“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,…