Nicholas O’Shaughnessy

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Real Dictators · Tito Part 4: The Marshal Versus Stalin · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

But they're still fighting the partisans.

And what Tito does is he tries to persuade the column to surrender by offering amnesty.

But they ignore him.

They head towards Austria, thinking that whoever is there will admit them and take care of them.

The British, I think, sometimes can be quite naive.

It doesn't seem to have occurred to them that this polyglot army, which has suddenly arrived on their doorstep, will all be slaughtered if you turn it back to sender.

As for Tito's complicity in this, I think we can debate that.

A lot of it was done by local Slovene partisans.

And when you consider the costs of the German occupation and the price exacted by the Yutash and so forth, there's so much bitterness, they've lost a million people, that their feelings towards these prisoners are simply murderous.

I'm just not sure how much control he had of the situation.

I don't think he wanted it to happen.

He certainly stopped it, and the British certainly stopped returning prisoners.

But it cast a shadow over the beginning of his regime.

It was not forgotten.

Remember, even Marshal Pétain was put on trial and Vichy collaborators were executed.

So, we can't say that's out of the norm.

Even for Western Europe, there were good grounds for executing Mihailović, even though the standards of liberal democracy were probably not adhered to.

Very interesting that the Americans don't pursue this.

that they don't create a great stink, that they kind of bury the dead without shouting.

It just shows what subtleties lie behind the scenes of this point in the, should we say, I think the word seduction is wrong, but the beguilement, the enchantment of Tito by the West.

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