Why were the Yugoslav Partisans so Good in World War 2?
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Why were the Yugoslav Partisans so Good in World War 2?
The first benefit of Tito’s movement was his multi-ethnic inclusivity. Instead of appealing to one ethnic group as other resistance movements, such as the Chetniks, had done, the Yugoslav Partisans aimed to include the whole of Yugoslavia. Utilizing the philosophy of “brotherhood and unity”, Tito was able to successfully rally support from all throughout the contemporary Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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When does Skanderbeg part 2 come out?
Why was my comment deleted? Tito was a bad horrible dictator just so you know knowledgia
This video is so full of errors and inaccurate facts that it is best to delete it entirely. Because some young generations could learn the wrong history.
We in the former Yugoslavia were indoctrinated with such stories, but that is simply not true.
First lie: 1. Multiethnic character. The partisans were dominated by ethnic Serbs (about 75-80%), mostly from areas directly affected by the Croatian genocide against Serbs. The very reason for the uprising was to save the Serbian people from the Ustasha genocide ...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia
Other nations, especially Croats and Muslims, served in Nazi quisling formations, such as the criminal Ustaše.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustaše
Or Muslim SS Handžar Division
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian)
There were a significant number of Croats in the partisans only in the parts of Dalmatia that were annexed to Italy. Because they were exposed to persecution by the Italian authorities there.
Lie two: The Chetniks were not exclusively Serbs. Although the Chetniks were primarily a Serbian royalist guerrilla formation, which originated from parts of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, they had a significant number of Muslims of royalist orientation. About 4,000 Muslims served in the Chetniks, which was about 10% of the total Chetnik military force.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismet_Popovac
There is probably more misinformation, but I did not have the stomach to watch that indoctrination, for more than 2 minutes. I had to listen the same for a long time ago in the communist school in Yugoslavia ...
@@MisterJovke hello brother ❤️
My grandfather was a Partisan. I remember some of the stories he told, the things they endured and the loyalty they had to their homeland. He died in 2001 and he was the greatest man I knew. Thank you
much honor to your grandfather, world would be a better place with more people like him, have a good day brother!
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My dad's uncle joined Yugoslav partisants at the age of 13. He joined the "5th Krajiska (Kozarska) brigada" and remained in it until the end of the war. He died at the age of 92 this year. Thank you for making this!
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5 kozaračka took part among other krajina brigades in destroying Stetners group during belgrade liberation... those boys were admired by red army soldiers for their bravery and outstanding heroism... they fought most battles in this operation, hand to hand.... imagine that, 13 years old involved in hand to hand combat with heavily armed 1st mountain division... only in krajina bajo... krajina od čelika
@@zoricca1 Хвала Вам што памтите. Слава херојима
In Slovenia germans kept a lot of their oil and equipment in one cave in postojna cave system. When partisans heard of that they blew the cave up. Its kinda cool since if you visit the caves today that one has dark traces of black oil being burned. Highly recommend
Thank you.. I find it really interesting, seeing something that happened back in 1945, but you have traces like it was in the latest wars :( I heardthat there is surviving graffiti in Split "ZivioTito" but would like to see for myself, being from Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina..But, anyway, I consider myself a communist and not afraid to say that Vojvodina, as a republic, which was even proposed in 1945, due to our unique multi-cultural heritage, would do much better off without Belgrade leading us. At least, give us the autonomy that is guaranteed by our constitution
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
@@urlauburlaub2222 He never considered himself a communist.
He fought it ever since 1919 came, when he became an agent that targeted communist groups within germany (this is also how he joined one, and renamed it to the all famous Nazi party, giving it its all famous beautiful X mark with extra lines on the side, and a red flag with said symbol on it).
@@urlauburlaub2222 and other hilarious jokes to tell yourself
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..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
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fun fact.. the Partisans were the oly resistance movement to have it's own airforce and the last air combat sortie was conducted by a captured Partisan Ju-87B2 Stuka, followed by 2 partisan Bf109s, on 28.May 1945. ... Two days after it's involvement in the Battle of Odzak, the last battle in Europe
They also managed to acquire a small naval force
Yugoslavia is the only WW2 occupied country that liberated itself.
So sad...It was destroyed by the US imperialist regime.
@@Kuasarakyat2 what
Not all by itself tho, without the Soviet advance on the Eastern Front it wouldnt be so easy.
EDIT: Also Germany had just more important enemy back then. Not to mention it fought on both fronts.
@@juliandamen9804 hes talking about the 1990s
Greece too
to give you some perspective on how popular Partisans were,around that time,total population of Yugoslavia was around 14 million,total Yugoslav casualties were between 800 thousand and 1.2 million,partisan loses were around 250 thousand and despite video saying 650k,by they end of the war they numbered 800 thousand strong,so around 1 million soldiers in total,out of population of ~14 million,that is more than impressive
That is at the end when soviets already entered Yugoslavia.
@@DelijeSerbia Soviets did nothing in yugoslavia. They didnt free anything and they only "helped" liberate serbian parts.
@@froglifes6829 that's not how it works buddy. If Soviets didn't push for Belgrade and then Budapest Yugoslavia wouldn't even be liberated.
Saying Soviets did nothing is wrong on so many level considering Soviets did most against Germany overall.
You don't need a soviet soldier in some Bosnian woods to acknowledge that it was the Soviet push that defeated nazis.
@@DelijeSerbia Thats not how it works. Do you have any idea of how liberating a country works? The soviets defeated the germans in the eastern front. While yugoslavia is in the BALKANS. Use your brain lol. Who liberated BiH,Slovenia,Croatia,Crna gora..etc? Not the soviets but the yugoslavs.
