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To: Ravnagora
For someone who hates the Titoists and the Yugoslav communists (and rightfully so, I might add) you sure do keep repeating their "talking points" over and over again in various threads. But, these charges you repeat are very routine when it comes to any discussion of General Draza Mihailovich and his Chetniks. I usually let this stuff go and turn the other cheek, but I think your challenge is worth addressing, if for nothing else but to present an "alternative" to the usually commie propaganda that's been part of the historial record with regards to the Chetniks for over six decades now.

The mistake you're making is that my points aren't Titoist talking points. I don't use Communist sources when it comes to the Chetniks but rather use firsthand Chetnik sources as well as Italian and German sources found in the archives in Germany and Italy after the war.

However, I found this hilarious tidbit from the comedic testimony that you posted:

The real crime for which General Mihailovich is accused is that in the minds of 80 per cent of the Yugoslav population he became, and remains, the symbol of the simple, sturdy Yugoslav peasant resistance to tyranny, whether foreign or domestic.

Considering that the Serbs formed roughly around 45% of the population of Yugoslavia at that time and that the Serbs themselves were split between the Chetniks and the Partisans (for the most part) and considering the attitudes of the Croatians, Bosnian Muslims, Magyars, Macedonians, Albanians, and pro-independence Montenegrins towards the Draza Chetniks, the 80% figure is absolutely hilarious.

Why does the testimony not contain any mention of Draza's key figures in his movement such as Dangic, Djujic, Bacovic, and Jevdjevic...all men who openly collaborated with the Axis?

Why is there no mention of which side the Chetniks appeared on during several key Axis offensives against the Partisans?

Why did Robert H. McDowell omit so much from his testimony?

52 posted on 02/10/2009 6:55:26 PM PST by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian; maher; Doctor13

There are numerous testimonies from many sources that were part of the “Commission of Inquiry of the Committee for a Fair Trial for Draza Mihailovich” hearings in New York in 1946 while Mihailovich was awaiting trial by the communist court in Belgrade. What I have posted here is just a portion of the conclusions of the commission which included McDowell’s testimony.

Do you realize that every time there is reference to Croatian crimes, you always bring up Mihailovich, the Chetniks, and the Serbs? It’s as if you want to distract and divert attention from one thing by focusing on another.

You are using very selective sources. There are many German and Italian sources that describe in detail how the Croatians behaved during World War Two. Gruesome detail. But you never quote the German and Italian sources when it comes to the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945.


53 posted on 02/10/2009 7:06:33 PM PST by Ravnagora
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