Christopher Catherwood
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137 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Christopher Catherwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's an inclusive movement.
These tools enable them to gain some momentum.
They run this small piece of territory in a way that they look to run the entire country in the future as a kind of blueprint.
Look what we will do for you if we are in power.
The partisans aren't able to hold Užice for very long.
But what they do is they slowly learn to move into territory, to occupy it for as long as they can, and then to move on again without having to engage in full frontal armed combat.
Tito's forces become the masters of survival.
In Montenegro in 1941, we see a situation which
Depending on who is framing it is referred to as either the Red Terror or the Deviation, where basically militant communists go too far and they start to plunder and burn villages to target more affluent peasants and basically to fight a communist revolution at a time when things are not in their favor to do so.
And they alienate huge sections of the peasantry.
1943 becomes a hugely important moment for the partisan struggle.
And actually some Italian forces more or less hand over weaponry to the partisans, and some Italian soldiers join the partisans at that point.
Now, initially in the Balkans, Mihailovic is lauded as this great warrior fighting for the cause.
National newspapers in Britain write odes to Mihailovic and his movement.
By 1943, there's some suspicion emerging around this, and especially when agents start to be attached to Tito's Piazzan forces, and it quickly becomes clear that
The partisans are a much more effective fighting force, that they are willing to take suicidal risks to damage the Axis.
The partisan movement increases its territory throughout 1943 and into 1944.
One of those places is the island of Vis, which is way out in the Adriatic Sea.
We see a rudimentary air base being built there.
we see allied naval forces coming in there.
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