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
One amazing thing is that by the end of the war Yugoslav partisans operated a small air force and a navy.
Most of the pilots were ex soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav air force. Some had stayed in the country and some fled to Britain and latter joined Yugoslav partisan air force.
Ome thing that helped is the fact that Royal Yugoslav air force operated Hawker Huricanes before the war.
Most of the pilots of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were originally Chetniks.
@@sv4110 Yeah.. Franjo Kluz, Mišo Jazbec and Rudi Čajavec..
All Chetniks. HaHaHaHa !!
Don't write nonsense!
The crews were pre-war and British trained Yugoslavs from the British operated Balkan AirForce and former Ustasa pilots and ,mechanics NDH, the 352 Squadron RAF first commander was Captain Mileta Protić, and the political commissar was Franjo Kluz (first Ustasa pilot to deflect with his plane and mechanic, thus the founder of the YU airforce and People's Hero), commander of "A" flight was Captain Ratko Jovanović, and commander of "B" flight was Captain Arkadije Popov. All three of these men were killed by the end of the year: an indication of the fierce fighting. From Italy, they relocated to Vis and therefore, by the end of 1944, The YU partisans had an independent airforce. They flew Spitfires which they used during bring part of the RAF but later used mostly captured Ustasa and German planes most of the planes were , as I said , German, but also German, which were bought from Germany before the war, hence ex-Royal Yugoslav, then ex-Ustasa Dornier 17 and Bf-109, now in partisan hands. The Ustasas also had a lot of Italian aicraft (the Partisans operated them, too, hence, we have the only remainding Fiat g.50 in the world, which the Italians want back).. I have an extensive colllectin and database of the war-time early airforce. Contact if you want more info but there is so much interesting material that I can even start making videos about the thing... .. Actually, it would be a good idea to makevideos sbout the whole partisan story, in general since people don't have a real picture of how the story unfolded here.. i.e. My grandfather escaped juvenile detention center after being arrested in 1943. and joined the Partisans. He was 13. By 1945, he was a 15 year old combat veteran :) on my grndmas side, her two brothers and father answered the call to take up arms and were killed after looting the local german outpost and taking MGs and defending their position until they were killed. It was retribution since my Grandmas mother and aunt were slain at their doorstep and house set ablaze by the SS-Ustasa in Bosnia. Let me tell you, in short, a story you might find interesting, seeing that you like aviation. in late 1944, due to a navigational error a Ju-87B-2 Stuka landed at Sanski Most, which had been seized by the Partisans. The stuka was hastly repainted with the German markings visible under the new paint and the yelow stripe, idicating the theater of war. It flew vrious missions until the end of the war, participting in the Battle of Odzak, the last battle in Europe (26.May 1945). It's last combat entry is 28.May1945. attacking German positions that refused o surrender, escorted by two Partisan Bf-109s .. I made it simple but the airplane that sowed fear and terror at the begggining of the conflict wass also the last one to be used out of anger, making it the last operational sortie of the war...
Anyway, until recieving F-84s, Yugoslava had quite a colorful Airforce.. You had Mosquitoes, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts, Bf-109, Yak-9, il-2, flying alongside domestically produced Ikarus S-49 planes... even later, since we were non-alligned, there were F-86 Sabres flying side by side with Mig 21 Fishbeds.. Sorry on the long post but aviation and history is a passiaon so just wanted to share some things I think you might have not known.. There is a wide array of topics I'd love to share, like i.e. how we once put a DB0601 engine out of a Bf-109 into a Hurricane, making the Hurrismitt, which is another interesting historical fact
www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/other-forces/43767/yugoslav-stuka
@@beyondrecall9446
Thanks for the extensive and informative post.
Definitely, like everything in the exYU area is complicated.
The grandfather of my ex-wife escaped with a transport plane to the USSR.
He was an Italian pilot, the Italians caught him and brought him back to Italy. The man escaped from prison through the sewers and lived with the homeless in Italy.
When WW2 began he joined the partisans, taking part in the liberation of Trieste. Then, for the first time in many years, he returned to Istria.
He died 30 years later of appendicitis.
@@beyondrecall9446 fascinating
The partisans managed to control islands in the Adriatic large enough for an emergency airfield. Many crews and planes were saved, especially with the Ploesti raids.
Most of the Allied airmen were actually saved by the Chetniks the Partisans saved a lot but most was saved by the Chetniks.
@@rankoorovic7904 Thats because Chetniks did one large operation in which they made a makeshift airfield in one village where they managed to return I think about 400 American paratrooper, but Partisans also saved a lot in multiple occasions.
@@matejamiljkovic2971 I didn't save they didn't save anyone i just stated a fact that the Chetniks saved more then half of the 800 Allied airmen saved during the war.
@@rankoorovic7904 I was just giving more facts I didn't say you ware wrong.
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
If only my grandpa was as successful as Tito at uniting a country. He was so close at Busan but alas, the Americans just had to rain on our parade
Yes
True, smh :(
hello there supreme leader
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
@Awisefish 🤓
My grandmother joined partisans to fight the germans an the ustaše as a young girl. I am very proud of her. Slava herojima, smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!
At the end of 1943 almost 300,000 partisans tied down more German divisions than Allies in Italy.
