How Yugoslavia Practically Liberated Itself in WW2 | Animated History

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[TheArmchairHistorian]

(A FEW CORRECTIONS UNDER "READ MORE")


- The incorrect Croatian flag was used for this video, we accidentally used the modern Croatian flag instead of the Independent State of Croatia flag.
- I misspoke, Tito was Croatian and Slovenian, NOT Croatian and Serbian.

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[subira]

- Recent coup d'etat
- Failing economy
- Unprepared, smaller and outdated army
- Completely surrounded
- Ethnic tensions

- Still manages to defeat the Italians

[jacopoabbruscato]

It's impressive how the people of the Balkans managed to fit in a bit of infighting and civil war even in the face of German occupation

[michaelsinger]

Tito, the only man to stare down both Hitler and Stalin, and the outlived both of them.

[alexanderlehigh]

I never knew Tito had so much plot armor through all those close-call fights.

[libertiarecordings]

My entire bloodline fought for the Yugoslav Partizans. I was 8 when my immediate family escaped from Sarajevo during the Yugoslav civil war in the 90's. Unreal how much unrest there is in this world. I wish everyone love and peace !

[andro]

7:10 Tito's father was Croatian and his mother was Slovenian, not Serbian. Also his name was Josip Broz. Tito is an alias, not a surname.

[GreasyCrust]

My grandpa was a factory worker in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. When the axis occupied it, him and other workers thought of as slavs were set to be executed. But then last minute a another worker (friend of my grandpa) convinced the officers that they were bulgarian and they were left to live. :)

[jaylol]

I'm glad that you have a video that discusses the Ustashe's crimes. I was absolutely stunned to learn about this a few years ago and even more floored that nobody ever talks about it. It's legitimately difficult to find documentaries on the subject. Everyone is too preoccupied with the Nazi Party when in reality there were many such smaller, similar groups that did equally bad if not WORSE things to people. I actually decided to include knowledge of the Ustashe in a novel I've been writing, which is an alternate history novel, just because I want to keep alive the history that happened there with the Serbian and Croatian peoples, and let other people who eventually read it know that this stuff happened. My hope is that if they are wondering what the heck I'm talking about, they'll look into it for themselves and learn about the historical horrors that took place there.

I salute you, Mister Armchair, for covering this sort of stuff in an unbiased, highly informative manner. Your videos are great overviews of the history of the world with each subject you cover.

[Sergio-xsol]

12:28 OMG the way that you make meme cameos in your videos is outstanding

[Beanss]

I'd love to see an I depth look at the Yugoslavian resistance. All I can find are 5 to 10 minute bullet point videos where as the French resistance has many hour long documentaries.

[explosivefiend]

My grandad was a baker in Serbia at the beginning of the war and was put on a train to Dachau, fortunately his aunt bribed the SS officers with gold to get him off it.
After this he joined up with the partisans since at the time he believed in communism and would gain the rank of Major in the baker devision after being injured on the front.
He would later on leave Yugoslavia due to becoming disenfranchised with communism move to Scotland start up a bakery and meet Peter 2 and acutely became good friends.
And that’s the very brief story of my grandad

[KingeticSunfirah]

Da smo bar nešto naučili iz te krvave povijesti ali eto nismo pa se ponovila i usput sjebalo i moj život. Baš je lijepo ovo čovječanstvo.

[nathanlee]

Who else but the Balkans, lol.

> invaded by an existential threat
> bands together to liberate their lands
> immediately starts to turn on one another, inter-ethnic, ideological, and religious civil wars and genocides while still fighting the existential threat

[borisdavidov]

Great to see this as my great- grandpa was a hero of Yugoslavia in ww2. We still have his statue in my hometown!

[GoceDelcevMKD]

My grand-grand father was a partizan.
My grand mother was feeding and supporting the partizans as a child often in Macedonia.

[slobodanmitic]

One very important notice: prince Pavle (Paul) was never interested or atracted by politics or statemanship. He was an artist. His brother, Aleksandar was a true king and the one who was really into the whole business. For quite some time Aleksandar tried to atract Pavle to some state work, but Pavle was absolutely not compliant. As the king Aleksandar was killed in 1934. in Marseilles, prince Pavle found himself in an unenvious position. That is one of the reasons why he performed relatively poorly in conducting foreign and domestic affairs.

[williamsmeds]

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[tangy]

BRO I LIKE HOW AT 12:27 THE IMAGE IS JUST A REMAKE OF "NO MAIDENS" BUT WW2 VERIZON

[Leo-bgmi]

Croatian situation.. Funny thing that my grandfathers were on opposite sides and both fought for the "right" cause, both escaping death several times, both lived over 80...in 1975 on my parents wedding they didnt even shook hands...heh it's kinda a creepy to find out how many stuff happened just to make ME live