1. Spreading Rumors:
In 1944
however, when Serbia was liberated from German occupation, the Partisan units
began to transform into the Yugoslav army. Many Serbs including the Cetniks
taking advantage of an amnesty, joined. Serbian dominance of the armed forces
was thereby established and remained a feature of the Yugoslav military
establishment until its end”.
Branimir
Anzulovic
Heavenly
Serbia: from Myth to Genocide
New York
University Press 1999
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This statement isn’t sourced.
People who already have a
Serbophobic bias are going to read his book and won’t notice that the statement
is deliberately un-referenced. They’ll think: ‘Aha, I read in a book that
there was a Serb Chetnik conspiracy in the JNA; in a book that cited an average
of 50 sources per chapter – it must be true!’ There is no other attempt to
cite any other similar statements he repeats throughout the book either. Does
anyone buy that? There is no evidence that the assertion Anzulovic makes in
this paragraph is true.
Expecting
that the Serbs would further Brittish interests, Churchill wanted them to
attain the same dominant role in Yugoslavia they had played before WWII. “My
unchanging objective is to get Tito to let the King come out and share his luck
with him and thus unite Yugoslavia and bring in the old Serb core.”
Heavenly
Serbia: from Myth to Genocide
Page: 160
New York
University Press 1999
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If Tito was actually part of the
“old Serb core” then it wouldn’t have mattered to Churchill whether the King
was involved or not. Anzulovic still doesn’t even bother to provide a source
for the accusation he made on page 159. Regarding this quote from Churchill on
page 160, Tito didn’t let the king come back and thus the old Serb core was
never able to materialize. But you wouldn’t know that from the way Anzulovic
carefully tries to present this as evidence that Tito was somehow pro-Serbian.
This leaves the door open to more
plausible explanations on the nature of Communist Yugoslavia. Who ran that
system? Who fought to bring that system to power?
In 1986, Vasilije Krestic a member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, asserted in his essay…that the Ustasa genocide was the realization of an idea “born in the remote past and developed for decades and centuries” which has “a rather broad base in certain segments of Croatian society.”
Actually a
vast majority of Croatians were so hostile to the actions of the Ustasa regime…
Branimir
Anzulovic
Heavenly
Serbia: from Myth to Genocide
Page: 107
New York
University Press 1999
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2. Croats, Ustase and WWII:
In a pitiful attempt to absolve
the Croats of their complicity in the murder of tens of thousands of Serbs,
Jews and Gypsies, Anzulovic quotes a letter from General Lufters to Field
Marshal Lohr from 1943 telling him that the Ustase were losing support just two
years after they took power. Is this supposed to vindicate the Croats? It took
them 750 days and nights of living under a regime allied with NAZI Adolph
Hitler to finally stop supporting the NDH?
If the Croatian people had been
against the Ustase from day 1, Lufters would have written Lohr in 1941 when the
Ustase took over as soon as they started massacring Serbs, Jews and Gypsies for
absolutely no reason - and not 1943, conveniently when the NDH’s allies were
losing the war. Anzulovic couldn’t come up with any historical document written
before 1943 - two years after the massacres had already started and right when
Croatia’s allies were losing the war. That actually placates the Croatian
people in supporting at least 2 years of Croatian Ustasa genocide of tens of
thousands of perfectly innocent and harmless civilians: mostly Serbs, Jews and
Gypsies.
Here’s Anzulovic quoting Lufters
on Croatians’ change of heart toward the last years of WWII:
“The aversion of all segments of the population against the Poglavnik
and the Ustase gives additional strength to the insurgents, so that the
pacification measures undertaken by German armed forces cannot lad to a lasting
success”[29].
[29] Report 1504/43 Oublished as Document no. 38 in Zbornik dokumenata
I podataka o Naronooslobodilackom ratu naroda Jugoslavije vol. 12, book 3
Dokumenti Nemackog rajha 1943 (Belgrade: Insistuite for Military History
1978), 172
Page: 107
New York
University Press 1999
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The fact that Anzulovic couldn’t
find a document attesting to Croatian dissatisfaction with the NDH before
Croatia’s allies began losing the war in 1943 proves that it didn’t bother
the Croatian people that many of the tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews and
Gypsies were slaughtered in the frenzy and euphoria ushered in by first 2 years
of the NDH’s existence.
Lufters says that among Croats,
dissatisfaction with the Poglavnik , (bound as he was to Germany and
Italy who were losing the war in 1943) “gives additional strength to the
insurgents, so that the pacification measures undertaken by German armed
forces cannot lad to a lasting success”
Who are these insurgents? Not
Chetniks but Partizans. Croats actually flooded the Partizani in 1943. Croatians
were switching sides in 1943 to their Communist Croatian countryman Tito. The
insurgents Lufters complained about whose divisions the Croats were
strengthening - were obviously the Croat/Slovene Tito’s Partizani Communists
(see below part 4).
3. Croatian group-strategies:
By 1943, the Germans were losing
the war and it was looking like the Karadjordjevic Serbian King was going to be
back in Belgrade. The tide in the war turned in that year. Croats needed a new group-strategy.
