The disintegration of Yugoslavia began as early as the first days of Hitler’s aggression. On April 10, in Zagreb, the Ustasha proclaimed the creation of the Independent Croatian State (IHH), which included Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Technically, the head of the IHH was the Italian duke Spoletto, but during the war he never bothered…

In July 1917 on the island of Corfu between the leadership of the Yugoslav Committee (the center of the Yugoslav emigration from Austria-Hungary) and the Serbian government negotiations on the future of the South Slavic peoples began, culminating in the signing of a declaration It proclaimed the inevitability of a unified South Slavic state and…

The last chairman of the Presidency of Yugoslavia was Stipe (Stjepan) Mesic (from June 3 to October 3, 1991). During his presidency, the main processes of disintegration of the unified state and the separation of a very important part of it, Croatia, took place. Croatia’s attitude to Yugoslavia predetermined the disintegration of the country. The…

“Better war than a pact!” Mass demonstrations under this slogan swept across Yugoslavia as soon as its citizens learned of its accession to the Triple Alliance. The situation worsened by the hour. Serbian Patriarch Gavriel appeared on the radio to denounce the pact with the Germans. During the night of March 26 to 27, 1941,…

The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia: History of a Lost Friendship The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, which was formed on the Balkan Peninsula in 1918, have always been linked by a rather close but complex relationship. Initially, the state, which included Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Serbia and Montenegro, was dominated by a monarchy, and…

From the very beginning of the First World War, some Slovenian and Croatian politicians bet on an Entente victory. Forced to flee Austria-Hungary in war conditions, they created two political centers of Yugoslav emigration in Rome (Italy) and Nis (Serbia). In January 1915, the Yugoslav Committee was established on the basis of the Rome center,…