Winston Churchill, 24 November 1943:
" It was a lamentable fact that virtually no supplies had been conveyed by sea to the 222,000 followers of Tito. ... These stalwarts were holding as many Germans in Yugoslavia as the combined Anglo-American forces were holding in Italy south of Rome. The Germans had been thrown into some confusion after the collapse of Italy and the Patriots had gained control of large stretches of the coast. We had not, however, seized the opportunity. The Germans had recovered and were driving the Partisans out bit by bit. The main reason for this was the artificial line of responsibility which ran through the Balkans. (... ) Considering that the Partisans had given us such a generous measure of assistance at almost no cost to ourselves, it was of high importance to ensure that their resistance was maintained and not allowed to flag."
More info and maps: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans
i hope you understand that Yugoslav royal army was 100.000 men strong in 1943. and later. partisans had maximum 50.000 people till 1944. that scum was waiting for red army to come as well as they waited green light from comintern to attack germans. communists were playing football with germans till they received that order from comintern
That's a pretty awesome historical fact
400 000
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
Churchill was a smart man. And Tito had balls of steel.
A perfect example when good leaders bring people together.
my albanian great grandfather called petro fought along with the partisans in yugoslavia
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
what a hero your grandfather is/was
Finally someone talks about Yugoslav partisans, great work
Main reason for rapid Partisan growth in 1941 and 1942 was that they fought both Ustashe and Chetniks and against ethnic war. Most of fighting was at that time in Italian zone, were reprisals were harsh but less murderous then German ones. And in 1944, after Romania switched side, Partisans managed to quickly send large force and liberate most of Serbia before Red Army spread around. Tito's meeting with Stalin ensured that Partisans will be allowed to liberate Yugoslavia unaided so Red Army passed into Hungary, together with Romanians. And fast pace advance along mountainous coast prevented Allied landing too. It was no surprise that after such great victory National Front gains 90% of votes in first elections so Communists gained possibility to write Constitution.
The USSR helped the partisans. If it were not for the USSR, the partisans would never have won. Literally, the Soviets liberated Nis, where a mini-conflict between the Americans and the Soviets took place. The Communists killed 60,000 people and sent hundreds of thousands to prison because they were for King Peter. And in front of the polling stations there were signs that you have to vote for the communists or the soldiers would kill you immediately.
@@sv4110 First larger quantity of weapons came from disarmed Italians in autumn 1943. British gave some in early 1944, and Soviet Union came in position to help only in Autumn 1944.
Well during the most of 1941 Partisans mostly cooperated with Chetniks since that was the time Chetniks fought nazis. In 1942 Chetniks decided they will have peace with nazis and fight the partisans instead. Partisans were really popular with people because they never had stopped fighting the nazis and they were not nationalistic and exclusive to just one peoples group but they were for all Yugoslavs, altho in 1941 and 1942 absolute majority of partisans were Serbs they quickly got diverse later.
@@biglebowsky6586 Different chetnik units started collaboration in different time. "Dinara Chetnik Division" were Italian gang for dirty jobs already in 1941.
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Phenomenal! Thanks so much!
shout out from NYC &
Long Live the ideals
which brought Yugoslavia together~
Great documentary!
1 million?
Let's go, I love channels that put effort in their videos getting to major milestones. Especially when I've been following for a while
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers! The effort put into making these videos is astounding. You should do a video on the Seven Years’ War, or why Liberia was not colonised by the Europeans.
My Father was a Dalmatian/Partisan, who joined them with a lot of other Dalmatians when Paveprick signed Dalmatia to the Italians
In the most difficult battle on the Sutjeska river, 2/3 of the dead were Dalmatians, so it is considered that the same proportion of Dalmatians was in the total number of fighters too.
I'm proud of my grandfather who was a Yugoslav partisan.
Seriously, congrats on the 1 mil, you deserve it
I can remember in a few of the the Fictional books I've read about WW2, they mentioned the some of the partisans. I was always interested in the resistance movements of the war. I appreciate the video to learn more about them!
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
My grandfathers brother was a Partisan too at age 14, he fought and made a career and became a Captain in the Yugoslav Navy😊
Unfortunately much of the information was lost during the Balkans war
Battle of Neretva and Sutjeska were Epic
And the German effort to capture Tito:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1944)
Nice video man, real and professional.
Nicely explained.
Actually allies haven't supported Yugoslavian partisans till late 1943
Until Germany started losing in east front .. fucking politics .. nothing is changed now.. western world is still following the same path just with other tools
My grandfather joined the Partizani along with 4 other men from our village in Vratnica. He was one of two men to survive. Hes my hero 🥰💕
My family was partizan
And my Nazi!
Congrats on a mil!!
The Chetniks also cooperated with the Germans and Italians
Not with Germans! They cooperated italians to fight ustase, and partisans and ustase cooperated!
@@milelemi8725 There are tons of pictures of Germans and Chetniks where it is evident that they sometimes collaborated. The Chetniks and Partisans also cooperated.
@@celticbalkan2219 Mile nam prati Praseta i Codu hahahahah. To ti sve govori.
@@milelemi8725 ne lupetaj opste je poznato da jesu saradjivali sa okuoatirim a bezali ko i ustase, cij partuzani saradjivali sa ustasama
Chetniks did not cooperate before the " Kragejevac masacre" .and even then it was token cooperation.
Croatians was TOTALLY up Hittlers arse, and enjoying it.
Great video
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Allies did not support the partisans until late 1943. Initially they supported the chetniks as king Peter II was queen Victoria's nephew. Chetniks continuously collaborated with the axis as there are plenty of German documents and photographs supporting this. They committed atrocities against against all ethnic groups including their own, the Serbs.They stole and confiscated property in the name of king which is another reason why the population favored the partisans.
