The “Grand Bargain” of the Yalta Conference and its Implementation on the Ground: the Case of Yugoslavia. Border Insurgency 1945-1948
Journal: Perspectives and prospects E-journal
Year: 2020

At the highest level, Yalta's "grand bargain" became a diplomatic form of recognition of the Red Army's combat capabilities, but at the local level, the agreement was far from being observed. The rise of the anti-communist insurgency in post-war Yugoslavia relied, ideologically, and in border areas also financially, on the Anglo-American support. Besides the Serbian Chetniks, other rebel groups actively operated in Yugoslavia in the final months of the war and the first post-war years, including