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To: wmileo

Sounds like Mihailovich was a great man, an unsung hero. We know Tito and the commies took control after the war, makes you wonder what ever became of Mihailovich.


6 posted on 04/16/2010 8:09:15 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
Sounds like Mihailovich was a great man, an unsung hero. We know Tito and the commies took control after the war, makes you wonder what ever became of Mihailovich.

The Communists executed Mihailović in 1946. One of the few Westerners who spoke up for him was David Martin, author of Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailović (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946). In the early 1980's, Martin was still defending Mihailović on radio talk shows such as George Putnam's in Southern California.

7 posted on 04/17/2010 5:24:20 PM PDT by Rufii
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He was executed by the communists in 1946 for collaboration with the Nazis. Harry Truman gave him a medal but did disclose this for fear of offending the Tito government. Finally, in 2005 one of Mihailovich's living relatives excepted the medal.

Post WWII politics were as treacherous as they are now. Winston Churchill once said that the fate of Michailovich was the worst regret he had during WWII. He knew that the commies in the European Alliance sold this hero down the river.

Back then both the USA and Great Britain had Commies(Hiss, Philby, Burgess, and MacLean) running the foreign services of both nations.

9 posted on 04/20/2010 3:05:05 PM PDT by wmileo
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