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ColinWright -> RE: Yugoslovia (12/23/2012 5:27:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: demjansk
How is that long ww2 Yugoslavia campaign?
Gotta wonder how THAT would actually work. For starters, I see at least six players with totally distinct agendas. The Italians and Germans were certainly working at cross purposes, and then of course so were the Chetniks and the Partisans. The Croats were definitely at odds with the Italians, Chetniks, and Partisans, and weren't always doing things that pleased the Germans. Then there are the British and the Americans, and who they are going to help. Finally, the Russians are going to wander in, and even the Partisans swiftly came to realize they weren't an unmixed blessing...
...and that's just the first problem. The second problem -- and one that led me to hastily retreat from any detailed study of the subject is that no one agrees about what happened. I mean, there are differing perspectives on all things -- but I have never seen so many people so categorically denouncing each other as complete liars as what one encounters if one ventures into matters World War Two and Yugoslav.
I mean, if one had something similar as a history of D-Day, one would have one source that insisted heroic Polish conscripts rose up against their German officers and took the beaches for the Allies, a second that asserted they actually dutifully fought, and a third that denied they were there at all. What can you do with that?
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