Why were the Yugoslav Partisans so Effective? (Short Animated Documentary)

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Why were the Yugoslav Partisans so good? They had something to fight for, weren't exclusively Serbian, hid in the mountains and had an ideology.

[guillaumegiroux]

Is hard to invade Yugoslavia because with all the forests and mountains, you don't know where yugo.

[Edmonton-ofec]

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

[cespu_iv]

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

[idontknowwhatmypfpis]

Imagine being such a bad resistance that the side you’re fighting aids you to help fight another resistance

[MultiFulhamFan]

I really like this channel for focusing on less known topics. Thanks for the content man!

[Orthane]

Tito: Unity is cool

Literally 2 seconds after Tito's death: *Let's all kill each other over ethnic hatred*

[mladencic]

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.

[zarkozi]

We kept the Germans out so successfuly so that 80 years later we would beg to move to Germany for labor lol.

[LEFTBASS]

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.

[mathewc]

I’ve always wanted to know more about Yugoslavian Partisans because from what my grandma has told me my great grandpa was one.

[insulam]

2:44 that joke in the bottom right corner.... I’m still laughing

[filipvelkov]

My great-grandfather got killed by the Bulgarians during WW2.
Theres a small monument to him with his name on it in the mountains near where I’m from.
Although its unkept and in remote location, its still something that amazes me.

[Kardia_of_Rhodes]

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.

[DrewPicklesTheDark]

The virgin French resistance vs. the Chad Yugoslav resistance.

[mrhippo]

Last time i was this early Trieste was still populated by Slovenes.

[ddmodeler]

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.

[lukagjosevski]

French resistance: happens
Yugoslavia: hold my rakija...

[itaybron]

Good thing all that ethnic tension is a all in the past now. hahaha gulp.

[freekmiddelburg]

2:43 "other 250, 000 not shown" lol

[vincedibona]

Also, please recognize the commitment to getting the weaponry correct for each army and time period. It’s actually impressive.