Description
Six Aggressions of the West Against the South Slavs in the 20th Century is not a detached chronicle about the history of Yugoslavia — it is a political testament, written in the author’s view of a shadow of bombed-out cities and betrayed revolutions. Predrag Milićević, a Yugoslav communist, veteran of the National Liberation War and Cominformist living in Russia, draws on his own struggle, historical documentation and analysis to discuss six major waves of Western aggression — military, ideological and economic — inflicted upon Yugoslavia and its peoples across the century.
From the Austro-German aggression of 1914 to the fascist invasion of 1941, from Tito’s American-backed about-face in 1948 to the NATO bombs of 1999, Milićević reveals the constant hand of Western powers, particularly that of Germany and the United States, in subverting South Slavic unity and sovereignty. He exposes the nationalists — from Pavelić and Draža to Tuđman and Izetbegović — who served as instruments of foreign domination, cloaking in the garb of mononational salvation. Drawing bitter and instructive parallels with the Soviet tragedy, Milićević argues that Tito’s Yugoslavia was utilized as an anti-Soviet tool, Americanized and finally destroyed when it was no longer needed — a Trojan horse turned sacrificial lamb.
This book is a call to genuine memory. It rejects revisionist histories of the 1990s and onwards, and in the author’s view, reclaims the communist cause — in unity with the great Russian people and with Stalin at the head — as the only force that ever united the Slavs in general, and the peoples of Yugoslavia in specific. Written with a participant’s clarity, Six Aggressions is a warning: against nationalism, the schemes of Western powers and forgetting what cannot be forgotten.