Christopher Catherwood
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And it becomes a place where not only can the partisans plan for the future, they can also interact with their other allies.
And so it starts to incorporate them into the wider European struggle as well.
Because what the partisans have been able to do is actually thrive in the countryside and to take and hold large swathes of rural Yugoslavia.
What they haven't been able to do until 1944 is take any major city.
And now suddenly the Red Army is in the Balkans and it's able to sweep up through Serbia to liberate Belgrade, to basically put Tito's partisan movement in power.
Dr. Richard Mills.
The Comintern is playing a substantial role in communist parties across Europe by this point.
The difficulty, though, is how to shape the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Because it's an illegal organization, you have members based in other capitals abroad, in Vienna and Paris and elsewhere.
It's very difficult to communicate things.
It's difficult to have an impact on the ground, actually, in Yugoslavia itself.
The kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes is a state which is in turmoil from the outset.
And it's one where very quickly various battle lines are drawn.
And there's a fight led particularly by the Croatian peasant party for more autonomy for the Croats from the outset.
It's a very unstable parliament, a parliament which starts with arguments and bitter exchanges of words and ends with the firing of guns and violence actually within the chamber.
And then on the 6th of January 1929, the king, King Alexander, dissolves parliament and effectively declares a dictatorship, a royal dictatorship.
And that moment is another formative moment in Tito's life, because he ends up, like so many arrested communists, in Lepoglava prison, a place where these political prisoners are able to talk politics, where party cells are established,
where the prisoners study Marxism, where they have access to all kinds of books and other literature, is in that moment where I think we start to see the hardened revolutionary being formed.
And Josip Broz, from that point, very quickly rises through the ranks.
In 1934, some of the king's many enemies catch up with him, and he's assassinated in Marseille.
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