Research for a TL - Breakup of Yugoslavia in 1928/9

It would be interesting to see how France reacts to the breakup, since IIRC it had some interests in keeping the Kingdom alive in order to stop the spread of Communism in the Balkans.

Though if reconciliation would not be possible an establishement or better to say re-establishemnt of Rebuplic of SHS (Slovenes-Croats-Serbs) might be possible.

That state would have had a chance of survival if:
a) the Serbian army had been destroyed in WWI
b) the bulk of the Soth Slavic KuK soldiers hadn`t been taken captive and
c) the Italians weren`t breathing down its neck

You need all three for it to work. After 1918., there is little chance of re-establishing it, even with a Yugoslav breakdown because Italy would just have jumped in and created puppets out of everything from the Adriatic to the Drina.
 
OMG :eek:
This gives a new and stronger meaning to the word "Balkanisation".
However I do believe that the only way to a semi-peaceful partition of Yugoslavia requires the survival of a Serbia with at least the borders of 1913.

Borders which, incidentally, do not include Vojvidina.
 
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