for greater detail. One of the officers of 43 Commando Royal Marines Michael McConville wrote a fantastic history of the campaign entitled "A small war in the Balkans" for those that want a more in depth history
I think you'll find that several resistance movements throughout Europe wouldn't have fought anyone apart from themselves if not for british spy agencies directing them
@@boozecruiser that's very true. Many resistance groups were founded by personal ambition more than anything else and defeating the Germans was merely a means to an end
@@boozecruiser but the Chetniks were notable for terminology being an area of confusion. A chetnik was a Serbian nationalist guerilla, irrespective of his faction or political intentions. Mihailovic declared himself to be their leader but he was only the leader of those under his influence, and there were many that were not under his influence or control and some that actively opposed - such as the nature of guerilla warfare. This oddity of terminology created a great deal of confusion for the British, and leads to errors made by historians such as this
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire Also Draza and his chetniks saved around 300 allied pilots from certain death, they were good guys mostly but hated both nazis and communists.
@@tamovamo94 they were yeah but the problem was that our objectives didn't line up.
The Chetniks under Mihailovic's objective was the liberation of Yugoslavia, so they intended to rise up when the Allies were able to enter the country and launch a concerted and coordinated effort to push the Germans out.
The Partisans' objective was the liberation of Yugoslavia, so they intended to resist the Axis invaders and try to push them out by force of arms.
The Allied objective was to draw Axis troops away from the other theatres in Italy and North West Europe. Their intentions were to draw more and more German and Italian troops into Yugoslavia to allow their armies to move through their respective theatres with less opposition. So of the two movements the Partisans were the ones most closely aligned to the Allies' objectives which is why we chose to switch our support from Mihailovic to Tito, Draza may have been a good guy but he wasn't a winner unfortunately
Thanks dude for doing this always like learning about Yugoslavia as it was my grandads homeland and fought in the partisans, thanks again !
Tito was one of the few men that not even Stalin dare oppose. If I recall the story goes that after Yugoslavias break from the Soviet Union as an independent communist state Stalin attempted to send many assassins to Tito which eventually Tito wrote to Stalin saying something along the lines of: "you have sent many assassins to Beograd, if this continues I shall send one to Moskva and I will not need to send a second" and Stalin never tried again after that. That's what I remember anyway
Thanks for the video my brother, my great grandfather joined the Yugoslav Partisans during the German occupation. I'm unaware about his role in the partisans but in general history for the partisans and the yugoslavs were very grim due to Hitler's rule of 50/100 (50 Serbians killed for 1 German injured and 100 Serbians killed for 1 dead German.) But I'm glad for my Great grandfather and thousands of other men in Yugoslavia who stood up against Nazi rule.
Red Army "liberated" Yugoslavia",and of course raped a lot of children,girls and even elderly females. Tito was pussy who miledly objected when rape become epidemic,becouse he was Stalin little bitch.Partisans could not defeat Croatian forces on their own,not to mention Wehrmacht. They could only win against cowardley Chetnics and Italians in small battles.
My three great grandfathers fought in Chetniks since the beginning of uprising may-june 1941.They escaped being captured by Germans in april 1941 after Yugoslavia capitulated.
One was killed fighting the Germans that same year.Two others survived the war and lived a long life.The fourth one was a Yugoslav Army officer and a POW in Germany for 4 years.
After Germany lost the war he returned home with 350.000 Yugoslav (mostly Serbian) soldiers and officers.Died peacefully at the age of 97.
@@Jessie_James850 Who raped children, girls and elderly females? As far as I know, pretty much everyone on both sides committed horrors that shouldn't be ignored. And as for Tito, he could have been Statin's "Bitch" at the time during WW2 but it's obvious he was just using him for his own benefits as he defected from Stalin post-war. And I won't lie, they weren't very strong in terms of battles. But the axis failed to achieve their goals after each offensive which overall made the partisans a pain in the ass for Germans in general.
@@inkblowout partisans we’re not a pain in the ass . But their allies were . Serbia was a country that got occupied many times and freed by Meer luck .
Regards From (post-Yugoslavia) Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸 👍👍👍
Many thanks to U, *@History Matters*
Why you living in the past
Read the title as "Why were the Yugoslav Partitions so Effective" and was ready for some heavy disagreement in the comments.
I just love the fact that Yugoslavia has a pair of truck nuts dangling off the south end.
