National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia

## Government

### Leader

Josip Broz Tito (Founder and Leader), Edvard Kardelj (Prime Minister, Deputy President/leader), Koca Popovic (High Ranking officer), Ivan Ribar, Ivo lola Ribar, Kosta Nadj, Peko Dapčević, Fadil Hoxha, Milovan Djilas (Montenegrin Partisans leader), Sava Kovačević, and many more...

### Ideology

Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Marxist-Leninism

## History

### Backround:

The Yugoslav Partisans (National Liberation Army and Partisan Detatchments of Yugoslavia, NLAPDY) was a Communist Resistance grouped formed in what is now known as Yugoslavia resisting the axis Occupation with Josip Broz Tito leading them to Victory.

The Partisans would engage in the most known Battles being **the Montenegrin uprising, Srb uprising, Uzice Republic, Bihac Republic, Battle of Neretva, Battle of Sutjeska, Battle of Kozara, Raid on Drvar, Battle of Belgrade, Liberation of Novi Sad, Syrmian Front and the Trieste Operation.**

## Yugoslavia before WWII (Communist Party)

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) was a country formed after the aftermath of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, end of WWI and the unification with Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Montenegro. The country was unified as a Centralized Parliamentary Monarchy under King Peter I of the Karadjordjevic Dynasty, later King Alexander I of Yugoslavia until his assassination in Marseille (France) in 1934.

After the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Alexander's son (Peter II) was not of age to rule and the country fell under the regency of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, which under him the Banovina of Croatia was passed and Yugoslavia was moving forwards a Federation.

### The Communist Party

The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1919-1991), later the **League of Communists of Yugoslavia** was a Communist ideological group formed in opposition of the Yugoslav Monarchy in 1919, the Party later got banned and violently suppressed by the Royal Government till they came to Power after WWII in 1945. Their General Secretary **Josip Broz Tito** (1892-1983).

The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) would engage in illegal activities through Yugoslavia, Spreading ideals of Communism/Socialism, disrupting work and economic development, some terrorist activities and spreading the Marxist manifesto in Yugoslavia. Tito would become General Secretary in 1936, after eliminating most of his threats and opposition within the Party solidifying his grip.

Josip Broz Tito would later begin exporting his own ideas of Communism during the partisan activities from 1941 till 1945, with the Partisans now integrated the CPY into their own fold, with the Communist Party now in the meantime temporarily based in Bihac while mainly based in Tito's hideout in the Mountains with other notable Partisan leaders.

## World War II in Yugoslavia

On the 6th of April 1941, the German Reich, Fascist Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria began the invasion of Yugoslavia after the March coup against Regent Paul had signed a pact with Hitler. The invasion would be quick and swift with Belgrade falling after few days, with Yugoslavia falling after 12 days.

After the German invasion of Yugoslavia, Tito began gathering several partisan detachments/divisions to begin a uprising, majority of the Communists had to stay quiet due to Hitler's pact with Stalin (1939-1941, Molotov-Ribbentrop pact).

With the invasion of the Soviet Union on **Sunday, 22nd of June 1941 at 3:45-4:00 AM** The Yugoslav Partisans would begin their uprising days later, successfully establishing the Uzice Republic (July 1941 - September 1941), the Yugoslav Partisans would begin recruiting Partisan detachments to fight the Germans, Serbs and Chetniks in order to liberate Yugoslavia.

## Partisan Activities during WWII

After the fall of Uzice in September 1941, the Yugoslav Partisans would move to Bosnia (Part of the Independent State of Croatia).