Usashism wasn’t looking so good, anymore. By 1943, Croats needed a new
group-strategy. That didn’t mean that less than 50 years later Croats wouldn’t
still love their Poglavnik and recycle the Ustasa group-strategy they once
rather quickly discarded. They switched allegiance to their other countryman,
Tito. They changed group-strategies.
The Illyrian Movement was the
first Croatian group-strategy:
The
Croatian Illyrian Movement (1835-1848) also had a program of a unification of
South Slavs (originally also including the Bulgarians) but it did not envision
a Greater Croatia…
Heavenly
Serbia: from Myth to Genocide
Page: 77
New York
University Press 1999
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The Croatian Illyrian Movement
probably did not envision a Greater Croatia as overtly as Ante Starcevic’s Hrvatska
Stranka Prava did at the time but the Illyrian Movement was a Croatian
dominated movement, as even Anzulovic freely admits. Even Vuk Karadzic flirted
with the Illyrianists later in his life.
Here we have an example of two
separate Croatian group-strategies operating simultaneously at two different
points in history spanning a century: it was Ilirci & Pravasi
in the 1830s & 1840s. A century later it will be Communist Partizans &
Ustase.
4. Croats, Partizani and WWII:
Back to WWII:
In late 1943, the partisan forces numbered
some 300 000 fighters arranged in 26 divisions:
2 were
located in Serbia,
1 in
Montenegro,
7 in
Bosnia and Hercegovina,
11 in
Croatia and
5 in
Slovenia[36]
Reference
#36. Quoted from: Sunley Sold on Serbia
New York
University Press 1999
Branimir
Anzulovic
Heavenly
Serbia: from Myth to Genocide
Page: 159
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Anzulovic grudgingly admits that
the largest number of Communist Partzani divisions were in places where
Orthodox Serbs make up a minority population. Remember Lufters commenting on
Croats swelling the Communist insurgents. Slovenians, Bosnian Muslims and
Albanians followed Croatia’s lead in 1943 to Croat Tito’s Communists. It took
Tito two years to defeat the Chetniks when he killed Mihailovic in ‘47. If
Serbs were hiding Mihailovic from Tito and supporting him just like they’re
hiding Maldic and Karadzic from The Hague, then Tito probably wasn’t
pro-Serb.
In
fact, Croats are the only ethnicity to contribute in the double-digits to
Communist Partizani military divisions. Croats contributed almost 4 TIMES MORE
to Tito’s divisions of armed men than both Serbia AND Montenegro.
If you divide the number of
Partizani as a whole by the number of its composite divisions and then multiply
that number by the number of divisions each republic contributed, here’s what
you get: Catholic Croatia and Slovenia contributed 184 615 the Communist
troops to Tito’s Partizani.
So Croats better wake up and
realize that when Bleiburg happened way up there
in Austria - it was largely Catholic Slovenian Partizani Communists killing
Catholic Croat Ustase for political power.
7. Facts do not support
Serb-dominated Communist Yugoslavia
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A “Serb-dominated Yugoslavia” would never have given
Montenegrins and Muslims their own ethnic status when they didn’t need to.
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Rankovic never would’ve been removed or punished. In a
Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia, he would’ve been president for life, despite his
excesses, which I denounce.
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No Serbian-dominated government would’ve ever have granted
Vojvodina and Kosovo ANY KIND of autonomy as even the current government in
Belgrade refuses to do so to this day. Those things damage the Serbian people’s
interest immensely.
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The only two Serb founding members of the Communist
Partizani: Milovan Djilas and Aleksandar Rankovic, were both expelled from the
Party when they tried to change the system after they eventually realized that
Croat Tito’s Yugoslav Communism was all about keeping Serbs weak and divided.
So was Dobrica Cosic, who is nevertheless widely considered to be traitor in
Serbia these days on account of his term in office.
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No ‘pro-Serb’ Communists would have ever killed Draza
Mihailovic and yet allow Ustasa leader Serb-killer Poglavnik Ante Pavelic to
live in Spain and South America.
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It’s worth noting that ‘Muslim’ as an ethnicity was
introduced only after census results consistently showed more Muslims declaring
Serb ethnicity rather than Croatian, although some did opt for Croatian.
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Taken with Anzulovic’s data regarding Lufters and the
distribution of Croat/Slovene Tito’s military divisions in 1943, these facts
decisively contradict the possibility of a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. The above
events couldn’t have occurred in a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia if people like
Milosevic had the kind of power in Tito’s time that they had in the 90s.
Also, If you watch the 6-part
documentary “Fall of Yugoslavia” which appeared on PBS, you even see Milosevic
getting threatened with expulsion for the ‘Nobody is allowed to beat you’
comment in 1987. That’s why he had to undertake the Anti-bureaucratic
Revolution with support from the people - to purge the party of old-school
communists like his ex-mentor Ivan Stambolic who Milosevic killed later in the
90s. The fact that Milosevic had to fight party leadership and then purge the
very same Communist Party in order to come to power also nullifies the
possibility of a “Serb-dominated” Yugoslavia anytime before 1987.