Continue the bloody series already!I'll turn into a partisan myself!
My Great-Grandad was one of them. He fought on the Eastern Front versus the Bulgarians. He was from Beličica, North Macedonia. There were a lot of Albanian Nationalists there, so they came to his home and put his house on Fire. Also his wife and mother were burned alive. That was in 1944. He went on to live until 1988. It is sad that he died on the birthday of Tito. R.I.P.
@Greek Republican yes, it is.
@Greek Republican i know i forgot to put North.
Damn didn't expect to find a Macedonian
@@marotvorec Macedonia stronk
Call it as it is mate, just Macedonia.
Great video, only wish it was longer! Heck, wish all your vids were longer.
He change his chanal up alot
I prefer the shorter videos. Much more straight forward, straight to the point stuff!
Well done...as an ex Yugo, I give your video and narrative thumbs up. 👍
"* other 250,000 not shown"
I just love all the little notes you throw into the graphics in your videos.
🇲🇰🇧🇦🇭🇷🇷🇸🇸🇮🇲🇪 I'm from Macedonia and my parents and grandparents lived while Yugoslavia existed. I always asked them how was life back then and they always told me that Yugoslavia was one of the greatest countries and that Tito was a great leader. Nowadays in Macedonia the politics and everything other is so bad. Many people left the country and many people aren't happy with their salary.
Eastern Approaches
by Fitzroy MacLean : MacClean parachuted into Yugoslavia and lived with the partisans, acting as a liason between Tito and Churchill in the latter days of the war. Very informative and also as a plus, very interesting.
'The Forgotten 500' is an excellent book on the two groups, the Partisans and the Cheniks.
I've read about half of the book. Apparently the guy who wrote it was extremely partial to Michaelovich and completely overlooks the fact the Chetniks and the Partisans committed the same war crimes. He also stated that he was very loyal to his people, which as you might know, he sided with the Italians against his people.
Good video man but i think it would he worth mentioning that Mihailovic had the support of the allies initially in ww2 and then they switched support to partizans.
My grandfather was 17 and he escape from Poland and join Yugoslav Partisans. I must check more about it :D
So he was a communist? Polish communist? Is this true story?
@@quasinormal xDDD Dont trigger me mate xDDD
Yes, that's a true story, he escape Poland to NOT being slaved in Wermacht or sended to Camp.
@@leepek3575 So he escaped Poland to help communists enslaving Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians, Serbs and Macedonians at times when we were already under attack of nazis and fascists? And now YOU are telling me about being triggered? You in Poland got lost of communist oppresion 30 years ago, we still have it, mate! Thanks to all the forces that helped communist bandit army of partisans. I'm not blaming your poor grandpa if he had no other choice - but if that was his own decision, things get a little bit complicated here. I think I know something about Polish situation during the 2.nd was and I adore the bravery of your men to fight both nazis and commies, but if you knew more about Yugoslavian history, you would be much less proud of collaborating with this infamous revolutionary army.
@@quasinormal But as I heard Jugoslavian Partisant army fight against hitler?
Btw. Is there any good museum about that soliders unit? I looking for any photos of my grandpa in army - maybe there is some info about him in old archive, do you have any idea?
Well live is brutal, and wars are only for making ritch people more ritch , and poor are die for bank families
@Milos Bulajic my bro is all of Wikipedia in one head here
You would think that such an epic experience would be enough to forge a strong, long-lasting Yugoslav national identity
well... you were wrong!
@@filipkajmakoski8464 lol
They all hate each other,comen enemy bind them together.Communist tried to use communism as bond between us(the people of YU) and when it failed ALL failed.
@@CB0408 the partisans came from fighting the spanish civil war. it's a miracle they didn't again turn to slaughtering eachother
If there's one thing we're good at, it's defying expectations, XD
1:12 anti German?? Never! Anti Nazi on the other hand - still!
Two awesome books about this movement and how it gained momentum are "Silent gunpowder" and "The breakout" by Branko Copic.
Mene su te dvije knjige izliječile od antifašizma,a ne obratno.
@@Jessie_James850 ne bi trebalo da te izlece od antifasizma, al bar su objektivno do neke mere prikazale ceo taj partizanski "pokret".
@@Jessie_James850 pa sta sad podrzavas fasizam?
Serbian paramilitaries in the Yugoslav Wars were also named Četniks by some.
