• Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    As is usual with anticommunists, that author’s attempt at describing history is comparable to Christopher Duntsch’s surgical procedures: all the care and precision of a small child playing with tinker toys. To start:

    Tito didnt send any hit squats [sic] to find these Ustase unless he wanted to eliminate someone he thought threatened his authoritarian rule at home.

    The implication here that Tito never would have thought that the Ustaše would threaten his ‘authoritarian rule’ (as opposed to libertarian rule) is such illogical nonsense that hopefully no refutation is needed on that.

    More to the point, though, there is evidence that Tito, and his friends, did want to eliminate Ustaše…

    On 13 May 1945 Tito sent a message to his First Army: ‘A group of Ustashi and some Chetniks, a total of over 50,000 men, is reported by the Third Army in the Konjice-Sotanj area. It includes Pavelic […] and a huge number of criminals. They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British.’ Tito issued the order for their ‘annihilation’, but some twelve thousand anti-communist Serbs, including many Chetniks in German uniforms, reached Allied headquarters.

    […]

    Following in Pavelic’s wake were a number of senior Ustashi who made it to a safe base near Salzburg. Wanted for ‘war crimes’ by the Yugoslav authorities, according to Mark Aarons and John Loftus, they included:

    • Stejpan Hefer, regional governor-general of Baranja, where he was responsible for the slaughter of Serbs and the deportation of Jews by terror squads.
    • Ljbo Milos, a senior official at the Jasenovac concentration camp, where his speciality had been the ‘ritual killing’ of Jews, using a knife to cut their throats and to slice open their stomachs.
    • Dr Vjekoslav Vrancic, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and undersecretary in the Interior Ministry; wanted for administering the camps.
    • Veliko Pecnikar, head of the Poglavnik’s personal bodyguard and also commander of the brutal Gendarmerie which worked in close collaboration with the Gestapo.
    • Bozidar Kavran, commander of Pavelic’s headquarters and a trusted aide.
    • Srecko Rover, implicated in a plot to assassinate Yugoslavia’s King Peter. He held a senior position in Pavelic’s personal bodyguard.
    • Lovro Susie, Minister of Corporations, who worked closely with the Nazis on the deportations for forced labour in Germany and later served with the SS Division Prince Eugen.
    • Father Josip Bujanovic, a Croat priest party to the massacre of Orthodox peasants.

    The British Army in Austria, under the command of Field Marshal Alexander, initially disarmed the Ustashi and, in late May 1945, surrendered to Tito’s forces, quite legitimately, around 18,500 Chetniks, Ustashi, Slovenian White Guards and Domobrans. In the near-civil war that followed in Yugoslavia, a great many atrocities were committed. The killings were, a senior member of Tito’s Politburo admitted, ‘sheer frenzy’.

    (Emphasis added. Source.)

    tens of thousands of innocent people

    This is what you sound like right now.

    only concentration camp in post war Europe

    The Kingdom of Sweden kept running one of these after 1945. Perhaps more obviously, though, the Allies frequently recycled Axis camps (like Dachau) and did not fully disestablish them until years afterwards.

    Tito definitely didnt [sic] kill any Bulgarian fascists either considering he had a very good relationship with George Dimitrov

    Dimitrov, being the chap who famously defined fascism as “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, and most imperialistic elements of finance capital”, would have been most unlikely to have any objections to somebody executing fascists, whether they shared his nationality or not. Also, there’s no ‘definitely’ regarding Tito’s (indirect) involvement in the killing of Bulgarian fascists:

    Tito, however, refused to sanction the loss of Macedonia; in fact he had hopes of extending his own control to embrace Pirin (Bulgarian) Macedonia. Near the end of May 1941, he sent Lazar Kolishevski, a Macedonian, to take control of the Macedonian Party from Shark and to organize armed resistance to the Bulgarian occupation.

    (Source.)

    Tito made an alliance with the Bulgarians who were killing us for three years. None of them faced justice.

    Tut‐tut:

    As Romania changed sides, seeing the way the wind of war was blowing, Bulgaria declared her neutrality on 23 August 1944 and announced that she was withdrawing from the war. In spite of that, on 8 September 1944, Soviet troops entered Bulgaria; Bulgaria now declared war on Germany. Bogdan Filov and Prince Kyrill were condemned to death by a “people’s court” and executed in February 1945.

    (Emphasis added. Source.)

    Marko Mesić

    [Commentary by John Erickson]

    Their enforced wait upon the wishes, or the whims, of Stalin provided some opportunity for the Yugoslav mission to observe the Soviet Union at war and enabled them to clear up at least one mystery. What puzzled the Yugoslavs was where all the men had come from to form the ‘Yugoslav Anti-Fascist Brigade’, when so many of the Yugoslav communists resident in the Soviet Union had perished long before in the purges.

    Djilas discovered that the Brigade was manned largely by the collaborationist Croats from the ill-fated regiment sent by Ante Pavelic to serve on the Eastern Front. Like the Rumanians, Italians and Hungarians, the Croat soldiers along with their commander Mesic were sucked into the catastrophe of Stalingrad, taken prisoner and politically re-educated, to emerge as the ‘Anti-Fascist Brigade’, officered by Russians and with a few émigré Communists providing the political staff.

    It was even proposed that these mongrelly soldiers should wear the insignia of the Royal Yugoslav Army until Veljko Vlahovic protested and med to devise a matching emblem with Tito’s partisans, though he was hampered in never having seen the original. On finding the same commander still at the head of this regiment Djilas apparently could not restrain his criticism, a point the Russians blandly brushed aside by saying that Mesic had ‘recanted’; there was nothing for the Yugoslav mission to do but leave ‘everything as it was’.

    (Source.)

    But I’ll admit, I would be quite reluctant to trust anticommies to clean up a mess that they made. Evidently, so were the Yugoslav communists.

    SS Handzar Divison from Bosnia (Bosnian‐Muslims working directly for the Nazis) were granted amnesty by the communists and allowed to join the Partisans.

    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X13000204

    As the war situation worsened in the winter of 1943–4, increasing numbers of Muslims joined their ranks, though the proportion of Muslims in Tito’s ranks should not be overestimated. In spring 1944, according to Tito’s own assessment, only 2.5 per cent of his men were Muslims. A first Muslim partisan unit had already been formed in the summer of 1941, and Marshal Tito willingly repeated Moscow’s religious wartime propaganda that portrayed communism as the only hope for Islam.

    I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that one.

    killing Serbian families who were anti communist.

    If only I could show you the things that I’ve seen…

    spies of Tito who only killed milk men and taxi drivers in the diaspora.

    See here. Again.