Open AccessThe “Grand Bargain” of the Yalta Conference and its Implementation on the Ground: the Case of Yugoslavia. Border Insurgency 1945-1948
Author(s) -
Alexey Timofeev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2020-2-133-146
Subject(s) - serbian , communism , insurgency , political science , spanish civil war , economic history , ideology , ancient history , world war ii , law , history , political economy , politics , sociology , philosophy , linguistics
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 Slovenian units of the “Matthias’s Army”, Croatian Crusaders, Albanian ballists. Josip Broz Tito was no more considered a threat after his split with the USSR in 1948 and the number of rebels started to diminish rapidly. Some “pro-Soviet“ rebellions which occasionally occurred did not receive real support and faded away thus giving Yugoslavia four decades of peace.