Abstract

This essay explores the process of ethnic cohesion among South Slav nations during and after World War II. The Partisan myth was invented by Josip Bros Tito and his followers as a political instrument to foster ethnic and political cohesion in the Partisan movement against the German occupation of the Balkan nations and in the process of constructing a second Yugoslav republic following the Second World War. Despite the horrors of World War II, it proved to be a useful moment for the CPY to achieve strategic objectives via ethnic unity and under the banner of resistance to the Nazi occupation. Exaggeration and distortion of wartime history was the central strategy of Tito's government in maintaining a national unity in Yugoslavia after World War II.

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