How A British Aristocrat Helped Bring Communism To Yugoslavia
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- On Churchill's orders, an SOE agent parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia in 1943 to cut a deal with communist partisans who had an agenda far beyond defeating the Nazis. The prime minister realized the dangers of cooperating with the communists.
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People devided by race??? Liars!!!
They were ALL white Europeans, south Slavic. The only ones non-Slavic were Albanians.
Stop lying.
yeah, typical orientalist british baseless bias.
3:54 "radically different people" ? Bosnians,Serbs and Croats spoke the same language for God's sake...and Slovenian was very similar to those.. they ate the same food, listened to the same music..they were not called "Yugoslavs=south slavs" for no reason... too much typical baseless british bias here 🤦♀️
Croats are nothing else but Serbs forced to convert from Orthodox to Catholic religion.
So called Bosniaks are nothing else but Serbs forced to convert from Orthodox to Islamic religion (during Ottoman occupation).
Yugoslavian’s were the only country in Europe to liberate themselves
Pure Balkan balls , 👍👍👍👌👌👌
Not true. Germans had to pull back because they were losing from Soviets in the east and Anglo American armies in the west. It was easy wage war against the Germans who were in rapid retreat.
Totally fake information. Brits gave the weapons to Tito and the east Yugoslavia was liberated by the Soviets.
That's nonsense. It was liberated by soveits. Yugoslavs fought between themselves. Nationalist vs communist vs Nazis all between each other. But most deaths are not from fighting but concentration camps in Croatia.
No mention of the NDH fascists backdrop. The attempted genocide against the Serbs. It was THOSE Serbs that made up the bulk of the Partisans.
are you surprised ???? they NEVER mention that part of history. how convinient.
They Never mention this,Pavelic was a British agent just like Mussolini at his beggining
Without domestic quisling we wouldn't have a fraction of killed civilians.
Nazzis were working with Chetnics and Ustaše constantly. Ustaše loved Chetnics until 1945. Pavelić was even armed Chetnics groups. Chetnics fight against partisans mostly. Never against Italians and rarely if ever against Germans.
Tactics to use German help against partisans were what we needed to get rid of in war.
Even the king Petar was turning out of them.
They made up the bulk because they were the largest ethnic group, duh.
1:37 Man on this time line and this video have too much similarities. We want to say thanks to GB for bombing in WW2 and 1999.of Belgrade. We do remember.
....and 4 Year Sarajevo & Bosnia to.
Fun Fact: David Stirling the founder of the SAS, Lord Lovat the founder of the Commandos, and Fitzroy MacLean all worked with SIS, and these 3 gents were Scottish to the core🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
England expects
“Who appointed Tito a Marshall ?”
Josef Stalin
He appointed himself !
My father was born former yugoslavia at 1931 .And he saying to me allways '' Dont trust English Ever '' . There are Many wrong information this video .
I wouldn’t trust Russians ever!
Fitzroy MacLean was Scottish not English 😂
We never do.
You can't trust many people who are using stupid words to make money online " I only listen to good people who are telling TRUTH. Soon as I start listening and read some comments I don't even want to hear anything from this blog post 🤣🤣🤣
You are a turk what do you know?
Yugoslavia was a socialist state, but it did not side with either of the superpowers. Instead, it maintained its role as an independent socialist state following the uncompromised Marxist-Leninist principles.
Whether Tito had struck a deal with the western allies or was simply allowed to run a country independently due to being useful to the US as an enemy of Stalin, is a question, but it is likely he was selectively siding with both blocks a little bit.
Yugoslavia was a terrorist state runned by CIA. They were arming dictators in Africa and middle East.
so the Communism To Yugoslavia was never existed...it vas a socialist state...big diferent from that
@@duncan.o-vic Tito and communism was planned and financed by the wealthiest circles from the west. Banksters Rothschilds. Same as Churchill - the war monger. Communism is way to plunder the land and make people total slaves.
@bk818 citizens of Yugoslavia was free to travel and work everywhere they wanted..
Sir Fitz was a chsracter out of an adventure novel., " Apparently s nstural linguist he was a diplomst/spy in Russia during the purges, got elected to Parliament to get out of the foreign ministry and become a soldier.
His books are readable and fascinating.
But the writer who doubted that British support made much difference is probably correct. But the whole point was to tie down the largest number of Germans for the longest period of time. In that, it was very successful.
