During World War II, there was only one armed pro-Yugoslav movement in occupied Yugoslavia that fought for the liberation of the country from foreign occupiers – the Partisan movement led byJosip Broz Tito.
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During World War II, there were two armed movements in Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland/Yugoslav Homeland Army (or the Ravna Gora Movement, Dragoljub Draža Mihailovć’s Chetniks, the royalist movement) and the Partisan movement (People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) under the leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its Secretary General Josip Broz Tito, alongside the regular armies of foreign occupiers or newly formed or enlarged states on the ruins of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
However, the military-political and ideological motivations of these two movements were diametrically opposed and, above all, incompatible, and therefore, during the war, there could be no fusion of these two movements, which also differed in terms of the national composition of the command and management personnel. Nevertheless, both movements had one common feature, and that was the desire to expel all foreign occupation armies from the country, but only as a prerequisite for the realization of their ideological-political and even national post-war plans and ultimate goals.
Therefore, these two movements could not functionally cooperate in some kind of joint struggle against the occupiers even after the formal oral agreement on joint struggle (concluded between Austro-Hungarian corporalJosip Broz Titoand Royal Yugoslav Army ColonelDragoljub Draža Mihailović) on September 19 in Struganik and (an amendment to the agreement at the insistence of Tito’s communists) on October 26, 1941 in Brajići (both meeting places were in Western Serbia). This agreement was violated by Broz’s Partisans, who, at the end of September 1941 (i.e., a whole month before the agreement in Brajići), began direct fighting against the Yugoslav Homeland Army, thus initiating an armed Bolshevik revolution in Western Serbia.[1]
On this occasion, we will document and specifically present only some of the numerous Allied awards that Dragoljub Draža Mihailović personally received as commander of the Yugoslav Homeland Army during the war itself and immediately after it for the anti-fascist struggle of his “Chetniks” and cooperation with the Allies (of course, the post-war Broz’s (quasi)historiography [Titography] does not mention these and other documents):
Image: Draza Mihailovic (Public Domain)
1. Letter from the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, dated September 24, 1942. (Службене новине, бр. 10, 24. новембар 1942. г., Лондон/Official Gazette, No. 10, November 24, 1942, London):
“I think that every one of my compatriots will tell me today that Yugoslavia has already brightened its face in this war…
Source: Global Research
