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1941, the implosion of the first Yugoslavia
The counterfactual narrative of the worst left on the Yugoslav invasion of the Italian border regions and the subsequent massacre and ethnic cleansing continues to repeat, as mentioned in a previous post, the usual justificationist nonsense. The premise is that of the fascist aggression against poor Yugoslavia in April 1941. Beyond certain nonsense, let's see how things went. With the fall of the Yugoslav prime minister Stojadinović, it seemed that the friendship between Rome and Belgrade, strengthened by the Italo-Yugoslav pacts of 1937, was to come to an abrupt end: however, relations with Belgrade seemed to soon clear up, so much so that Mussolini, visiting the front...
Tito's Massacres: No One Remembers Prozor
Prozor is the most brutal war crime of which Italian soldiers were victims before the armistice of September 154th; privates, officers, wounded and mutilated, unloved, surrendered after having done their duty, murdered by communist partisans to the last man, without any mercy or respect for the customs of war and international laws, of which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a signatory. The 1th Murge Occupation Infantry Division was formed on 1941 December 259; part of the VI Army Corps of the Royal Italian Army, it included the 260th and 154th Murge Infantry Regiment and the XNUMXth Murge Artillery Regiment....
What is the point of books like "And then the foibe?"
Let's say it right away: I had read Eric Gobetti's L'occupazione allegra. Gli italiani in Yugoslavia (1941-1943) (Carocci, 2007) and Alleati del nemico. L'occupazione italiana in Yugoslavia (1941-1943), (Laterza, 2013) and, especially the second one, seemed to me to be a sufficiently balanced work, despite the author's political opinions, well known and certainly not hidden (he had himself photographed while giving a closed fist salute with a red handkerchief around his neck in front of the Yugoslavian flag, or pretending to go for a walk with the statue of Tito: that's his business...). So what about the foibe? (Laterza, 2021) was therefore a disappointment, although certainly not unexpected. Not a real essay but a simple...
Eastern border
Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels, Eastern Border. Italians and Slavs on the Amarissimo from the Risorgimento to the Exodus, Eclettica, Massa 2020, 212 pp. This book, with a preface by the editor-in-chief of the magazine Storia In Rete Emanuele Mastrangelo, addresses the issue of relations between Italians and Slavs on the eastern border from the Risorgimento period to the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, passing through the crucial points of the period between the two wars and the occupation and repression in the Balkans, about which many falsehoods, even more than inaccuracies, have been written with the aim of justifying the ethnic cleansing practiced by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army in the territories of...