Perfidious Albion
It's simple...The British supported the Croats and their vision of Yugoslavia, namely Serbian historic and ethnic territories to be divided among the borders of the Socialist republics and Autonomous Provinces they created in a future Yugoslav Confederation, thus crushing Serbian power. The borders of Tito's Yugoslavia, when the Serbian question is concerned, more or less coincide with Hitler's borders and pre-WWI borders.
When giving up power and giving legitimacy to Tito, the British sent another Croats, Subasic, from London, to agree to a deal.
It wasn't about German you see, by 1943, Germans were on the way to capitulation, and this was about which ethnic group and which Great Power would dominate Yugoslavia. it was the British task to stop Soviet and Serb domination over the area.
The bots are out in strength on this video for some reason
I am at 10:00 and I can't listen to this twisting of history anymore.
What is twisted in this video?
@@mob7661Mogu ja kao Hrvat da objasnim...
It's simple...The British supported the Croats and their vision of Yugoslavia, namely Serbian historic and ethnic territories to be divided among the borders of the Socialist republics and Autonomous Provinces they created in a future Yugoslav Confederation, thus crushing Serbian power. The borders of Tito's Yugoslavia, when the Serbian question is concerned, more or less coincide with Hitler's borders and pre-WWI borders.
When giving up power and giving legitimacy to Tito, the British sent another Croats, Subasic, from London, to agree to a deal.
It wasn't about German you see, by 1943, Germans were on the way to capitulation, and this was about which ethnic group and which Great Power would dominate Yugoslavia. it was the British task to stop Soviet and Serb domination over the area.
yep, that's about it.
Spot on!
and thats how we Serbs came from your allies in ww1 and ww2 (chetniks were btw first guerilla in occupied europe) to enemies in 90s. thanks to some bigger interests of politics, communism came and destroyed us a lot, but also our relationship.
British Communist agents in the intelligence bureaucracy turned British policy away from supporting Gen Mijailovic and the Chetniks, and flipped it to support the Communists under Tito. A horrible tragedy for Serbia and Yugoslavia, and a shameful betrayal by Britain! 😥😥
God bless the Serbs! Not all of us Westerners blind and ignorant to the contributions that Serbia has given to Europe, mainly in my own opinion, the sacrifice and stand they made against the Turks, keeping them out of Europe proper, and keeping us free from the scourge of Islam.
Britanci su hteli pobedu po svaku cenu i Broz je to shvatio. Draza nije. Trebao se predati Nemcima ako je vec odlucio na pasivnost.
Chetniks were not the first guerrilla in occupied Europe. What date would you give for the start of the Chetnik guerrilla resistance? 1:28
Communists were literally the saviors of the working class, there has never been more prosperous period in the region, especially not during the parasitic monarchy rule.
Can you make a docu about nikola tesla or thomas edinson?
Crafted in London to be applied by coercive means on other nations they saw as great rivals and wanted ruined.
Bingo, The world would be shocked to find out the #1 Finacers of Communism around the world has been the Anglosphere. And then eventually the last place they will implement it is the West.
@germanikolaas huh??? Churchill hated communists as much as Muslims..
i am very, very sorry, but yugoslavia did NOT tear itself apart - we have all the usual suspects to thank for that - britain included.
I’m not a communist, but even I can recognize that Tito was a good leader and ruled Yugoslavia as a Benevolent dictator. Now of course Yugoslavia as a project was doomed from the start, but at least Tito gave it 3 good decades.
Which 3? 1910 -1930 ?
1950-1980
Tito was a mass murderer. And whole world will find out in next 4 years. He is responsible of killing 1 million people. And the proof is everywhere.
Apparently you don't know much about the topic.
Pure evil
Thank you Mr McLean for all the help you gave to people of Yugoslavia may you rest in peace.
Totally twisting the history of WW2 Yugoslavia!
It was the communists who started fighting the other side first! And it is even logical: the communist, Bolshevik ideology doesn't allow for the royalists to coexist.
Tito a ruthless communist Fitzroy wasn't one to pull punches either.
great footage and commentary on a lesser known side of history!
the only problem is place names spellings and pronunciations could perhaps have been better researched
but thank you for your work!
Clan MacLean doesn't go back to the Jacobites (18th century) they go back to the 9th century!!!
Yet, Yugoslavia didn’t really know communism. The toughest communism was in Roumania.
