* Koljanin, D. 2005, " The conflict between Partisans and Četniks in Eastern Bosnia in 1942 ", Spomenica Istorijskog arhiva Srem, no.

Once, they were billeted with a landlady whose sympathies clearly did not lie with the Partisans ; she would not sell them food, but there was no question of simply commandeering it.

He was General Secretary ( later Chairman of the Presidium ) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( 1939 – 80 ), and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans ( 1941 – 45 ).

* National Liberation Army ( Yugoslavia ), another name of the Yugoslav WWII resistance movement, the Partisans

The military strength of the communists was still relatively feeble at the end of 1941, but the rapid growth of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans ( FTP ), a radical armed movement, ensured that French communists regained their reputation as an effective anti-fascist force.

Although the group at first worked closely with the Franc Tireurs et Partisans ( FTP ), it re-formed as the Agrupación de Guerrilleros Españoles ( Spanish Guerrilla Group, AGE ) in May 1944.

When the Young Muslims became torn between supporting the SS Handschar ( a SS Mountain Division of Nazi Germany, composed of Muslim Bosniaks ) or the Partisans ( Communist resistance group led by Josip Broz Tito ), Mr. Izetbegovic supported the Handzars.

* Partisans ( novel ), a novel by Alistair MacLean about the Yugoslav partisans

In: Orton, Fred and Pollock, Griselda ( eds ), Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed.

" National defense " films — patriotic war stories about Chinese resisting the Japanese invasion — became one of Hong Kong's major genres ; notable titles included Kwan Man Ching's Lifeline ( 1935 ), Chiu Shu Sun's Hand to Hand Combat ( 1937 ) and Situ Huimin's March of the Partisans ( 1938 ).

Cut off from the main body of the army, he is forced to take command of a handful of surviving but mutinous riflemen ( including Patrick Harper ), while protecting a small party of English missionaries and assisting Spanish Partisans in the temporary liberation of the city of Santiago de Compostela ( Sharpe's Rifles ).

The foreign workers ' section of the FTP, the FTP-MOI ( Francs-Tireurs Partisans — Main d ' Œuvre Immigrée ), became especially famous after the Manouchian Group was captured, its members executed, and ten of its members advertised as foreign criminals by the infamous Affiche Rouge.

At the beginning of 1943, the Communist cells were centrally coordinated under BOPA ( BOrgerlige PArtisaner-Civil Partisans ), which also began to plan acts of sabotage.

In: Orton, Fred and Pollock, Griselda ( eds ), Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed.

The Treaty of Vis ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Viški sporazum, Cyrillic alphabet: Вишки споразум ), also known as the Tito-Šubašić Agreement, was an attempt by the Western Powers to merge the royal Yugoslav government in exile with the Communist-led Partisans who were fighting the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War and were de facto rulers on the liberated territories.

The second game ( Phase II ) focused on three campaigns: Axis ( the same leader as in the first game with Dario DeAngelis, the Italian leader ), Western Allied ( the same leader as in the first game ), and Yugoslavian Partisans ( led by Farvan " Vuk " Pondurovik, sometimes misspelled as Fervan ).

At 17, Jovanka joined the Partisans and was assigned to the Prva ženska partizanska četa ( First female Partisan brigade ), where she quickly distinguished herself as an excellent marksman.

The Partisans were the military arm of the Unitary National Liberation Front ( JNOF ) coalition, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( KPJ ) and represented by the AVNOJ ( Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia ), the Yugoslav wartime deliberative assembly.

Increasingly from November 1942, the Partisan military as a whole was often referred to simply as the National Liberation Army ( Narodnooslobodilačka vojska, NOV ), whereas the term " Partisans " acquired a wider sense in referring to the entire resistance faction ( including, for example, the AVNOJ ).

Because of this, their short name became simply the " Partisans " ( capitalized ), and stuck henceforward ( the adjective " Yugoslav " is used sometimes in exclusively non-Yugoslav sources to distinguish them from other partisan movements ).

An uprising occurred in Serbia two weeks later led by Tito ( Uzice Republic ), but it was quickly defeated by the Axis forces and support for the Partisans in Serbia thereafter dropped.

The Partisans gained an effective air force in May 1942, when the pilots of two aircraft belonging to the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia ( French-designed and Yugoslav-built Potez 25, and Breguet 19 biplanes, themselves formerly of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force ), Franjo Kluz and Rudi Čajavec, defected to the Partisans in Bosnia.

