Yugoslav Partisans

There is an old expression about the sophisticated construction of Yugoslavia: “Yugoslavia consists of six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets, one political party, and only one “true” Yugoslav – the Josip Broz Tito”. He managed to unite the country and to free it from the foreign invaders, hereinafter becoming a leader of the Communist Party and a statesman, in whose hands all political power was concentrated. Therefore, the thesis of this paper is that Yugoslavia turned into dictatorship being driven by the will of Josip Bros Tito, who, in turn, implemented his will via using the respect of people he obtained for coming to his country’s rescue during WWII. History has proved that dictatorships…

I. Leokadia Jaromirska Leokadia Jaromirska lived in the Warsaw suburb of Bialoleka. 1942, while on her way to work with another woman, they heard the cries of children and saw a little girl and an eight-month-old baby abandoned near the fence of a convent. Leokadia convinced the other woman to take the girls home with her. After work she hurried back to the other woman 's home, where she found out that the woman had panicked and brought the older girl to the police station. Leokadia took the…

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people were too scared to fight back, but not everyone; some were eager to rise up to the occasion. Resistance groups were determined to stop at nothing until they punished the former Nazis that inflicted so much pain. Nakam, a Jewish partisan resistance movement from Palestine, was one of these groups. They had one ultimate goal: to avenge the lives lost during the Holocaust. It was Nakam’s incentive for their actions that drove their extreme efforts of…

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Eventually Tito became the head of the Yugoslavian government after merging his council with the old governance. After the monarchy was abolished, Tito was elected president of the newly formed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. Tito’s ascension to power came in most part from tenacious support of Yugoslavians, and western nations and the soviet union. There was Yugoslavian tension between communists, led by Tito, and royalist control that made…

intervene following the Axis Powers’ invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 under the orders of Stalin, who had signed the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact; however, after Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Tito responded by urging Yugoslavs to unite against the Axis occupation and to start a communist revolution. Under the pretext of a struggle for national unity, Tito embarked on his ultimate goal: a complete seizure of power. As stated by the Encyclopedia of World Biography, using…