Posted on 05/27/2009 7:43:06 AM PDT by Ravnagora
Photo of communist guard with gun and General Draza Mihailovich from the archives of the Military Museum in Belgrade.
BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's government has formed a special commission to try to locate the grave of a World War II guerrilla leader executed as a traitor by the Communists, officials said Monday.
The location of Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic's grave has been unknown since postwar Communist authorities executed him in 1946 for collaboration with the Nazi occupiers.
For decades, the issue has fueled divisions in Serbia, where many believe that Mihailovic was a hero who was killed for his loyalty to the Karadjordjevic royal family which ruled the country before the war.
Mihailovic is particularly respected among Serbs in America, most of whom had fled Communism. A Chicago-based Serb group recently offered a $100,000 reward for help finding the grave.
In Serbia, Slobodan Radovanovic, the state prosecutor who heads the government commission, urged the opening of secret state security files on the case. He also said the people who were involved in the Mihailovic execution should be called to testify about the location of his body.
Senior Justice Ministry official Slobodan Homen said, "Our only goal is to clarify this historic mystery." He said the commission will not make any judgments about Mihailovic's role in the war.
Mihailovic, a Yugoslav officer, launched a resistance movement in 1941 against the German occupiers. But he also fought against Communist guerrillas later in the war, and non-Serbs have accused his troops of atrocities.
The Communist authorities jailed Mihailovic after the war and sentenced him to death in a hasty trial.
In 1948, U.S. President Harry Truman posthumously awarded Mihailovic the Legion of Merit award for his role in rescuing hundreds of U.S. airmen downed by the Nazis over Serbia.
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He was a giant of a WWII hero, who was fanatically loved by his soldiers and the common Serb people, but ultimately betrayed by US Democrats and murdered by Eurotrash Communists (I know, it's redundant, but hey...WTF).
There was a great book published recently about him and his operation to rescue our people right out from under the German's noses called "The Forgotten 500".
Democrats are good at betrayal. General Mihailovic after WWII, the American POWs from Korea, The entire South Veitnamese Nation, The Shah and people of Iran, Tiawan, and now Israel, Iraq and Afganistan.
This should be read veeery slooowly. Harry Truman awarded Mihailovic almost in secrecy in May 1948. Official explanation was that U.S.A. did not want to iritate Yugoslav Government. This makes no sense because Cold War was in full swing and Tito was Stalin's lap dog. However, less than a month later (june 28th, St. Vitus Day), Communist dictator Tito renegged against Stalin and the entire Communist bloc.
From this detail, I deduct that Tito secured American support before May 1948 and Harry Truman did not want to jeopardize ongoing operation by iritating Tito.
That's why Operation Halyard remained secret until recently. This story is far from over.
If I am right, the American post-war policy towards Serbia is more understandable. United States policy in the Balkans is the continuation of the policy of The Third Reich and destruction of Serbia is its objective.
Tito merely did what he was told to do. The sons and daughters of Tito's henchmen are now in power in Belgrade and they also do as being told by their U.S. puppetmaster.
No wonder they do not want to find the grave of Gen. Mihailovic. The entire construction of U.S-sponsored Communist lies could topple.
The most credible story I heard so far is that Mihailovic he was murdered on Ada Ciganlija, thrown into latrine and latrine filled with quicklime afterwards. No grave, no remains.
The sons and daughters of Communists can not confess what their parents did.
My mother would rarely talk about her life in the camps during WWII but she was not shy about her praise for Mihailovic. He was a man greatly admired by the Slovene people caught between a German invader and an Ally backed butchering communist at home.
My mother would rarely talk about her life in the camps during WWII but she was not shy about her praise for Mihailovic. He was a man greatly admired by the Slovene people caught between a German invader and an Ally backed butchering communist at home.
And look who picked, groomed and sponsored those "sons of communists"
When you wade through the propaganda on this, you find that an agency that we sponsor through our tax (dollars but know little about) called the International Republican Institute (IRI), which functions like a cross between the CIA and an (Republican) international version of ACORN, is the power behind it. And who has been Chairman of the IRI since 1992? John McCain!
The Democrats also have their version of it, also paid for primarily with our tax dollars, called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, chaired by Madeline Albright.
Face it folks, the same politically manipulative techniques that we have allowed them to use & perfect overseas -- including, psyops, agitprop, historical revisionism, destruction of our culture & other political manipulations -- they are now using on us! What goes around, comes around.
Interesting that you say that, because when I went back to school about 20 years ago, there was an older Slovene lady in one of my classes that I befriended. She told me that her father, a Slovene, was one of Mihailovic's Chetniks during the war. Her parents wound up bringing her and her brother to the US when Mihailovic was murdered by the communists. She sang Mihailovic's praises, too.
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