Crvena armija i jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini tokom jeseni 1944 – nesuđena saradnja
Red Army And Yugoslav Army In The Fatherland In Autumn 1944 – Failed Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: Relations between the Red Army and Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland remained one of the most sensitive topics in Soviet and Yugoslav historiography from first such contact in Eastern Serbia, where following Mihailović’s instructions Colonel V.Piletić strived to establish communication with the Soviet command in Krajova. First documented episode of this cooperation belongs to the liberation of Kruševac. Soviet forces attacked chetniks in Trstenik, but at the same time units of Captain Raković collaborated with the 93. division of the Red Army. This cooperation was criticized by the CPY leadership through Tito’s complaints to Marshal Tolbukhin, as well as through sporadic attacks on chetniks regardless of the ceasefire. Due to the division of the Balkans agreed between Stalin and Churchill the attempts of the chetnik leaders to maintain their independence of action and rely on the support of Anglo-Americans in the Soviet zone of influence were doomed to fail.

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