"What’s up with the General? Did Roosevelt abandon him to the Russian Communists like he did all of Eastern Europe?"
Roosevelt, unfortunately, abandoned Mihailovich into the hands of Churchill, because America left the Balkan theater to the British to "manage". I have always felt that had the Americans been more "in charge" of the Balkan theater in WWII, the fate of Mihailovich and his freedom fighters would have been different.
It was Winston Churchill who abandoned Mihailovich to the Yugoslav communists under the "leadership" of Marshal Tito, who was serving Master Stalin at the time. Tito's ambition was to turn Yugoslavia into his own personal communist "Utopia" after the war. Of course, there was to be no place for a patriot, freedom fighter, Christian Serb like General Mihailovich and his Chetnik forces in postwar Yugoslavia.
Tito was Mihailovich's executioner. He would never have succeeded had it not been for Winston Churchill and the British Establishment giving him everything he needed to commit political genocide against anyone who was not a loyal communist at the end of World War II in Yugoslavia.
Shame on Churchill.
Thanks for the question. It's an important one.
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The USA shed a lot of blood and treasure to make the world safe for communism.
Maybe...but history proves this assumption wrong.
Just a few years earlier the US had already “abandoned” Christians in Asia Minor to a most horrible genocide at the hands of Turks.
Abandoning General Mihailovitch was anticipated given the US role in other events requiring actions based on a sense of doing what is morally right. For the most part - not always- the US has chosen economic gain over doing the right thing morally.