Are going to ignore atrocities committed by Partizans or the fact that Tito ordered attacks regardless of Nazi retribution, or that Tito gave bombing targets to Allies, but those targets were not even German but Serbian civilians?
No ones hands were clean here...
@@DelijeSerbia Tito didnt kill innocent serbians lol. Nice propaganda.
@@DelijeSerbia it's fashionable to rehabilitate fascists since 1990. Chetniks just changed uniforms as they did in 1943. In 1943 they put on partisan uniforms and then in 1990 took those off and put on chetnik uniforms.
@@DelijeSerbia you seem to forget Kragujevac
@@glitner I didn't forget the Kragujevac massacre. It was a critical point in separation of Mihajlović and Tito.
Mihajlović didn't want to continue with active resistance as long as Germans had a complete control and were carrying out reprisal killings, while Tito didn't care that Germans were killing 100 Serbs for one German.
The Greeks were very good too. They have mountainous nations and were fighting on home turf.
Yeah naah
Most of the so called greek resistance was communist and Macedonians from Greece that saw metaxas government of the 1930s to the new German occupiers and their puppets doing dirty work, the Bulgarians
Stalin kept his word to Churchill regarding Greece and today Greece is a homogeneous ethnic state, on paper at least with racial laws that would make any supremacist proud
Support from serbia thank you for this video🇷🇸❤️👍
I'm proud that my grandfather and his two brothers fought for the liberation of our homeland!
Nice. Congrats. What was their role?
commie
Vojvodina is not yours
My grandfather was an partizan but got killen in Srebrenica by the Ustaše
I'm not quite sure history works that way😅😂😂
@@DailyHistoryBuff excuse me what?
@@DailyHistoryBuff Yes, Srebrenica was in the NHD in the Velika župa of Vrhbosna and later in the Velika župa of Usora-soli.
@@DailyHistoryBuff It actually works much worse, just type Jasenovac, and u will see
Your grandfather was a hero
Awesome video
Major congrats on the 1 million milestone! :D
Freedom and justice to the people, we need love, companions and unity for progress globally
Nazis and ustašas were ruthless in Yugoslavia that is what united the people to fight like beasts! The most important thing in any fight is to have a heart! ❤️💪
Oh sick video bro, yall should do another about the balkans wars and how the term balkanized became the norm situation when states split up.
Visiting Balkans I was sick watching how it become Americanized - graffiti, cheesy commercials... and other Amer-bull in general.
@@miltonwelch4177 you mean safe and secure society wow! You dont say
My Grandfather was first SS-Scanderbeg in the beginning and the he became Partizan (Kosovo-albanian)
Nice. Respect from Serbia!
Traitor to albanians and crap.
Glory to All Albanians that served in SS Skanderbeg and Vullnetari corps.
So from evil he got to lesser evil.
Wonderful from the Yugoslavian's Partisans,good friends!!!🙏
Considering St. Patrick's day just happened recently, you should make a video about the Irish Batallion that joined Mexican forces against the U.S. invasion, the reason why Mexicans celebrate Saint Patrick's day, I just think it's a pretty cool history chapter about Mexico and the Irish.
I would love to see that. They made a movie, one man's hero, about that battalion.
Poor guys, they get all killed or captured.
I thought it was Irish immigrants that were already in the USA that formed the Irish Batallion rather than people coming directly from Ireland, which was still part of the UK at the time.
@Edward Blair yes, they were immigrants, I didn't specify which Irish I guess, sorry for the misunderstanding.
@@edwardblair4096 the Irish immigrants were recent arrivals, that's the point.
great video mate
One million subscribers well done !!!👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️
IT'S BECAUSE WE BALKAN PPL ARE FIGHTERS WE RETURN BACK ALWAYS STRONGER 💪😎
During WW 2 Yugoslav Partizans killed around 95 k german solders,for comparison Allies killed 350 k at western front..during whole war Partizans managed to tie around 15 german divisions..
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
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Its so nice when you recognize random songs playing in the background of a video (Protector of the sky) at the start
You're amazing. God bless you son of knowledge.
My Grand father was French, but he managed to espaped the prisoners camp in austria, and joined the foreign division of the partisan...
Love your work, support from Serbia. Its sad that this country fell apart in civil war, but there is hope for future generations.
Congratulations on 1mil 🎉🎊🥳🎉
Five out of six major battles were in Bosnien. Chetnics changed uniforms and became partisans. Belgrade and large parts of Serbia were libereted by red army. Ustashe could not change sides as easy as chetnics, but both were alies of nazi occupators.
@Dalibor You are trying to rewrite history. I wrote the facts and do you know which was the first city, which sent official report "judenfrei" to friends in Berlin. It was Belgrade. Chetniks killed thousends of innocent civilians and made other horrible crimes to other nations and religious groups in order to exterminate them. That is genocide.
@Dalibor Yeah the only war where Serbs were on a winning side was won because of Serbs. Galaxy brain.
Its a good thing their story gets wide recognition. It was a matter of time since its so heroic.
Only half of what we know about the partisans is a forgery and a lie of the Yugoslav communist government
@@sv4110 Yeah sure, like we're going to believe a guy who in the 21st century has as his profile picture the flag of an empire from the 14th century 🙄... so desperate and tryhard. You're never going to reclaim your mediaeval Serb glory, ok?!
I love when someone knows my country
Both grandpa's fought for JNA.
