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Description
Overview of the National Liberation War combines newly-translated texts by Colonel-General Comrade Arso Jovanović, the leader of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War of the Yugoslav peoples. Through this book, in which the major events of the Liberation War are discussed, the military-strategic genius with his rich understanding of warfare expounds the truth about how the Yugoslav peoples won victory over the nazi-fascist occupiers and their traitorous Ustaša-Chetnik-Domobran lackeys. The role of other peoples in this war, above all the fraternal Soviet peoples, at the head of which stood the Russian people, is demonstrated without any reservations. As was known at that time, but which since has been obscured, the victory in the world anti-fascist war broadly and the National Liberation War in Yugoslavia could not have been won without the fraternal aid of our great Slavic mother, the Russian people. This fact is in dialectical relationship with the crucial role that the Yugoslav peoples played in creating a front inside the centre of Europe, diverting hundreds of thousands of fascist militarymen from the Eastern Front, from the Hitlerite forces besieging immortal Stalingrad. No small part of this was realized thanks to the leadership of Comrade Arso Jovanović, whose military exploits can only be rivalled in that great war by the likes of Generalissimo Stalin and Marshal Zhukov.
The National Liberation War, with Comrade Arso Jovanović at the head, is the brightest chapter in the many centuries-long history of our peoples. It ensured that, despite the falsifications of the imperialists and revisionists, the history of the Yugoslav peoples cannot be defined by internecine ethnic wars — and that these wars are not the creations of Slovenes, Serbs, Croats or Muslims, but the spawn of the Great Powers, most prominently England, America, Turkey, Austria, Italy and Germany. The watershed moment when we took the pen and gun into our own hands — realizing ourselves to be a single country with a shared language, territory, history and psychology — is what must define the history of the Yugoslav peoples. It only took our unity, a steel-like resolve and the help of our reliable Soviet ally to expel an occupation by two advanced nazi-fascist military-industrial powers, build unity with our Albanian, Bulgarian and Greek brothers, and take part in building the new world of socialism and communism until the tragedy of 1948, when Comrade Arso Jovanović became a martyr.
Serbo-Croatian Description
Pregled narodnooslobodilačke borbe objedinjuje novoprevedene tekstove general-pukovnika druga Arsa Jovanovića, vođe antifašističke narodnooslobodilačke borbe jugoslovenskih naroda. Kroz ovu knjigu, u kojoj se raspravljaju glavni događaji oslobodilačke borbe, vojno-strateški genije sa svojim bogatim razumevanjem ratovanja izlaže istinu o tome kako su jugoslovenski narodi izvojevali pobedu nad nacifašističkim okupatorima i njihovim izdajničkim slugama — ustašama, četnicima i domobranima. Uloga drugih naroda u ovoj borbi, pre svega bratskih sovjetskih naroda na čijem je čelu stajao ruski narod, prikazana je bez ikakvih rezervi. Kao što je tada bilo poznato, a što je u međuvremenu zamagljeno, pobeda u svetskoj antifašističkoj borbi uopšte i narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi u Jugoslaviji posebno, ne bi bila moguća bez bratske pomoći naše velike slovenske majke — ruskog naroda. Ova činjenica nalazi se u dijalektičkom odnosu sa presudnom ulogom koju su jugoslovenski narodi odigrali u stvaranju fronta u srcu Evrope, skrećući stotine hiljada fašističkih vojnika sa istočnog fronta, od hitlerovskih snaga koje su opsedale besmrtni Staljingrad. Nemali deo toga ostvaren je zahvaljujući rukovodstvu druga Arsa Jovanovića, čija se vojna dela mogu uporediti jedino sa delima Generalisima Staljina i Maršala Žukova u toj velikoj borbi.
Narodnooslobodilačka borba, sa drugom Arsom Jovanovićem na čelu, najsvetlije je poglavlje u višestolećnoj istoriji naših naroda. Ona je obezbedila da, uprkos falsifikatima imperijalista i revizionista, istorija jugoslovenskih naroda ne može biti definisana međusobnim etničkim ratovima — i da te borbe nisu delo ni Slovenaca, ni Srba, ni Hrvata, ni Muslimana, već plod Velikih sila, prvenstveno Engleske, Amerike, Turske, Austrije, Italije i Nemačke. Prelomni trenutak kada smo uzeli pero i pušku u svoje ruke — shvativši sebe kao jednu zemlju sa zajedničkim jezikom, teritorijom, istorijom i psihologijom — jeste ono što mora definisati istoriju jugoslovenskih naroda. Bilo je potrebno samo naše jedinstvo, čelična odlučnost i pomoć našeg pouzdanog sovjetskog saveznika da se protera okupacija od strane dve razvijene nacifašističke vojno-industrijske sile, izgradi bratstvo sa našom albanskom, bugarskom i grčkom braćom, i učestvuje u izgradnji novog sveta socijalizma i komunizma — sve do tragedije 1948. godine, kada je drug Arso Jovanović postao mučenik.