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Third movement was Yugoslav Communist Party, headed by Josip Broz Tito, whose National Liberation Army - partisans (NOV) organised large front of uprising. During four years, they became acknowledged part of international anti-fascist alliance and liberated great part of the country under German and Italian occupation, as well as under Ustashas and Cetniks. This movement was rapidly growing not because of the communism, but because of its proclaimed policy of social and national equality. Their main political principle was "brotherhood and unity of all nations", against the ethnic displacement and extermination politics of Cetniks and Ustashas. People in multinational regions were in desperate situation facing total extermination, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, there were parallel several civil wars, the partisan movement offered a perspective to all nations.

Partisan uprising started in Serbia in 1941, but after the defeat of " Republic of Uzice", Tito passed in Bosnia Herzegovina. Major partisan military operations were in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia through 1942 to 1944. Already in the autumn of 1942, there were 150.000 partisans in 36 brigades and free territory in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bihac republic of 48.000km2, the region similar to Switzerland. Croatian forces were leading role in partisan movement in 1942 and 1943.

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- FrancisTyers 20:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

An example of Tito's brilliance at balancing the objectives and understanding the potential political effects of a military decision occurred after the royalist Cetniks conducted a surprise attack on the Partisans at their headquarters early in the war. The unprovoked attack came as a surprise because Tito considered the Cetniks allies against the Fascists. After the surprise attack, despite having surrounded the Cetnik leader Mihailovic and his entire staff, Tito allowed them to go free even though eliminating the Cetniks would do away with a major obstacle in the civil war. Since the Cetniks were fighting the fascist occupiers, eliminating them at this point would only hurt the war of liberation effort against the common enemy. Confident that the Cetniks could never win the support of the people, Tito pointed out that "I do not want to take it upon myself to perform the will of the people who will dissociate themselves from Mihailovich and from all that he stands for", and any influence claimed by the Cetniks after the war would collapse (Padev 1989). Padev, M. "Marshal Tito" (London : Frederick Muller Ltd.), 1944

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- FrancisTyers 22:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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Wohow, some nice links here... I'll inspect them when I get some sleep :-) --Dijxtra 23:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem, feel free to chop and change my edits :) Its kind of hard finding information in English about this battle. Some diagrams or pictures would be nice too, but then they don't grow on trees ;) - FrancisTyers 23:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I have a diagram the Encyclopedia, I just have to figure out where to scan it. I'll try to photograph it tommorow or something. --Dijxtra 23:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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Is this an appropriate name for the article? Might there be a better name? - FrancisTyers 20:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll do some research as soon as I finish my current engagements, but I think there's none. 3rd, 4th and 5th offensives do have german codenames, but I couldn't find any for first two. But, as I said, I'll do some more research... --Dijxtra 08:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

As said elsewhere, the common name for this stage of the war was "Užička republika", and when offensives are given names, the first one goes under that name. We should probably merge the two articles. Zocky | picture popups 20:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)