Past and Present of Warfare
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Not soon after the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the Axis, government was overthrown. Led by the Communist Party, on 27th March 1941. the people went to the streets, shouting paroles "Bolje grob nego rob! Bolje rat nego pakt!" ("Better grave than the slave! Better combat than the compact!"). But as usual in the Marxist historiography, … Continue reading Military Coup in Yugoslavia 27 March 1941
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604155806/http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_380.shtml Yugoslav & Serbian MiG-29sBy ACIG TeamNov 30, 2003, 10:13Email this article Printer friendly page The former Air Force & Air Defence Force of Yugoslavia (Jugoslovensko Ratno Vazduhoplovstvo i Protiv-Vazdusna Obrana, "JRViPVO") purchased a total of 14 MiG-29s and two MiG-29UBs from the USSR, in 1987. MiG-29s were taken into service with the 127. Lovacka Avijacijska Eskadrila (127.LAE, Fighter Air … Continue reading Yugoslav and Serbian MiG-29s (archived)
Among the Croatian Left and also in the West, there is a widespread idea that the Croatian Homeland War was a civil war (see: Index, and other far-Left media, as well as foreign Left-leaning media such as BBC and CNN). Faktograf, a Left-leaning fact checker, stated that the war was a civil war until 8th … Continue reading Croatian Homeland War Was Not a Civil War
Croatian Defense Forces (HOS – Hrvatske Obrambene Snage) were the paramilitary force of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) and also one of the first organized paramilitary units operational in the Homeland War in Croatia and BiH, having been founded in 1991. In 1992., during reorganization of Croatian forces, Croatian Defense Forces were integrated with … Continue reading HOS – Croatian Defense Forces
Serbia had played a key role in forming SAO Krajina, so question is, why it did little to nothing to help Serbs in Krajina in 1995, when Operation Storm was wiping out the pseudo-state? The reason lay several years in the past. In the year 1989., a part of Serbs in Croatia had joined the … Continue reading Why Serbia Did Not Help Serb Krajina
Background On 27th of July 1941., a rebellion began against the government of Independent State of Croatia. For a long time, this day was celebrated as the day of Antifascist uprising in Croatia. Uprising caught the area of Srb, Lapac, Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo, that is the area of Lika and Western Bosnia. Since the … Continue reading Chetnik Uprising in Srb, 27 July 1941
When Pinnochio lies, his nose grows. When Yugoslav historians lie, numbers grow. During 45 years of the existence of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav historiography was one of symbols of the untouchable Party. Everything historians said was a holy cow, especially things that had to do with covering up Partisan crimes and balooning up crimes of their opponents. … Continue reading Lies of Yugoslav Historiography
The original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2sSoBHhvro “During the second world war, many nations occupied by the Fascist powers, developed underground movements interested in seeing their countries liberated...”. First sentence, and already the first mistake. Yes, it is true that Yugoslavia did have antifascists who wanted to see the country liberated from the Axis oppression, but … Continue reading Response: Armchair Historian – How Yugoslavia Liberated Itself
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