Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly one-sixth of Yugoslavia—larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

Churchill initially supported Yugoslavia’s Royal Government-in-exile until the Royalist guerrilla forces, the Chetniks, began aiding the Axis in its battle against the partisans . The British ...

The memorial complex was created in 1953, its area is about 1.5 hectares. Currently, a total of 1,395 Yugoslavian partisans and 818 soldiers and officers of the Red Army are buried in the park.

About 8,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died liberating Yugoslavia. Serbia lost up to 30% of its population during the occupation, about 1.7 million people. The partisan movement of Yugoslavia ...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 8 - A memorial to the victims of the Foibe massacres, the mass killings and deportations by Tito's Yugoslav Partisans of Italians living in the area that stretches from the ...