Военная история / Churchill and Tito: SOE, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II

Название: Churchill and Tito: SOE, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II
Автор: Christopher Catherwood
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2017
Страниц: 223
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 24 MB

One of Winston Churchill’s most controversial decisions during the Second World War concerned the United Kingdom’s role in Yugoslavia. In 1943, he switched Special Operations Executive support from the Cetniks, loyal to Yugoslavia’s exiled royal government, to Tito and his Communist Partisan guerrillas. That choice led to a Communist regime in Yugoslavia that lasted until Tito’s death in 1980, and resulted in the horrific ethnic violence of the Balkan wars in the 1990s.