It is no wonder that it fell apart, because as the popular proverb says, what is born in a hurry is not corrected by time. Yugoslavia was a country, as some historians like to say with the right to say, a country that was held with a firm hand first by King Alexander and then by Tito. The country itself had areas and peoples who had unprecedented differences in economic, social and political terms. There was a huge difference in terms of civilization between, say, Celje and Bihać, an hour's drive, the first city as if you were in Austria, the second as in Turkey
Except the differences were not that extreme, and were even less responsible for Yugoslavia's falling appart. The differences were just exploited by local nationalist leaders and greedy petit bourgeoisie. Croatian nationalists, especially, like to exagerate their losses during the federation era, and claim cultural supperiority over others by comparing themselves with their former colonizers.
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Nonsense! Tito was commissioned by the British MI back in 1930-ies. So, the Brits new all along that "Tito" was their Trojan horse from the beginning, as it's been historically evidented and proven that the Brits had commissioned Pavelic about the same time, too. On the other hand, General Draza Mihailovic, who had undertaken the first anti-fascist armed battle in Europe, liberating the town of Loznica in August 1941, was a properly schooled and educated officer of the Yugoslavian Royal Army, decorated with multiple international orders of honour for his merits in the WW1 and was appointed by the Yugoslavian Government in Exile and the King of Yugoslavia as a commander of the remains of the Yugoslavian Army and was ordered to organise the guerrilla troops out of the army remains and citizens, combined. Wiser by his experience of the allies' treachery from the previous WW1, General Mihailovic wasn't keen on sacrificing any more Serbs unnecessarily than French or Brits would have sacrificed of their own, and was waiting for the allies to disembark in Dalmatia in order to start the serious attacks on Germans. Meanwhile, Tito , being a plainest Austro-Hungarian soldier in WW1, was decorated by the Hubsburgs for his merits in terrorising Serbian civilians during the Austro-Hungarian invasion on Serbia in WW1.
Churchill's choice between General Mihailovic and Tito had nothing to do with the truth on the terrain, but exclusively with the new borders being drawn between the 3 "emperors" in Kairo and later in Teheran and Yalta. Who with his clean hands could have come to Cairo, in the middle of the war, if not the chefs of it??? Suez, Bosphorus, Epirus, Gibraltar - all the keys to the Mediterranean trade and good to trade among the invaders. Isn't it strange to you that none of the three was from the country that has the coasts in the Mediterranean? What does it tell you: that they are leading a defensive war or a new collonial one??? Is your educational system keeping you in the dark or is it so satisfying to live in the Catholic self-righteous dream???
Funny seeing a monarchist criticize imperialism. Mihailovic's efforts are irrelevant, he was still representing the parasitic monarchy and the wealthy, Tito fought for the working class.
@duncan.o-vic If it was so, how come that Tito had never mastered any of our dialects and had simultaneously furthered the Catholic influence in Serbian lands as a supposed marxist atheist??? He couldn't have been an atheist among the Orthodoxes, while paying regular tribute to the Pope in Vatican, could he???
A long time ago I read something asking "Was Tito a British Agent?".
No he just was the easiest to work with and one of the few groups willing to fight the Germans..
@wor53lg50 There is historical evidence that Tito was commissioned by British MI in 1930's, along with Pavelic. The two of them had heavily collaboratted.
LMAO
And yet, that British guy kind of failed.
Lets be honest we can only speculate whats really happened and how Tito came to tron of the socialistic post ww2 Yugoslavia-extrimly strong and successful country .
Its pity for Mr .Draza Mihailovic-real gentleman & highly educated.
Tito knew that they waiting his death to distroy the Yugoslavia and they did...
British influence was a bit exaggerated in this video, and british love for chetniks and Mihajlovic is baffling. They were like Ustashe traitors to their people and country, collaborators. But Brits love royalty and royalists. Chetniks cause was Great Serbia, at the expence of all other nations in the Yugoslavia, and same could be seen in war of the 90's.
It's a Communist history you were taught at school.. Serbs liberated Dalmatia from Italy in 1918, remember that before you disseminate hatred. Croats killed Yugoslav King Alexander and French Prime Minister Barthou.
By Croat sources Chetnicks killed 11 000 people how many people are killed by commies and ustashas
No they are not the same
Much fake information in this documentary sadly...
Care to enlighten everyone?
Is there a reason why you think that? 🤔
Just wondering.