Love the Video. Cheers 🍻
State of Yugoslavia during the WW2 , was disbanded by the Axis, and existed only in London and in the Allied and neutral countries embassies.
During the entire war, King Peter II and the government in exile of Royal Yugoslavia were in the London, next to Churchill.
Despite that, Tito and his yugoslav communists government sentenced the King Peter II for collaboration with the Axis, and forbid him the return to the country.
He wouldn't be able to achieve what partisans did.
@@hakala2022
Royal Yugoslav Army had regular units at the Allies: pilots, Air Force, infantry, Navy.
They all retreated to the Allies after the capitulation in 1941.
Royal legitimate government Army didn't needed self confirmation by guerilla warfare.
All the weapons that were donated by the British and the US should have been given to the Royal Army.
All the Soviet weaponry were ownership of the communists partisans.
That division was resolved by the Tito-Subasic agreement on the Vis Adriatic island in 1944.
Separate issues were the Croatian Army and the Croatian statehood itself.
@@serdradion4010
What good would the weapons do with the Royal Army? They weren’t in Yugoslavia.
@@dantecaputo2629
They fought along side with the British, like the Free French, Poles, Czech, Slovaks, Norwegans...
Also, they fought with the Greek Army during their retreat.
All of them after the capitulation were out of their domestic countries.
Communists partisans wanted to take power and overthrow the political, economical system and monarch, and establish the Republic.
That was their main motivation for the struggle, besides fighting the occupying Armies.
@@serdradion4010
Ok, but the Partisans were actually in Yugoslavia, and thus in a position to do a lot more damage to the Germans then the exiled Royal Forces. Also, I think kicking out the Germans was priority number one for the Partisans, as without that there would be no Republic.
The biggest was that Mussolini invaded Greece. That’s why axis lost the war.
Unfortunately, you need to check your sources (as most of the westerners do when talking about Balkans in general). Firstly the "Chetniks" were never de facto resistance against the Axis, however they were de facto collaborators until they saw the tide turn in 1945. Secondly the Red Army only reached as far as the Belgrade into Yugoslavia so the claim that they pushed the Germans across the entire county doesn't hold much water.
Acting like Chetniks were a united organisation. Mihajlović, who was seen as the leader, couldnt control what other local "leaders" did in the torn country. He wanted to wait out German occupation, minimise civilian casualties, which were mostly Serbian, and to weaken the communists, who wanted to end the Kingdom and everyone loyal to the King, who he fought for and he used Germans for that. He never liked the Germans, unlike some other (fascist) chetnik leaders. Ljotić and Djujić are probably the most famous ones and they deserve to rot.
..Because they were led by COMMUNISTS who had no fear of Fascists and Nazis...Communists led a partisan movement aware that NAZISM and FASCISM is the greatest world evil that must be eradicated...PUTIN realizes the same today...Only You don't understand, so you support fascist and Nazi Ukraine and impose some kind of sanctions on Putin...?!
What is the music that plays at 8:20, because looking through epidemic sound music has not been successful?
Very usefull for young generation to learn about the past..
Mainstream media: Wow, look at the French and Polish resistances. Those guys were so brave! Too bad nobody else opposed the Axis....
Meanwhile the Yugoslav and Greek resistances: You call that a resistance? This is a resistance!
Yugoslavia you will be missed
no it won't be tito was yugoslavia no tito no yugoslavia
@@yassirboussfia9580 Yugoslavia existed before Tito...
@@hazzmati yes and it didn't do well before tito
@@yassirboussfia9580 there will be new tito one day
@@yassirboussfia9580 yeah no shit when the country gets invaded by germany and two other countries and then set up puppet states to commit genocide on their neighbours. Country was doing okay before Hitler decided to destroy it.
Germany:
Partisans: You know the rules so do I
I've been looking for a good book on the Yugoslav Partisans. So far, no luck.
Most books about partisans are lies and propaganda.
It pisses me off a bit to see Croatia written on a map. It was so-call "Independent" State of Croatia, but we don't consider it as such. It was just a puppet state declared by local terrorists...Sure, some of us like to act like it was a "Croatia", but it wasn't. Real (todays) Croatia is SR Croatia which was made by the partisans.
Only that the Independent State of Croatia was supported by the majority of Croats.
@@sv4110 It was, for like, a month or two...
@@z000ey No, it wasn't. There was support all the time. The war wouldn't have lasted 4 years if there was no support.And Serbs would not be 80% partisans if Croats and Slovenes did not support the occupiers.
@@sv4110 Tito was Croat, the movement was formed in Croatia, a lot of fighters were Croats. Also, the very idea of Yugoslavia came mostly from Croatia...
The Croats fought against Nazi occupation and it's puppet state. Sure, a lot of Croats supported Ustasha regime, but most of those supported idea od Independent State, not the terrorists in charge.
On the other hand, a lot of Croats were pro-partisans. It was all about who came into your village and killed your people.
I am not trying to justify anyone here, but it is not fair to exclude Croats from the partisan movement, especially because parisan Croats were fighting Croats and not some other 'ethnic group'...
@@sv4110 Most of Slovenes were partisans, they were figting facism even before the ww2 (TIGR), and Tito was half Slovenian and half Kajkavian (Croatian Slovenian).
I never really payed much, if any attention to Yugoslavia during WW2 so thank you so very very much! ;D
My grandfather and his family were Croat Partisani. My grandmother's father was Domobrani(which became sympathetic to the Ustaše). Now here I am, flirting with a Serb girl...
My great grandma was a partizan who got shot twice through her leg at the battle of Sutjeska. She lived until 2003!
