Yugoslav Partisans

The collection of more than 500 images includes portrait and documentary photographs which show ordinary members of the Communist Partisan movement, which was led by Josip Broz Tito, on battlefields and at cultural events, but also at social occasions such as weddings.

Whenever things get tough, the Greek government appears to start looking for phantom enemies to pin the blame on.

As bank shares plunged earlier this week, the leftist-led administration sought to put the blame on foreign news media and Greece's conservative opposition.

Serbian company P.S. Fashion has been criticised for promoting its new collection with images shot at the Kadinjaca memorial complex, which commemorates Partisan fighters killed in World War II.

The local assembly in Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad, has been accused of distorting history for voting to erect a monument to the alleged victims of crimes by Yugoslav Communist Partisan forces.

Montenegro’s strongest opposition alliance, the Democratic Front, has been accused of attempting to rehabilitate the WWII monarchist Chetnik movement after it initiated a ‘declaration of reconciliation’ with the Communist Partisans.

Albania has decided to restore its long abandoned 22 national cemeteries, which contain the bodies of thousands of people who lost their lives fighting Italian and German occupation forces during World War II.

A new Google map (see above) developed by Italian researcher Giorgio Comai shows that there are still 276 squares, streets and waterfronts named after former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito.

The map, created using data from Google from August 2017, shows that more than half of them are located in Serbia - 176 squares, streets and waterfronts named after Tito.

The Austrian state of Carinthia is being urged to ban a Croatian event at Bleiburg commemorating defeated Nazi collaboration forces and civilians killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Museum of Socialist Art presents art from the socialist period in Bulgaria in a series of exhibitions organized by theme.

An exhibition on Anne Frank was removed from a school in the town of Sibenik over claims the Croatian WWII fascist Ustasa fighters were depicted as villains and anti-fascist Partisans as innocents.