They werent named by some they called themselves like that...
@@mvg92 no they did not
Četnik comes from a word četa = squad. So in its literal translation it means a squad member. Over time especially during the wars of 90's that word started being used to describe Serbian ultra nationalists and in some cases as a word to demean all Serbs.
Please explore the Italian and Greek resistances that were sold out by the allied powers even though they had liberated large parts of their countries from the Germans. The west in many cases even put ex fascists in charge in these countries because they were more scared of these partisan movements gaining left inspired political power. The most horrific manifestation of this was the Greek Civil War, which deserves a video of its own!
Actually, the Chetniks were also collaborating with fascists, and they territorial aspirations plan called Big Serbia ( which included grand part of Croatia). So partisans were actually fighting against Italy, Germany , Ustashas and Chetniks.
@Red Obama in the base they collaborated because they've seen nazis and their extreme nationalism as opportunity to make their own countries greater than they are.
croats wanted independent croatia thats includes parts of today's bosnia and herzegovina.
while serbs wanted great serbia to tokyo across milwaukee.
anyway both sides collaborated with nazis
nazis just wanted yugoslavia out of the picture so they collaborated with both sides so that we kill each other.
they suceeded.
@@spatrk6634 Chetniks first of werent a united group. Ustase wanted Greater Croatia that featured the entirety of modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of todays Serbia and Montenegro. They based their claim off of medival Kingdom of Croatia that had those borders for extremely short period of time. The most extreme Chetnik group was the one of Dimitrije Ljotic who wanted to do to Croats what Croats did to Serbs and he was just as bad as the Ustase. What Mihajlovic's Chetniks wanted(most of the Chetniks) was to recreate Serbia and to unite all the Serbs as self determination was quite popular at the time. You also make an absolute laughable statement that Croats were guided by self determination as Croats made up less than half of "Greater" Croatia while Serbs were actually the majority in their own "Greater" country(during WW2 that is). What would be equivalent to WW2 Ustase would be Serbs claiming Tzar Dusans Empire. Those people do exist, but noone takes them seriously. What the idea of last centuries Chetniks would be equivalent is the idea of Croatia getting west Herzegovina today. You struggle to understand WW2 Chetniks, who mostly werent fascists(barring Ljotic and his followers) and 90s "Chetniks"(who were lead by idiots like Karadzic and Milosevic who were horrible).
That is 0% truth. Not all chetniks were involved in Axis-Ustashe movement.
Some chetniks fought until they ran out of supplies and died protecting their own.
Partisans were made out of "Opeartion Barbadossa" and Soviets were supplying Tito for being communist.
So that is not true and Mihailovic chetniks were not traitors and kept killing Axis and Ustase.
But without supplies Chetniks could not stand against Partisans Ustase and Axis killing them.
Research more.
2:43 thanks for the heads up I couldn’t be bothered to count
"Allo Allo" French Resistance
One of the best hiatorical comedies i watched
You should do some search on De Gaulle, Moulin, Aubrac, Brossolette, Tillon, Frenay, Malraux. Yeah the French Resistance was the most important. It prepared the D day in Normandy and the ones in Provence. It did a lot of spying activities.
the Brits really shown us in tha show how the "brave" French were fighting the war
Missed a very important bit, which is HOW they fought, where instead of openly battling the germans they engaged in mostly sabotage tactics and guerrilla type warfare. I know you mentioned this but shoulda hit harder on how smart this was when it came to them being almost untouchable and how damaging it was to the germans, as they needed yugoslavia mostly for transport and logistics, and thats exactly where the partisans hit. Other than that great job
About that: transport what? Germans pretty much stopped in Greece to the south. The African campaign wasn't very supported, or fruitful, right? Despite its potential. So what would be transported through Yugoslavia? Just asking.
@@andreimoga7813 : Mostly weapons and resources for the Italians in Albania and Northern Greece.
Their fighting style is implied in their name: partisans
Partisans are guerilla fighters who use hit and run tactics
Red Army "liberated" Yugoslavia",and of course raped a lot of children,girls and even elderly females. Tito was pussy who miledly objected when rape become epidemic,becouse he was Stalin little bitch.Partisans could not defeat Croatian forces on their own,not to mention Wehrmacht. They could only win against cowardley Chetnics and Italians in small battles.
