DBWI: Communist Yugoslavia is formed

We know of Royalist Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic, but rather centralized country that was destroyed by Germans during early WW2 after a British-sponsored coup happened. Quite a few of the Communists that kicked up a strong insurgency campaign during the war, wanted to recreate this state, but with Communist socioeconomic ideals. Josip Broz Tito himself wanted it.

However, some others got cold feet while the war still lasted, especially when plans were revealed to make Belgrade capital, again. What would Southern Europe look like, if all those nationalities had been united in one state, again?
 
While the 3rd Balkan War may not have occured as in OTL, the Yugoslavian state would still eventually collapse alongside the USSR, leading to ethnic conflict that would be just as bloody.
 
While the 3rd Balkan War may not have occured as in OTL, the Yugoslavian state would still eventually collapse alongside the USSR, leading to ethnic conflict that would be just as bloody.
I guess it was a good thing the warring sides didn't have well armed militaries with terribly devastating weapons.
 
I guess it was a good thing the warring sides didn't have well armed militaries with terribly devastating weapons.

Good diplomacy mattered more than bad weapons in limiting the violence. Just look at what happened in Malawi with fucking machetes after Banda was overthrown and Christians and Muslims went at each other's throats.
 

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Actually I think that this would be better history than ours. The Communism is an attractive ideology, despite its vices in realisation. This is something that the Royalist Yugoslavians lacked. To be fair, lets call them by their name, Serbs. All other from twelve nationalities of Yugoslavia wanted something more than a country where Serbs were directors, military commanders, etc. while all others had career choice of emigration or becoming a menial helper.

To be fair, creation of a area of small nations divided as a chessboard, was never thought as a solution that would serve the locals. It was all about military contracts, black market deals and cheap labour force. Some even say that the Third Balkan war was ended only because immigration crisis started to become to be a serious threat to stability of a Western Europe, and the local economies were so devastated, that they couldn't support another weapons deal, ie. when the war started to be more costly than profitable to outsiders. Otherwise we would most likely see the war continuing to this day.
 
I guess it was a good thing the warring sides didn't have well armed militaries with terribly devastating weapons.

Good diplomacy mattered more than bad weapons in limiting the violence. Just look at what happened in Malawi with fucking machetes after Banda was overthrown and Christians and Muslims went at each other's throats.

I think the thousands of murder Bosnian Muslims, and thousands more murder others would strongly disagree. The Third Balkan War was a total bloodbath. The militaries, and militia was armed to the teeth with all sort of guns, and bomsn from Russia, and Western Europe, and Turkey, and even a few from the USA.

It was more then just machets. They was air bombing, and artillery on each other every other day with heavy actions guns to match, till the UN stop the fighting. (After letting go on 2-3 years.)

Good diplomacy? Diplomacy did jack till NATO was bombing every Serbian base to ash.
 
To even have any chance of a Communist Yugoslavia you'd need to prevent Tito's Partisans from being absolutely slaughtered by the Germans in 1943. Otherwise I think it's impossible to prevent the Cold War division of the region on the Drina river, what with the Red Army over running Serbia and the NDH switching sides at the last minute.

So I think the problem came when Communist Serbia became a part of the Warsaw Pact, while the "Triune Federation" of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia became neutral in the Cold War, much like Austria. Find a way to have the Triune Federation become a part of NATO early on, and you won't have that five year window between the fall of the Iron Curtain and the NATO intervention for the Serbs to attack.

Who knows, perhaps without the Third Balkan War the Triune Federation would still exist to this day, while Montenegro wouldn't have become independent.
 
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