On 27 April 1945, when a convoy of escaping Italian Social Republic members, including Mussolini, was captured by Communist partisans, it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to go unmolested.

He also stressed the view that the Yugoslav Communist partisans spearheaded the Albanian partisan movement.

Communist partisans in Tirana, 28 November 1944

He was killed by Communist partisans on 28 April 1945.

During the Cold War, partisans often received arms from either the Free World countries or the Communist bloc.

The largest division was the 13th Handschar division, which conducted operations against Communist partisans in the Balkans from February 1944.

The Communist partisans, supplied with British weapons, gain control of the southern Albania.

The second was Francs-tireurs partisans ( FTP, Partisan irregular riflemen ), which were established as the military branch of the French Communist Party ( PCF ).

The village served as a shelter for refugees including Polish Jews, as well as a recuperation base for Polish and Communist partisans.

It was executed in Yugoslavia by the 14th Light Cavalry Regiment " Cavalleggeri di Alessandria " versus Communist partisans.

Conflict in Greece between government forces and Communist partisans followed the vacuum created by the German withdrawal.

Albanian Communist partisans retook Peshkopi on September 9, 1943.

After the Liberation, Thorez led the PCF immediately after the Second World War to a non-revolutionary road to power, instructing the reluctant wartime Communist partisans to surrender their weapons, while the party became a powerful force in the postwar governments since he thought that he would soon win legally.

In 1968 Communist partisans defiled the marble sarcophagus in which the heart was preserved.

In September 1944, the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria and invaded it, giving Communist partisans the opportunity to overthrow Prime Minister Konstantin Muraviev and replace him with Kimon Georgiev.

His great admiration for the bravery of the Communist partisans led to a brief membership in the Communist Party.

Lukov was assassinated by Communist partisans.

The town of Debar was not captured and the campaign against Communist partisans in central Albania was a failure, only leading to further desertions.

Over 700 men of this SS Division, along with approximately 5000 local Kosovo-Albanians recruited by Xhafer Deva, aided the Germans evacuating through Kosovo and resisted incursions by both Communist partisans and Bulgarian incursions.

On July 6, the large OUN-M group was surrounded and surrendered, and soon afterward most of the independent groups disappeared ; they were either destroyed by the Communist partisans or the OUN-B, or joined the latter.

He fought for the anti-fascist partisans in World War II and continued to rise through the ranks of the Communist Party after 1945.

She strongly denied her involvement in the National Fascist Party regime and had an affair with a Communist after her father's execution by the Italian communist partisans in World War II.

Communist parties had already come to power in Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Yugoslavia.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

The first modern parties in the country developed in the middle of the 19th century, and their agenda and appeal changed, reflecting major social changes, such as the breakup of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, dictatorship and social upheavals in the kingdom, World War II, the establishment of Communist rule and the breakup of the SFR Yugoslavia.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

The censuses before were organized in 1981, 1971, 1961, 1953 and 1948, during Communist Yugoslavia.

From 16 May – 17 June 1955, Nikolai Bulganin and Anastas Mikoyan visited Yugoslavia and Khrushchev renounced the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.

Yugoslavia supported his application, but all other Communist countries opposed it.

Before World War II, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had supported transferring Kosovo to Albania, but Yugoslavia's postwar communist regime insisted on preserving the country's prewar borders.

A month later, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's Central Committee accused Hoxha of following " independent " policies and turning the Albanian people against Yugoslavia.

Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Upon his return, Broz joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

In 1934 the Zagreb Provincial Committee sent Tito to Vienna where all the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had sought refuge.

In 1936, the Comintern sent " Comrade Walter " ( i. e. Tito ) back to Yugoslavia to purge the Communist Party there.

On 27 June 1941, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appointed Tito Commander in Chief of all project national liberation military forces.

In November 1945, Tito's pro-republican People's Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an overwhelming majority, the vote having been boycotted by monarchists.

The Soviet answer on 4 May admonished Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( CPY ) for failing to admit and correct its mistakes, and went on to accuse them of being too proud of their successes against the Germans, maintaining that the Red Army had saved them from destruction.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

Following World War II, Yugoslavia was reconstituted as a federal state under the leadership of Tito's Yugoslav Communist Party.

Other times the formation of such Fronts were undertaken without the participation of other parties, such as the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia and the National Front of Afghanistan, though the purpose was the same: to promote the Communist Party line to generally non-communist audiences and to mobilize them to carry out tasks within the country under the aegis of the Front.

Romania and Yugoslavia were also the only Eastern European countries that entered into trade agreements with the European Economic Community before the fall of the Communist bloc.

The existence of the centuries-old Serb or Serbian diaspora in countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine, is the result of historical circumstances – the migrations to the North and the East, due to the Turkish conquests of the Balkans and as a result of politics, especially when the Communist Party came into power, but even more when the communist state of Yugoslavia collapsed into inter-ethnic conflict, resulting in mass expulsions of people as refugees of war.