@@StarwarsfanArmy many many fake information .My source is my dad .Wich he was born Former Yugoslavia at 1931
@@faruktahirogullar834 yeah explain lol??? Saying a strong statement that’s vague then never elaborating is an instant red flag
@@faruktahirogullar834your dad was a child when all this was happening and somehow he knows what actually took place and all secret dealings between allies? Shut up please!
Great documentary
Huge mistake: Slovenia was occupied by 4 occupiers:Italy, Germany, Hungary and Independent state of Croatia, not only Italy.
..BUT Slovenia WAS THE BEST and most advanced republic in Yugoslavia .. OBODIN and other..things.
What Croatia occupied ?Let we see what.Now you will see answer - nothing
@@Armo12-g6e it occupied 4 Slovenian villages near border. Get a life and history book in your hands.
@tinaroblek8864 4 villages bravo
Ofc James klugmann was a jew… well Well well 😂
He failed. Yugoslavia didn’t really know communism. How I wish Roumania had had the same communism!
Well karma got you now didnt it? You are no longer England but engladistan .
4:06
You are using the map of the internal administrative division created in 1972 in a context of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Second World War, it is not serious
Always awesome, love the channel
Don't let people know too much about you.
Were this an unsatisfactory watch... All I'd remember was that beautiful melody 11 minutes in...
She is dead forever .Croat soldiers was against her( yugoslavia 1) 41-45 ,and later 91-95 . Only reason why Croatia was on German side is that yugoslavia be dead that we dont be with those serbia
The one get s impression that mclain and brits were conducting main operations in the balkans. Seems to me the film was made in Great britain for brits,not for historygaphical document.
Never the less, the presence and the help of british army was important.
At least Tito kept peace and stability
while preparing the terrain for - what we have now.
Total BS
Sir Fitzgerald was anti-communist but he didn't liked the chetnics because he was seeing chetnics work in BiH. Killing civilians , old people and even kids with a knives so he decided to help the partisans because they are only one who resist the nazissm.
Read his books. Everything is crystal clear. At the end Churchil had a lot of information from the Balkan during that period, minimal resistance in Serbia and what was happened between chetnics and Germans, Italians as they joined forces in the battle against partisans.
Why yes, the British spy being disgusted....by war crimes. Notoriously moral and humane British Empire.
Strangely, he didn't see the atrocities of Hanjar division consisting of Muslims, and, he was blind to USTASHI'S unprecedent slaughtering of Serbs in, so called, Independent state of Croatia. HYPOCRIT!
Hajd ba, nemoj da se zajebavaš😂! Nebrini sve će doći na svoje mjesto.
It was either that or Stalin.
One of the few aristocrats I admire.
It's simple...The British supported the Croats and their vision of Yugoslavia, namely Serbian historic and ethnic territories to be divided among the borders of the Socialist republics and Autonomous Provinces they created in a future Yugoslav Confederation, thus crushing Serbian power. The borders of Tito's Yugoslavia, when the Serbian question is concerned, more or less coincide with Hitler's borders and pre-WWI borders.
When giving up power and giving legitimacy to Tito, the British sent another Croats, Subasic, from London, to agree to a deal.
It wasn't about German you see, by 1943, Germans were on the way to capitulation, and this was about which ethnic group and which Great Power would dominate Yugoslavia. it was the British task to stop Soviet and Serb domination over the area.
There is so much false information here i had to stop watching 2 mins into the video
A man of honour
Yugoslavia itself is an 1918 artificial post-WW1 project of Entente (France and UK) to award formerly Habsburg Austrian South-Slavic-speaking territories to their ally Kingdom of Serbia but not to make non-serbs Catholic and Muslim South Slavs felt occupied and hegemonised by Orthodox Serbia. Additionaly, several milion non-Slavs such are Albanians, Vlachs (Aromanians) and Magyars (Hungarians) came under the harsh rule of Serbian-lead Kingdom and later Socialist Yugoslavia.
That explains the past.
british politics 🤮🤮🤮
british politics...2025..total a joke
Churchill said a phrase , he said my biggest mistake was to live Albania in the east because they are the most trusted people in Europe, to find out more you can read edit Durham books 🙏🇦🇱🦅
Well Albanian mafia took over UK by storm so he can rest in peace now that he did nothing wrong about Albanians.
Ai shkerdhat Curcilli....shkatrroi Evropen
Remove this background music
How is peoples suffering during ww2 so funny on a Friday 😂. Oh dear oh dear .