You keep mentioning "preference" as the main reason for the Allies supporting Partisans over Chetniks, but that isn't the sole nor even the major reason. The Chetniks, over the years, were frequently noted to be collaborating with the Axis, and the Ustashe. I recall a story from my grandma who was a Serb living in Croatia at that time, that Serb villages feared equally the Ustashe and the Chetniks. A certain Chetnik commander, called Momcilo Djujic, burned a dozen of Serb villages who refused to submit to his local group. In the end, they ended up retreating towards Austria, together with their comrades, the Ustashe.
Also the arrow in the end is pointed wrong, the Soviets entered Yugoslavia from Bulgaria, near the city of Niš, and moved north towards Belgrade, which they liberated together with the Partisans, before entering Hungary through Vojvodina. The western parts of Yugoslavia had to liberate themselves, but they got a strong impetus from the Soviets entering the eastern part of Yugoslavia, that's for sure.
Lies
Chetniks were actively collaborating with Italians against Partisans and in order to keep Ustashe as far as possible from places where they made deals with them. Technically with that move they saved huge amount of Serbian civilian lives. Also there were two different Chetnik groups which is important to mention. Ones were from Pećanac (who signed or was forced to sign collaboration deal with Germans and was declared as a traitor from Mihailović) and another from Mihailović itself (who not signed anything but collaborated with Italians through his commanders). However you are wrong if you think that Partisans do not made similar deals with Italians and Germans in different areas, maybe in smaller scale but they existed and those reports are written by Germans and are even today available in archives. Of course after the war they tried to hide this and show Partisans as only fighting force, truth is that everyone expected allies arrival and tried to get better position for themselves. Bulgarians first terrorized Serbs in the south and then suddenly switched sides on the end of war so you had Bulgarian troops who made murders in villages suddenly now liberating same villages with Soviets. Similar stories is with many others who were terrorizing locals including some Chetnik groups and then suddenly moved into "Partisans". Partisans were then terrorizing civilians who were anti communists or not liked their ideology. Tito order execution 1000s right after the war many of them civilians members of known families that also had nothing to do with wars or ideologies but they were to smart to be left alive. Not to mention land grabbing and robberies without any orders from side of Partisans. There are no innocents in that mass of war but only one side is shown due to communist victory.
these are communist lies and propaganda
Complete lies.Đujić was revered by all serbs as a great fighter.Đujić did not flee towards Croatia but Đurišić with his small group did.Serbs of Croatia were the main force for the partisans as they had tiny amount of time to accept our royal houses.They served Austrians before and had a tough life becouse of the usually bad terrain over there.That is why they mostly joined those that were available there.
@@temistogen
Ustaše i ČETNICI su braća po kukavičluku i kolaboraciji.... Zajedno su bežali, ali samo do Blajburga....
Đujić je uz pomoć Vatikana pobegao, isto kao njegov saborac Pavelić....
Zapamti: Hitler, Karađorđevići, Pavelić i ostala kolaboracija su imali istog GAZDU U LONDONU!
Yugoslavia deserved much better, too bad we cant ignore realities of life like the dysfunctional ethnic composition they had, which eventually led to its demise
So sad...It was destroyed by the US imperialist regime in 1999
Had just borders been drawn between the different nationalities, we would have never had a conflict in the first place. There would be no incentive for anyone to secede.
@@Kuasarakyat2 It wasnt destroyed by the US. It was a failed state from the beginning in 1921. Even during ww2, Slovene partisans originally wanted to create an independent Slovene state but were later forced to join the Yugoslav partisans
Well, Slobodan Milosevic and his tyrannic and autocratic style of governance, in addition to a terrible economy and the continuum of wealth discrepancy between the northwest and southeast were the real reasons why Yugoslavia fell apart. If Yugoslavia had been democratic and had a functioning market economy, none of this would've happened.
I'm kinda sick of this narrative, that it was the mutli-ethnic composition, which was the cause for the violent break up. Not only is this a simplification of reality, it is a bad one at that.
@@YourD3estinY I partly agree with you but than again, Slovenes were dreaming of independence for years. It was a matter of time when that will for independence would break out
Oh another video just lovely!! Yeah🤟 yall should do a video on the fall of yugoslavia and its subsequent yugosoav wars.
Yugoslavia freed itself
My grandpa was in the Partisan army and liberated Trieste but quickly kickedout by the british who threated them if they wouldnt leave. Many of us Albanias joined the Partisans because of brotherhood and unity. But many were forced and were not into the idea of cetnik serb forces trying to take over, I mean look what happened in the 90s and what they did.
Yeah, right...like when they give you weapon and instead of going to front you started rebelion? Or when you made Bujanska conference opose to AVNOJ? please bro, just be real
Many of you Albanians joined partisans because you wanted to escape the punishment for being in nazi units like 21st SS division Skanderbeg.
@@SmokeDimi angry serb right here for loosing war in 10 days
Leave this dirty crap away.
The Albanian partizan movement started as an albanian nationalist movement against Italians together with the Albanian National Front.
Later on, partizans betrayed the idea of ethnic Albania and National Front joined forces with the 3rd Reich and Germans respected Albanians and even United 70% of the ethnic Albanian lands.
Your fake " brotherhood" with serb and slavic parizans was a huge betrayal to the Albanian nation.
@@mrbullet3884 strongest continental force lose it in 20 days. Maybe you heard, its called France... Atleast we opposed, not like analbanians that suck on everybody
Very simplified view on war in Yugoslavia, which makes it not so true.
