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In 1938 volunteers from Yugoslavia had heard the call to arms from Austria and a considerable number of Croatian and Slovenes had joined the Austrian Military forming 2 Brigades. They had helped to defeat the Nazi invasion of that country and had prepared to go home when the Soviets had invaded Romania. Most had stayed and joined the Austrians in fighting with the Germans and against international communism. As they had fought against the Russians they had heard stories from home about the way that the Yugoslav government was treating the Slovenian and Croatian people. There was a growing feeling of disenchantment with the Serb dominated government. Some veterans, who had been wounded accepted a discharge from the Austrian Army and returned home.
It was from this group that the seeds were sown for the Yugoslav civil Was and the Balkan Crisis of 1940. Many of the countries that had been allies only months before would see themselves on diffenrent sides.
Yugoslavia had been neutral during the war with Russia but there were some Serbs that had gone east to fight with the Soviets and there was quite a few Serbs that expressed Sympathy for their fellow Slavs. I guess forgettting what the Russians had done to the Romanians and the Poles.
The result was that Romania ,which had support an independent Yugoslavia remain neutral.
A number of European powers leaned one way or another. Comments or Suggestions?