Allied Conferences at the End of World War II in the NDH Press: Ustasha Propaganda on Political Relations and Military Cooperation of the USA, the United Kingdom and the USSR

Late 1944 and early 1945 will be remembered by the Allied conferences held in Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta and San Francisco. The three conferences were of high significance for the Ustasha propaganda since, as the war drew to its end, the controversies grew within the Allied camp between the Soviets and their Western Allies. The Ustasha propaganda considered it politically opportune to repeatedly convince the Croatian public of the clash between the two. This would raise the Ustasha-German strife against the NOP (Peoples' Liberation Movement), as well as the German one against the Soviets in Europe, to the level of the global Anti-Bolshevik movement. At a time when German defeat was imminent, which would consequently lead to the downfall of the Ustasha regime as well, it may be interpreted as the attempt to narrow the gap between the NDH (Independent State of Croatia) and the Western Allies. The Allied disputes, however, would have no significant effect on the outcome of the war, since the German capitulation was their irrevocable joint cause. Nevertheless, the influence of such disputes would prove to be important in the post-war circumstances. On an