Yugoslavia that isn't communist?

If Yugoslavia had been completely in the allied side or maybe split Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia capitalist Serbia and Montenegro in part of the Warsaw pact. Either way could an allied more capitalist Serbia survive? Maybe even one with a restored king.
 
If Yugoslavia had been completely in the allied side or maybe split Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia capitalist Serbia and Montenegro in part of the Warsaw pact. Either way could an allied more capitalist Serbia survive? Maybe even one with a restored king.
Wouldn't they end up as another Poland?
 
Well the Allies were already in Italy and supporting the partisans both directly and supplying arms and materiel via the Balkan Air Force so find some way for them to cross the Adriatic and beat the Soviets to the area. If there hadn't been the cock-up between the air and ground forces during the invasion of Sicily there's a good chance the Allies might have been able to cut off a German panzer division, two panzergrenadier divisions, a parachute division, and assorted Italian units by closing Strait of Messina, this likely results in the Germans pulling back to the north of Italy to set up defences at our timeline's Transimene Line or even the Gothic Line ceding southern and central Italy without a major fight. If you avoid the slog up the peninsula, albeit still having to a hard fight through the northern defences, and eventually reach say the foothills of the alps the temptation for the Allied commanders would be to stop there and redeploy a number of units either to North-West Europe or if Churchill had a say a hop over the Adriatic to help liberate Yugoslavia. It probably wouldn't be in large numbers but providing they have a small presence and the Yugoslav government-in-exile is back in place it's going to be much harder for the communists to take control. Whether Yugoslavia stays in one piece as time goes on is another matter.
 
By 1945 it's probably too late. By then Tito's partisans had pretty much liberated the country by themselves and the Chetniks and Ustaše had discredited themselves by committing numerous atrocities. The partisans basically constituted the only 'Yugoslavian' movement left in the region as they accepted fighters regardless of their ethnic background - as long as they were anti-fascists.

Instead a POD could centre on Yugoslavia somehow avoiding the coup d'état of March 1941. If Yugoslavia had survived signing the Anti-Comintern Pact and avoided direct involvement in the invasion of the Soviet Union (very unlikely in my book) maybe it could have played a role much alike Italy, switching sides when the Axis lines were collapsing.

That is if the butterflies doesn't change Barbarossa drastically in Germany's favour, since the OTL invasion of Yugoslavia delayed the invasion by a month, IIRC.
 
If no coup, I imagine it would end up like Romania in that it would be forced to give land to all their neighbors. Hopefully the comparisons wouldn't continue in the figure who comes to power their after the war. Anyways. Would a non-communist Yugoslavia manage to get Klagenfurth or Trietste? Would Italy manage to keep more in Istria? Heck, would Bulgaria even be in the Axis? They were only in it to take land from Yugosalvia and Greece, they never even declared war on the Soviets.
 
Bulgaria was indeed completely obsessed with returning to the borders of St. Stefano and wanted Macedonia quite badly, so maybe there would be some sort of German dictate in that regard. However, Hitler was pretty content with keeping Yugoslavia as a source of resources and stability in the region and since, as you said, Bulgaria didn't even declare war on the SU, I don't really see why he would prioritize Sofia over Belgrade other than to quicken the defeat of Greece.

Tito's communists were bat-shit insane when it came to Istria, especially Trieste. They wanted the city very, very, very much as it was another source of prestige for their new regime. They almost wanted to go to war with the Americans over the place and when Stalin pointed out the fact that the Yankees had the, you know, atomic bomb they merely shrugged and said so what ? :D

A non-communist Yugoslavia who manages to avoid directly participating in the Axis war effort (difficult), manages to switch sides at the exactly right time without facing some sort of Soviet presence within its borders (very difficult) could perhaps manouvre itself into a position where it might be able to successfully claim Trieste and some undetermined bits of Carinthia and Styria.
 
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