Published by Sava Press, with permission to host on the NEPH website
Description
Predrag Milićević’s Six Aggressions of the West Against the South Slavs in the 20th Century examines the repeated interventions and manipulations that shaped the fate of Yugoslavia over the last century. Through six key episodes of aggression, Milićević reveals how the imperialist powers sought to exploit the South Slavs for their own geopolitical ends, often under the guise of progress or peace.
The book begins with the Austro-Hungarian and German offensives during the First World War, setting the stage for the creation of Yugoslavia in defiance of Western interference. It moves through the Nazi invasion of the 1940s, where Yugoslavia’s National Liberation War forged a new socialist state in partnership with the USSR, only for creeping American influence to take hold during the Cold War, transforming the country’s direction under the pretext of “market socialism.”
With the anti-Soviet mission of Yugoslavia no longer needed in the 1990s, the West actively fuelled separatism and the fragmentation of the country, violated international law and imposed puppet regimes, culminating in the destruction of the Serbian republics in Bosnia and Croatia and the NATO bombings that marked the end of the century. Milićević unravels how these imperial powers used nationalism, ethnic division and propaganda to achieve their goals, turning Yugoslavia into a tragic case study of modern imperialism.
Written from an insider’s perspective, Six Aggressions is a sharp critique of the forces that dismantled a multiethnic state and a powerful reminder of the dangers of imperial ambition. It offers a necessary lens on the past, challenging readers to understand the true cost of foreign interference and the immortal resilience of those who resist it.