Some corrections are needed. The Allies did not inform Tito that Italy's capitulation was imminent, so that the Partisans could extract the maximum amount of weapons and equipment.
Aid from the Allies was minimal throughout the war. The Western Allies gave only 80 tons of equipment, which is less than the daily supply of one of their brigades, and the Soviets even less: only a few Špagin automatics.
The Soviets briefly intervened in the liberation of Yugoslavia and helped liberate Belgrade with artillery, but Tito insisted that they leave Yugoslavia after that.
Yugoslav/Slovenian partisans were also the first to breach in to Third Reich already in January 1944 with slovenian partisan 14.th striking Division who fought against overwhelming and most determined enemy till March 1944 with heavy casualities on both sides but managed to initiate partisan movement also there in Stajerska region before retreating back to liberated territory.
more info and photo: sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/14._(slovenska)_divizija_(NOVJ)
@@janakolasinac1686 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dra%C5%BEgo%C5%A1e First big battle.
Revolt started organising from 24th April 1941 and by summer first clashes started.
Half of Slovenia had way more Axis troops than the rest of Yugoslavia. That was the reason why Slovenian partisans fight guerrilla war longer. By doing that they occupied Axis troops that was needed elsewhere.
@@janakolasinac1686 slovenski partizani so bili najefektivniji in najbolje organizirani u celi jugi ti muppetek nepomembni
@@janakolasinac1686 Zamisli Slovence koji se busaju u grudi kao hrabri partizani, a mogao ih prebrojati na prste jedne ruke
@@truthdealer9 sami smo se borili leta imeli svojo bolnico tito sploh ni imel kontakta s slovenskimi partizani, zavedaj se da smo mi takoj zraven italije in nemčije ter madžarske vi ste pa tam dol v hribih, malo se motiš o moči slovenskih partizanov
My grandpa from Jagodina, Serbia was in vanguard , reaching all the way to Gratz, Austria. He never mentioned Slovenians, as a matter of fact, just Serbians, that was probably post war propaganda, typical of communists, serving cause of showing multiethnicity, (like story of Pavlov's house in Stalingrad)
Yugoslavia❤❤
Yugoslavia was electric boogaloo during WW2.
You had Partisans on one side, Chetniks (Royalists supporters) on the other side and Germans, Italians, Ustasha (Croatian nationalists), Slovene National Guard, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Albanians on the third side.
And then Tito united them all after the war. Absolute mad lad!
Tito being based as usual
Yeah definitely Chetniks were a different side from Italians and Slovene NG, and after early '42 Germans and Ustashas... NOT!
@@bradulovic82 Legendary man
@@z000ey Chetniks worked with germany and italy lol. open up a history book pls
The chetnik flag says 'za kralja i otačbinu sloboda nam smrt' which means for king and for fatherland freedom is for us death
Instead if "nam" it's "ili" which means or
So it's Liberty or Death, not Liberty is death for us which sounds absurd and suicidal
Nice
I’m reading German Armoured Trains 1904-1945 and JESUS they made life real hell for the trains! Entire sections of track were regularly made unusable, trains blown up and they even destroyed or crippled several armoured trains. One armoured train had to fight a 3 day siege against these guys before it could be rescued.
Great content! Please never do that Churchill impression again 🤣
On the eve of D-Day there were more than 3x as many partisans in Yugoslavia then there were members of the Resistance in whole of France, a country with 3x more population.
Finnaly,somthing about yugoslavia
2:20 Note about the chetniks that should be mentioned: a lot of people left them for their selective collaboration
They did work along side partisans in the begging but due to ideology they did end up in conflict rather quickly (and hence the selective collaborations)
Thats a lie and comunist propaganda! Partisans were paramilitary force who wanted revolution and killed lots of Serb civilians! Chetnick were regulary Yugoslav army and they collaborate with Italians agains Croatian nazi! Thats how they saved lots of Serbs in independant state of croatia!
@@milelemi8725 chetniks we’re traitors who collaborated with the occupiers and also killed Serbs.
@@janakolasinac1686 Тај исти Ђујић је сарађивао са талијанским окупатором и примао војну помоћ од НДХ. Мог ђеда, који је Србин са Кордуна и који никад није био комуниста, спасила је звезда црвена, а не тамо неки брадоња који му је радио о глави.
Comunist lie and propaganda
Lots of the amnesties got cetniks killed.
That multi-ethnic brotherhood didn’t survive the war however. As starting in 1944 Tito’s partisan government stripped the Danube Swabians (ethnic german citizens of Yugoslavia - roughly 500,000 alive pre WW2) of their citizenship, declared the entire ethnic group an enemy of the state (even if they supported the partisans during the war), stole their property to give to family members of partisan fighters and rounded up tens of thousands Danube Swabians for deportation to Russia as slave labour to pay the USSR as part of Yugoslavia’s repayment for the cost of their liberation, and put over 100,000 into concentration camps with no food, poor shelter from the elements, no medicine. This number also included 45,000 children who were often under the age of 10 with their parents either killed or in the Russian slave camps thousands of kms away, which meant many thousands of innocent children died because of the conditions the partisans put them through.
So thorough was the partisan effort to ethnically cleanse Yugoslavia of their Danube Swabians that of the pre-WW2 population of around 500,000 people, today there is less than 5,000 - more than 70 years after these events, meanwhile in neighbouring Hungary, there is still hundreds of thousands of that ethnic group still alive today.