The Germans were very repressive in Yugoslavia, especially in Serbia.For every German officer killed a 150 Serb civilians would be executed by firing squad.
For every German soldier killed a 100 Serb civilians would be executed, and for every wounded German soldier a 50 civilians.
With that in mind resistance movements had to be careful how and where they combat the Germans (especially the right oriented Chetniks).
Good video, one point is missed though, the main reason Cetniks didn't show much resistance wasn't due to their waiting for the allies to show up (as Draza Mihajlovic said, the English were keen on fighting to the last drop of blood, Serbian blood), they were pressured by Germans killing civilians, the mass slaughter of kids and people in Kragujevac at 21st of October was due to a German convoy being attacked by Communists(partisans) in a nearby village, the rule was that per one wounded 50 civilians were executed and for one killed a 100. So since Germans enforced this the Cetniks stood quiet in order to preserve the people while Partisans fought on.
100% true!
No. Chetniks who wanted to fight and liberate their country defected to partisans as soon as they understood that Draža Mihajlović and other chetnik warlords are a bunch of collaborating cowards who were robbing and killing civilians same as ustahes. They even fought side by side with the ustashes against the only true resistance - People's liberation struggle. The only difference between chetniks and ustashes was that the ustashes were better organized and systematic.
@@eduard.bosnjak they fought with the ustashes? Are you joking or what
@@eduard.bosnjak I will make assumption that you are Bosnian muslim, so no surprise you are having this point of view. But let me remind you about few things-muslims lived in Kingdom ruled by Serbs and there where no prison camps, killings...after formation of NDH and atrocities committed by the Ustaše and Muslims, some Serb forces where killing some innocent Muslims/Croatias...as a retaliation...now you are making guérilla Yugoslav Army in Homeland (aka Četniks) to be the same as nazi allied NDH state with laws, structure, gourmet...
Another important point- you are right-there where a lot of local commanders who collaborated with Italians(Djurišić, Djujić), Germans(Kosta Pećanac and his Četnik Unit), Ustaše(Radić) for a different reasons-to fight communist, prevent German retaliation, revenge against Ustaše... here I do not count Ljotić and SDK or Nedić’s Zandamerija who where openly fighting JKVO(Mihailovic)...Feel free to do research that most of those had problem with Mihailovic because of Colaboration.-capturing and killing of Pećanac and fight with Djurišić)...in Serbia, there where virtually no Partisans untill 1944 and Communist would have never won if Soviets didn’t show up...
@@petartodosijevic9691 Jeste Rade Radić
0:40 You see that landmass at the bottom of the country? How are you going to mess with a country that literally has a ball-shaped border line??
Those Slavs had balls!!
LOL yeah, that part is now known as Macedonia or FYROM.
@@赤青白 and now as north macedonia
You add Albania and you get the full package :D
@@zeljosarajevic could have grown into a Balkan union along with Albania, Romania and Greece, but oh well.. so much for "visions" of unity. I guess people were just saving their a**** in ways they knew at the time.
WE DO BE HAVIN BALLS
0:25 "so to geet a better view of things, back story is needed" AWWww yeeeeeEEee
French ressistance was a joke. It was several jokes at the same time. Why would anyone call it "the most famous" is beyond me.
Because France was the biggest occupied country?
Don’t forget popular leader like DeGuall(I don’t know how to spell his name correctly Sorry) who ruled like a actually democratically elected leader.
While Tito was a good leader. He was a dictator which isn’t to favored in a lot of places. Cause well repression
@@kristiankepley5944 DeGaulle was also essentially a dictator
@@willydawiller he was also elected into power and he gave it up
@@kristiankepley5944 Both admirable feats, but neither absolves dictatorianism
It's also worth mentioning how Tito later managed to keep Jugoslavia idependent and wealthy as a socialist nation while beeing surrounded by NATO and Warsaw pact membersin the middle of the cold war.
Despise his ideals as much as you want, but Tito was probably one of the smartest people to ever run a country.
