Overview of the National Liberation War

"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 Ustaše-Chetnik-Home Guard 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 we are a single country with a shared language, territory, history and psychology is what defines the history of the Yugoslav peoples. it only took our unity and steel-like resolve to expel two occupations by advanced nazi-fascist military-industrial powers, build unity with our Soviet, 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.