The real Tito was killed in the german paratroop attack on his HQ at Drvar except the germans never found the body, only his Marshall's uniforms. To prevent the collapse of resistance against the Germans British intelligence substituted his half brother (same mother, different father) for the dead Tito who then went on to lead Yugoslavia until his death. Sounds incredible but its true. 1: It was well documented the real Josip Broz had lost a finger earlier in life whilst working as a machinist. The fake Tito had 10 fingers. 2: Wartime photos of Tito amongst his civilan population and supporters ARE non existant . 3 The fake Tito spoke Serbo Croat with a dialect/accent that no one could pick where it came from. Do some research of your own. I too was sceptical of the conspiracy until I started researching for myself. The most top secret operation of british intelligence during WW2 and Churchill knew and approved it!
Very interesting and well presented documentary, thanks.
Curious if he was related to Alistair Maclean, wouldn't surprise me, watch Force 10 from Navarone again. He certainly knew about the different factions of Yugoslav partisans. And who to trust.
Yes another Scotsman
@Dishfire101 well, since Sir Fitzroy is/was clan chief, related or not, I'm sure they knew each other. Did my own research, but already knew Alistair was Scottish.
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HAHHAHA YOUR TIME IS UP!!!! IN LIES LAGS ARE SHORT ehhehe
And then my family was instrumental in bringing it down.
قالَ الربُّ يَسوعُ: «أَنَا هُوَ الكَرْمَةُ الحَقِيقِيَّةُ وأَبِي الكَرَّام.كُلُّ غُصْنٍ فِيَّ لا يَحْمِلُ ثَمَرًا يَقْطَعُهُ، وكُلُّ غُصْنٍ يَحْمِلُ ثَمَرًا يُنَقِّيهِ لِيَحْمِلَ ثَمَرًا أَكْثَر.أَنْتُمُ الآنَ أَنْقِيَاءُ بِفَضْلِ الكَلِمَةِ الَّتِي كَلَّمْتُكُم بِهَا.أُثْبُتُوا فِيَّ، وأَنَا فِيكُم. كَمَا أَنَّ الغُصْنَ لا يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ ثَمَرًا مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ ذَاتِهِ، إِنْ لَمْ يَثْبُتْ في الكَرْمَة، كَذلِكَ أَنْتُم أَيْضًا إِنْ لَمْ تَثْبُتُوا فِيَّ.أَنَا هُوَ الكَرْمَةُ وأَنْتُمُ الأَغْصَان. مَنْ يَثْبُتُ فِيَّ وأَنَا فِيه، يَحْمِلُ ثَمَرًا كَثيرًا، لأَنَّكُم بِدُونِي لا تَقْدِرُونَ أَنْ تَفْعَلُوا شَيْئًا.مَنْ لا يَثْبُتُ فِيَّ يُطْرَحُ كَالغُصْنِ خَارِجًا ويَيْبَس. وتُجْمَعُ الأَغْصَانُ اليَابِسَة، وتُطْرَحُ في النَّارِ فَتَحْتَرِق.إِنْ تَثْبُتُوا فِيَّ، وتَثْبُتْ أَقْوَالِي فِيكُم، تَطْلُبُوا مَا تَشَاؤُونَ فَيَكُونَ لَكُم.بِهذَا يُمَجَّدُ أَبِي أَنْ تَحْمِلُوا ثَمَرًا كَثيرًا، وتَصِيرُوا لي تَلاميذ.>>>>>.>.>.>.>.
Kosovo is Serbia
always
Right....even Alaska is Serbia. Serbian historians discovered that Jews was Serbians and after got Jews. Christ was Serbian and how it seems Mohamed was a Serbian. Danube is Serbian add two sharks in Adriatic Sea.
So You want restore Monarchi then in Bosnia and Albania what you want to do with Serbs or Kroats or Monte negas
?
'' radically diffrent people " most of them are just one people , and the others are not far off , as far as I know only macedonian and slovenian differ from serbian , which is what all the others speak , serbian .....not watching the rest of this , its always been clear that the English dragged yugoslavia into ww2 and then sold the goverment in exile and serbian monarchy down the river and hit them over the head with the paddle how or who thier little hench man were , like this creaton , doesnt matter , came in tito who was a mild dictator ....if you compare him too stalin I guess , that went on for 45 years or so , and then in 1991 came in mi5 again along with cia and made another mess there and bloody war , the end
as a half slovenian i can say that language might be slightelly different, but values are identical. the only difference i could see is that slovenians are more reserved and less social.