Unless, Yugoslavia pulled a "Franco" --- be just "friendly" enough from the very beginning---provide a division for the East, non-agression, trade with the Axis, etc.
Peaceful Yugoslavian Break up
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Unless, Yugoslavia pulled a "Franco" --- be just "friendly" enough from the very beginning---provide a division for the East, non-agression, trade with the Axis, etc.
This is actually a rather interesting prospect as well, worthy of a TL of it's own IMO.
Marko, for a successful NATO-Yugoslavia, how about a Swiss-like federalism with a Lot of autonomous Small cantons? I do however Not See a Three-Way-Solution post-45 As more promising than Tito's setup.
My gut-Feeling for an Axis-Yugoslavia says Partition As a Final result. The Iron curtain might Be on a wholly fictional line in the end (also istria might remain italian) with an emphasis on keeping the Coast in Western Hands, so e.g. Large Parts of slavonia end up "Red" while hercegovna and Montenegro are "Blue". Population Transfer enforced? Perhaps, perhaps Not.
I can Imagine that the result at the end of the Cold war (depending in the degree of autonomy granted and the Economic Development) might Be that the krajina Serbs Identity a Lot less with their post-communist brethren than in OTL.
My gut-Feeling for an Axis-Yugoslavia says Partition As a Final result. The Iron curtain might Be on a wholly fictional line in the end (also istria might remain italian) with an emphasis on keeping the Coast in Western Hands, so e.g. Large Parts of slavonia end up "Red" while hercegovna and Montenegro are "Blue". Population Transfer enforced? Perhaps, perhaps Not.
I can Imagine that the result at the end of the Cold war (depending in the degree of autonomy granted and the Economic Development) might Be that the krajina Serbs Identity a Lot less with their post-communist brethren than in OTL.
I remember some local (Serbia) columnists speculating that if Stalin lived a bit longer (without WWIII starting ofc) with Informbureo crisis going on and staying hot that event as it was "communist" Yugoslavia could have sought stronger ties with NATO. That would likely lead to quicker replacing of word "communism" with "Socialism" in all discourse and much closer ties with West and gradual progression towards capitalism/democracy.
Highly unlikely since first Yugoslavia did that with its 33 districts and that only caused Croats to resent the central goverment because it was breaking the unity of Croatian lands. That was not well accepted by any on the ethnicties so it was changed into Banovinas which was a masked atempt to divide the country between one Slovene dominated Banovina, two Croat dominated Banovinas and the six Serb dominated ones. When the two Croat ones got joined into Croatian Banovina I think would have been a natural progression that the remaining 6 would be renamed into Kingdom of Serbia and be done with the charade. Demographic, linguistic and economic trends would work towards a shift of populations to "their" designated parts of Yugoslavia. That would not have been a quick process and would quite probably be still in progress in 2012 but close to completion.
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One thing about the myths: I recently stumbled upon David Bruce McDonald's Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia which I find to be an ecellent read for those who are interested.
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I could get the new Horus Heresy leather bound full colour forge world book for just 10 pounds more and 50 pages more. Not to mention propaganda in those books is much better
Come to think of it the disintegration of Yugoslavia did have a lot in common with the Horus Heresy. Jovica Stanišić may as well be Alpharius/Omegon.
And if you ever played the original Dawn of War Sloba does remind one a lot of Sindri Myr.