The Partisans later established a permanent air force by obtaining aircraft, equipment, and training from captured Axis aircraft, the British Royal Air Force ( see BAF ), and later the Soviet Air Force.

No. 40 ( RM ) was supported by the 28th Garibaldi Brigade ( Partisans ), Royal Artillery, and the armour of the North Irish Horse.

As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.

Factories and other organizations were often named after Partisans who were declared national heroes.

Partisans from both sides organized spying parties to keep track of the sheriffs of Wood County, Ohio and Monroe County, Michigan who were entrusted with the security of the border.

Western attempts to reunite the Partisans, who denied the supremacy of the old government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the émigrés loyal to the king led to the Tito-Šubašić Agreement in June 1944 ; however, Marshal Josip Broz Tito was seen as a national hero by the citizens and was elected by referendum to lead the new independent communist state, starting as a prime minister.

From spring 1943, German and Austrian anti-fascists, who had fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, fought in Lozère and in the Cévennes alongside the French Résistance in the Francs-tireurs et Partisans.

" Partisans have so often used this distorted quotation to discredit him that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf ( and others who participated in actually inventing the Internet ) have made a point of noting Gore's support and the error of the discreditors.

During this war and after it, the Partisans killed many civilians who did not support their Communist ideals.

And then we would switch off the wireless a little guiltily, for the Partisans, we knew, were shocked at the strange pleasure we got from listening to the singing of the German woman who was queening it in their capital.

In addition to the U. S, UK and Soviet Union, who were the primary users, it was also used by France, China ( M3A3s and, immediately post-war, M5A1s ) and Josip Broz Tito's Partisans in Yugoslavia ( M3A3s and few M3A1 ).

Partizan was founded on 4 October 1945, as a football section of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan, and was named in honour of the Yugoslav Partisans, the communist military formation who fought during the World War II.

Some party members were divided among those who sympathized with the Croatian fascist Ustasha independence movement, and those whose left-leaning beliefs led them to join the Partisans.

The Royal Government soon capitulated, and the resistance was mainly made by the Četniks, who defended the restoration of the Monarchy, and the Partisans, who supported the creation of a communist Yugoslav state.

Both of her parents were Partisans during the Second World War: her father Vojo was a commander who was acclaimed as a national hero after the War ; her mother Danica was a major in the army, and in the mid-sixties was Director of the Museum of the Revolution and Art in Belgrade.

Yugoslav control was re-established towards the end of the war when the area was liberated by the Partisans who defeated Albanian collaborators.

After the Armistice between Italy and the Allied powers in 1943, it was briefly held by the Yugoslav Partisans who enjoyed considerable support in the region.

Older part of the town at nightDuring the Second World War, the local population ( predominantly Muslim ) signed the Resolution of the Muslims of Zenica in May 1942, and formed Muslim militias in the villages of Šerići, Doglodima, Babino and other places who joined the Yugoslav Partisans.

When the second Yugoslavia was formed in 1945, the Communists who led the Partisans during the war formed the new régime.

Instead, a special editorial entitled " The Deeds in Via Rasella " appeared in the " semi-official " Vatican newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, deploring the violence of the Partisans, whom it termed " the guilty parties who escaped arrest " and urging Roman citizens to continue to exercise restraint to prevent further sacrifices of innocent people.

This decision was reaffirmed in 1999 when the Italian Supreme Court declared the Partisans immune from prosecution after a Roman prosecutor had unsuccessfully attempted to bring a suit against them for the death of the boy Piero Zuccheretti, who had been killed in Via Rasella.

In May 1945, Bleiburg was the initial location of a series of war crimes, in the course of which Yugoslav Partisans executed thousands of Croatian Home Guard and Ustaše, Slovene Home Guard and Serbian Chetnik troopers, as well as civilians, who had surrendered to the British forces in Allied-occupied Austria, only to be forcibly repatriated in the Operation Keelhaul.

It was a different story for Serbs in Axis occupied Croatia who turned to the multi-ethnic Partisans, or the Serb Royalist Chetniks whose brutality mirrored that of the Ustashi.

Later in the conflict the Partisans were able to win the moral, as well as limited material support of the western Allies, who until then had supported General Draža Mihailović's Chetnik Forces, but were finally convinced of their collaboration fighting by many military missions dispatched to both sides during the course of the war.