It’s unfortunate what the partisans did to them & that my great grandfather who opposed the Nazis & supported the partisans was denied his citizenship he held from birth based on this policy, and how he had to flee to Canada to escape the horrors with my grandfather (at the time, a four year old “war criminal and enemy of the state” according to Tito and the partisans.
Absolutely true, out of some 500.000 prewar Germans they let some 10% stay, those mostly in cities and if they actively joined the Partisans, while the rural folk not involved in the war got evicted an masse. The same happened in the Sudeten and in western Poland (these evictions in millions with hundreds of thousands killed). The given reason was that those German folk got German "dual" citizenship, which they did but did not have any matter to say about it, Hitler decided so upon occupation. This made them German conscripts too, so their sons got taken into Russia in great numbers. Probably at the beginning of the occupation, being German, a number of those folk was kinda excited, but as the years went on most were really unhappy.
The majority were form NE Serbia (some 350.000), namely Vojvodina, but also there was a substantial number in NE Croatia (Slavonia) and in a rather remote region of Slovenia (Kočevje) the Germans were actually the majority population.
In example, the old cadastre maps included surnames of owners (nowdays it's just numbers and then records of which number belongs to whom is kept separately): in Vukovar (Croatia bordering Serbia on the Danube, place of Serbian greates war crime in the 1991. war) 90% of the surnames in 1911. were German. The whole Vukovar population got replaced in 1945. by 50/50 Croats and Serbs from other far away regions (Bosnia and Herzegovina mostly), and brought their WW2 animosity along, which then exploded in 1991. The repopulation at the time was made mixed on purpose rather than settling Croats in Croatia and Serbs into Serbia (in German villages of course) in order to spread a mixed community hoping to unite the nations, instead it ended up really badly.
I believe you but could you add a source or two to back up the numbers you provided?
@@theoutlook55 Bro, his ancestors *"IS"* the source. That's the best way to get a source, from the people who experienced in said history
@@SiPakRubah First, you emphasized the wrong word ("ancestors").
Second, the word would be "are," not "is."
Third, his family would not have personal knowledge as to the Numbers he gave. Those have to come from somewhere else, and my question specified that that was what I was interested in.
@@theoutlook55 my responses keep getting deleted with the sources… I’ve tried four times now… even adding in extra spaces to the URLs but it seems that I’m not getting to share where this info is coming from.
I watched the whole video and there was not a single valid point why the partisans were so good in ww2. How did you manage to make a 9 min video and still miss the most important things?
Свобода или смърт is the bulgarian slogan by the way.
Yugoslavia is the only country where Communism actually worked ( for a while). Because of the many different ethnic groups the equality vision made sense
The reason it "worked" is that Tito had a conflict with Stalin and that meant that west did not sanction him and Yugoslavia was free to trade with everybody. Another reason is that Tito took some huge loans that later backfired on Yugoslav economy.
And as soon as economy started going down the whole different ethnic groups thing started being important again, as always it is someone else fault...
@@DelijeSerbia You dont know history lol. You literally watched a video about ww2 and you think that ethnic tensions rose after yugos economy started declining? Thats not even true. And while Tito was in power it was the best economy yugoslavia had seen in her lifetime. Maybe ask the serbians like milosevic on why they removed croats,slovenes and bosnians from positions of power.. or ask why all the important decisions of authority were made in serbia.. hmm? go open a history book
@@froglifes6829 ahahaha what kind of fake history are they teaching you lmao
@@DelijeSerbia Pa jel nije Srbija bila 'glavna' u Jugoslaviji?
@@DelijeSerbia Točno, počelo je s ukidanjem Autonomnih pokrajina.
Fun Fact: The Yugoslavian Partisans had their own air force. Near the end of the war. Something very unique.
Nice just in time
Im sure this topic wont cause any heated debates at all
Since I see the 300,000 Partisan figure being quoted (which is relatively high even if you count all guerillas - Chetniks and Partisans - together), here is some information on the numbers, from German reports. As opposed to the British, the German reports can be considered more relevant, as they are for internal use by a combatant, and not propaganda. Please just note that Germans tended to use the designation "D.M. Movement" for "Chetniks" (actually Yugoslav Army) commanded by General Mihailovich, as opposed to the much less numerous Chetnik units allied to Germans:
AMONG THE VARIOUS INSURGENT MOVEMENTS WHICH INCREASINGLY CAUSE TROUBLE IN THE AREA OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV STATE, THE MOVEMENT OF DRAJA MIHAILOVIC STANDS IN FIRST PLACE WITH REGARD TO LEADERSHIP, ARMAMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND ACTIVITY… WITHIN THE D.M. MOVEMENT THERE ARE ARMED UNITS ORGANIZED MILITARILY WHICH FORM THE "YUGOSLAV HOME ARMY."... THIS HAS PRESENTLY A STRENGTH OF ABOUT 150,000 MEN IN THE ENTIRE YUGOSLAV AREA...
Colonel Reinhard Gehlen, Extracts from report by the High Command of the Army, 9 February 1943, concerning Chetnik (Mihailovic) movement, Source: Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, vol. XI, Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950, pages 1016, 1019
THE LEADER OF THE BANDS, TITO, WHO WORKS UNDER STALIN'S INSTRUCTIONS, HAS CREATED A SOVIET STATE WITHIN CROATIA AND HAS A GOOD CIVIL SERVICE. HIS ARMED FORCES ARE ESTIMATED AT 100,000 MEN... THE MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY IS TITO...
Feldmarshall Weichs, Estimation of the Status of the Area of Southeast at the end of October 1943, Source: Collection of Documents of the National Liberation War, Vol. 12, Book 3, pages 626, 627