If we ignore the fact that:
1. It left Serbia, as a Yugoslav successor, in crippling debt
2. He drew ethnic lines that caused one of the blodiest and most gruesome European wars in modern history
3. He still was a dictator so no democracy or any freedom of expression, press etc.
4. He reinvented the national ideas of regions that were ethnically ambiguous leading to more conflict
5. He moved a shit ton of Albanians to Kosovo which lead to further ethnic tension in the region which caused another war filled to the brim with warcrimes
5.5 He abused his wife and was a pedophile tho I wont count this one as a full point since it isn't related to leadership
6. His party was so full of oligarchs and red princes that when he finally died (good riddance) the shitstorm of a "government" he left behind started plundering each and every corner of what was left of Yugoslavia. Those oligarchs are also largely responsible for the Yugoslav wars. Their successors rule Serbia to this day (and until recently Montenegro)
Oh yeah, did I mention that he was fighting for the enemy during WW1 and quite has possibly participated in some of numerous war crimes in Voivodina (including gangrape, mass murder stc.)
@@Devedesetdva I mean technically you're right. He's still just on an average when it comes to politicians in the Balkans, though.
@@groerhahn225 Yeah, in the context of Balkan politics he's doing alright
There was another resistance group during WW2 in Asia, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army.
You need good research and a lot of brains to do accurate and fun videos like this. And talent, too. Good job, "History Matters".
My great grandfather was a Yugoslav partisan and earned a plethora of awards post-war for bravery and sacrifice. Not to mention he was captured and tortured several times and managed to escape every time to continue fighting!
They were in fact so successfull they occupied parts of Italy and Austria at the end. The british pressured them to leave Austria and they did. There were in fact plans to annex carinthia, since it had (historically, in the south even back then) been majority slovene speaking
I was going to say--Yugoslavia has A LOT of mountainous terrain with thick forests that is very easy to hide into. Not so with a country like the Soviet Union, France or Poland, where the land is mostly very flat with few forests in which to hide.
God damn these are some punchy compact history lessons! Well done!
Comparing the token French resistance to Yugoslavia is a joke..
I didn’t hear kell moneymaker
“WHERE ARE THEY”
I enjoyed this so so much. Im from Bosnia and i had great-granfather who fought in partisan movment. He managed to survive the war and to tell the tales of battles.
Liberating themselves also meant that they could be largely independent during the Cold War and even stand up (sometimes hilariously insulting Stalin), and while authoritarian to at least the degree that you might see today like with the Hong Kong riot police or the way Moscow police protect Putin, it was far more like a socialist country than even the USSR was and any power that Tito didn't wield himself was dispersed relatively widely.
Yugoslavia was the most liberal communist country in the world.
@Jay Cee um, i don't know how to tell you this dude, but nazi is short for national socialism, that is what we fought in ww2
@@BoredLoserAlpha very liberal, it had secret police that went on executing dissidents all over the world and you could get jailed for singing certain songs XD.
Good riddance
@@kkkkkkkkkkkkkkjable most liberal out of the rest
Great grandfather was a partisan and great great grandfather fought for the kingdom of serbia in ww1 :) thank you for covering these topics, god bless all soldier’s souls
So sad how your grandfather fought for terrorists-like force while ur grand grandfather was a hero :(
@@vanja2565 terrorists?fuck off
0:12 Former Yugoslavia looked like Iran 🇮🇷
Kinda
@@SomeGuy5555 yes I mean roughly the same shape. Reminds me of Iran
Initially I thought you were smoking something. But you kinda right. Especially if you cut off Macedomia
That's what I was gonna say😂
Evrybody gangsta till the mountains start speaking Partizan
Most of the battles happened in Bosnia,which gave the soldiers +28 attack damage
Nah, soldiers had perk "Mountain commandos" that gave them 300% damage against infantry and 500% against tanks.
To quote Lindybeige's video on this(Yugoslavia in World War Two - a tale of resistance, collaboration, and betrayal), "actually it was more complicated than that", like I love this channel, and I get the idea is to have a short video, but this really isn't something that can be easily summarized in a short video, though you can explain why the Partisans were more effective than the Chetniks. The Partisans never stayed anywhere for long, meaning they didn't have to see the effects of their actions on the civilian population, the Chetniks did. The Germans/Axis were brutal, and it's safe to say a lot of Yugoslavian's died for the actions of the Partisans that didn't need to die.
Also the Russians only really got involved in helping at the very end of the war, after with British help the Partisans were basically already free. Tito basically stabbed the allies in the back and sided with Stalin over the allies who had helped to free his country. Though as stated earlier, actually it was more complicated than that.
There’s more to it but for a 4-minute video you did a great job. Yugoslav history has always been quite fascinating to me